TEKS RECOUNT

Is a text which retells events or experiences in the past. Its purpose

is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There is no

complication among the participants and that differentiates from

narrative

Generic structure:

ž Orientation

Introducing the participants, place and time

ž Event (s)

Describing series of event that happened in the past

ž Reorientation.

It is optional. Stating personal comment of the writer to the story

LANGUAGE FEATURE

ž Introducing personal participant

ž Using chronological connection

ž Using linking verb

ž Using action verb

ž Using simple past tense

My Horrible Experience

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.

ž Orientation: introducing the participant, using first person point of view.

I was on the car last week.

ž Events: describing a series of event which happened.

The car lunched to one side.

Telephone and electricity poles was falling down, etc.

ž Re-orientation: stating the writer's personal note.

Thanking God because nobody was seriously injured.


Language Feature Analysis


Using personal participant; I
Using chronological connectives; then, and, suddenly
Using linking verb; was, were
Using action verb; moved, left, walked, made, etc
Using simple past tense pattern; earthquake happened, I was on the car, my car lunched on one side, etc

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