Materi Recount Text dan Contohnya

       A.     What is Recount text?

 Recount text is one of genre of the texts which is very important because in junior and senior high school.  It becomes the one of genre of the texts that should be known by the students.

       B.     The purpose of recount text :

To retell about past event

The generic structure of recount text:

 

1.  Orientation: It opens the story when, who, where, what will the subject/person do.

2.  Event 1, 2, 3, and more...

 It tells about when the story/events happen, it should be in chronological orders.

(e.g.: The story starts from morning, then afternoon, and finally in the evening)

3.  Re-orientation

It tells about the writer's feeling.

                        (e.g. : We were very happy with our holiday in Magelang.)

   

C. Linguistics features of recount text:

1. Using 'Simple Past Tense'

As we know, the formulas  of Simple Past Tense Sentence:

a.          Positive Form

e.g. : Last week, We went to Borobudur temple in Magelang Regency by car.

Went is Verb 2, It is from Go.

                                           Go -->  Went

    b.      Negative Form

    e.g. : Last week, We did not go  to Borobudur temple in Magelang Regency by car.

                        We should add ‘did not/ didn’t ’ if we make negative form in Simple Past   Tense. Last, Don’t forget, you must change Verb 2 becomes V1!

e.g. : Went  -->  Go

                 c.   Complement form
 

e.g. : W e were  very happy. (‘Very happy’ is adjective form)

           2. Using Time Squence

They are Last week, last holiday, in the morning, afternoon, evening, two days ago,  etc.

           3. Example of Short Recount Text

                 Read this text bellows!

'HOW MANY BOOKS DO YOU HAVE?'

Last week, my friends and I were having a course. That's my favorite lecture because we will talk about books and many things about literature.

"How many books do you have?" My lecturer, alm Mr. Soetrisman, M.Sc. asked us when we were in Literary Appreciation course.

The class was silent, I looked my friends just keep their mouths closed.

After that, One by one of my friends just answered 5s, 10s, 15s, 20s and they didn't answer more than 50 books. Finally, that arrived in my seat, he repeated again the question, I answered, "more than 80, Sir.."

My book collections

He just smiled, "Good, I have more than 1000 books, so if you have been in college, you should have hundreds books since you're in elementary school."

 

"I'll try to collect like you, try to keep my book, it's not only paper, but also I'll find many new things there, yeah.. because I love reading, it's my breath.." Whispers me in my heart..

"So... how many books do you have?"

4 years later...

I remember that question after I trimmed my book shelf, yeah.. It's not more than 1000 books, but I'm sure I have more than 300 books now. I'm very happy got literary course in my college, and I'm proud to meet him in my life.

@ariftatita

Miss Tita, Magelang 2015