Pre-Activity Review Recount Text

What is a personal recount text?

• A type of text that describes a person, a thing, or a place in details.

• A type of text that retells the writer's past experience

• A type of text that retells a past historic event

• A type of text that explains the writer's opinion about an issue

The purpose of a personal recount text is...

• to either inform or entertain the readers by retelling the author's past experience

• to amuse or entertain the readers with the story

• to persuade the readers to agree with the author's opinion

• to describe something or someone in details

The followings are the structure of a recount text, except...

• Orientation

• Events/Series of Events

• Reorientation

• Complication

In which part does the author usually explain what happened in chronological order?

• Orientation

• Reorientation

• Series of events

• Complication

In which part does the author usually introduces the participants (people), place, and time in the recount text?

• Orientation

• Reorientation

• Series of events

• Complication

Because recount texts retells past events or experiences, they usually use ..... tense.

• simple present

• present continuous

• simple past

• future

The past tense form (V2) of the verb "speak" is ...

Which one of these is not an adverb of time?

• yesterday

• for three hours

• every week

• there