Learning Objectives:

• Students are able to find the main idea of texts telling of past experience.

• Students are able to find the detailed information from texts telling of past experience.

• Students are able to find the meaning of difficult words from context.

1. A recount text is a text that retells events or experiences in the past.

2. A recount consist of:

• Orientation

This part provides the setting and introduces the participants.

• Event

This part tells what happened and in what sequence.

• Re-orientation

This part closes the story.

3. An example of a recount:

• Orientation

Last Sunday, Intan joined a cooking competition at a cooking festival.

• Event

She arrived at the venue at eight and then prepared her cooking utensils and ingredients. On her way to the festival, she was sure that she had brought everything with her. It turned out that she had left the salt at home. She couldn't make tasty fried rice.

• Re-orientation

In the end, Intan lost the competition and she felt sad.

4. A recount usually:

• uses past tense

Examples:

My mother walked to the kitchen.

He took the jacket.

• uses adverbs of time and place: yesterday, one day, two days later, in the museum, etc.

Examples:

I went to the bookstore yesterday.

One day, my brother took me to the cinema.

The teacher taught the students in the classroom.

• focuses on temporal sequence: first, then, after that, before, at last, finally, in the end, etc.

Examples:

After that, Intan ran to her room.

The glass fell before he came.