Recount Text - VIII

What is recount text?

• The text that explain or helps us how to make or use something

• The text that retells event or experiences in the past

• The text that describes person, place, or thing

What is the social function of the recount text?

• To describe a particular person, place or thing in detail

• To inform the readers how to make something

• To retell events for the purpose of informing and entertaining

What are the generic structures of recount text?

• Orientation, events, reorientation

• Identification, events, reorientation

• Orientation, identification, description

“We were happy although we felt a bit tired when we got home”. What part of the generic structure is it?

• Events

• Reorientation

• Orientation

“Last weekend I and my classmates went to the countryside to have a picnic”. What part of the generic structure is it?

• Reorientation

• Orientation

• Events

A text that tells about the important or famous person’s life story is …

• Personal recount

• Biographical recount

• Imaginative recount

• Factual recount

Reorientation in a recount text is aimed to …

• Describe about how the writer looks like

• Give extra event in a chronologocal sequence

• Give personal comment about the event

The ending or personal comment about the event usually called as …

• Title

• Orientation

• Events

• Reorientation

What is the past form of “go”?

• Goes

• Go

• Going

• Went

Here are example of conjunction used in a recount text, except …

• First, second, third

• I, you, she, he

• Went, bought, ate