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What Is Recount Text?

           In the 2013 Curriculum, the eighth graders in the second semester are expected to produce/ create spoken and written recount text, but this blog will only put its concern on the written recount text, because learners can develop their writing competence through blogging. The basic competence that learners should achieve in the syllabus is creating a simple and short written recount text which tells about experience/ activity/ event by paying attention to its purpose, generic structure, and language feature, correctly and based on the context (KD 4.15.2). 

Recount text
            Recount text is one of text types (genres) which retells someone’s experience in the past. Knapp (1992, p. 13) as cited in Knapp and Watkins (2005, p. 27) points out that recount is included into narrative (narrating) – a big (macro) genre that can easily accommodate one or more other genres and still remain dominant – in which it is the simplest text type of narrative that formally exhibits the sequence of events. Because recount and narrative are closely related, the grammatical features of recount and narrative are almost the same, but they are different in the generic structure. The further description of recount text is displayed as follows:

The social functon of recount text: 

Reporting, telling, and explaining. In learning to write a recount text, learners are expected to communicate states and events in the past, in order to share the information with others, explain why things happened, etc in a piece of written text (Indonesia, 2014, p. 158). 

The linguistic elements of recount text: 

-  the verbs are in Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous Tense

-  using conjunctions: when, while, after, before, etc.

- the use of singular and plural noun appropiately, with or without, a, the, this, those, my, their,etc 

- spelling and punctuation 

-  handwriting

The generic structure of recount text is:

a. orientation

    mentioning the people, place, time, etc that are included in the story/ event/ experience

b. explaining the sequence of events in chronological order, in sequence and coherently 

c. closing (reorientation) 

    giving comment or general value of the event/ experience/ story that has been delivered  (optional)

(Based on the syllabus of 2013 curriculum and teacher’s book When English rings the Bell)

The example of recount text:

(Knapp & Watkins, 2005, p. 234)

References:

Indonesia, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 2014. Buku Guru Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell. Jakarta : Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 2014.

Indonesia, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan. 2014. Buku Siswa Bahasa Inggris: When English Rings a Bell. Jakarta : Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan, 2014.

Knapp, Peter & Watkins, Megan . 2005. Genre, Text, Grammar. Sydney: University of New South Wales  Press Ltd.

Recount Text 5

        I only slept for three hours last night. At ten we heard a cry from Mrs. Wayan’s home. She is our next door neighbour. She’s 70 years old and very weak. She lives alone. We went there quickly, and we found her on the floor. She just fell. She could not move her hands and her legs. At 10.30, my parents and I took Mrs. Wayan to hospital. My father and I sat in the front seats. In the back seats, my mum was holding Mrs. Wayan.

         In the emergency room, a doctor examined her. Then he said Mrs. Wayan had to stay in the hospital. When she was already in the ward, we went home. It was 2 a.m. (Adapted from When English Rings the Bell: Students’ book, 2014, p. 191)

Recount Text 4

           I’m proud of what you did during the celebration of the Scout Day. On Monday, when most people were still in bed, all of you were ready to have a long walk to the mountain. Exactly at four we started from our school. We helped each other. The boys carried the heavy things. The girls gave us nice breakfast. They also carried the waste in plastic bags and threw them at the right place. We got at the spot before sunrise. We could see the sun rise, because the sky was clear. It was very beautiful, wasn’t it? And I think now you know each other better, don’t you? (Adapted from When English Rings a Bell: Teacher’s book, 2014, p. 299)

Answer these questions based on the text!

1.      List the past verbs (V2) in the story!
         a) …                                                   f) …
         b) …                                                  g) …
         c) …                                                  h) …
        d)  …                                                  i) …
        e)  …                                                  j) etc. 

2.      Write the words that show adverb of time and place!
         a) Time = …


        b)  Place = …


3.      Write the words that show conjunction!
         …

4.      Write what the characters did in the story chronologically!
         a) …
         b) … 
         c) …
         d) …
         e) …
         f)  …
        g)  etc.

5.      How was the writer’s feeling in the end of the story (if any)?
         …

Recount Text 3

      But we can also learn something from Udin and Beni’s experience. Do you remember what they did on Tuesday afternoon? They met an old man. He was very weak. He told them that he got lost and he did not know how to go back to the main road. Without telling us, the teachers and the head of their group, they led the man to the main road. When they were far enough from the camping site, the man suddenly passed out. And of course they could not help him themselves. It took a while before we could help the sick man in a right way. Luckily it was not too late(Adapted from When English Rings a Bell: Teacher’s book, 2014, p. 300).

Answer these questions based on the text!

1.      List the past verbs (V2) in the story!
         a) …                                                   f) …
         b) …                                                  g) …
         c) …                                                  h) …
        d)  …                                                  i) …
        e)  …                                                  j) etc. 

2.      Write the words that show adverb of time and place!
         a) Time = …


        b)  Place = …


3.      Write the words that show conjunction!
         …

4.      Write what the characters did in the story chronologically!
         a) …
         b) … 
         c) …
         d) …
         e) …
         f)  …
        g)  etc.

5.      How was the writer’s feeling in the end of the story (if any)?
         …

Recount Text 2

          Yes, last Saturday, my little sister, Dina, did something funny. She got up very late, at six. She ran fast to the bathroom. She thought she would be late to school. She forgot it was Saturday. She took a very quick bath, got dressed, took her bag, and ran off to school. She did not even have breakfast. After walking for five minutes she noticed that no other children were going to school. Soon she realized it was Saturday! So, she walked back home. We all laughed at her when she got home. She also laughed at herself. Then she changed her clothes, and went back to bed! My naughty sister! (Adapted from When English Rings a Bell: Students’ book, 2014, p. 193)

Answer these questions based on the text!

1.      List the past verbs (V2) in the story!

a)      …                                                  f) …

b)      …                                                  g) …

c)      …                                                  h) …

d)     …                                                  i) …

e)      …                                                  j) etc. 

2.      Write the words that show adverb of time and place!

a)      Time = …

b)      Place = …

3.      Write the words that show conjunction!

     …

4.      Write what the main character did in the story chronologically!

a)      Dina …

b)      … 

c)      …

d)     …

e)      …

f)       …

g)      …

h)      …

i)       etc.

5.      How was the writer’s feeling in the end of the story (if any)?

     …  

Recount Text 1

           My brother, Rizal, and I made the garden benches when my father cut down the old mango tree behind our house three weeks ago. We saw a big piece of wood. Then we had an idea. We told Dad we wanted to make garden benches. He agreed and he would help us. Then, he sawed the trunk into three pieces. 25 cm in diameter, and 25 cm in height. After that Rizal and I rubbed them with sandpaper to make them smooth. After that we dried them in the sun for one week. When they were dry, we painted them, one green, one red, and one blue. Finally, we dried them in the sun again for three days. (Adapted from When English Rings a Bell: Students’ book, 2014, p. 188)