Recount
A. Pengertian Recount Text
Recount Text adalah salah satu jenis text dalam bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan kembali tentang kejadian-kejadian atau pengalaman-pengalaman di masa lampau. Tujuan dari Recount Text adalah untuk memberikan informasi atau untuk menghibur pembaca sehingga tidak terdapat konflik.
1. Macam-macam Recount Text :
a. Personal Recount
Yaitu menceritakan tentang pengalaman pribadi penulis
b. Factual Recount
Yaitu laporan peristiwa yang benar-benar terjadi, seperti laporan percobaan ilmu pengetahuan, laporan kepolisian.
c. Imaginative
Yaitu membuat cerita imaginative lalu menuliskan peristiwa atau kejadian yang telah terjadi.
2. Struktur Recount Text adalah sebagai berikut :
a. Orientation
Yaitu pengenalan berupa memberikan informasi tentang siapa, dimana dan kapan peristiwa atau kejadian itu terjadi di masa lampau.
b. Events
Yaitu merupakan rekaman peristiwa yang terjadi, biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis, seperti : "In the first day... . And in the next day... . And in the last day... ." Pada bagian ini terdapat juga komentar pribadi tentang peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.
c. Reorientation
Yaitu pengulangan pengenalan yang ada di orientation, pengulangan tentang rangkuman peristiwa atau kejadian yang diceritakan.
3. Ciri Kebahasaan Recount Text
Pada saat membaca Recount Text, akan ditemukan ciri-ciri kebahasaan sebagai berikut :
a. Menggunakan kalimat dalam bentuk Past Tense.
Contoh : We went to Bandung last year, I was very happy.
b. Menggunakan Action Verbs.
Contoh : went, bought, wrote, slept, dll.
c. Menggunakan Adverbs and Adverbial Phrase untuk mengungkapkan waktu, tempat dan cara.
Contoh : yesterday, at school, quickly, dll.
d. Menggunakan Conjunction dan Time Connectives untuk mengurutkan peristiwa atau kejadian.
Contoh : but, and, after that, dll.
4. Contoh Recount Text
Orientation
I spent my holiday in Jogjakarta last year. I went to Prambanan Temple with my family early in the morning.
Events
We went to Prambanan Temple by bus and arrived at 01.00 in the afternoon. I saw many foreign tourists there. I spoke English with them. Their name are Andrew and Peter. They were very friendly. They came from New York. Prambanan Temple was crowded in holiday. We went back at 07.00 in the evening.
Reorientation
It was a very interesting holiday.
B. Latihan Soal
Text 1
Last month my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s funeral. It was my first time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered there with our kin in the ceremony.
Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week. Several days before the ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept in a series of houses arranged in a circular row around an open field called tongkonan. His corpse was dressed in a fine wearing.
The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes, and then moved the corpse to face north. In this ceremony we wore black clothes. After that, the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and placed on an open platform beneath the granary.
Meanwhile, my uncle, my brother, and I prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower called lakian. The next phase of the ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian. During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They were great matches. In the night, we were feasting, chanting, and dancing.
1. What happened to the Grandpa several days before the ceremony?
(A) He visited my Home
(B) He was kept in my home
(C) He was placed in the tongkonan
(D) He made tongkonan
(E) He gathered with family
2. Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. What does “elaborate” means?
(A) Taking a long process
(B) Taking a sad moment
(C) Giving a bless
(D) Making people happy
(E) Making people sad
3. Why did the writer say that his grandpa funeral was quite elaborated?
(A) Because the family have to come to the funeral
(B) Because a lot of people come to the grandpa funeral ceremony
(C) Because it takes several days to hold the ceremony
(D) Because grandpa’s body was kept in tongkonan
(E) Because the writer’s loved his grandpa very much
4. The activities below are held in the second phase, except…
(A) Prepared Buffalo and holding Bufallo matches
(B) Prepared funeral tower
(C) Place the coffee in the lakian
(D) Chanting
(E) Dancing
5. They were great matches. What does the word “they” refer to?
(A) Buffalos
(B) Buffalos matches
(C) People in the buffalos matches
(D) Families
(E) Ceremonies
Text 2
Last holiday I went to Paris. I visited museums and sat in public gardens. A friendly waiter taught me a few words of French. Then he lent me a book. I read a few lines, but I did not understand a word. Every day, I thought about postcards. My holidays passed quickly, but I did not send any cards to my friends. On the last day I made a big decision, I got up early and bought thirty seven cards. I spent the whole day in my room, but I did not write a single card!
6. What is the tenses used in the text above?
(A) Simple Present Tense
(B) Past Continues Tense
(C) Simple Past Tense
(D) Simple Future Tense
(E) Future Perfect Tense
7. Whom did the writer meet in Paris?
(A) A man that take him to French
(B) A man that gave him thirty seven cards
(C) A man that lent him a book
(D) A man that worked in museum
(E) A man that give him a job
8. ‘I read a few lines, …’ What does the underlined phrase mean?
(A) Words in a postcard
(B) Texts on the book
(C) Museum guiding
(D) Garden’s rules
(E) Menu
9. What did he do in the last day in Paris?
(A) Went to Paris
(B) Wrote a post card whole day
(C) Got up late
(D) Bought thirteen cards
(E) Went to buy some cards
10. Then he lent me. Whom does “he” refer to?
(A) French tourist
(B) Annoying waiter
(C) A friendly tourist
(D) A nice waiter
(E) An old man
C. Kunci Jawaban
1. C
2. A
3. C
4. B
5. B
6. C
7. C
8. B
9. E
10. D
Sumber/source :
http://www.kursusmudahbahasainggris.com/2013/09/pengertian-tujuan-struktur-macam-ciri.html?m=1
http://kebunenglish.blogspot.com/2015/02/contoh-soal-recount-text.html?m=1
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