Recount Text

a.       Definition

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.

b.      Generic Structure

      Orientation: Introducing the participants, place and time

      Events: Describing series of event that happened in the past

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

c.       Language Feature

      Introducing personal participant; I, my group, etc

      Using chronological connection; then, first, etc

      Using linking verb; was, were, saw, heard, etc

      Using action verb; look, go, change, etc

      Using simple past tense

d.      Example

1)      Experience

My Adventure at Leang-Leang Cave

On Sunday, my parents, my best friend Sam and I visited a cave at Maros called Leang-leang. It was my first time to visit the cave, better yet, my best friend came to visit it with me.

My parents took a rest in a small hut for visitors of the park, while Sam and I adventured around the cave with a guide. We had to climb some metal stairs to get to the cave, because the cave was embedded into a small mountain.

Next stop was a place where some seashells littered the ground and some were actually piled into a big mount. The guide said that these piles of seashells are called kjokkenmoddinger, or kitchen trash. The human who lived here ate the shells and dumped the left overs in their ‘kitchen’.

The last place was a small museum where they have skeletons of the human who lived in the caves. The skeletons along with some roughly made jewelry and weapons were placed inside glass cases for display. The walls of the museum were adorned with photographs taken when they did an excavation there.

After a quick lunch with Sam and my parents, we decided to go back home. We really had the time of our lives.

2)      Biography

Short Biography of Kurt Cobain

Kurt Cobain was the lead singer and the guitarist of an American grunge band called Nirvana. He was born in Aberdeen, Washington, on 20 February 1967.

When Cobain was eight years old, his parents divorced. This divorce gave bad impact on his life. At his fourteenth birthday, his uncle gave him a guitar as the gift. Since that, he began work on his own songs. He and his friend, Krist Novoselic usually practiced music in the upstairs room of a salon own by Novoselic`s mother.

In 1986, they formed a grunge band named Nirvana. Cobain was the vocalist as well as guitarist and Novoselic played bass. They released their first album titled Bleach in 1989. In 1991 they released the second album, Never mind. It was their greatest album which made them a kind of popular superstar. This album included popular songs like Smell Like Teen Spirit, About A Girl, Come as You Are, In Bloom and Lithium.

However the popularity was intimidating to Cobain. He began addicted to drugs and became worse, even he overdosed on heroin. On March 30, he went to a rehabilitation but ran away. He was reported missing for a few days. Then on 8 April 1994, he was found dead in his house in Lake Washington. He had shot himself.