Recount Text

Recount Text

Definition

recount text is a text about activities, events, or stories that occurred in the past, and it goal to entertain readers. recount text has no complications, thus distinguishing it from narrative text

Generic Structure

• Orientation :tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened.

• Events : tell what happened in chronological sequence.

• Re-orientation : consists of optional-closure of events/ending.

Purpose

The purpose of recount text is to describe and list the past experiences by retelling events to entertain the reader. In a simple word the purpose of recount text is to retell past experience

Language Feature

• Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.

• Using temporal sequence, e.g. On Sunday. On Monday, On tuesday

• Focus on specific participant, e.g. I (the writer)

• Using the conjunctions, such as: before, then, after, etc.

• Using action verb, e.g. went, stayed

My Vacation with My Beloved People

One day, my sister named Putri said to me that she really wanted to go to the beach. So I promised her that the next week we would go to Mutun beach in Lampung.

The next week, we prepared everything needed in the morning. We brought some foods and beverages, such as chocolate wafers, potato chips, water and orange juice. Before going to the beach, I ask our brother, Bayu, to join us. He agreed to join and we went there together with our parents. We went there by car. It took 3 hours to arrive there. Then, we bought tickets in the entrance gate. Before swimming, we changed our clothes first. We swam there for more than one hour. We felt so tired that we decided to eat the foods that we had brought. Next, three of us created a very big sand castle, while my parents were enjoying the beautiful scenery there. After that, we decided to go home because it was getting dark.

On the way home, we still felt hungry. So we stopped at a restaurant to have dinner. I ordered sruit, Lampungnese traditional food, while my brother, my sister, and my parents ordered fried rice. After finished eating, we paid our bills. Then, we went home. We arrived at home at 9 o’clock. We were tired but we were absolutely happy

Let's Practice Your Understanding

Multiple Choice

I....to my grandmother house by a car

• goes

• went

• go

• going

Multiple Choice

when we were going home, I ...... melons for my cousin.

• cut

• buy

• bought

• cutting

Multiple Choice

As long as we are at the beach, we... together until the sun goes down

• swam

• swimming

• swammed

• swammer

Open Ended

Please make a short recount text with the topic of "My Holiday"