Recount Text Vocabulary

Front

What is the purpose of a recount text?

Back

To retell past events in chronological order.

Front

What tense is usually used in recount text?

Back

Simple Past Tense

Front

What is the generic structure of a recount text?

Back

Orientation → Events → Re-orientation.

Front

Give an example of a time connector used in recount text.

Back

Then, after that, finally, last week, yesterday.

Front

Past tense of “go”

Back

Went

Front

Past tense of “see”

Back

saw

Front

Past tense of “write”

Back

wrote

Front

Past tense of “eat”

Back

ate

Front

Past tense of “buy”

Back

bought

Front

Example of orientation in recount text.

Back

“Last holiday, my family and I went to Lake Toba.”