Recount Text adalah salah satu materi pelajaran Bahasa Inggris yang mulai dikenalkan di tingkat SMP. Biasanya sebagai latihan atau PR, Guru akan memberi kita tugas untuk membuat contoh Recount Text yang pendek atau sederhana. Namun, tidak bisa dipungkiri juga bahwa ada beberapa siswa yang mengalami kesulitan dalam menyelesaikan tugas membuat contoh teks recount seperti ini. Salah satu alasannya adalah karena mereka masih belum memahami sepenuhnya apa itu recount text. Akhirnya mereka pun bingung, apa yang harus dikerjakan.
Untuk itu pada kesempatan kali ini kita akan membahas tentang apa itu recount text, bagaimana generic structurenya, tujuan dan contoh dari recount text itu.
A. Pengertian Recount Text
Recount Text adalah salah satu dari jenis teks bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan kembali kejadian-kejadian atau pengalaman-pengalaman di masa lampau. Tujuan dari Recount Text adalah untuk memberikan informasi atau untuk menghibur pembaca. Di dalam Recount Text tidak terdapat komplikasi (Complication) seperti halnya di Narrative Text.
B. Tujuan Komunikatif Teks Recount
Tujuan komunikatif Recount Text seperti penjelasan di atas adalah untuk melaporkan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan dengan tujuan memberitakan atau menghibur tentunya tanpa ada konflik di dalam cerita tersebut.
C. Generic structure Teks Recount
1. Orientation
Orientation atau pengenalan yaitu memberikan informasi tentang siapa, di mana, dan kapan peristiwa atau kegiatan itu terjadi di masa lampau.
Orientation atau pengenalan yaitu memberikan informasi tentang siapa, di mana, dan kapan peristiwa atau kegiatan itu terjadi di masa lampau.
2. Events
Events merupakan rekaman peristiwa yang terjadi, yang biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis, seperti "In the first day, I ... . And in the next day ... . And In the last day ..." . Di bagian Events ini juga biasanya terdapat komentar pribadi tentang peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.
Events merupakan rekaman peristiwa yang terjadi, yang biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis, seperti "In the first day, I ... . And in the next day ... . And In the last day ..." . Di bagian Events ini juga biasanya terdapat komentar pribadi tentang peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.
3. Reorientation
Pada bagian Reorientation, terdapat pengulangan pengenalan yang ada di Orientation, pengulangan yang merangkum rentetan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan yang diceritakan.
Pada bagian Reorientation, terdapat pengulangan pengenalan yang ada di Orientation, pengulangan yang merangkum rentetan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan yang diceritakan.
D. Ciri Kebahasaan Recount Text
Terdapat beberapa ciri-ciri kebahasaan yang mungkin akan teman-teman temukan ketika membaca sebuah Recount Text. Ciri-ciri kebahasaan dari Recount Text tersebut adalah:
Terdapat beberapa ciri-ciri kebahasaan yang mungkin akan teman-teman temukan ketika membaca sebuah Recount Text. Ciri-ciri kebahasaan dari Recount Text tersebut adalah:
- Menggunakan Past Tense. Misalkan we went to zoo, I was happy, etc.
- Menggunakan Conjunction dan Time Connectives untuk mengurutkan peristiwa atau kejadian. Misalnya and, but, the, aftar that, etc.
- Menggunakan Adverbs dan Adverbial Phrase untuk mengungkapkan tempat, waktu dan cara. Misalkan yesterday, at my house, slowly, etc.
- Menggunakan Action Verbs. Misalkan went, slept, run, brought, etc.
E. Examples
Example 1 :
VISITING BALI
Last holiday, my friends and I visited Bali to spend our holiday. We went there by airplane in the morning. We arrived at Ngurah Rai Airport in the afternoon. It was our first experience actually. So, we were very excited when we arrived there.
