RECOUNT TEXT

  Definition : To tell the readers what happened in the past

    through a sequence of event.

  Text organization :

1.     Personal Recount :

·        Orientation (who, were, involved in the story, when and where)

·        Events (tell what happened in a chronological order)

·        Evaluations (comments of the writer/speaker about the experience)

·        Re-orientation (optional, the conclusion of the experience)

2.     Factual Recount :

·        Orientation (who, when, were, involved in the story, and where)

·        Events (tell what happened in a chronological order)

  Language Features :

·        The use of nouns and pronouns (e.g : Intan, we, his)

·        The use of action verb (e.g : went, played, spent)

·        The use of past tense (e.g : we went for a trip to the zoo)

·        The use of time conjunctions (e.g : and, but, after, finally)

·        The use of adverb and adverb of phases (e.g : three days ago, cheerfully, slowly quickly, in my house)

·        Adjective (beautiful, bad, sunny, etc)

   Example :

Orientation

        I think my first memories began when I started school at about five years old. I lived in a suburb of Sydney.

        Events

        I had a happy childhood. I remember playing in a big garden. I fell from a big tree and broke my hand. I remember, I had a naughty friend named Jacki, because he was fat. He liked hitting and pulling my head. It was so pathetic. One day I hit him over the head with my bag. His parents were very angry with me. But I didn’t feel sorry at all at that time.

        Evaluations

        Nevertheless, since then Jacki has become my good friend.

             Reorientation

        It was such an unforgettable childhood.