Recount Text

​Memahami nuansa makna dan langkah-langkah pengembangan retorika dalam teks tertulis berbentuk teks recount sederhana.

​Indikator:

1. Mengidentifikasikan main ideas

2. Mengidentifikasikan supporting details

3. Mengidentifikasikan informasi aktual

4. Mengidentifikasikan langkah-langkah retorika (impersonal meaning) dalam wacana recount

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When we talk and write about past events we are giving a recount. There are three parts of a recount text.

1. Orientation Orientation explains what, when, where, who, etc happening in the passage at the beginning

2.  Event           Event explains a series of happenings in the passage from the beginning until the end

3.  Reorientation Reorientation describes what happens in the  end of the story or conclusion of the story. 

​ORIENTATION

Mencari main idea dalam paragraf Orientation

Pay attention to this paragraph bellow !  

  On Friday I went to Mount Bromo. It is one of the mountains Iwant to see very much. It is near   Probolinggo. That is why I stayed at Nida and Hasan's house at Cemara Lawang, Probolinggo. Penjelasan :   -  main idea adalah ide pokok (gagasan utama) dalam suatu paragraf.   -  main idea dapat diletakkan di depan, tengah atau akhir paragraf.

Contoh :   Main idea pada paragraf di atas terdapat di awal paragraf yaitu : " On Friday I went to Mount Bromo".

​EVENTS (Supporting Detail)

Supporting details merupakan kalimat penjelas dari kalimat utama dalam suatu paragraf.

Perhatikan contoh berikut :   Read this text below carefully !

Sally and Mrs. Indra planned to prepare their dinner and went to the market. First, Sally and Mrs. Indra  went to the grocers to buy butter, cheese, and some other things to make cakes. After that then went  to buy meat and fish for their meal. Next, they went  to the green grocers to buy fruits and vegetables and   finally,  they went to the florist to buy some flowers.

​Supporting details pada teks adalah:

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• to buy butter, cheese and some other things to make cakes

• to buy meat and fish for their meal

• to buy fruits and vegetables and to buy some flowers.

Yang memberi penjelasan pada kalimat  sebelumnya yaitu:

  “Sally and Mrs. Indra planed to prepare dinner together”.

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Read this text below carefully !

One Friday morning, Ms. Indah went to market. She wanted to buy chicken and eggs. At the market, she  met a lot of people from the village near her house. They sold vegetables, eggs, chicken, sheep, cow, and  other merchandises. Ms. Indah bought two whole chicken and two kilograms of eggs. She didn’t buy  vegetables because she could buy them every day from the vendors in her neighbourhood. So she was only half an hour shopping at the market. Then, she took a paddy cab home with her shopping goods.

Mention the activities that Ms Indah did in order! (the supporting details)

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​REORIENTATION (Informasi Aktual)

Informasi faktual : Informasi yang berasal dari kejadian sebenarnya dalam suatu paragraf.

Perhatikan text berikut.

A Traffic Accident

There was a traffic accident in front of my house yesterday. 1) It happened at about three of clock in the afternoon. 2) It was between a bus and a motorcycle. I was playing in the yard, and I saw a bus coming from the west. The bus was very fast. Suddenly a motorcycle crossed the road. The bus driver did not have time to stop his bus and the accident happened. The bus driver got off the bus. He wanted to help the motorist. The motorist was injured. She could not walk. A few minutes later two policemen came.

 Kalimat yang digarisbawahi di atas merupakan informasi faktual karena memberi kejelasan pada kalimat sebelumnya.

 Contoh :  Fakta 1). It happened at about three o’clock..... dan  2). It was between a bus and a    motorcycle,   menjelasakan kalimat “there was a traffic accident in front of my house”.

​Latihan

Read this story below, then answer the question !

A Traffic Accident

There was a traffic accident in front of my house yesterday. It happened at about three of clock in the afternoon. It was between a bus and a motorcycle. I was playing in the yard, and I saw a bus coming from the west. The bus was very fast. Suddenly a motorcycle crossed the road. The bus driver did not have time to stop his bus and the accident happened. The bus driver got off the bus. He wanted to help the motorist. The motorist was injured. She could not walk. A few minutes later two policemen came.

1.      What is the main idea of the paragraph?

2.      When did the accident happen ?

3.      What time did the accident happen?

4.      What was the writer doing when the accident happen?

5.      How did the accident occur?