Apa pengertian recount text dan perbedannya dengan narative text serta bagaimana contohnya?
Recount Text adalah salah satu dari jenis teks dalam bahasa Inggrsi yang menceritakan tentang suatu pengalaman seseorang atau suatu peristiwa yang telah terjadi dimasa lampau yang diceritakan secara berurutan. Banyak orang kebingungan pada saat membedakan Narative Text dengan Recount Text. Perbedaan yang menonjol dari kedua text ini adalah Recount Text tidak memiliki konflik seperti yang ada pada Narative Text. Ciri teks ini adalah penggunaan Verb 2 ( Simple Past Tense) pada kata kerjanya. Recount Text berfungsi untuk memberikan informasi dan menghibur pembaca melalui teks tersebut.
Generic Structure of Recount Text ( Susunan Umum)
Berikut ini adalah susunan umum dalam Recount Text:
- Orientation
Orientation adalah bagian yang berisi tentang awal permulaan bagaimana cerita akan di mulai dengan menyebutkan tempat kejadian, kapan kejadian berlangsung, siapa yang terlibat dalam kejadian, atau peristiwa apa yang terjadi.
- Event
Ini adalah bagian yang membahas tentang bagaimana peristiwa-peritiwa yang terjadi secara berurutan. Event bisa saja lebih dari satu. Dibagian ini biasanya terdapat Conjuction ( When, then, and, but, etc) atau bisa juga menggunakan Chronological Connection ( First, secod, finally, etc) untuk menghubungkan antar kalimat.
- Re-orientation
Re-orientation adalah kalimat-kalimat penutup yang biasanya berisi tentang bagaimana perasaan atau kesan pesan penulis saat mengalami peristiwa tersebut.
Berikut ini contoh apa saja daftar verb yang digunakan dalam recount text, simak seperti contoh di bawah ini :
Contoh Kalimat Dalam Bentuk Recount Text Orientation dan Events
1. I spent my holiday in Bandung last month. I went to the Outlet Factory with my family early in the morning. ( Orientation text )
Saya menghabiskan liburan saya di Bandung bulan lalu. Saya pergi ke Factory Outlet bersama keluarga saya di pagi hari. (Teks Orientasi)
2. We went to Candi Borobudur Temple by bus and arrived at 12.00 in the afternoon. We saw many foreign tourists and many elephants there. We spoke English with them. Their names are Simon and Maria, they were very hospitable. They came from England. Borobudur Temple was crowded on holiday. We went to the hotel at 07.00 in the evening. ( Events Text ) Contoh lain dari daftar verb yang digunakan dalam recount text beserta contoh Recount Text dalam bahasa Inggris.
Kami pergi ke Candi Borobudur dengan bus dan tiba pukul 12.00 sore. Kami melihat banyak turis asing dan banyak gajah di sana. Kami berbicara bahasa Inggris dengan mereka. Nama mereka adalah Simon dan Maria, mereka sangat ramah. Mereka berasal dari Inggris. Candi Borobudur ramai saat liburan. Kami pergi ke hotel pukul 07.00 di malam hari. (Teks Acara)
Berikut ini adalah contoh recount text lainnya:
1. Kissed by The Dolphin
- Orientation
I went to the dolphin show last weekend with my family.
- Event
I entered the gate with full of joy. I took a seat in the first line of the show. The instructor of the dolphin was calling some volunteer to come forward. I raised my hand and got called by him. He told the dolphin to kiss me on my cheek. The dolphin did as he told. I was kissed by the cute dolphin.
- Re-orientation
I was so happy the dolphin kissed me on the cheek. I went home with singing together with my family.
2. Losing My Phone
Simaklah contoh recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris berikut ini:
- Orientation
Two days ago I was in the bus station to pick my brother up for his arrival.
- Event
I was playing my phone all the time in that afternoon. I sat in the bench right near the ticket keeper. Then, I bought a bottle of water across the ticket keeper. I forgot to take my phone with me when I bought water. Then I saw my brother out of the bus. I ran to him and we were about to go. That time I thought I lost my phone. My brother told me to check it in the place before. I came back and the ticket keeper told me that he saved the phone for me. I thanked him and we said our good bye.
- Re-orientation
I was afraid that I would lose my phone. Lucky I still had it back.
3. Shopping With My Sister
- Orientation
I went to the market yesterday with my sister, my mom wasn’t at home yesterday so she told my sister and me to buy vegetable in the market.
