Recount Text Worksheet - Grade 8

What is the social function or purpose of a Recount Text?

• To amuse or entertain the reader with a story.

• To describe a particular person, place, or thing.

• To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

• To explain how to make something.

Which tense is mostly used in Recount Text?

• Simple Present Tense

• Simple Past Tense

• Simple Future Tense

• Present Continuous Tense

The generic structure of Recount Text consists of...

• Orientation - Complication - Resolution

• Goal - Materials - Steps

• Orientation - Events - Re-orientation

• Identification - Description

The part of the text that introduces the participants, place, and time is called...

• Orientation

• Events

• Re-orientation

• Conclusion

Which word is a "Temporal Conjunction" commonly used in Recount Text?

• Because

• Although

• But

• Then

Which sentence is in the Simple Past Tense?

• I go to school every day.

• She is eating fried rice.

• My mother cooked fried chicken yesterday.

• We will visit Bali next year.

Arrange these jumbled words into a good sentence: (went) - (last week) - (to) - (They) - (Bandung)

• They went to Bandung last week.

• Last week to Bandung went They.

• To Bandung They went last week.

Change the verb into Past form (V2): "Buy"

• Buys

• Buying

• Bought

• Buyed

In the Re-orientation paragraph, the writer usually expresses...

• The characters involved.

• The steps to do something.

• Their personal feelings or comments about the event.

• The detailed description of an object.

"Last holiday, we visited Borobudur Temple." The word "we" refers to...

• The writer and his/her family/friends.

• The writer only.

• The readers.

• The people in Borobudur.