Recount Text

Recount is one of five genres taught in English lesson. It is taugth to  the eight grade students of SMP. Commonly, the text demands students to comprhend the generic structure while they are assigned to construct the text individually or in group. In short, Without the prior knowlege, students absolutely unable to write or construct the recount text correctly.

Here are steps for clarifying or support the learner to master the recount text completely. Please, attention to the steps below;

First, the students must know the function of the recount text,

second, the students must know the grammar of the recount text,

last, the students must know the generic structure of the recount text

Recount text is used to tell one’s experience that happened in the past situation. The sequences events are told in good order. The recount text is usually end with happy ending. Because of that some “ writers” said that recount text is written in order to inform or entertain the readers.Recount text uses past tense form when he or she told the sequences events. The past tense can be simple past, past continuous or past perfect tense. The generic stucture of recount text are orientation, series of events and re-orientation. Orientation is an answer of who, when and where. Series of events are something happens to the writer and re-orientation is the closing of the whole stories or the conclusion of the stories.

My Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave

Orientation

On Sunday, my parents, my best fruend Novi, and I visited a cave at Maros called Leang-leang . It was my first time to visit the cave, better yet, my best friend came to visit it with me!

Events 1

The cave was famous for its primitive cave wall paintings which were some hand prints and wild boar paintings. The cave and its surroundings was turned into a national park, so it was taken care of. My parents took a rest in a small hut for visitors of the park, while Novi and I adventured around the cave with a guide. We had to climb some metal stairs to get to the cave, because the cave was embedded into a small mountain. Next stop was a place where some seashells littered the ground and some were actually piled into a big mound! The guide said that these piles of seashells are called kjokkenmoddinger, or kitchen trash.

Events 2

The humans who lived here ate the shells and dumped the left overs in their 'kitchen'. The last place was a small museum where they have skeletons of the humans who lived in the caves. The skeletons along with some roughly made jewelry and weapons were placed inside glass cases for display. The walls of the museum were adorned with photographs taken when they did an excavation there.

Re-0rientation

After a quick lunch with Novi and my parents, we decided it was time to go back home. We really had the time of our lives!