Teks recount yaitu teks yang menjelaskan/ melaporkan tentang sebuah peristiwa atau kejadian yang terjadi di masa lalu atau lampau dengan tujuan untuk menginformasikan atau menghibur.
Contoh text recount
Vacation to London
Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London.
They boarded large Boeing flight. The flight was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
On arrival at Heathrow airport, they had to go to customs and immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London welcome desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.
The two weeks in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-days, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.
Purpose : to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event
Generis structure
• Orientation
• Event (s)
• Re orientation
Language feature
• Using past tense
• Using action verb
• Using adjectives
• In chronological order, using connectives that signal time example, then, next after, meanwhile
• Focused on individual or group participant for example, in the first person : I , We, the third person : He, She, The
Berikut adala struktur teks recount :
1. Orientation: Informasi pembuka yang dapat menjawab siapa, kapan, dan dimana.
2. Events: Urutan kejadian yang ditulis secara kronologis.
3. Reorientation: Penutup
Contoh text recount
Vacation to London
Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London.
They boarded large Boeing flight. The flight was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
On arrival at Heathrow airport, they had to go to customs and immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London welcome desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.
The two weeks in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-days, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.
Purpose : to retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past event
Generis structure
• Orientation
• Event (s)
• Re orientation
Language feature
• Using past tense
• Using action verb
• Using adjectives
• In chronological order, using connectives that signal time example, then, next after, meanwhile
• Focused on individual or group participant for example, in the first person : I , We, the third person : He, She, The
Berikut adala struktur teks recount :
1. Orientation: Informasi pembuka yang dapat menjawab siapa, kapan, dan dimana.
2. Events: Urutan kejadian yang ditulis secara kronologis.
3. Reorientation: Penutup