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My Last Vacation was Greaaaat! : RECOUNT TEXT

   Have you ever been to the zoo or beach ? Or have you experienced some exciting, pleasant or sad thing? So, the written story of an experience to a place, or experience some pleasant or sad thing is called a Recount Text. In short, Recount Text is a story about a person's or a group experience in the past. What is Recount Text ? Recount is a text which retells event or experiences in the past.  It is also a  text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity.  Its goal is to entertaining or informing the reader.  What are the generic structures of recount text? 💓 Orientation       : It gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text. 💓 Events              : A series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence. 💓 Re-orientation : A personal comment about the event or what happened in the end. What are the characteristic/ language featu...
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Exercise of Recount Text

Exercise 1 Answer these questions based on your understanding! 1. What is recount text? (write the answer with your own word) 2. What are the generic structures of recount text? Explain! (write the explanation with your own word) 3. What are the language features of recount text? Explain! (write the explanation with your own word) Read the passage carefully and answer the question!  I am so glad that today is over. So many things have gone wrong. For some reasons I didn’t sleep a wink last night. I was very tired when Mum called me this morning. I fell asleep again until Mum called me again. That snooze made me late.       I did not have time for breakfast. I was starving as I ran to catch the school bus. I just missed it. Dad had to ride me to school. He was late for teaching at his school and he was furious with me. He scolded me for being late. I arrived at school on time. The teacher asked us to hand in our homework. My homework wa...
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Action Verb

              An action  verb , or “active verb,” shows an action, feeling, or process. An action verb is also known as a “dynamic verb,” and it is opposite to a “static verb,” in that it is mostly used with an active  voice . An action verb expresses an action that an  animal ,  object , or person can do. Characteristics of an Action Verb An action verb may be used to refer to a thought: “Dolly  thought  about project. She  wanted  a good reward.” An action verb can be used in the present, past, or future tense: “The tiger  runs  very fast.” “The tiger  ran  through our courtyard.” “The tiger will  run  through the forest.” An action verb can be used with helping verbs: “Will you  ride  with me to football practice?” “Jennifer  talks  too much.” “Talks” refers to an action that Jennifer does often. “It started to rain, so Maria  reached ...
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Language Features of Recount Text

Simple Past Tense, Past Continuous Tense, Past Perfect Tense, and Past Perfect Continuous Tense Simple Past Tense The simple past tense is used to indicate or describe something that happened or existed in the past. The situations or conditions to use a simple past tense is to: describe an action, event or condition   that occurred in the past or at a specified time refer or describe an action that has been completed and there is no time mentioned. describe an action or occurrence of an event that is done repeatedly and regularly. describe a state of mind in the past or a feeling that was felt in the past. refer to someone who has died describe events that have occurred in quick succession in the past. Formulating the Simple Past Tense Verb To formulate the simple past tense verb, we add ‘- ed’. For verbs ending in ‘e’, we add ‘-d’ and. However, there are some simple past tense  verbs  such as cut, put, set etc which remain the same in th...
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Hello! First post here....

Hello, Student! This brand new Blog contains several material on English lesson especially in Junior High School. I hope you enjoy it! Disclaimer: the contents of post above might adopting from many sources.
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