Recount Text

Recount text is a text that is telling the reader about one story, action, or activity. Recount text is a text which retells event or experiences in the past.

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Recount Text

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consists of optional-closure of events/ending.

​Re-Orientation :

tell what happened in chronological sequence.

​2. Events :

Generic Structure of Recount Text​

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

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Multiple Choice

I spent my last summer holiday in Seoul, South Korea. I went there with my friends.

The structure text here refers to...

• Event

• Orientation

• Re-orientation

Multiple Choice

On the first day, I was landed at Incheon Airport around 7 AM after a 6 hours long flight. Then I went to Seoul by train and checked in to the hotel I already booked. I decided to take a rest for a while. At night, I went to Hongdae, a famous district in South Korea. I went to eat traditional Korean food. On the next day, I went to the Gyeongbokgung Palace and National Museum. I also went to learn how to make Kimchi and see the scenery of Seoul from Seoul Tower. I went back to the hotel at 10 PM and immediately went to sleep.

This structure text here refers to..

• Orientaion

• Event

• Re-orientation

Multiple Choice

1. Last Wednesday was a tiring day. I spent my time to do a lot of activities, that I had no time to take a rest.

2. First, in the morning, I went cycling. After that I went to school to study until 3 pm. After school I went to sport hall to play badminton until 8 pm. I played too seriously that I felt really tired. After that, I went home. But when I wanted to sleep, I remembered there was some homeworks I had to do. I did my homeworks until 11 pm. And finally I could take a rest in my bed.

3. Those activities made me exhausted.

From the text above, which paragraph re-orientatiton is...

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