RECOUNT TEXT

RECOUNT

Recount is also a narrative text , to retell about something especially that we have in our experienced and also to inform an event or to entertain people.

Social Function

To retell and event a purpose to inform or entertain the readers!

Text Structure

Orientation: provide the setting and introduce participants

Events: tell what happened, in what sequence

Re-orientation: optional-closure of event

Significant Lexicogrammatical Features

Focus on specific participants:

Use of Material Process

Circumstances of time and place:

Use of past tense

Example :

MY HOLIDAY

When I was holiday, I spend my time in my village. I was very happy because I can meet again with my family. In the next week when holidays my family and I have a plan went to Tarutung in my grandmother’s house .

When the day comes We spend our time in Tarutung and in my grandmother’s house. We did many daily activity there like cooked, washing our clothes, washing our plates, and not only it sometimes we talked together with happy and we laugh and we were very happy. In next week my family and I have a plan went to Salib Kasih, and I was very happy because we go there together with my parents, with my brother, and also with my grandmothers, and I was very happy to hear that. When the day comes we went together and enjoyed this moment. When we had arrived in Salib Kasih we followed the simple worship there and after it had finished my family and I took some picture there and we felt so happy and enjoy every moment there.

After we felt enough, we had took some picture, we had followed the simple worship, and pray, we decide go to buy some souvenir and buy it to our house. After it had finished we decide come back home to my grandmother’s house because the weather today is not friendly. We had arrived in our house with safety and also keep health. When we had arrived in our house we take a rest a moment and continue our daily activity.