RECOUNT TEXT

                                   Teks RECOUNT  ( RECOUNT TEXT )

Purpose ( tujuan )
The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened (chronological order). Recounts are written to retell events with the purpose of either informing or entertaining their audience (or both).

Tujuan dari teks recount adalah : menceritakan urutan peristiwa, kejadian,kegiatan atau pengalaman dimasa lalu untuk sebuah informasi atau sebuah hiburan maupun keduanya.

Struktur atau susunan dari  teks recount adalah :

1.      Orientasi : menjelaskan tentang siapa, apa, kapan, dan dimana

2.      Event /series of paragraph : menceritakan peristiwa secara urut.

3.      Re-orientation : kesimpulan dari kejadian-kejadian  atau ungkapan akhir si penulis

Recount Scaffold  (Struktur, susunan atau kerangka teks recount )

Orientation – who, what, when, where………………………………

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Event 1………………………………………...…

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Event 2……………………………………………

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Event 3……………………………………………………

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Reorientation –concludes retelling

Language

• is written in the past tense (she yelled, it nipped, she walked)
• frequent use is made of words which link events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday)
• recounts describe events, so plenty of use is made of verbs (action words), and of adverbs (which describe or add more detail to verbs)
• details are often chosen to add interest or humour to the recount.
• use of personal pronouns (I, we) (Personal Recount)
• the passive voice may be used, eg. the bottle was filled with ink (Factual Recount)

Bahasa

·         Ditulis dalam bentuk lampau Past Tense  (she yelled, it nipped, she walked)

• Sering menggunakan  kata-kata yang menghubungkan peristiwa dalam waktu, seperti   next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday)

·         Recount teks menggambarkan kejadian-kejadian, sehingga banyak menggunakan verba (kata-kata tindakan/kerja), dan kata keterangan (yang menggambarkan atau menambahkan lebih detail untuk kata kerja)

·         Detail sering dipilih untuk menambah minat atau humor

·         Penggunaan kata ganti pribadi (saya, kami) (Recount Pribadi)

·         Kalimat pasif  dapat digunakan, misalnya. botol diisi dengan tinta (Recount faktual)

SAMPLE OF RECOUNT TEXT

1.      My trip to Borobudur Temple

          Last week, I spent my vacation in Jogjakarta, the city is famous in Indonesia. I went to the temple of Borobudur. My family and I went there in the morning we went to Borobudur temple by private car family. I had prepared everything before we went to Jogja. While we were driving, we get to see some beautiful scenery mountains, forests, and waterfalls as well as cars pass by. My family and I arrived at the Borobudur Temple at 4:30 pm. There, I saw a lot of tourists. Borobudur temple is crowded on a holiday vacation. I can learn and practice speaking English with a foreign tourist different language to me. Dovi his name. He is very friendly. This is the first time I spoke English with foreign tourists. We returned at 22:30 at night. It was a very interesting holiday for me and my family was happy.

Fill the blank based on the text above !

1. Orientation

 Who …………..

 What …………..

When………………

where………………………………

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Event 1………………………………………...…

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Event 2……………………………………………

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Event 3……………………………………………………

orientation  : ……………………………

Re Vacation to London

       Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British Embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London. They boarded a large Boeing flight.The flight was nearly fourteen hours.
       On the plane the cabin crews were very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for their entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
       On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London Welcome Desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
       The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet. Instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key-card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.
       The two week in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.

Fill the blank based on the text above !

1. Orientation

 Who …………..

 What …………..

When………………

where………………………………

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Event 1………………………………………...…

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Event 2……………………………………………

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Event 3…………………………………………………… 

orientation  : ……………………………

MORE SAMPLE OF NARATIVE TEXTS

Snow White

Once upon a time, there lived a little girl named Snow White.  She lived with her aunt and uncle because her parents were dead.

One day, she heard her uncle and aunt talking about leaving Snow White in the castle because they both wanted to go to America and they didn’t have enough money to take Snow White.

Snow White did not want her uncle and aunt to do this, so she decided it would be best if she ran away.  The next morning, she ran away from home when her aunt and uncle were having breakfast.  She ran away into the woods.

She was very tired and hungry.  Then, she saw this little cottage.  She knocked, but no one answered, so she went inside and fell asleep.

Meanwhile, the seven dwarfs were coming home from work.  They went inside. There they found Snow White sleeping.  Then Snow White woke up.  She saw the dwarfs.  The dwarfs said, ”What’s your name?” Snow White answered, “My name is Snow White.”

The other dwarfs asked, “If you wish, you may live here with us.” Snow White said, “Oh, could I? Thank you!” Then Snow White told the dwarfs the whole story, and the seven dwarfs lived happily ever after.

 

1.  What is the communicative purpose of the story?

2.  What is the generic structure of the story?

3.  What kind of tenses is used in the story?

4.     …….because her parents were dead. (p.2)

The synonym of the underlined word is……

a. Lived    b. Loved      c. Passed away     d. Ran away    e. kind

KING PRABU

Once upon a time, The King Prabu ruled a Kingdom in West Java.  King Prabu and his wife were wise and kind so that their people were prosperous.

The problem came because The King didn’t have children.  They tried many ways to have children, but they always failed.

One day, Prabu prayed to God, and he was very happy because God accepted his prayer.  Soon, they had a child that was beautiful but spoiled and had the bad behavior.

