Recount (Story genre)

A recount retells past events in the order in which they happened
Structure
• Orientation: sets the scene
• Sequence of events in the order in which they happened
• (optional) a final personal comment or reflection


Language features
• Opening words capture reader’s interest
• May use the first person
• Most often in the past tense, but may be in the immediate present for effect
• Vary sentences length: simple, compound or complex
• Short sentences increase tension; longer sentences provide contrast and detail
• Time words connect events (e.g. As soon as….; Eventually…; Then…; A few moments later…)
• Noun groups describe people and places (e.g. the noisy children playing in the park)
• May include reported or direct speech (He said …….)


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Contoh Rexount Text

Bomb in Bali

The bomb, in the resort of Kuta, destroyed the Sari Club and a crowded nightspot. Many people have fallen victims to this blast. Many of them were foreign tourists, especially from Australia. They were burner beyond recognition. Some tourist who were at the scene of the blast said there were two explosions around the nightclub. One bomb had exploded outside Paddy’s Bar before a Bar bomb hit the Sari Club which was located some meters away.

Hundred were injured in the explosion and about 220 Australians remain unaccounted for. The U.K. Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said that 33 Britons were among those killed in the Bali attack. The Australian Primer Minister, John Howard, called its borders, saying it had been a problem for a long time.

Lists of missing people have been posted in Bali and official said that it could take days to identity all the victims, some of whom were trapped in the Sari Club by a wall of flames. A notice board at the hospital in Bali includes a section called “Unknown Identity” and detailed list on victims such as : “Young girl in intensive care, 11-14 years old, face burned, income, Causation,” or “Girl in intensive care, about 5 years old, 130 cm, fair skin, Caucasian with reddish brown hair. She has a purplish belly button ring.”

Many embassies, including the British and the American, are advising their people to cancel spending their planned holidays in Indonesia, and all U.S. citizens in the country have been told to leave including diplomats and non-essential government staff.

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Contoh Recount Text Holiday

Hai teman-teman, ketemu lagi nih kali ini dalam tulisan tentang pelajaran bahasa Inggris. Adapun yang akan kita bahas pada tulisan ini adalah tentang contoh Recount Text, tepatnya contoh Recount Text Holiday. Namun sebelumnya akan kita bahas terlebih dahulu pengertian dari Recount Text itu sendiri.

Nah... dari kamus internet yang saya dapatkan, maka saya sendiri mengetahui bahwa Recount Text adalah text yang menceritakan kembali kejadian atau pengalaman di masa lampau. Khusus untuk Recount Text Holiday, maka yang diceritakan disini adalah tentang pengalaman masa liburan yang lampau.

Setelah mengetahui arti dari Recount Text diatas, maka berikut secara lengkap teman-teman bisa mendapatkan satu contoh Recount Text Holiday yang berjudul Visiting Bali:

Visiting Bali

There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend stayed in Kuta on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and surfing on Kuta beach. He visited some tour agents and selected two tours. The first one was to Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.

On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.

The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center.

My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.

Semoga tulisan tentang Recount Text Holiday ini dapat membantu teman-teman dalam menyelesaikan tugas sekolahnya.
Sumber: google

Definition of Recount

Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative

Generic Structure of Recount
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time
2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past
3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story

Language Feature of Recount
• Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc
• Using chronological connection; then, first, etc
• Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc
• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
• Using simple past tense

adapted from google

RECOUNT

Tujuan
Tujuan dari recount untuk membuat list dan menjelaskan pengalaman-pengalaman masa lalu dengan menceritakan ulang urutan-urutan kejadian yang terjadi (secara kronologis).

Recount ditulis untuk menceritakan kejadian dengan tujuan untuk menginformasikan atau menghibur atau keduanya para pendengarnya.

Types of recount

Personal recount
Jenis ini biasanya menceritakan suatu kejadian yang mana penulisnya terlibat langsung.

Factual recount
Mencatat suatu kejadian misalnya eksperimen ilmiah, laporan polisi.

Imaginative recount
Mencatat suatu peran imaginary dan memberikan detail kejadian misalnya suatu hari dalam kehidupan seorang bajak laut; Bagaimana saya menemukan sesuatu,

Features of recounts
memfokuskan pada partisipasi atau kejadian individu

Structure
recount-nya memiliki sebuah judul yang biasanya merupakan ringkasan dari teksnya.
peserta spesifik (Ibu, kepiting)

•         recount basis memiliki tiga bagian:
1.    Setting atau orientasi – latar belakang informasi menjawab who? When? Where? Why?
2.    kejadian diidentifikasi dan dijelaskan secara kronologis.
3.    menyimpulkan komentar mengekspresikan pendapat opini personal menurut kejadian yang dijelaskan.

•         dipilih untuk membantu pembaca untuk membangun ulang suatu kegiatan atau kejadian fakta
•         akhir tulisan bisa menjelaskan hasil dari suatu kegiatan misalnya kegiatan ilmiah
•         detail waktu, tempat dan kejadian perlu secara jelas dinyatakan misalnta jam 11.15 pagi, berjalan dengan kecepatan 150 km/jam
•         deskripsi secara detail juga perlu dijelaskan untuk melengkapi informasi misalnya dia anak kecil dan kurus kering dengan baju biru, sepatu merah, dan rambut merah yang panjang (Factual Recount)
•         menyertakan pikiran-pikiran personal/reaksi (Imaginative Recount)
Bahasa
•         ditulis dalam bentuk past tense
•         kata-kata frekuensi yang menghubungkan kejadian satu dengan kejadian lainnya sering dipakai seperti next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday
•         recount mendeskripsi kejadian-kejadian, jadi kata-kata action sering dipakai
•         Detail sering dipilih untuk menambahkan ketertarikan humor pada recount.
•         penggunaan personal pronouns (I, we) (Personal Recount
      kalimat pasif sering dipakai, eg. the bottle was filled with ink (Factual Recount)

Recaunt Text Holiday

Recount Text adalah text yang menceritakan kembali kejadian atau pengalaman di masa lampau. Khusus untuk Recount Text Holiday, maka yang diceritakan disini adalah tentang pengalaman masa liburan yang lampau.

