RECOUNT TEXT

1. Definition:

Recount text is the text which tells about something happened in the past. In addition to tell enjoyable events, and also tell unpleasant experiences.

2. Type:

-       Personal recount: Telling the author's personal experiences.

-       Factual recount: Presenting an accurate report of real events.

-       Biographical?historical recount: Telling someone's life story.

-       Imaginative recount: Presenting imaginative stories based on events that have occurred

Purpose:

3. The purpose of recount text is:

-       To share unique unusual experience

-       To retell something unforgettable

-       To give information about an incident

-       To make the readers learn something

4. Generic Structure:

-       Orientation: introducing the participant, place and time

-       Event: describing the event in chronological order

-       Re-orientation: stating personal comment or impression of the story

 5. Language Feature:

Past tense:

-       I went to Bali last week

-       I spent my holiday in Bandung

-       We were very happy

Adverb of time

-       Last week

-       2 years ago

-       5 month ago

Action verb (verb2)

-       Played

-       Worked

-       Bought

Conjunction:

-       After that

-       Then

-       Next

6.  The example of recount text: