GROUP : INDONESIA

DIAN ARIEF PRAWIRA RAMADHAN

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ALL ABOUT RECOUNT TEXT

What is recount text?

Recount text is used to tell past events such as holiday experiences, accident, activity report, etc. It seems similar with anecdote, but anecdote is used to tell somethings that is funny and entertaining.

Recount text can be in the form of dialogues, written text, or throught pictures. We usually found recount text in someone’s biography. It tells of past events. So, use Past Tense or Past Continuous Tense to compose our recount text

REORIENTATION

EVENTS

ORIENTATION

Orientation

Provides the setting and introduces participants

Events

TELL WHAT HAPPENED,IN WHAT SEQUENCE

Re-orientation

Optional closure of the events

Communicative Purpose

To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

USING :• Nouns and Pronouns as the subtitute words of

people, animal or thing • Action verbs• Mostly past tense and sometimes past continuous

tense• Conjunctions and time connectives which order

the events• Adverb and adverb phrases to tell place, time, etc.

Language feature of recount text

Example of recount text

I remember the time when I played badminton with my

classmate, Schwenzenegger. He was very keen on badminton so we played it day and night. That was the time he got so mad at me too.

It happened when we took a break in a cafetaria. I put his

racquet in a chair, but then I forgot and left it in the cafetaria. When I went back to get it, it was gone.

Schwenzenegger was furious with me. The racquet was his beloved

one.Schwenzenegger was so angry

and upset that he did’nt speak to me for three days.

• The first paragraph of the text is the Orientation• The second paragraph of the text is the Events• The third paragraph of the text is the Re-orientation

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