RECOUNT TEXT Definition, Example, And Questions

RECOUNT TEXT

Recount text is text that retell about a story, experience, and other. recount text use simple past tense or past perfect tense in its phrase. recount text retell about past event. recount text use adverbs of time, for example : when, one day, once upon a time, last holiday , after, before, and other. its very easy to different recount text from another text. you can make recount text from your story.

in the recount text we will not get “is” or “are” in the phrase but it will change to “was” or “were”. usually in recount text, the subject is I, or the name of human.

Social function recount

To tell the readers what happened in the past through a sequence of events.

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

Contoh Teks Berikut Soal Recount text

A Visit to a Wildlife Park              

I recently visited Sydney with my parents. We visited many interesting places. The one I enjoyed best was the Wildlife Park.

The Wildlife Park has a lot different Australian animals and birds. There are over 600 animals, including kangaroos, wallabies, koala and crocodiles. They are kept in their natural surroundings. I much preferred the Wildlife Park to a zoo where a lot of animals are in cages.

We were able to walk along the kangaroos and wallabies. We were even allowed to touch them and to feed them. It was very exciting to be very so close to them

We saw koala bears. They looked very cuddly. I got my photograph taken with one of them. It is a wonderful souvenir of my holiday in Sydney.

We also went to see the crocodiles. The Wildlife Park has a lot of fresh-, water and salt-water crocodiles. Some of them were very big and scary with, huge teeth. I did not get very close to them.

We also visited the aviary. There were some very colorful birds there. I really liked an old parrot which could talk.

I wish we could have spent more time in the Wildlife Park. There were so much to see.

Questions :

1.    What is the main idea of paragraph 2 ?

2.    What is the generic structure of the text ?

3.    …. Allowed to touch them and to feed ..

         the word them in paragraph 3 refers to

4.    What is the communicative purpose of the text?