Setelah mengetahui arti dari Recount Text diatas, maka berikut secara lengkap teman-teman bisa mendapatkan satu contoh Recount Text Holiday yang berjudul Visiting Bali:

Visiting Bali

There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend stayed in Kuta on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and surfing on Kuta beach. He visited some tour agents and selected two tours. The first one was to Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.

On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.

The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center.

My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.

Recount

Recounts tell the reader what happened. They retell a past event eg a visit to a farm.
Recounts begin by telling the reader who was involved, what happened, where this event took place and when it happened. This is called the orientation.
The sequence of events is then described in some sort of order eg time.
There may be a reorientation at the end which summarises the event.

Example of a recount: shows the structure and language features of a recount text.

Writing recounts
When writing recounts you should:
• focus on individual people ie use the words, I or we
• use words which indicate when (eg after lunch) and where the events took place (eg in the shed)
• write in the past tense eg had, visited
• use action words eg helped, crutched.

Recount

Recount is recounted an incident in the past in the form of paragraphs.
Typically, paragraphs are divided into 3 parts namely:
Orientation is about what, when, where, who, etc..
Event tells the sequence of events happened.
Reorientation is the cover story and there is conclusions.

Visiting Bali, a recount text

There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend stayed in Kuta on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and surfing on Kuta beach. He visited some tour agents and selected two tours. The first one was to Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.

On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned very late in the evening to Kuta.

The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center.

My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied

What is Recount?

Recount Text
Definition of Recount
Recount is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no complication among the participants and that differentiates from narrative

Generic Structure of Recount
1. Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time
2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past
3. Reorientation: It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the storyLanguage

Feature of Recount
• Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc
• Using chronological connection; then, first, etc
• Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc
• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc
• Using simple past tense

The Recount Genre

Purpose

The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they happened (chronological order).

Structure

The basic structure of a recount consists of three parts:

1. The setting or orientation - background information answering who, when, where and why?
2. Events are identified and described in chronological order.
3. Concluding comments express a personal opinion regarding the events described.

Language Features and Conventions

The recount has a title, which summarises the text. Past tense verbs are used, and frequent use is made of words which link events in time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before, first. Recounts describe events, so plenty of use is made of verbs (action words), and of adverbs (which describe or add more detail to verbs).

Short Example

MY DAY AT THE BEACH

Last week my friend and I were bored after three weeks of holidays, so we rode our bikes to Smith Beach, which is only five kilometres from where I live.

When we arrived at the beach, we were surprised to see there was hardly anyone there.

After having a quick dip in the ocean, which was really cold, we realised one reason there were not many people there. It was also quite windy.

After we bought ourselves some hot chips at the takeaway store nearby, we rode our bikes down the beach for a while, on the hard, damp part of the sand. We had the wind behind us and, before we knew it, we were many miles down the beach.

Before we made the long trip back we decided to paddle our feet in the water for a while, and then sit down for a rest. While we were sitting on the beach, just chatting, it suddenly dawned on us both that all the way back we would be riding into the strong wind.
When we finally made it back home, we were both totally exhausted! But we learned some good lessons that day!

Recount Text

The name of this genre is self-explanatory. The social function of this text is to share a story of what happened in the past. With this text, a writer wants to tell the readers what (s)he or someone else experienced.

The text structure of a recount starts with an orientation. This part tells the readers the main idea of the story being discussed in the text. Yes, this part gives a setting of the story, so that readers are aware of the story is about. Again, it gives an orientation. The next part is the series of events. In this part, the story starts from the very early stages. That is to say, the story develops based on the sequence of the events. Finally, after all events are presented, the writer will wrap story up with a re-orientation. In this part, the writer summarizes the story and tells his/her impression of the experience that what has been elaborated.

Some examples of recount text is a story of unforgettable experience, news article, or the information you fill in the form of LOST report at the police station.

Recount

Recounts tell the reader what happened. They retell a past event eg a visit to a farm.
Recounts begin by telling the reader who was involved, what happened, where this event took place and when it happened. This is called the orientation.

The sequence of events is then described in some sort of order eg time.
There may be a reorientation at the end which summarises the event.

Example of a recount: shows the structure and language features of a recount text.

Writing recounts

When writing recounts you should:
• focus on individual people ie use the words, I or we
• use words which indicate when (eg after lunch) and where the events took place (eg in the shed)
• write in the past tense eg had, visited
• use action words eg helped, crutched.

Use the sample recount to answer these questions.

1. Write a phrase that indicates when an event took place.

2. Write a phrase that indicates where the event took place.

3. List two words that are written in the past tense.

4. List two other action words from the text.

Suggested answers
Recount

1. Phrases that indicate when an event took place include: last holidays; on the first day; the end of the day; then; and the next day.

2. Phrases that indicate where an event took place include: a sheep property; in the shearing sheds; the yards; the paddocks.

3. Words that are written in the past tense include helped, picked and enjoyed.

4. Other action words include sweeping, picking and shearing