RECOUNT TEXT

MEETING 4
WHAT DID YOU DO LAST WEEK??
Did you tell your experience from time to
time??
The writer wrote his experiences chronologically from time to time.
Example:

08.00 10.00 11.00

Eating Cleaning Going to
breakfast house Central Park
TIME ORDER/ CRONOLOGY

This text type shows the readers about events or content.

The events in chronology is written by time or date. Arranging events as a series of
steps following a list-like structure

There are some transition signals which are usually used

Before, after, first, second, until, then, next and so on.

One of genre texts which uses time order is “Recount Text”

RECOUNT TEXT

 Recount text is told in chronological order using time or place. recount text is
found in biography, personal experiences, events and so on.
 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 text is purposed to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a
series of past event, to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining
readers
Generic Stucture

Re-orientation :
optional closure of
Events : events
tell what happened,
in what sequence

Orientation :
provides the setting
and introduces
participants
LANGUAGE FEATURE

 Using Past Tense : There was Thomas Cup Badminton Championship

 Using action verb: shout, walk, sign
 Using adjectives: handsome, magnificent, Great
 Using temporal sequence: last week, on Monday, yesterday
 Focus on specific participant: I, he, she, etc
 Using conjunction: then, before, after
EXAMPL
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Let’s Answer the Questions!

1. Why did the writer and his brother went to Istora Gelora Bung Karno?
2. What did the writer do before entering the stadium?
3. How many badminton players’ name which was mentioned in the text?
4. What does “held back” in paragraph 2 mean?
5. How do Indonesian supporter support the badminton team?
Let’s Play Alibi Game

 A student becomes a police

 A student becomes a criminal
 A criminal and the other students make circle.
 The police will go around the circle and ask them  “Where were you last night?”
 The other students will answer their alibi “ I was walking my dog, I was at the
grocery store, I was watching a movie”
 After each person has given their alibi, the detective goes around the circle a
second time asking the same question. Everyone but the person who was chosen
as the criminal gives the same answer as the first time, but the criminal gives a
different alibi.