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    The document defines a recount text as one that retells a story, action, or activity from the past for entertainment or information. A recount has an orientation that provides background details, a series of chronological events, and a reorientation with a personal comment. It uses past tenses and temporal language to sequence events and focuses on specific participants involved in the past experience being recounted.

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    The document defines a recount text as one that retells a story, action, or activity from the past for entertainment or information. A recount has an orientation that provides background details, a series of chronological events, and a reorientation with a personal comment. It uses past tenses and temporal language to sequence events and focuses on specific participants involved in the past experience being recounted.

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    Recount

    First Term: January, 2024

    Definition

    Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to
    entertaining or informing the reader.

    Recount is a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

    Generic Structure of Recount Text

    ♡ Orientation : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the
    text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

    ♡ Events : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

    ♡ Re-orientation :A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

    Purpose

    – To retell the past experience

    The Characteristics / Language Feature

    – Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect
    continuous tense.
    – Using temporal sequence, e.g. On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday
    – Focus on specific participant, e.g. I (the writer)
    – Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.
    – Using action verd, e.g. went, stayed

    Example

    1. Personal Recount
    2. Factual Recount
    3. Imaginative Recount
    4. Historical Recount

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