Pengertian dan Contoh Teks Recount SMP

Recount merupakan jenis teks yang melaporkan peristiwa, kejadian, atau kegiatan yang menimpa seseorang, atau berupa pengalaman seseorang. Contohnya bisa berupa diari ataupun biografi seseorang. Tujuan dari recount dalah untuk menceritakan apa yang terjadi pada masa lampau  sesuai dengan urutan waktu. Struktur teks recount, yaitu:

1)      Orientation: berisi tokoh/pelaku, tempat, dan waktu.

2)      Events: menceritakan apa yang terjadi di masa lampau sesuai rangkaian kejadian/peristiwa.

Struktur di atas merupakan struktur dasar dari teks recount yang umumnya di pakai. Sedangkan untuk bentuk atau struktur teks recopunt yang berupa pengalaman pribadi diri sendiri bisa berbentuk:

1)      Orientation

2)      Events

3)      Evaluation: komentar dari si penulis/pembicara mengenai pengalaman yang dia rasakan.

4)      Re-orientaton: kesimpulan dari pengalaman yang dirasakan.

Note: Teks recount menggunakan PAST TENSE.

Contoh:

On Saturday night, we went to the Town Hall. It was the last day of the year and a large crowed of people had gathered under the Town Hall clock. It would strike twelve in twenty minutes time. Fifteen minutes passed and the, at five to twelve, the clock stopped. The big minute hand did not move. We waited and waited, but nothing happened. Suddenly someone shouted, "It's two minutes past twelve! The clock has stopped!"

I looked at my watch. It was true. The big clock refused to welcome the New Year. At that moment, everybody began to laugh and sing.

1.       Which idea can you find in the first paragraph?

A.        Everybody's laughing and singing.

B.        People're moving near the Town Hall.

C.        The writer's going to Town Hall one day.

D.        Someone's shouting at the owner of the Town Hall.

2.       When did the clock stop?

A.        At 5.12

B.        At 11.55

C.        At 12.00

D.        At 12.02

3.       Why did the people gather under the Town Hall clock?

A.        To welcome the New Year.

B.        To see the newly bought clock.

C.        To strike the laughing people.

D.        To stop people who shouted.

4.       What does the first sentence tell you?

A.        The opening of the story

B.        The problem that the writer met.

C.        The funny thing in the story.

D.        .An introduction of the characters.

Muhammad Ahkam Arifin Muhammad Ahkam Arifin is a Fulbright PhD student at Washington State University, US. He earned a master`s degree in TESOL from the University of Edinburgh & Applied Linguistics from the University of Melbourne.

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