We stayed at a big hotel around Kuta beach and took a rest for a while. After we took a rest in the hotel, we had lunch at restaurant near the hotel. The foods were delicious. After that, we walked around the beach, played volley ball, and we were swimming while waiting for the sunset. When it set, the view was very beautiful. Then, in the evening, we had dinner at a restaurant in the hotel. They offered sea food. Emmmmm …… it’s delicious. After our stomach was full, we went back to the hotel room. We chatted on the balcony of the room with a beautiful sightseeing around it. After a long time until we felt sleepy, we went to sleep.
In the morning, we prepared to go to singaraja. It is a city of about 90 thousand people. It is a busy but quiet town. The streets are lined with trees and there are many Old Dutch houses. The next place we visited was Ubud. It was not to see the scenery but to see the arts and the crafts of the island. The fist stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture. There we watched some young boys were carving away at big blocks of stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and golden smiths.
We went back to the hotel in the evening. Even we were tired, we never forgot to go to the beach to see the view.
The next day, we spent our day by doing some activities around the beach. We went swimming, surfing, playing ball, even had luch there. And then, the next day was our last day in Bali. So we didn’t forget to buy some cloths, handicrafts, even souvenirs for our parents, brothers, and sisters. We checked out from the hotel in the afternoon after having lunch and then we got ready to go back to Jakarta.
It was such a wonderful experience I’ve ever had.
LET’S ANALYZE THE TEXT
1. Generic structure
Orientation : as we know that this part states about the introduction including the participants and tells the readers the main idea of the story being discussed in the text. It is shown by the sentences on paragraph one. In this paragraph, it is written the participants (who), the place (where), and the time (when).
Event(s) : In this part, the story starts from the very early stages that is to say, the story develops based on the sequence of the events. The events on the story above are shown on paragraphs two until five. They are about the sequence of events that were experienced by the writer.
Reorientantion : in this part, the writer summarizes the story and tells his/her impression of the experience that what has been elaborated. This part is shown on the last paragraph.
2. The language features
a. Introducing personal participant : I, my friends, we.
b. Using chronological connection : after, after that, then, first.
c. Using linking verb : was, were
d. Using action verb : took, swimming, walked, buy.
e. Using simple past tense : visited, went, arrived, was, etc.
Example 2 :
Dear diary,
I will still smile now when I remember the moment. My head was stuck between the bars of a hotel balcony when we had a vacation. There were many people who helped me to get my head out of the bars.
It was happened when I was about 5 or 6. My parents took us to a beautiful beach to spend our new year holiday. We stayed in a hotel not far from the beach with my cousin coming along.
At that time I was walking around with my brother and my cousin and I could not see the pool over the gate because we were on the third floor. My brother and my cousin kept making fun of how I was to short to see over the balcony.
I was so furious because they made up things that they could not only see the pool but also the beach. So, I stuck in the bars. I was panic because I could not get my head out of it. Even, my brother had to call the maids in the hotel to cut the gate and get my head out. There were three maids who helped my head out of it.
When we met they still laughed at me about that. How embarrassing it was
LET’S ANALYZE THE TEXT
An orientation : it tells about who and what happened
I will still smile now when I remember the moment. My head was stuck between the bars of a hotel balcony when we had a vacation. There were many people who helped me to get my head out of the bars.
Events : three paragraphs telling what happened
It was happened when I was about 5 or 6. My parents took us to a beautiful beach to spend our new year holiday. We stayed in a hotel not far from the beach with my cousin coming along.
At that time I was walking around with my brother and my cousin and I could not see the pool over the gate because we were on the third floor. My brother and my cousin kept making fun of how I was to short to see over the balcony.
I was so furious because they made up things that they could not only see the pool but also the beach. So, I stuck in the bars. I was panic because I could not get my head out of it. Even, my brother had to call the maids in the hotel to cut the gate and get my head out. There were three maids who helped my head out of it.
Reorientantion :
When we met they still laughed at me about that. How embarrassing it was
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