I.

Recount Text
A recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity.
Its goal and social function are to give the audience a description of what occurred and
when it occurred and to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining. It has three
generic structure, those are:
 Orientation tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took
place, and when it happened.
Example : Last night, I read an article about adolescence in a magazine.
 Events (event 1 and 2) tell what happened and in what sequence.
Example : After I finished reading the article, I remembered my own
adolescence; To divert my emotions, I took many extra curricular activities.
 Reorientation consists of optional-closure of events/ending.
Example : I was able to control my emotions and to have a place where I could
express my creativity in positive ways.
The features are including Who? Where? When? Why?, noun or pronoun, and
past tense. Examples : I, at home, last night, a magazine, I took....
Here are several examples of recount text:
Example one

My bad Experience
(orientation)
I had a bad experience this morning. I had just celebrated my 15th birthday
yesterday. The party was very good. When I woke up this morning, I felt very
happy about the party.
(Event)
I got on with my usual morning activities and went to school. When I
arrived at school and entered my classroom, everybody was looking at me. I
wondered “why are they looking at me?”
(Event)
I didn’t think about it much, so I sat in my usual chair. Suddenly, all of
my friends were laughing. They were pointing at my face. I felt very embarrassed
so I ran to the rest room. There was a mirror there. I looked to the mirror to fi nd
out why. I was surprised to see a big red pimple on my forehead. My classmates
were laughing at me because I looked like an Indian actress. I had never had pimple
before, so the whole day I had to cover my forehead with a head band.
(Adapted from English Focus)
 Example two

My Adolesence
(Orientation)
I had my adolescence when I was thirteen.
(Event)
It started with acne that showed up on my face. It was very annoying. It
lowered my self-esteem and I was embarrassed to come out of my house and play
with friends.
(Event)
Fortunately, my Mum gave me a good medicine. In three weeks, the acnes
started to vanish although those showed some black spots in my face.
(Reorientation)
That was my bad experience with adolescence, though there were still lots
of good experience too.
(Adopted from English focus)

II. Past Tense

We use the past simple for an action in the past. For example:
- I ate banana last night.
- I went to Jakarta yesterday.
- She visited me last week.

(+) S + V2 + O

We use did for the negative and introgative actions in the past. For example:

- I did not eat banana last night.

- Did I eat banana last night? Yes, you did/ no you did not.

(-) S + DID + NOT + V1 + O

(?) DID + S + V1 + O + ?
 We can also use to be in past tense. For example:
- I was a doctor two years ago.
- You were here yesterday.
- She was in the school this morning.
SIMPLE PAST TENSE OF BE

Singular Plural She, He, It, I >>>>>> Was

I was We were
She was You were
They, We, You>>>>>>> Were
He was They were
It was

We can also use negative and introgative sentences for simple past tense of be.
for example:
- I was not a doctor.
- Were you here yesterday? Yes, I was/ no, I was not.

(+) S + Was/were + ANA

(-) S + Was/were + not + ANA

(?) Was/were + S + ANA ?

III. Exercises
A. Write a recount text, use the following questions to guide you.
1. What happened during your adolescence period?
2. Did you have a memorable experience?
3. Do you like the changes during adolescence? Why or why not?
4. How do you cope with your adolescence period?
5. If you have second chance, what will you do in your adolescence period?
B. Change the sentences to the past.
1. Bob is in class today..................He was in class yesterday too.
2. I'm in class today.......................I was in class yesterday too.
3. Mary is not at the library today
4. The classroom is hot today.
5. We do not study in class today.
6. You're busy today.
7. I feel happy today.
8. Is Ann in her office today.
9. Tom goes to his office today.
10. Ann and Tom are not in their offices today.
Stage Timing Procedure Stage aim
1. 18’ Play “find the V2”, teacher divides the class into regular,
two groups and make a table that consists of ten irregular
coloums and ten rows on the board, then write the verbs
verb 1 in each box, the students need two find the
three verb 2 to make a horizontal or vertical line,
the group who can get the first line will be the
winner.
2. 18’ The teacher gives two recount text to each group Past tense
and the groups need to analyze the sentences in
the text. Which is the subject, verb 2, to be, and
so on.
3. 18’ The teacher corrects the students’ work and past tense
discuss the errors. To make sure the and
understanding of the students, the teacher give the recount
simple presentation of the usage of past tense and text
all about recount text.
4. 18’ Teacher gives each groups ten verb cards Recount
randomly, then the groups need to arrange the text
recount text with those verbs.
5. 18’ play “say the tense” games as the closing, teacher cool down
instructs the students to make a circle, the teacher
will throw the ball to one student, and for the
student who get the ball need to make a sentence
using past tense, then the game continues when
the student throw the ball to other students.