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

What is a narrative?

A. Definition       A narrative is a text that tells a story and entertains the audience.     (narattive adalah teks yang menceritakan sebuah cerita dan menghibur para pembaca)

B. The Purpose of a Narrative

     That is to entertain or amuse the readers.

     (menghibur pembaca)

C. Generic Structure

    1. Orientation

         (Open the story about What, Who, Where, When the story begin)

    2. Complication

        (There are the problems to be solved by the persons in the story)

    3. Resolution 

        ( Solutions form the problem)

    4. Re-orientation 

        (The feeling of ending story. It can be happy, sad, confuce ending)

 

 

  Examples of narrative texts:

   *  myths

   *  fairy tales

  *  Aboriginal dreaming stories

  *  science fiction

  *  historical fiction

  *  romance novels

to see example narrative text, click this!

Materi dan Contoh Passive Voice

Passive Voice

Well... Let’s see...

Passive voice adalah kalimat yang diawali dengan awalan di.

Active	Passive
I eat an apple (Saya memakan sebuah apel)	An apple is eatten by me. (Sebuah apple dimakan oleh saya)

So....

Passive voice itu memiliki formula

S + Tobe + V3

Jenis-jenis tobe:

Present    : am, are, is

Past        : Was, were

Example of passive voice: 

1.     I bring two books from the library (active)

Two books from the library is brought by me. (Passive)

2.     My father bought a car yesterday. (Active)

A car was bought by my father yesterday. (Passive)

Finally, membuat kalimat passive itu mudah jika kita tahu caranya, So.. Don't say, English is difficult as long as you study and practice it, you will be Expert. 

See you...

Sincerely yours and hug,

Miss Tita Jingga :) 

 

Example Sub Function and Language Planning

There are four functions: 

*          Integrative function

            It is used to make people ready to be members of nation. 
*           Intellectual function

            It is the use of language to understand and explain the concept in different till of language.
*     Instrumental function

            Using language for material advantages.
*      Cultural function

             To make people appreciate the culture.

Language Planning

It is sometimes deliberate changing of language. There are four steps:

a.       Selection (selecting the standard language to be national, education, official. E.g.: Indonesia as the national language.)

b.      Codification

To stand the days of the language features such as structure.

c.       Elaboration

Extending  domain of language. It is used in certain of life.(e.g: We use Indonesia in daily communication)

d.      Securing the accepted

To strengthen the language pride/ encourage.


*Miss Tita Jingga