recount text / NOVA HARIANI / A1B208029

Standart kompetensi                  : mengungkapkan makna dalam teks tulis fungsional dan esai pendek sederhana berbentuk recount dan narrative untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar.

Kimpetensi dasar                         : mengungkapkan makna dalam bentuk teks tulis fungsinal teks sederhana dengan menggunakan ragan bahasa tulis secara akurat, lancar dan berterima untuk berinteraksi dengan lingkungan sekitar.

Aim/objective                              : 1. the students will be able to get the important point from the recount text.

2. The students will be able to determine about structure and language feature in recount text.

3. Make a simple recount text about visited to way kambas.

Read the text  

 Way Kambas National Park

          Last week my friends and I went to Way Kambas national Park. Way Kambas National Park located in northern Lampung and the famous from way kambas zoo is elephant.

We began our trip in Way Kambas National Park. We started from our school by using bus. We can arrive in Way Kambas National Park during three hours. During our trip we saw many beautiful scenes, we sung a song together in the bus and we enjoyed the trip.

When we arrived in Way Kambas National Park, the first we bought the tickets. The cost of the tickets is about Rp. 15.000,-. After that we saw many big elephants with their children. Elephants ate grass or banana trees. We saw not only the elephants in Way Kambas National Park but also we saw the other animals, for example deer, Sumatra tigers, bird and other interesting animals that live wildly.

Next we saw the elephant’s attractions. They started from dancing with accompaniment of musical skills attractions like the circus. For example, they played ball, shook hand, respectful, draped flowers, and swam. We not forgot to ride the elephant. The elephant is friendly with people. There were so many tourist visited there. 

Finally, we went home. It was a most enjoyable trip. My friends and I certainly would not mind returning again some day.

Exercise 1

Answers the questions based on the text above.

1.      When did they visit Way Kambas National Park?

2.      What is the famous animal in Way Kambas National Park?

3.      Where is Way Kambas National Park located?

4.      How did they go to Way Kambas National Park?

5.      How much they paid for the tickets?

6.       What animals they saw there?

7.      What did elephants attractions?

8.      What is the title of the text?

Exercise 2

Change the verb to verb pat tense.

1.      See =

2.      Find =

3.      Sleep =

4.      Eat =

5.      Fight =

6.      Go =

7.      Become =

8.      Say =

9.      Write =

10.  Know =

Exercise 3

Complete the sentence with verb past tense.

1.      Dina …….. (Drink) a cup of coffee before class this morning.

2.      Heru…….. (Go) to hospital yesterday.

3.      Reka and amir ………. (Sing) a song together last night.

4.      I……….(meet) rina when I visited her three days ago.

5.      My mother……… (Buy) my bag two months ago.

Exercise 4

Match the word with the meaning

1.      Fly/flew                                               a. operate and control a car

2.      Bring/ brought                                     b. move using your legs

3.      Shake/shook                                        c. be the most successful in game, competition, etc

4.      Run/ran                                               d. come to a place with something

5.      Win/won                                             e. get out of sight

6.      Feel/felt                                              f. move through air as a bird

7.      Hide/hid                                              g. have a particular idea/ opinion about something

8.      Forgive/forgave                                  h. move quickly from side to side or up and down

9.      Think/thought                                     i. something through the mind/the sense/ emotion 

10.  Drive/drove                                         j. stop being angry with someone

Exercise 5

The students try to writing the recount text based on their experiences when they visited way kambas minimal three paragraph

Explanation of Materials.

Recount text is a piece of text that retells past events, usually the order in which they happen. The purpose of a recount to give the audience a description of what occurred and when it occurred. The steps for constructing a written recount are:

1.      A first paragraph is orientation (give information background who, what, when, where happen).

2.      A series paragraph that retell the events.

3.      The last paragraph is concluding.

Language features in recount text:

1.      Proper noun to indentify those involved in the text

2.      Descriptive words to give details about who, what, when, why, and how.

3.      The use past tense

4.      Words that show the order of events.

 Words showing order

One of language features of recounts is the use of words that show the order in which the events in the text happened, for example:

First,(second, third, etc)                      next                             then

When                                                   now                             soon after

At this point                                         lastly                           at this time

At this moment                                   before that                  after a while

Afterwards                                          following that              meanwhile

Adverbs that tell                               adverbs that tell                    adverbs that tell

How                                                    when                                       where

Carefully                                             again                                       here

Quickly                                                 often                                       there

Loudly                                                  seldom                                    up

Slowly                                                  now                                         down

Happily                                                then                                         forward

Easily                                                   sometimes                              everywhere

Grammar focus.

Form past tense

(+) S + TO BE (was/were) + C

(-) S + TO BE (was/were) + C

(?) TO BE (was/were) + s + C

For example:  

·         They  were teachers (+)

·         They were not teacher (-)

·         Were they teachers? (?)

·         she was busy (+)

·         she was not busy (-)

·         Was she busy? (?)

Or

S + V2 + C

·         I sat on the sofa yesterday.

·         Ria saw the moon last night

·         Ulvi took my pen last week.

·         Rico bought his motorcycle last month.

·         He forgot to bring his book to class this morning.