- Event
My sister told me to write down any vegetable that I wanted to buy. I did it then gave it to her, we were ready to go ten minutes after that. My sister told me everything about things in the market. She told me which one is the fresh one of the vegetables, and why did the market was crowded, and also how to bargain with the seller.
- Reorientation
I was so happy to be with my sister in the market. She told me everything until I understood how to buy something in the market.
4. Bad score
Simaklah contoh recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris berikut ini:
- Orientation
I got really bad score last exam. The exam that I did was math.
- Event
Mr. Puguh was the teacher of my math lesson in my school. He was very scary person. He told us to do the exam exactly at the time. I wasn’t ready at the time because I didn’t study the material the night before. I did my best then, even though I got an E.
- Reorientation
That was my bad score ever. I was regret I didn’t study the night before
5. Rainy Day
- Orientation
Two weeks ago was the season of rain. I had a lot of laundries to do even it was rainy.
- Event
I forgot to put my laundry under the glass roof to protect it from the rain. I was in my school and there was no one in my home. Then the rain was falling down so hard. I came to my home right after the rain and the class was over. But unfortunately, all my laundry were wet.
- Reorientation
I totally forgot about the weather two weeks ago. Then I let my laundry wet and I was regret about it.
6. Cooking Partner
- Orientation
Cooking was my hobby. When I cooked, good things happened to me.
- Event
I woke up in the morning and made a delicious breakfast with my mom. She asked me to go to the market and bought whatever I wanted to cook. We made a birthday cake when the one of the family members had a birthday. We shared every receipt and she often gave me advice.
- Re-orientation
My mom wasn’t only a mom, she was my best cooking partner.
7. Stomachache
- Orientation
I loved spicy foods so much. I ate them for my breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in between them. When I didn’t taste a hint of chili in my food, I wouldn’t even bother finishing it. Until one week ago, I was almost hospitalized for putting too much chili in my meatballs.
- Event
I was eating a bowl of my favorite meatball and put way too many spoons of sambal into it. My stomach felt like it was on fire on the next day and I got diarrhea. I thought my stomachhache would slowly leave me after I let my food out but it turned out that I had more painful stomachache after. I felt like stomach gave up on me and I almost did the same thing. My dad asked me to check my condition in the hospital but my mom told me to let my food out one more time. I chose to did what my mom suggested, hoping it would work because if it wouldn’t, I would have to follow my dad’s suggestion. It took time, but my stomachache felt more bearable than before. Finally, after almost an hour, I was completely stomachache-free.
- Re-Orientation
My parents went strict on what I am eating after that day. They made me promise myself not to eat anymore crazy amount of spicy food. Not that I completely quit on eating them, but I have been recuding my consumption of them. I am still learning not to eat spicy food anytime I want. It’s hard, but for the sake of my health, I am doing it anyway.
8. Speech In Auditorium
- Orientation
First time I did my speech was three days ago. It was short but strong speech for me.
- Event
I was choosen for the students to speak in front of everyone in the podium when the independence day. I was very happy to do something like that. Prepared everything contained what would I going to say. When the independence day was coming, I was told to stand on the podium. I did my speech with full of worry, and in the middle of my speech, I was feeling strange, like there was no power. A few minutes later, I fainted. My speech was terribly ruined by myself because of my worry.
- Reorientation
I was very disappointed to myself. It was the embarrassing experience ever for me.
9. The Three Little Pig
- Orientation
My parents bought me three pigs last summer. They told me to take care of them.
- Event
They bought me the pigs in the animal market near the city. When I got them, they were very cute but noisy as always. I was them names. They were Abi, Abu, and Evi. When I came to their place, they were welcoming me with a full of joy every day.
- Reorientation
I was so happy to have them in my daily life.
10. Ruined Night Camp
Berikut ini adalah contoh recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris:
- Orientation
I got free camping trip yesterday. It was free because I got it from my sister. The palce was far away from the city.
- Event
I was not in a good condition enough at that time. But I was very excited so hard to join the camping trip, so I forced myself to join. In the night when I slept in the tent, I got fever and flu really hard. I couldn’t sleep because I was sneezing so many times.
- Reorientation
I was regret all my mistake to join the camp with bad condition. It was uncomfortable for me.
Itu adalah salah satu contoh recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris.
11. The New Shirt
- Orientation
I had a new shirt with a pink colored. It was from my sister from LA
- Event
My sister was coming home from her studying abroad. She bought me the shirt with a lovely color and picture. It was pink and there was a unicorn picture there. It was made with high-quality material that made the shirt was very comfortable for me to wear.
