COMPARING NARRATIVE TEXTS AND RECOUNT TEXTS

Cultural Visit to Bandung with UI Creates

Last February, I went to Bandung with UI Creates students. UI Creates is a short course program from University of Indonesia for international students. At that time, the participants were from Japan, China, and Philippine.

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• A narrative text

• A recount text

Then the fairy turned Cinderella’s ugly dress became the most beautiful dress and with beautiful slippers. The fairy also turned a pumpkin into a parking coach and the mice become six white horses. Cinderella fiinally could go to the ball but she had to come back before midnight before the spell ended.

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• A narrative text

• A recount text

Cinderella

Once upon a time, there lived a girl named Cinderella. She lived with her step mother and two step sisters. The step mother and her two daughters didn’t like Cinderella. They treated Cincerella very bad. Cinderella usually did the hardest works in the house; such as scrubbing the floor, cleaning the pot and pan and preparing the food for the family, and so on.

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• A narrative text

• A recount text

Bawang Merah and Bawang Putih

Once upon a time, there lived a beautiful girl with her father, her stepmother, and her stepsister. One day, her father passed away. Her stepmother and stepsister treated her very bad whereas they used to love her before her father died. She had to do all the house work.

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• A narrative text

• A recount text

Then we went to Saung Angklung Mang Udjo. It took more than one hour to go there from the restaurant. At 2.45 PM, we arrived at Saung Angklung Mang Udjo. We had to wait for the performance because it started at 3.00 PM. Before the performance started, we bought some souvenirs and tried to play Angklung in the souvenir shop. At exactly 3.00 PM, the show started. Not only Angklung performance, there were also Arumba and Calung performances. We sang, danced and learnt to play Angklung together during the performance.

After reading the above paragraph, you know that the text belong to ....

• A narrative text

• A recount text

A narrative text is ....

• a fiction text

• a non-fiction text

A recount text is ....

• a fiction text

• a non-fiction text

The social function of a narrative text is to ....

• teII the past experience

• amuse the readers

The social function of a recount text is to ....

• teII the past experience

• amuse the readers

The structures of narrative texts are ....

• orientation-compIication-resoIution-coda

• orientation-events-reorientation