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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. We can also state that recount text is
a text which retells event or experiences in the past.
Social function: The social function or the purpose of recount text is to entertain/ to amuse or to inform the reader about experience, story, action or activity which happen in the
past.
Generic structure:
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.
Re-orientation – A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.
Language Feature of Personal Recount Text
There are some language features in personal recount text, those are:
Using conjunction and time connectives to connect an event to the other event
i.g. and, or, after, before, after that, then, when, first, etc.
Last week I went to the theater. It was the only theater at my town. I had one free ticket to watch a movie. I had no idea about the movie I would like to watch and I did not know
the schedule of that theater. So that, I just wanted to come and see if there was any good movie.
I parked my motorcycle at the parking area and I walked slowly at the hall of the theater. I took my ticket on my wallet and go to the information section to ask about how
to use the ticket that day. Unfortunately, I missed it. The ticket was already expired 2 days before.
I went home and I was very disappointed about that.
1. "What is the purpose (social function) of text "Expired Free Ticket" above?"
"The purpose of recount text above is to entertain/ to amuse the readers about the writer's experience that he/she had a disappointing experience about expired free ticket".
2. "Mention the generic structure of the text above and show the evidences!"
Orientation:
"Last week I went to the theater. It was the only theater at my town. I had one free ticket to watch a movie. I had no idea about the movie I would like to watch and I did not know
the schedule of that theater. So that, I just wanted to come and see if there was any good movie."
Events:
"I parked my motorcycle at the parking area and I walked slowly at the hall of the theater. I took my ticket on my wallet and go to the information section to ask about how to use
the ticket that day. Unfortunately, I missed it. The ticket was already expired 2 days before."
Re-orientation:
"I went home and I was very disappointed about that."
3. "Mention the language feature used in the text above (explain briefly)!"
a) Using simple past tense:
e.g. "Last week I went to the theater"
b) Using action verbs:
e.g. "went, had, wanted, parked, walked, took, etc."
c) Using adverb or adverbial phrase:
e.g. "last week, 2 days before, at the parking area"
d) Using conjunction and time connectives:
e.g. "and, so that"
Exercise:
Analyze and mention the purpose, generic structure, and language feature of the personal recount text below!
Watching Movie
My sister and I went to see a film last night. It was an American movie called The Lost Flight. It showed how people can quickly change when they have to look after themselves in the
jungle. It was an interesting film about a plane which crashed on a small empty island in the Pacific Ocean.
Although the passengers were safe, nobody knew where the plane had crashed. So the passengers had to learn how to hunt for food in the jungle and how to catch fish from the sea
to eat. After a few weeks, the passengers were eating raw fish and meat.
After they had been on the island for two months, three of the men made a boat and sailed away to find help. But their boat sank and they were drowned.
The film ended without saying whether the passengers were rescued or not. But my sister and I enjoyed the film.
Question:
1. What is the purpose (social function) from the text "Watching Movie" above?
2. Mention the generic structure of the text above and show the evidences!
3. Mention the language feature used in the text above (explain briefly)!
The game
Learning Activity Steps
Pre-Teaching (10 minutes )
Teacher Student
Teacher Student
100 minutes
● Then the teacher show the material through a projector using ● Students take a look at the material seriously
power point.
● Students listen to teacher explanation
● Next, the teacher shows and explains the material to students
● Next, students ask the question related to the material
so that they can understand the material well.
● Next, the teacher asks them, do you have any questions? for ● Next, students follow the instruction from the teacher to answer
those who ask, the teacher will give a point +. the questions about the story and look the v2 from the
dictionaries.
● After all the questions were answered by the teacher, the
teacher showed them examples of recount text, and after that ● Students follow all the instruction given by the teacher, and after
they had to answer questions related to the stories they saw that they did their assignment and write down the answer on their
with the teacher, this was done to increase their book, after that collect the book to the teacher.
understanding.
● After giving the material, the teacher gives an exercise about
recount text. The teacher invites them to play a game, the
game is the "Wheel of Fame" game. This is an online game
with a rotating round feature, in each round there are
questions number 1 - 3, then the teacher will call their
names one by one and ask them to say stop, after that they
have to answer the questions according to the questions they
get. After that teacher show the story through the projector,
and students answer the questions they get and write down
the answer on their books.
● After that, they must collect the book to the teacher, so that
the teacher can check their answer.
Teacher Student
summation of score
Final Score: ×100 %
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