Recount Text

text ini menceritakan kembali peristiwa/ pengalaman yang terjadi pada saat lalu/ lampau. recount text berisi tentang serangkaian peristiwa (events) yang terjadi pada penulis tanpa adanya klimaks.

Ada beberapa jenis dari recount text yaitu :

1. Otobiografy : text yang berisi pengalaman pribadi seseorang dan ditulis sendiri

2. Biografy : teks yang berisi pengalaman pribadi seseorang tetapi ditulis oleh orang lain.

General Structure ( bagian- bagian text recount):

1. Orientation : Gambaran awal tentang tokoh, waktu, dan tempat kejadian.

2. Evens : serangkaian peristiwa yang terjadi, dan disajikan secara berurutan.

Unsur Kebahasaan : 

1. Menggunakan simple past tense ( kata kerja bentuk kedua)

2. Pada bagian events, banyak menggunakan temporal conjunction seperti then, after that, dan lain - lain.

Contoh:

My Busy Day

MY BUSY DAY 

Last Monday was a busy day for me. I spent my time to do a lot of activities from college to my home.

First, at the morning, I did my presentation's assignment with my partner, she was Roni. It took 3 hours. And then we went to the campus for joining lecture. But, the lecturer said that our presentation would be started next week. It made us disappointed. The class was finished at 12.30.

After that, I had to go home because my grandmother was in a bad condition. She was hospitalized. So, it was a must for me to back home at that time. When I got there, there were so many members of my family. There were about 6 people. My aunt, my niece, my uncle and some of my cousins. We all hoped that our grandmother would get better soon.

Those activities made my day busy.

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MY VACATION WITH MY BELOVED PERSONS

My Vacation

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 Logending beach in Ayah.

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 girlfriend, Kiki, 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 motorbike. 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 Seafood restaurant to eat something.  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 a very exhausting day, but I felt so happy that I could have a vacation with my sister and my boyfriend.

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flood

THE FLOOD 

One Christmas in 2015, I was joining a final test try out at school. It was held from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. One of my schoolmates, Ayu, asked me for accompanying her to the bus stop. When we arrived there, suddenly the heavy rain fell down from the sky. Rini suggested me to go home soon while she was entering the bus.

It was still raining when I was home. The rain did not stop and became bigger when the night had come. People were standing in front of their house, hoping that the flood would not come. In the middle of the night, I got news that east Cilacap had been drowned.

The next day, my city had  become a flood area. All activities were paralyzed. No one went for work or school because the land had been covered by flood. However, I thank God for not allowing the flood entered my house. Even my house had been changed into an emergency kitchen. It was so crowded there. I and my father took a walk around the center market. All that we could see was water and water. At night, the flood looked like a beautiful ocean with the moonlight on it. I felt as if I was one of the passengers of Titanic who was sailing on the sea.

Finally, the flood was starting to decrease in the next morning. I and my family cleaned our front yard together. That was the greatest flood that I had ever experienced in my hometown. 

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MY BUSY HOLIDAY

On February 8, 2016  I thought this would be a great holiday for me because that was the holy day for Chinese. I was so tired about the study, so I guessed this time I could get full refresh anyway. However, the fact said the other way.

First like an ordinary daughter, I had to get up early morning helping my mother, of course after I prayed. Then I did my chores, cleaned up my room, and spread out my bed under the sun ray. I was really in danger if my mom knew that my room was messy. So, I made it as soon as possible. Second, my aunts called me in the afternoon. I did not meet them for a long time, that was the way I kept for hours to talk with them. After that, unpredictable my neighbor visited me. She asked my help finishing her homework. At last, the time was running and I just remembered that I had a lot of homework. I got mad, confused and regretful why I did not check my homework before. Therefore, I did my homework until 2:00 a.m. the next morning.

I did not feel this was holiday instead of I had to work hard and got a long ship with my homework.