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Summary

Recount text is one of kind English text which retells the events or experiences in the past.

For social function :

 To retell the events that we experience or story that happened in the past, event or activity
with the purpose of reaching or intertaining without any conflicts in the story. In contrast
to the narrative text that contains the conflict in it, provides information about what
happened, when it happened, where it happened and who was involved.
 The purpose of a recount is to list and describe past experiences by retelling events in the
order in which they happened (chronological order). Recount are written to retell events
with the purpose of either informating or entertaining their audience (or both).

For generic structure :

 Orientation provides information about the topic of recount text like, who, where, and
when the events or activities that occurred in the past.
 Events tells what happened in chronological order, such as “in the first day, I … and I in
the next day … and in the last day … “. In the evebts section is also usually contained
personal comments about the event recounted.
 Reorientation there is a repetition on the orientation, repetition which summarizes the
series of events, event or activity is reported and consists of optional closure of
events/ending and tell the impression, the opinion or the feeling of the writer toward the
experience.

Types of recount :
 Personal recount
These usually retell an event that the writer was personally involbed in.
 Factual recount
Recording an incident, example : a science experiment, police report.
  Imanigary recount
Writing an imaginary role and giving details of events, example : a day in the life of a
pirate, how I invented…
 History recount
The retelling of factual event that have happened in the past.
 Biography recount
To inform by retelling past events and achievements in a person’s life.

Characteristics of Recoun text :

 Using the past tense, to declare an event or events in the past. Simple past tense always
use verb 2.
 Using past continuous tense, to express something that is happening or being done in the
past in conjuction with the occurrence of something else.
 Using past perfect tense, to express something that was already done in the past before or
at the time of events or other events that occurred in the past.
 Using conjuction and time connectives to sequence events or an event, suppose and, nut,
the, lists are that, etc.
 Using adverbs and adverbial phrase to express the place, time and manner. Suppose
yesterday, at my house, slowly, etc.
 Using action verbs. Suppose went, slept, run, brought, etc.

So for this material it can make our students be deligent, and able to think critically and
creatively. Beside that, we can make our studenst more active than the teacher,
responsibility and also to develop our students abilities especially for reading and writing.