Recount Text

Recount Text

What do you know recount text ?

Recount text is a text that retells the events or incidents that have been passed or past, usually containing the author’s personal experience.

This is the generic structures of recount text are :

Ø  Orientation (it gives the readers the background information receded to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened).

Ø  Event (a series of event, ordered in a chronological sequence).

Ø  Re-Orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer

      Next, this is the significant grammatical features :

Ø  Use of simple past tense.

Ø  Use of temporal conjunctions (when, after, before, next, later, then,...).

Ø  Use of personal pronoun (I, we).

Recount text use the simple past tense

Example :

1.    Orientation:

Dear Grandma and Grandpa

Yesterday at my school we had an International Day. We had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes.

2.    Event  1

We started our day with performances. The performances I was in was  Ladampa. However, the one I liked best was the one from the fourth grade.

3.    Event  2

Right after our performances we had our lunch. There were food stalls. They came from Australia,Arab and Greece.

4.   Event  3

Everyone had a job. I did my job after o had lunch. My job wea to sell International Day books.

5.    Event  4

We also had displays in the hall. There display were good, but I did not see them. The displays came from a lot of countries.

6.   Event  5

There was also a trash and treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got there things by asking the children to bring them in.

7.    Re –Orientation

Although I did not win anything, International Day was still fun.