Recount Text

 

Recount Text – Definition Recount text, Communicative Purpose, Generic Structure, and Language Feature, Example of Recount Text and Key Answer

What is recount text?

A recount text is a piece of writing that tells events in a chronological sequence. A recount text is similar to a narrative text. The story may be an event or a situation that took place on a particular day. The order of the events is very important. A recount can entertain and or inform.

Communicative Purpose

To reconstruct past experiences by retelling events in the order in which they have occurred.

Examples of Recounts texts

Incidents reports, newspaper reports, police reports, articles, letters, journals, historical accounts, diary entries.

  Text Organization

·         Personal Recounts

Ø  Orientation introduces who were involved in the story, when and where the story happened.

Ø  Events tell what happened in a chronological order.

Ø  Evaluation gives comments of the writer or speaker about the experience.

Ø  Re-orientation (optional) provide the conclusion of the experience.

·         Factual Recounts

Ø Orientation introduces who were involved in the story, when, and where the story happened.

Ø Events tell what happened in a chronological order.

Language Features

Ø  Nouns, e.g. man, journey, town, etc

Ø  Pronouns, e.g. it, he, him, his, etc

Ø  Action verbs, e.g. wanted, decided, ate, etc

Ø  Past tense, e.g. a rich man wanted to make a journey to another town

Ø  Time conjunctions, e.g. before, finally, etc.

Ø  Adverbs, e.g. cheerfully, quickly, etc

Ø  Adverbs of phrase, e.g. a few ago, at the end of the journey, etc

Ø  Adjectives, e.g. old, clever, light, heavy. Etc.

 

The Clever Servant

  This is an old story. It was first told long ago. A rich man wanted to make a journey to another town. He was a businessman. He wanted to take things to sell. He also wanted to take gold to buy things with. He decided to take ten servants with him. They would carry the things to sell and the gold, and also food to eat on the journey.

He was a kind man. He said to one of his servants,”You are the smallest, the thinnest and the weakest of all my servants. You cannot carry a heavy load. You must choose the lightest load to carry.”

The servants thanked his master for his kindness. He pointed to the biggest load. This was bread to eat on the journey.

His master said,” You are foolish. That is the biggest and heaviest load.” But the servant picked up the load cheerfully and the journey began. They walked for four hours. Then they stopped for a rest. They all ate some of the bread. There was less bread for the servant to carry. The servant’s load grew smaller and lighter everyday. At the end of the journey, the servant had nothing to carry.

1.    What is the type of the text?

A.      Report

B.      Recount

C.      Narrative

D.      Description

E.      Spoof

2.    How many servants did the rich man take with him?

A.      One

B.      Three

C.      Ten

D.      Eleven

E.      twelve

3.    “They would carry the things to sell ...” (Paragraph 1)

The word “They” refers to ...

A.      The gold and food

B.      The loads

C.      Rich man

D.      The rich man and the servants

E.      The servants

4.         The antonym of word “cheerful” in paragraph 4 is ...

A.      Grudgingly

B.      Happily

C.      Readily

D.      Gleefully

E.      Carelessly

Key Answer:

1.       B

2.       C

3.       D

4.       A

 

 

 

 

 

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