Recount Text

​Recount Text

​An insight and explanation & exercise

​A text that tells the reader about a story, action, or activity. Its goal is to entertain or inform the reader. 

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A text that retells events or experiences in the past.​

​Recount Text

Multiple Choice

What is the following that does NOT belong to Recount Text

• It state opinions

• It retells past events

• It entertains readers

• It informs reader about what happened in the past

Multiple Select

Recount text tells the reader about...

• Story

• Action

• Activity

• writer judgement

Multiple Choice

Recount text tells you an activity, story, action, event, or experience that...

• happened in the past

• always happens

• is happening now

• will happen in the future

Multiple Select

The purpose of recount text is... events, activities, stories that happened in the past

• to entertain

• to inform

• to analyze

• to evaluate

​Generic Structures

​1.    Orientation

2.    Series of Event

3.    Reorientation

​Orientation

Introducing the participants, place and time​

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It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text, such as who was involved, where it happened, and when it happened.

​Series of Events

​A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence.

​Reorientation

​A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

Multiple Choice

How many generic structures of Recount Text?

• 2

• 3

• 4

• 5

Multiple Choice

Recount Text structure that introduces participants, place and time is called...

• Orientation

• Series of Event

• Reorientation

Multiple Select

Orientation gives the readers the background information needed to understand

• who is involved

• where it happened

• when it happened

• why it happened

• how it happened

Multiple Choice

If you want to know the character of a story in recount text, you can find it in...

• Orientation

• Series of events

• Reorientation

Multiple Choice

When you want to know parts of recount text that start with the earliest and follow the order in which they occurred, you can find them in...

• Orientation

• Series of events

• Reorientation

Multiple Choice

When you want to find comments about the event, you can find them in...

• Orientation

• Series of event

• Reorientation

​Language Feature

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

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

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

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

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

Multiple Choice

Recount text mostly uses

• Past tense

• Present tense

• Future tense

• Perfect tense

Multiple Choice

What do you call the following?

On Saturday. On Monday, On Sunday

• temporal sequences

• conjunctions

• action verbs

• tenses

Multiple Choice

which of the following is a conjunction?

• before

• went

• on Saturday

• ago

Multiple Choice

What do you call the following?

went, stayed, let, etc.

• action verbs

• temporal sequences

• specific participants

• conjunctions

Multiple Select

Language feature will introduce...

• the tenses uses in the text

• specific participants

• conjunctions

• reasons why it happened

​On the first day, I 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.

​Pay attention to the following text...

Multiple Choice

On the first day, I landed at Incheon Airport around 7 AM after a 6 hours long flight.

The excerpt of the above is called...

• Orientation

• Series of events

• Reorientation

Multiple Choice

You can find the series of event starting from the sentence...

• I landed...

• Then...

• On the next day...

• I decided...

Multiple Choice

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menus listed here. We ordered grilled fish. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

What is the text about?

• The activities that the writer did in his spare time.

• The activities that the writer did last weekend.

• The experiences that the writer had in his holiday.

• The experiences that the writer had with his family.

Multiple Choice

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menus listed here. We ordered grilled fish. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

How was the beach?

• It was wonderful.

• It was boring.

• It was gloomy.

• It was dirty.

Multiple Choice

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menus listed here. We ordered grilled fish. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

What did they request in the stall?

• Fried fish.

• Grilled fish.

• Steamed fish.

• Roasted fish.

Multiple Choice

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menus listed here. We ordered grilled fish. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

Why was the food the requested so delicious?

• Because it was expensive

• Because it was made by a professional chef

• Because it was made from fresh ingredients

• Because it was made with a secret recipe

Multiple Choice

Last holiday, my friends and I went to the beach near from our city. We went early in the morning and arrived there at 8 a.m. luckily, that day was sunny. The beach seemed so beautiful under the blue sunny sky. It was great to feel the sand grains beneath our feet and the breeze blowing our hair gently.

At noon, we started to feel hungry, so we decided to head to the nearest food stall. The fish looked fresh and there were a lot of seafood menus listed here. We ordered grilled fish. The dishes were delicious since the seller made them from fresh ingredients. We filled our bellies to our heart’s content.

We stay until the sun set because many people said the view was so outstanding. They were right, it was amazing. We took great photos as a keepsake of our beautiful moments here. We went home happily and fully recharged, ready for our daily routine, going to school the next day.

When did they go home?

• In the next morning

• In the evening

• In the afternoon

• In the next afternoon