Recount Text

Moment,life story,experience, and event in the past always there in everybody's life ... if you retell about that then you can make a text and it is recount text. I think Recount text is a text that is to retell a story about event in the past ,usually about writter’s experience.

The generic structures of recount text are  :

1. Orientation ( it gives the readers the background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened, when it happened)
2. Events (a series of events, ordered in a chronological sequence)
3. Re-orientation  (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writer on the incident

The significant Lexicogrammatical features :
◦    Use of simple past tense
◦    Use of temporal conjunctions (when, after, before, next, later, then)
◦    Use of personal pronoun (I, we)

Example :
    Mr. and Mrs. Charly  was on a tour to Europe.
    They were travelling on a guided tour to five countries.They were going to travel through the Netherlands, Belgium , Germany , Switzerland and France for to weeks.
The guide for the tour was a Swiss. On the first day of the travel the guide told them to check their passports, their traveler cheques and their foreign cash. He told them to keep them safely.
    They travelled in a comfortable coach with a toilet, music and video.The guide stopped the coach at may famous places.he explained the cultural importance of the places.They stayed in big hotels for the night and ate in the restaurants.
    On the way, they stopped at small restaurants to eat lunch. In big towns, they went for shopping.They bought many souvenirs of their friends.they enjoyed the two-week tour