My Luckiest Day.

Answer the questions based on your experience.

1. Did you ever get a horrible/great experience?
2. When did it happen?
3. Where did it happen?
4. With whom did you experience it?
5. What happened?

Recount text
The communicative purpose of the recount text is to retell the past events/past experiences in the
chronological order. Chronological order means when it happened and what happened are told in sequence.
Some examples of recount text:
- Eyewitness account
- Newspaper report
- Diary
- Letter, etc.
The construction of recount text:
1. Orientation
tells who was involved, what happened, where the events took place, and when it happened (introducing
the participants, place, and time).
2. Events
Tells what happened and in what sequence.
3. Re-orientation
Consists of optional closure of events/ending.
The language features of recount text.
1. Using proper noun to identify those involved in the text, for example: I, my friends, my group, my mother, etc.
2. Using simple past tense
3. Using linking verbs; was, were, looked, felt, etc.
4. Using action verb, for example: woke up, looked, went, etc.
5. Using words that show the order of events, for example: first, then, next, when, now, soon after, lastly,
afterwards, before that, meanwhile, at this time, at this point, after a while, etc.
Example of recount text
Last weekend was my luckiest day ever. Many good things were coming toward me.
When the morning broke in Sunday morning, I woke up and planned to jog around
the neighborhood. So I changed my clothes and went to the bathroom to wash my sleepy
face. As I stepped in the bathroom, I landed my foot on a soap in the floor and fell
down. A perfect morning hi for me. Next, I began my jogging and saw my gorgeous
neighbor, jogging to. I thought it was a good fortune to omit the gap between us. So I
jogged to him and said hello. But, how poor of me, it was not him. It just someone I I
never met before who looked like him. I went home with people laugh at me along side
of the street.
When I got home, the breakfast had already settled and I immediately spooned a
big portion of rice and ate it. After I had done my breakfast my mother came up and
said that the meal was not ready yet and she said that I might have a stomachache if I
ate it. It was proven; I had a stomachache for the next three days.
I passed my weekend lie down on bed and was served as a queen. That was not
really bad, was it?
Now, after reading the text above, answer the questions below.
1. What happened to the writer?
2. Why did people laugh at her alongside the street?
3. Why did she get stomachache?
4. I thought it was a good fortune to omit the gap between us. (paragraph 2 sentence 6)
What does the word us refer to?
5. What does the similar meaning of the word immediately in the text above?

Orientation

Event 1

Event 2

Reorientation