Formative Test (Recount Text)

Recount text is a text that . . .

• describes a particular thing

• retells about the event or experience in the past

• tells how to make something

• tells an imaginative story

The generic structures of a recount text are . . .

• orientation, complication, reorientation

• orientation, series of events, reorientation

• orientation, series of events, resolution

• orientation, reorientation, resolution

It tells about what happened, where the story took place, and who were involved in the events.

• orientation

• events

• reorientation

• resolution

It gives the closure of the events or personal comment about the event or what happened in the end.

• orientation

• events

• reorientation

• resolution

The following sentence uses simple past tense is . . .

• My name is Jaka.

• We went to Sampit yesterday.

• You eat three times a day.

• She will come to your house tomorrow.

From the text, the chronological connections are . . .

• first, after, next, then

• yesterday, Sunday

• woke up, burned, walked

• terrible, annoyed, broken

The type of the text is . . .

• procedure text

• recount text

• descriptive text

• report text

Here are the activities that the writer did at his brother's home, except...

• had dinner with his family

• went to several historical places

• captured every moment there

• went to Taman Sari alone

The generic structures of the following text are . . .

• orientation - complication - resolution

• orientation - series of events - resolution

• orientation - complication - reorientation

• orientation - series of events - reorientation

From the text we know that . . . except . . .

• The writer was late to wake up.

• The writer's bicycle was broken.

• The writer was so happy with himself.

• The writer did not realize that it was Sunday.