Recount Text

Retells an experience or an event that happened in

the past.
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What is Recount
Text?
Recount Text
Definition
Recount text is a text that is telling the reader about one story, action, or
activity. And it always to retells event or experiences in the past or has been
passed before.

What will we learn today is…

1. Recount Text ; Personal Experience, Historical Events, Biography.

2. Social function
3. Generic structure
4. Language features
 Personal
01
Experience
 Retells about events or someone
experiences in the past. It’s purpose
is either to inform or to entertain the
audience.
Generic Structure of Personal
Experience
Orientation
It introduce the participants, place , and time.

Events
It describes series of event that happened.

Reorientation
It is optional, it states personal comment of the
writer to the story.
Language Features of Personal
Experience

• Introducing personal participant: I, my, group, etc.

• Using chronological connection: then, first, etc.
• Using linking verb: was, were, saw, heard, etc.
• Using action verb; look, go, change, etc.
• —Someone
Using simple past tense. Famous
What my mom said is true!
● Last week, I went to a traditional market to buy some daily needs. As usual, I go there alone and bring a
shopping list.
● After arriving at the market, I started searching the tings I needed one by one. While I was bargaining the
price of some fruits, I saw a crowded condition where there was a thief beaten by a lot of people. it was so
terrible. I didn’t want to see the condition to get worse so I called police. A few minutes later, police came
and calmed down the situation. Asking the fruit seller, I knew that the thief tried to steal someone’s wallet
but someone saw him and shouted loudly. After that, suddenly many people roughed him up hardly.
● It was a scaring moment I experienced last week and I hoped that it will never happen again in the future.
02 HISTORICAL
EVENTS
A recount text about historical event is a text which tells
historical events so that people know more
comprehensively about important things that happened in
the past. It is the aggregate of past events. It is a record or
narrative description of past events.
Generic Structure of
Historical Events
1) Orientation: This part introduces the background
of the story related to people, place, and time of
the story.
2) Series of events: This part retells the events
chronologically, starting from the very first time the
event happened, until the end.
3) Reorientation: This part concludes the story and
gives the writer’s opinion about the story itself.
Language Features of
Historical Events
1. Introducing personal participant: I, my, group, etc. !
2. Using chronological connection: then, first, second, third,
finally, etc.
3. Using lingking verbs: was, were, saw, heard, etc.
4. Using action verbs: went, changed, walked, etc.
5. Using simple past tense: ran, cried,bombed, etc.
Battle of Surabaya
The battle of Surabaya was fought between pro independence Indonesian soldiers and militia against
British and British Indian troops as a part of the Indonesian National Revolution. The peak of the battle
was is November 1945. The battle was the heaviest single battle of the revolution and became a national
symbol of Indonesian resistance. Fighting broke out on 30 October after the British commander, Brigadier
A.W.S. Mallaby was killed in a skirmish. Althought the Colonial forces largely captured the city in three
days, the poorly armed Republicans fought for three weeks, and thousands died as the population fled to
the countryside. The battle and defence mounted by the Indonesians galvanised the nation in support of
independence and helped garner international attention. For the Dutch, it removed any doubt that the
Republic was not simply a gang of collaborators without popular support. It also had the effect of
convincing Britian that wisdom lay on the side of neutrality in the revolution; within a few years, in fact,
Britian would support the Republican cause in the United Nations. Considered a heroic effort by
Indonesians, the battle helped galvanise Indonesian and international support for Indonesian
independence. 10 November is celebrated annually as Heroes’Day.
 
 
03 Biography
A biography is an account of somebody’s. Life
written by somebody else, complete with details of
the most important parts. Or we can tell that
biography is the story of someone's life, written by
someone else.
The purpose of biography text is to tell a story of
someone in the past events as well as achievements
in that person's life.
Generic Structure of Biography
 Introduction : The characters in the biography must be introduced
first, starting from the name, date of birth and other personal data
of the character.
 Important events, chronological order and interpretation
 Closing remarks.
Language Features of
Biography
Here are the characteristics of biography, as follow :

• It is not written by the subject.

• It is always written in third person.
• It is based on research not on imagination.
• It describes the person’s surroundings (where, when and
how the person lived).
• It shows how the person affected other people’s life
through their behavior, discoveries social reform, etc.
• It provides examples that demonstrate the person’s
behavior, their accomplishments goal, etc.
• It supplies details that illustrate the person’s individuality.
Soekarno Biography
Soekarno was the first president of Indonesia. He was born in 6 June 1901 and died in 21 June 1970. He led his country to
fight against Netherlands and the man who proclaimed the independence. Soekarno was a prominent leader of nationalist
movement during the colonial period. He spent more than a decade under the detention before released by the Japanese force.

Ir. Soekarno and all his nationalist fellows collaborated to collect support in spreading nationalist ideas. When Japan
surrender the Indonesian independence was declared by Soekarno and Mohammad Hatta on 17 August 1945. At the same
time, Sukarno was appointed as the president and Mohammad Hatta as vice president. After became president, Soekarno had
to fight once again against resisting Dutch re-colonization efforts.

After parliamentary democracy chaos in 1957, Soekarno put an autocratic system called Guided Democracy. It successfully
ended the rebellions and instability which were threatening the country. In the early 1960s, Soekarno brought the country to
the Soviet by giving protection and support to the Indonesian Communist Party.

Unfortunately, the 30 September movement in 1965 ended the communist era and Soekarno’s position as president was
replaced by Soeharto, the man who became president for 32 years.
After Soeharto in charged, Soekarno was exiled to Bogor and spent the rest of his life there.
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