Recount Text .2

RECOUNT TEXT

adalah jenis text dalam Bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan tentang suatu cerita, tindakan, atau kegiatan. Biasanya, recount text menceritakan tentang pengalaman seseorang. Tujuan dari recount text adalah untuk menghibur pembaca, sehingga tidak terdapat konflik dalam text ini. Selain itu, teks ini juga bertujuan untuk memberikan informasi pada pembaca.

Ciri-ciri Recount Text

Menggunakan kalimat Past Tense (lampau), seperti went, departed, would, woke up, dan lain sebagainya.

Menggunakan adverb dan adverbial phrase untuk mengungkapkan waktu, tempat dan cara, seperti: last September, Pari Island, on then second day, dan lain sebagainya.

Menggunakan conjunction dan time connectives guna mengurutkan peristiwa atau kejadian, seperti: and, before, then, after that, dan lain sebagainya

Generic Structure of Recount Text

Orientation Menceritakan mengenai latar belakang informasi tentang siapa, di mana, kapan kejadian atau peristiwa terjadi.

Events Menceritakan serangkaian peristiwa yang terjadi sesuai urutan kronologis.

Re-orientation Merupakan penutup atau kesimpulan cerita. Untuk menutup suatu cerita, kita bisa memberikan opini kita mengenai cerita tersebut.

LATIHAN SOAL

Multiple Choice

What happened to the writer's dad when he rode an elephant?

• He felt a thrill

• He felt fun

• He fell off

• He failed

Multiple Choice

The text above tells us about ....

• holiday at a friend's place

• A picture of bird

• A big bird cage

• A big garden

On Saturday night, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large crowd of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes’ time. Fifteen minutes passed and then, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted,”It’s two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!”

I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.

Multiple Choice

Why did the people gather under the Town Hall clock?

• To welcome the New Year

• To see the newly bought clock

• To strike the laughing people

• To stop people who shouted

Read the following text to answer questions

Last week, Mr Tatang’s wife had an accident. Her youngest child, Putra, was at home when it happened. He was playing with his new toy car. Suddenly Putra heard his mother calling, “Help! Help!” he ran to the kitchen. His mother had burnt herself with some hot cooking oil. She was crying with pain and the pan was on fire. Mr. Tatang had gone to the office. The other children had gone to school.

Putra was too small to help his mother, and she was too frightened to speak sensibly to him. But he ran to the neighbour’s house and asked his neighbor to come and help his mother. The neighbor soon put out the fire and took Putra’s mother to the clinic.

When Mr. Tatang came home, his wife told him what had happened. He was very proud of his son, “When you are a man, you will be just like your father,”she said.

Multiple Choice

Who took Mrs. Tatang to the clinic?

• Her husband

• Her son

• Her neighbor

• Her daughter