Recount Text

Recount  text

STANDAR KOMPETENSI
Mengungkapkan makna dalam teks tulis fungsional dan esei pendek sederhana berbentuk deskriptive dan recount untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar

Kompetensi Dasar
mengungkapkan makna dan langkah retorika dalam esei pendek sederhana dengan menggunakan ragam bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar

What is recount text ? Recount is a text which has social function to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. When you tell about the happenings in the past, it means that you make a recount text.

How to make it

Use the simple past tense (FUNCTION : TO EXPRESS SOMETHING THAT HAPPEN IN THE PAST TIME)

•         S + V2 + O/C

•         Adverb of time:

•         Yesterday

•         Just now

•         Last-----

•         -----ago

Read this recount text :

Yesterday Sandra Dewi fell sick in the middle of the English lesson. All the students did reading tasks. Suddenly Sandra Dewi vomited. All other students stopped writing. Mrs. Lidia helped her immediately. The chairman of the class sent for the school’s doctor.

            In five minutes the doctor came. He examined her carefully. He examined her eyes. He felt her stomach. He listened to her heart beat. He measured her blood pressure. Then he took her temperature.

            “I’m afraid she suffers from malaria. Her temperature is very high. That is why she vomited. She has a very bad cough, too. I’ll give her some pills for her malaria, some tablets for her fever, and syrup for her cough. She needs a week’s rest”, said the doctor.

A recount text has following generic/schematic structure:

·         Orientation : provides the setting and introduces participants

·         Events

·         Re-orientation