LEARNING MATERIAL

Teaching Material Development

RECOUNT TEXT
A. What is recount?

Recount is a piece of text that retells past events, usually in the order in
which they happened. The purpose of a recount text is to give the audience a
description of what happened and when it happened.

B. Generic structure

1. Orientation: Introducing the participants (Who), place and time (where,

When).
2. Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past (from
beginning until the end)
3. Reorientation: Describes what happens in the end of the story or
conclusion of the story

C. Language Features in 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

Example of Recounts

Look at the following examples of recount:

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

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On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his

USE OF THE
group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city
PAST TENSE
EVENTS of about 90 thousands people. It is a busy but quiet
town. The streets 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

USING
was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft CHRONOLOGICAL
of the island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center CONNECTION
of stone sculpture. There my friend watched young
EVENTS
boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next
stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and USE OF LINKING
goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for VERB

lunch at Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist

center.

My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his USE OF ACTION

two tours, all his day was spent on the beach. He went VERB
RE-ORIENTATION
sailing or surfboarding every day. He was quiet
satisfied.

Vocabularies

Here are some words that used in the text above. Find the meaning using your
dictionary.

Words Pronounciation and stress

□ Art /’ɑːrt/
□ Beach /’biːtʃ/
□ Tour /’tʊə r /
□ Town /’taʊn/
□ Sculpture /ˈskʌlp.tʃə/
□ Satisfied /ˈsæt.ɪs.faɪd/
□ Join /’dʒɔɪn/
□ Spent /’spent/
□ Sailing /ˈseɪ.lɪŋ/
□ Surfboarding /ˈ sɝːf.bɔː.dɪŋ?
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SIMPLE PAST TENSE

Formula:
S + V2 + O + C
S : Subject
V2 : Past verb
O : Object
C : Complement
Verbs that shows the past tense usually ends in –ed, for example

V1 V2
Stay Stayed
Book Booked
Check Checked
Insert Inserted
Lock Locked
Select Selected
Walk Walked
Etc.
There are irregular verbs that will change their form in past tense

V1 V2
Go Went
See Saw
Drive Drove
Bring Brought
Etc.

Example past tense sentence:

- Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation.

- The room had perfect view of the park
- Mr. and Mrs. Richard went to london with their two sons.
- Etc.

Conjunction and transition

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Every text type, including recount, always use conjunctions to make compound
sentences and transitions to link the sentences in order to provide cohesion in the text.

Conjunctions
This is one kind of conjunctions
Coordinating Conjunctions

F = For

A = And

N = Nor

B = But

O = Or

Y = Yet

S = So

people usually called them FANBOYS to memorize them easily. Recount

usually use “But” and “And”.

Example in sentence:
- They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and
drink.
- The boys were quite tired but they felt very happy.

Transitions
There are many kinds of transitional words. Recount use the sequence of time
transition to start, link sentences and start a paragraph.
Sequence of time
After,Afterwards, As soon as. . . , At first, at Last, before, Finally, First , Second, Third,
Next, Then.

Task 2

Make 10 past tense sentences using conjunctions.

Individual Assignments
Write a recount text about your impressing holiday in min. 170 words. Do not
forget to usethe conjunctions and transitions to make your writing more dinamic.