Recount Text

What do you know recount text ?

Recount text is a text that is used to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

This is the generic structures of recount text are :

Ø  Orientation (it gives the readers the background information reeded to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened).

Ø  Event (a series of event, ordered in a chronological sequence).

Ø  Re-Orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer

      Next, this is the significant grammatical features :

Ø  Use of simple past tense.

Ø  Use of temporal conjunctions (when, after, before, next, later, then,...).

Ø  Use of personal pronoun (I, we).