Genre "Recuont Text"

Genre

Recount Text

Recount text is a story or event which  tell in the past. It aims at telling the readers about someone’s experiences. Recount text also in function for suggest conjuncture / event which past happen.

Recount text can visible in scientific text although unscientific text. In unscientific  context, this recount had a great vogue by readers because in character gave notice and amuse. Examples: novel and short story. In scientific context, this text seldom detectable in thorough report, scientific activity report, or experiment.

The following points is some regular verb and irregular verb :

Regular verb :

Verb-I	Verb-II	Verb-III	meanig
Accept	Accepted	Accepted	Menerima
Account	Accounted	Accounted	Menghitung
Analyze	Analyzed	Analyzed	Menganalisis
Announce	Announced	Announced	Mengumumkan
Apologize	Apologized	Apologized	Meminta maaf
Arrange	Arranged	Arranged	Mengatur
Arrive	Arrived	Arrived	Tiba
Believe	Believed	Believed	Percaya
Blame	Blamed	Blamed	Menyalahkan
Circulate	Circulated	Circulated	Mengedarkan
Destroy	Destroyed	Destroyed	Memusnahkan
Formulate	Formulated	Formulated	Merumuskan
listen	Listened	Listened	mendengar

Irregular verb :

Verb-I	Verb-II	Verb-III	Meaning
Beat	Beat	Beaten	Memukul
Build	Built	Built	Mendirikan
Burn	Burnt, burned	Burnt, burned	Membakar
Buy	Bought	Bought	Membeli
Dig	Dug	Dug	Menggali
Drink	Drank	Drunk	Minum
Drive	Drove	Driven	Mengendarai
Eat	Ate	Eaten	Makan
Forbid	Forbade	Forbidden	Melarang
Forecast	Forecast (ed)	Forecast (ed)	Meramalkan
Foretell	Foretold	Foretold	Meramalkan
Forget	Forgotten	Forgotten	Melupakan
Forgive	Forgiven	Forgiven	Memaafkan
Hit	Hit	Hit	Mengenai, memukul
spend	spent	spent	menghabiskan

The structure of a recount text consists of three parts :

1.        Orientation : tells the readers who was involved in the story, what happened, where the story took place and when it happened. The simpler orientation consists about what, who, where, and when.

2.      A series of events : tell the sequence of events. These events are described in a chronological order.

3.      Re-Orientation : summarizes the event / conclusion.

Recount text have language feature as follow :

1.        Focus on specific participants.

2.      Use of past tense.

3.      Use of conjunctions and temporal circumstances.

4.     Use of material (or action) processes.

5.      Use of relational and mental processes.

Type of recount text :

1.        Eyewitness account

2.      Letters

3.      Conversation

4.     Newspaper report

5.      Interview television

This is an examples of Recount Text :

“MY VACATION WITH MY BELOVED SISTER AND BOYFRIEND”

One day, my sister said to me that she really wanted to go to the beach. So I promised her that the next day we would go to Maron  beach in Semarang.

The next day, we prepared many things in the morning. We brought some foods and beverages, such as fried rice, chocolate wafers, potato chips, water and orange juice. Before going to the beach, I ask my boyfriend, Farel, to join us going to the beach. He agreed to join and he came to my house. After that, we went to the beach. We went there by car. It took 25 minutes to arrive there. Then, we bought tickets in the entrance gate. Before swimming, we changed our clothes first. We swam there for more than one hour. We felt so tired that we decided to eat the foods that we had brought.

Next, my boyfriend and I created a very big sand castle, while my sister continued swimming. After that, we decided to go home because it was getting dark.

On the way home, we still felt hungry. So we stopped at a Javanese restaurant to eat something. I ordered gudeg, while my boyfriend and my sister ordered rames rice. After finished eating, we paid our bills. Then, we went home. We arrived at home at 6 o’clock and we were absolutely exhausted. That was very exhausting day, but I felt so happy that I could have a vacation with my sister and my boyfriend.

“A STUDY TOUR TO BALI”

               I was in senior high school when at the first time I went to Bali island. I went there with my teachers and my friends. It was a study tour actually. My teacher, my classmates, and I were in the same bus. We left our school at 8 a.m.

              The journey from Pati to Bali took a day. I was so exhausted because I had to sit along the journey. Actually,  it was a funny journey because I  spent all of my time with my  friends, like playing games,  and laughing. But I felt that all of my tiredness gone all of sudden when we arrived at the Sanur Beach. It was still morning, I saw a sun rise which was so beautiful.

             Then we were drove to the hotel to take a rest and had meals . after that, we went to the Nusa Dua Beach. There were so many activities to do there. We could play parasailing, banana boat, and so on. But I chose to go to a little island which had a lot of reptile there. There were snake, turtles, etc. the scenery was so beautiful because I was in the middle of the sea.

            Next, we went to Garuda Wisnu Kencana  (GWK). There were two statues which were so big. They were Wisnu and his bird, called Garuda. I was interested in its relief on the rock but, actually, I did not know the story on it. At last, we went to the Sosro Company. We learned a lot of things there from the first step till the end of making a tea. After that, we went back to Pati.

           After a very long journey, through the land and the sea, I learned something about nature and human products. Although it took a lot of my energy, I felt so happy because I spent all of my time with my friends.