Recount I Ringkasan Materi

Recount

A recount 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 retell something that happened in the past and to tell a series of past events.

Examples of recount text

Incident reports. Newspaper reports, police reports, articles, letters, journals, historical accounts, diary entries

Text Organization

A. Personal Recounts

1. Orientation

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

2. Events

 tell what happened in a chronological order.

3. Evaluation

 gives comments of the writer or speaker about the experience.

4. Re-orientation

 (Optional) provides the conclusion of the experience

B. Factual Recounts

1. Orientation

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

2. Events

 tell what happened in chronological order.

The Clever Servant

This is an old story. It was first told along ago. A rich man wanted to make a journey to go 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 things to sell and the gold and also food to eat on the journey.
            He was a kind man. He said to one of these servants “You are the smallest, the thinnest and the weakest of all my servants. You cannot carry heavy load. You must choose the highest load to carry”
            The servants thanked his mother 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 carefully 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 every day. At the end of the journey, the servant had nothing to carry.
1.what is the type of this text?
a. report
b. recount
c. narration
d. description
e. spoof
Jawaban: B
Pembahasan: teks di atas tergolong teks recount karena organisasi teks yang terdiri dari orientation, events dan evaluation. Jadi, pilihan jawaban yang tepat adalah (b)
 
2. How many servants did the rich man take with him?
a. One
b. Three
c. Ten
d. Eleven
e. Twelve
Jawaban: C
Pembahasan: Pada paragaf 1 baris ke-3 disebutkan bahwa orang kaya tersebut membawa 10 orang pelayannya, “He decided to take ten servants with him”. Jadi pilihan jawaban yang tepat adalah “ten”.
 
3. “They would carry the thing 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
Jawaban: D
Pembahasan: Kata Ganti “They” mengacu pada subjek yang dibicarakan di kalimat sebelumnya yaitu “the rich dan servants”. Jadi, pilihan jawaban yang tepat adalah (d) “the rich man and the servants”.
 
4.The Antonym of word “cheerfully” in paragraph 4 is . . . .
a. Grudgingly
b. Happily
c. Readily
d. Gleefully
e. Carelessly
Jawaban: A
Pembahasan: Kata yang memiliki arti lawan kata “cheerfully” yang bermakna ‘dengan senang hati’ adalah “Gruidgingly” yang berarti ‘dengan tidak rela’.

LATIHAN SOAL :

On the River

            I paddled for about five miles and then I was tired. I stopped on Jackson’s Island, hid the canoe behind some trees and went to sleep.
            I woke up when I heard a boom. It came from somewhere up the river. Then another boom came louder.
            I saw the white smoke. They were shooting a big gun from a steamboat into the water because they wanted to find my dead body. They wanted it to come up to the top of the water.
            I hid in the tall grass when the steamboat came near the island. I could see Tom Sawyer, Tom’s Aunt Polly, the Widow Douglas, Judge Thatcher, even Pap was there. Everybody was talking about me. They all thought I was dead. They shot the big gun again. BOOM! That one was really loud. It made my ears ring, but I didn’t move from the tall grass. After a while, the boat went away.
            On the fourth day, when I was looking around, I stepped on a fire. It was still smoking. I didn’t wait to see who made it. I just ran. I ran all the way back to my canoe. I thought I heard somebody, so I climbed a tree and looked around. There wasn’t anybody here. That night I went very quietly back to the fire. When I got there, I saw a man sleeping near it. He had a coat over his head. Then suddenly he started to move and he took the coat off his face. It was Jim!
            “Jim”, I said quietly while tapping his shoulder.
            Jim turned around and said surprisingly, “It is you, Huckleberry Finn!”
            I was very glad to see Jim. Jim and I sat and talked. It was good to talk to somebody. I didn’t fell so lonely. 

 
1.      What is the purpose of the text?
A.    To criticize the readers
B.     To analyze the readers
C.     To describe the readers
D.    To entertain the readers
E.     To persuade the readers
 
2.      Who is the main character in the story?
A.    Jim
B.     Tom Sawyer
C.     Tom’s Aunt Polly
D.    Huckleberry Finn
E.     The Widow Douglas
 
3.      What part of the story describes the orientation?
A.    1st  paragraph
B.     2nd paragraph
C.     4th paragraph
D.    7th paragraph
E.     8th paragraph
 
4.      “…. I said quietly while tapping his shoulder.”
What is the closest meaning of the underlined word?
A.    Hitting
B.     Kicking
C.     Touching
D.    Pushing
E.     Knocking
 
5.      “They wanted it to come up to the top of the river.” (paragraph 3)
What does ‘it’ refer to?
A.    Gun
B.     Canoe
C.     Dead body
D.    Steamboat
E.     White smoke