Recount Text

A. Pengertian

Teks recount adalah teks yang menceritakan kembali suatu peristiwa yang telah terjadi pada masa lalu.

B. Struktur teks recount

1. Orientation (Orientasi): berisi pendahuluan tentang peristiwa yang terjadi, tokoh yang terlibat dalam peristiwa tersebut, tempat, serta waktu peristiwa itu terjadi. 
2. Events: berisi jalinan peristiwa/kejadian yang ada dalam cerita pengalaman tersebut. Bagian ini bisa terdiri atas beberapa peristiwa/event.
3. Re-orientatin: berisi tentang rangkuman/penutup cerita.

C. Ciri-ciri Kebahasaan (Language Features of the Recount Text):

1. focus on specific participants,
2. use material processes (action verbs)
3. use the circumstances of time and place (Adverb of time and place),
4. use of past tense.
5. focus on temporal sequence.

D. Supporting features:

• Past continuous tense
• Past perfect tense

E. Contoh Teks Recount:

A Study Tour to Bali

I was in senior high school when at the first time I went to Bali Island. I went there with my teachers and my friends. It was a study tour actually. My teacher, me class friends, and I were in the same bus. We left our school at 8 a.m.
 
The journey from Pati to Bali took a day. I was so exhausted because I had to sit along the journey. Actually, it was a funny journey because I spent all of my time with my friends, like playing games, laughing, and kidding. But I felt that all of my tiredness gone all of sudden when we arrived at the Sanur Beach. It was still morning, I saw a sun rise which was so beautiful. Then we were drove to the hotel to take a rest and had meals. After that, we went to the Nusa Dua Beach. There were so many activities to do there. We could play parasailing, banana boat, and so on. But I chose to go to a little island which had a lot of reptile there. There were snake, turtles, etc. The scenery was so beautiful because I was in the middle of the sea! Next, we went to Garuda Wisnu Kencana (GWK). There were two statues which were so big. They were Wisnu and his bird, called Garuda. I was interested in its relief on the rock but, actually, I did not know the story on it. At last, we went to the Sosro Company. We learned a lot of things there from the first step till the end of making a tea. After that, we went back to Pati.
 
After a very long journey, through the land and the sea, I learned something about nature and human products. Although it took a lot of my energy, I felt so happy because I spent all of my time with my friends.

Contoh Text Recount

I was 15 years old when I got a horrible experience. We have just move into our new house. One night we all went out for dinner and we came back around 8 0r 9 p.m.  Unlocked the door and I saw something strange. And I was the only one who saw it. It was so short like a tiny little goblin. It ran fast. It was in the living room and ran into another room in not even a second. I told my family about it but they didn’t believe me. My dad didn’t believe in such things.

            Another night I was trying to fall asleep when I felt something touch me on my left side near armpit. I jumped up and screamed. My parents came and calmed me down. They said it was only an insect. I tried to believe it and closed my eyes to sleep again.

A couple months later my dad asked me what strange thing I had seen I described it and he said he saw the same thing. He was in the kitchen making lunch and when he turned his head he caught a glimpse of something like goblin running into my brother’s room. He couldn’t believe the ghost so he thought maybe someone tried to break in. he grabbed the knife and went into the room. He found nothing at all. So after that he admitted that there were some ghosts in our house.

Going to a Book Store

       Last week, I went to a book store with my brother. We wanted to buy some books and comics. We went there by a motorcycle. First we left home at 2 p.m. The traffic to the book store was not crowded. The book store was not so far from our house. After 25 minutes, we arrived at the book store.

       There many people at the book store. I saw there some people choosing kinds of books, magazines, comics, etc. there were many kinds of books at the book store. They were arranged on book shelves. Some people read in front of the shelves. We chose some books and comics we needed and went to cashier. After that we went to a restaurant for having meal. I order meat-balls and soft drink. My bother ordered fried noodle and a soft drink too.

       Finally we went home in the evening. We arrived home at 05.15 p.m. We felt very tired but we were happy.