RECOUNT TEXT

Pengertian
Secara harfiah, recount bermakna "menceritakan". Jadi recount text bisa diartikan
sebagai "Text yang menceritakan". recount text adalah a text that telling the reader
about one story, action or activity. Its goal is to entertaining or informing the
reader. (sebuah teks yang menceritakan sebuah cerita, aksi ataupun aktifitas.
Tujuan recount text adalah untuk menghibur atau menginformasikan pembaca.)

Generic Structure dari Recount Text

Generic structure (susunan umum) recount text ini terdiri dari:
 Orientation tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took
place, and when it happened. ("Orientation" menceritakan siapa saja yang terlibat
dalam cerita, apa yang terjadi, di mana tempat peristiwa terjadi, dan kapan terjadi
peristiwanya)
 Events tell what happened and in what sequence. ("Event" menceritakan apa
yang terjadi (lagi) dan menceritakan urutan ceritanya)
 Reorientation consists of optional-closure of events/ending. ("Reorientation"
berisi penutup cerita / akhir cerita)

Contoh Recount Text (1) tentang Masa SMP

My Adolescence

I had my adolescence when I was thirteen.

It started with acne that showed up on my face. It was very annoying. It lowered my
self-esteem and I was embarrassed to come out of my house and play with friends.
Fortunately, my Mum gave me a good medicine. In three weeks, the acnes started to
vanish although those showed some black spots in my face.
That was my bad experience with adolescence, though there were still lots of good
experience too.

Analisa :
Orientation : Paragraf pertama, (I had my adolescence when I was thirteen)
Events : Paragraf kedua dan ketiga.
Reorientation : Paragraf keempat (terakhir)
Contoh Recount Text (2) tentang Pengalaman

My First Experience to Ride Motorcycle

ditulis oleh Resdwitarini

One day, when I was ten years old, my father bought an old motorcycle. That was "
Honda 75". I think it was small light object and easy to ride it. I persuaded my father
to teach me to ride " Honda 75 ". Firstly, my father refused my request and promised
that he would teach me two or three years later, but I still whimpered. Finally, my
father surrendered and promised to teach me.

He began to teach me riding the motorcycle around a field in my village. My father

was very patient to give me some directions. I was very happy when I realized my
ability to ride a motorcycle. " Yes, I can ".

One day later, when I was alone at home, I intended to try my riding ability. So,
myself tried bravely. All ran fluently in the beginning, but when I was going back to
my home and I passed through a narrow slippery street, I got nervous. I lost my
control and I fell to the ditch

After that, I told my father about the last accident. I imagined my father would be
angry and never let me ride again. But the reality is exactly on the contrary, my
father was very proud of me. He just gave me some advices and since that accident,
I got my father's permission to ride motorcycle.

Analisa :
Orientation : Who = I and my father, When = When I was 10 years, What happen =
my father bought motorcycle and my father promised to teach me riding.

Events : My father taught me riding motorcyle --> I could ride, finally --> One day
later, I tried riding motorcycle alone --> I fell to the ditch

NB :
Tugas ditulis di buku, terjemahkan teks “My Adolescence”
yang pertama
 NARRATIVE TEXT

Pengertian
Narrative text, dalam mata kuliah writing and composition biasanya disebut
narration, adalah salah satu jenis teks dalam sebuah bahasa. Biasanya, narrative
text (teks naratif) berisi tentang cerita--baik cerita fiksi, cerita non-fiksi, dongeng,
cerita rakyat, cerita binatang / fabel dll, pokoknya semua hal tentang cerita ya
narrative namanya... :-)

Disebutkan bahwa A narrative text is an imaginative story to entertain people (teks

narasi adalah cerita imaginatif yang bertujuan menghibur orang). 

Jika melihat pada kamus bahasa Inggris, secara harfiah narrative bermakna (1) a
spoken or written account of connected events; a story. (2) the narrated part of a
literary work, as distinct from dialogue. (3) the practice or art of narration. 

(Narrative bermakna : 1. sebuah cerita baik terucap atau tertulis tentang peristiwa-
peristiwa yang berhubungan. 2. bagian yang diceritakan dalam sebuah karya sastra,
berbeda dengan dialog. 3. Praktik atau seni bercerita) 

Jika disimpulkan, maka sebuah narrative text adalah teks yang berisi sebuah cerita
baik tertulis ataupun tidak tertulis dan terdapat rangkaian peristiwa yang saling
terhubung.

Generic Structure dari Narrative Text

Bagi yang masih duduk di bangku sekolah tingkat menengah, penjelasan mengenai
narrative texts tak usah sulit-sulit ya.. Intinya, narrative text ini mempunyai struktur /
susunan seperti di bawah ini :
 Orientation : It is about the opening paragraph where the characters of the story
are introduced.(berisi pengenalan tokoh, tempat dan waktu terjadinya cerita (siapa
atau apa, kapan dan dimana)
 Complication : Where the problems in the story developed. (Permasalahan
muncul / mulai terjadi dan berkembang)
 Resolution : Where the problems in the story is solved. Masalah selesai, ---
secara baik "happy ending" ataupun buruk "bad ending”

Grammar (tata bahasa) yang sering muncul dalam membuat narrative text adalah:

Menggunakan tenses "Past", baik simple, past perfect, past continuous, past
perfect continuous, atau bisa saja past future continuous. (aturan ini bukan
aturan wajib yang mutlak harus dipenuhi kok. Tidak percaya, tanyakan pada guru
bahasa Inggris sobat)
Untuk lebih jelasnya, lihat contohnya di bawah ini :

The Legend of Rawa Pening

Once upon a time, there was a little poor boy came into a little village. He was
very hungry and weak. He knocked at every door and asked for some food, but
nobody cared about him. Nobody wanted to help the little boy.

Finally, a generous woman helped him. She gave him shelter and a meal. When the
boy wanted to leave, this old woman gave him a “lesung”, a big wooden mortar for
pounding rice. She reminded him, “please remember, if there is a flood you must
save yourself. Use this “lesung” as a boat”. The “lesung” was happy and thanked the
old woman.The little boy continued his journey. While he was passing through the
village, he saw many people gathering on the field. The boy came closer and saw a
stick stuck in the ground. People challenged each other to pull out that stick.
Everybody tried, but nobody succeeded. “Can I try?” asked the little boy. The crowd
laughed mockingly. The boy wanted to try his luck so he stepped forward and pulled
out the stick. He could do it very easily. Everybody was dumbfounded.

Suddenly, from the hole left by stick, water spouted out. It did not stop until it flooded
the village. And no one was saved from the water except the little boy and the
generous old woman who gave him shelter and meal. As she told him, he used the
“lesung” as a boat and picked up the old woman. The whole village became a huge
lake. It is now known as Rawa Pening Lake in Salatiga, Central Java, Indonesia

Terjemahkan teks “The Legend of Rawa Pening” di buku

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