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Examples 2 Historical Recount (M2 LA 2) : Instructions

(1) The first successful hot air balloon flight took place in France in 1783 when the Montgolfier brothers launched a balloon filled with hot air that rose 1,000 feet. (2) Later that year, two other Frenchmen ascended in a basket under a balloon powered by a fire to stay aloft for a few hours, though the balloon remained tied to the ground. (3) The first free flight occurred in December 1783 when a balloon flew over Paris for 25 minutes traveling about 5.5 miles, directed by the wind like early balloons that had no engine or power of their own.

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Examples 2 Historical Recount (M2 LA 2) : Instructions

(1) The first successful hot air balloon flight took place in France in 1783 when the Montgolfier brothers launched a balloon filled with hot air that rose 1,000 feet. (2) Later that year, two other Frenchmen ascended in a basket under a balloon powered by a fire to stay aloft for a few hours, though the balloon remained tied to the ground. (3) The first free flight occurred in December 1783 when a balloon flew over Paris for 25 minutes traveling about 5.5 miles, directed by the wind like early balloons that had no engine or power of their own.

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ADE HEMALIA ANGGEREINI BERU KELIAT SMAN 1 AYAH KEBUMEN

PBI ANGK.4 KELAS.A PPGJ UST 2019

Examples 2 Historical Recount (M2 LA 2)


Instructions
Topic Ballooning

The first kind of air transportation was not a plane. It was a balloon.
Orientation
People traveled by balloon 100 years before there were planes or
jet aircraft.
Those early days of ballooning were exciting, but they were also
dangerous. Sometimes the balloons fell suddenly. Sometimes
they burned. However, the danger did not stop the balloonists.
(1) The first real balloon flight was in France in 1783. Two Frenchmen,
Record of
the Montgolfier brothers, made a balloon. They filled a very large
Events paper bag with hot air. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up.
The Montgolfier’s hot air balloon went up 1,000 feet in the sky.
(2) Later that same year, two other Frenchmen ascended in the
basket under a balloon. They built a fire under the balloon to make the
air hot. This made the balloon stay up in the air for a few hours. But
their balloon was tied to the ground. So it could not go anywhere.
(3) The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783. The balloon
flew for 25 minutes over Paris. It traveled about 5 ½ miles. Flying a
balloon is not like flying a plane. The balloon has no engine and
therefore no power of its own. The wind directs the balloon. It goes
where the wind blows. The pilot can control only the altitude of the
balloon. He or she can raise and lower the balloon to find the right
wind direction. That is how a good pilot controls where the balloon
goes.

(4) Soon balloonists tried longer flights. A major event in the history of
ballooning was the first long flight over water. In 1785, an American
and a Frenchman flew over the English Channel. They left England
on a cold, clear January day. After about an hour, their balloon began
to descend toward the water. They threw out some equipment and
food to make the balloon lighter. The balloon continued to fall, so they
threw out almost everything in the basket—
even some of their clothes. Finally, after about three hours, they
landed in France, cold but safe.

Reorientation During the nineteenth century, ballooning became a popular sport.


There were balloon races in Europe. Balloons were also used by
scientists to study the air and by armies in wartime. After the airplane
was invented, people lost interest in balloons. Planes were much
faster and easier to control. But some people today still like to go up in
balloons. High up in the balloon basket, they find quiet. They have a
wonderful view of the world below.

From the recount text entitled ‘Ballooning’, we can make some explanations as follows (Look at some
words in bold, italics, or underlined as examples) :

 The text focuses on a specific thing, namely ‘balloon’ (in bold).

 There are a number of action verbs used in the text such as ‘traveled’, ‘fell’, ‘burned’, ‘stop’, ‘made’,
‘filled’, ‘goes’, and ‘went’ (in italics).

 There are some adverbs of time, place, and manner in the text such as ‘by balloon’, ‘sometimes’, ‘in
France’, ‘in 1783’, ‘in the sky’, ‘later that same year’, ‘in the basket’, and ‘under a balloon’
(underlined).
 The sentences are mostly formed in past tense like ‘was’, ‘traveled’, ‘were’, ‘fell’, ‘burned’, ‘did
not stop’, ‘made’, ‘filled’, ‘went’, and ‘ascended’, ‘built’, ‘was tied’, and ‘could not go’ (in italics).

 The text involves temporal sequences such as ‘first’, ‘before’, ‘later’, ‘soon’, ‘after’,‘finally’, and ‘d uring’
(underlined).

Thank you
Best Regard, Ade

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