Recount (Laporan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan masa lampau)
Ciri Umum
- Tujuan Komunikatif Teks:
Melaporkan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan dengan
tujuan memberitakan atau menghibur.
- Struktur Teks/Generic structure
- Orientation; Pengenalan, yaitu memberikan informasi tentang siapa, di mana dan kapan;
- Events; Rekaman peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan yang terjadi, yang biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis;
Komentar pribadi dan/atau ungkapan penilaian;
- Reorientation; Pengenalan ulang yang merangkum rentetan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan.
- Ciri Kebahasaan:
Menggunakan:
- nouns dan pronouns sebagai kata ganti orang, hewan atau benda yang terlibat, misalnya David, the monkey, we dsb.
- action verbs atau kata kerja tindakan, misalnya go, sleep, run dsb.
- past tense, misalnya We went to the zoo; She was happy dsb.
- conjunctions dan time connectives yang mengurutkan peristiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan, misalnya and, but, then, after that, dsb.
- adverbs dan adverb phrases untuk mengungkap tempat, waktu dan cara, misalnya yesterday, at my house, slowly dsb.
- adjectives untuk menerangkan nouns, misalnya beautiful, funny, dsb.Examples and structures of the text:
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Our
trip to the Blue Mountain
Orientation
On Friday we went to
the Blue Mountains. We stayed at David and Della’s house. It
has a big garden with lots of colourful flowers and a tennis
court.
Events
On
Saturday we saw the Three Sisters and went on the scenic railway.
It was scary. Then, Mummy and I went shopping with Della. We went
to some antique shops and I tried on some old hats.
On
Sunday we went on the Scenic Skyway and it rocked. We saw
cockatoos having a shower.
Reorientation
In the afternoon we
went home.
Exampleof
Recount text
Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and
Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their
travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British
Embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days
tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included
tours around London
They boarded a large Boeing flight. The flight was
nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews were very
friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave
them food and drink. There was a film for their entertainment. They
had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to
Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the
document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard
and his family collected their bags and went to London Welcome Desk.
They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had
perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet.
Instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key-card to open the
door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and
European food. They had variety of food.
The two week in London went by fast. At the end of the
14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.
Something which happened in the past is the main
resource to compose both recount and narrative text. In writer's
point of view, the thing is an experience. It can be what the writer
has done, hear, read, and felt. Composing recount and narrative is
retelling the experiences of the past event to be a present event.
What does recount differ from narrative?
The easiest way to catch the difference is analyzing the
generic structure. Recount text presents the past experiences in
order of time or place; what happened on Sunday, then on Monday, the
on Tuesday. In simple way, recount describes series of events in
detail. It does not expose the struggle on how to make them happen.
The event happened smoothly. On the other hand, narrative introduces
crises and how to solve them. Narrative text always appear as a hard
potrait of participant's past experience. It reveals the conflict
among the participants. Cinderella's conflicts with her step mother
and sister are the example. The conflict is the most important
element in a narrative text. Narrative without comflicts is not
narrative any more.
There were so many places to see in Bali that my friend
decided to join the tours to see as much as possible. My friend
stayed in Kuta on arrival. He spent the first three days swimming and
surfing on Kuta beach. He visited some tour agents and selected two
tours. The first one was to Singaraja, the second was to Ubud.
On the day of the tour, he was ready. My friend and his
group drove on through mountains. Singaraja is a city of about 90
thousands people. It is a busy but quiet town. The street are lined
with trees and there are many old Dutch houses. Then they returned
very late in the evening to Kuta.
The second tour to Ubud was a very different tour. It
was not to see the scenery but to see the art and the craft of the
island. The first stop was at Batubulan, a center of stone sculpture.
There my friend watched young boys were carving away at big blocks of
stone. The next stop was Celuk, a center for silversmiths and
goldensmiths. After that he stopped a little while for lunch at
Sukawati and on to mass. Mass is a tourist center
My friend ten-day-stay ended very quickly beside his two
tour, all his day was spent on the beach. He went sailing or
surfboarding every day. He was quiet satisfied.
Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake
last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was
driving home from my vocation to Bali.
Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I
thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I
knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity
poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.
Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I
was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There
were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car
and walked along way to my house, in the town.
When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there
was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my
town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was
seriously injured.
Last month my family and I went to Toraja to attend
Grandpa’s funeral. It was my first time to go to such a ceremony.
We gathered there with our kin in the ceremony.
Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about
a week. Several days before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body
was kept in a series of houses arranged in a circular row around an
open field called tongkonan. His corpse was dressed in a fi ne
wearing.
The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we
slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face
north. In this ceremony we wore black clothes. After that, the corpse
was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the
house and placed on an open platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile,
my uncle, my brother, and I prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral
tower called lakian. The next phase of the ceremony was held in this
place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian.
During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They were great
matches. In the night, we were feasting, chanting, and dancing.
On the last day, the grandpa’s coffin were lowered
from the funeral tower and brought up to the mountain side family
graveyard. It was followed by great shouting and excitement from the
relatives and the guests. Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on
a high balcony where other puppets representing the members of a
whole family were already there. The funeral ceremonies made my
family and me tired. However, we were grateful because it ran
smoothly.
Questions
1. When did the writer attend the
funeral?
2. How long did the writer and his
family hold the ceremony?
3. What did they do to the corpse
before the funeral was done?
4. What did they do after the
corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffi n?
5. What did they do on the last
day of the ceremony?