For her seventeenth birthday party, the princess got the gold necklace from her parents.  Unfortunately, when she saw it, she didn’t like it and threw it away into the floor.  Everybody was shocked because from the ground emerged a lot of water.  All of the kingdom suddenly became a big lake.

People call it Telaga Warna and believed that the colours came from the Princess’ necklace.

  1.  The Kingdom was located in……..

    a.    Sumatera           b. Sulawesi      c. Java             d. Papua          e. Bali

  2.  People……….the King Prabu.

   a.    hated                b. liked          c. disliked        d. connected with      e.ruled    

      

   3.  Which statement is Not Correct?

   a.    The queen had one daughter.

   b.   The lake swallowed the Kingdom.

   c.    The King adopted a girl as his child.

   d.   The princess had the bad behavior.

   e.    The Prabu and his wife were wise.

4.  The communicative purpose of the story is…..

   a. to describe the King           

   b. to entertain the readers      

   c. to persuade the readers

   d.   to describe the Kingdom     

   e. to retell the past experience

                                                                    Attitude Is Everything

Jerry was the kind of guy you love to hate. He was always in a good mood and always had something positive to say. When someone would ask him how he was doing, he would reply, "If I were any better, I would be twins!"

He was a unique manager because he had several waiters who had followed him around from restaurant to restaurant. The reason the waiters followed Jerry was because of his attitude. He was a natural motivator. If an employee was having a bad day, Jerry was there telling the employee how to look on the positive side of the situation.

Seeing this style really made me curious, so one day I went up to Jerry and asked him, "I don't get it! You can't be a positive person all of the time. How do you do it?" Jerry replied, "Each morning I wake up and say to myself, 'Jerry, you have two choices today. You can choose to be in a good mood or you can choose to be in a bad mood.' I choose to be in a good mood. Each time something bad happens, I can choose to be a victim or I can choose to learn from it. I choose to learn from it. Every time someone comes to me complaining, I can choose to accept their complaining or I can point out the positive side of life. I choose the positive side of life."

"Yeah, right, it's not that easy," I protested. "Yes it is," Jerry said. "Life is all about choices. When you cut away all the junk, every situation is a choice. You choose how you react to situations. You choose how people will affect your mood. You choose to be in a good or bad mood. The bottom line: It's your choice how you live life." I reflected on what Jerry said.

Soon thereafter, I left the restaurant industry to start my own business. We lost touch, but I often thought about him when I made a choice about life instead of reacting to it. Several years later, I heard that Jerry did something you are never supposed to do in the restaurant business: he left the back door open one morning and was held up at gunpoint by three armed robbers. While trying to open the safe, his hand shaking from nervousness, slipped off the combinations. The robbers panicked and shot him.

Luckily, Jerry was found relatively quickly and rushed to the local trauma center. After 18 hours of surgery and weeks of intensive care, Jerry was released from the hospital with fragments of the bullets still in his body. I saw Jerry about six months after the accident. When I asked him how he was, he replied, "If I were any better, I'd be twins. Wanna see my scars?" I declined to see his wounds, but did ask him what had gone through his mind as the robbery took place.

"The first thing that went through my mind was that I should have locked the back door," Jerry replied. "Then, as I lay on the floor, I remembered I had two choices: I could choose to live, or I could choose to die. I chose to live."

"Weren't you scared? Did you lose consciousness?" I asked.

Jerry continued, "The paramedics were great. They kept telling me I was going to be fine. But when they wheeled me into the emergency room and I saw the expressions on the faces of the doctors and nurses, I got really scared. In their eyes, I read, 'He's a dead man.' I knew I needed to take action."

"What did you do?" I asked.

"Well, there was a big, burly nurse shouting questions at me," said Jerry. "She asked if I was allergic to anything. 'Yes,' I said. The doctors and nurses stopped working as they waited for my reply. I took a deep breath and yelled, 'Bullets!' Over their laughter, I told them, "I am choosing to live. Operate on me as if I am alive, not dead."

Jerry lived thanks to the skill of his doctors, but also because of his amazing attitude. I learned from him that every day we have the choice to live fully. Attitude, after all, is everything.

Croco'nile

...by Roy Gerrard; Farrar, Strauss, Girous, NY, 1994.

One morning while at play, Hamut and his sister, Nekatu, two Egyptian children, found a baby crocodile. Each day they fed him and swam with him in the Nile River. One day Nekatu and Hamut spied a boat. They climbed aboard and hid themselves from the crew. By the next morning they were hundreds by miles from their village. When found by the crew the captain sailed into port to try to find them a home with a friend while runners returned to the village to tell the family of their whereabouts. The captain's friend happened to be a sculptor who soon was teaching Hamut to carve statues. Before long Nekatu was drawing and painting. The villagers were in awe of the children's talents. The sculptor had been commissioned to work in on underground pyramid and asked the children to assist him in decorating the walls. One day the king visited his tomb and was astonished to see the work of the children. Remembering his wife's birthday was soon, he asked them to design a present for her, something very rare and special. The children began to work and by the time of the party the rare and special gift was complete, and they were present for the unveiling before the queen. She was so pleased with her birthday gift that she invited Hamut and Nekatu to sit with her and the king at the banquet table. From this they garnered enormous fame but stayed modest and shy. However, some villains knowing of their talents kidnapped them and sailed to foreign ports to ransom them. By this time the flood waters had appeared and the boat soon sank in the turbulent waves. To the children's rescue came their old friend the Crocodile who carried them safely home.

A beautiful picture book! Read this to children while sitting in the Egyptian Gallery of your nearest art museum.