- Reorientation
I was so happy to have the new shirt from my sister. I like it because it was beautiful and comfortable.
12. The Night Road
- Orientation
The night road actually was a usual road like everywhere place. But it was a little bit scary when the night came.
- Event
It was Tuesday night when I went home and passed the night road. I fastened my step to get away from that road. I was alone at that time. Not long after that, I heard some voices that made me scared very much. My steps became running with full of screaming to myself.
- Reorientation
I was very scared to pass that road in the night again. I wouldn’t come alone next time.
14. Lunch with new friends
- Orientation
I went to Jember last week to continue my study in collage. All of Jember were strange for me.
- Event
I went to Jember to see my dorm. I got new friends, they were Nisa and Afra. It was luch time when I arrived at the dormitory. They asked me if I wanted something to eat for our lunch. Then we were searching arround what kind of foods we will eat. We found a small restaurant that sold home-cooking food. We ate there for our lunch.
- Reorientation
I was very happy to have dinner with my new friends. It was our first happy memory.
15. Embarrassing day ever
- Orientation
Last Sunday, I had a running time with my bestfriend in the park. We did some sports together.
- Event
That day we were running in our third round when we saw the bicycle rent for people. And we decided to rent the bike and had another round. We were in the second round when I saw someone looked like my friend. I was calling her name while rode my bike towards her. She didn’t hear me called her name. So I came to approach her and hit her in shoulder softly. I was suprissed when the girl that hit wasn’t my friend. Then I said sorry and went away from her.
- Reorientation
It was the embarrassing day ever, because all of the people were looking at me at the same time.
17. Calling Mr. Howie
- Orientation
Mr. Howie was my teacher in senior high school that was very handsome. I met him a few days ago on the road.
- Event
I was walking alone when I saw him. I waved on him but he didn’t see me. Then I tried to call him loudly. Everybody were looking at me at once at the same time. I saw Mr. Howie noticed my existence. Then he waved me back and smiled at me.
- Reorientation
I was very happy to see Mr. Howie again, even though there were so many eyes looking at me in that time.
18. Bitten by cat
- Orientation
I found a lost cat yesterday in the park near my house. It was so little and in so much affraid.
- Event
It was sunny afternoon and comfortable to have some playing outside time. After that I went to the park and I saw a cat. Then I tried to give my hand to her, but she refused it with scratched me. But I didn’t give up. I put my hand again and again. Then she didn’t fight me back. When I put my finger on its mouth, it bite my finger so hard.
- Reorientation
I was screaming and surprised knowing its bite me.
19. First-day school
- Orientation
I was a new student in the school that placed in the central city. I was moved to the city because of my parents’ job.
- Event
I was ready to come to my new school in that morning. I arrived at the school at 7 o’clock. The students in my class were staring at me when I introduced myself. They looked scary, but when I finished my introduction, I got applause and they were smiling at me with a kindness smile.
- Reorientation
I was very happy with my new things, home, school, and my friends.
19. Winning a Mathematics Competition
- Orientation
Last year was the best experience I’ve ever got. I won mathematic Competition.
- Event
Last year I had one of the proudest moments in my life. I was the first winner of a mathematic competition. I’ve been so passionate about Mathematic and that’s why, winning the competition meant so much to me.
- Re – Orientation
My parents, who are really supportive of my passion told me not to stop working hard to achieve such big things.
20. Being Late for Class for the First Time
- Orientation
I am a quite discipline person. I would make sure I attend all of my classes on time but last week was different.
- Event
I was staying up late until 2 am which was very unusual for me. Then I set my alarm to 5 am so I can wake up early for my morning class. I didn’t hear anything that could’ve woken me, even I couldn’t hear my blasting alarm. But, I woke up at around 6:45 am which was a quarter to my morning class. Unfortunatly, I forgot to put my homework into my bag that morning, the very homework I spent the night staying up late until 2 am.
- Re-Orientation
From that day on, I promise myself not to do the same mistake by not staying up late again if the next day I’m having a morning class.
21. My Broken Bike
Berikut ini adalah contoh recount text dalam Bahasa Inggris:
- Orientation
It was Sunday morning when I got a new bike from my uncle from the city.
- Event
I was playing with my friends near my house. Suddenly my uncle arrived and called my name to show the bike. I took the bike and ride it over around my house. I didn’t hear my uncle called my name from the distance. Not long after the third round, I suddenly felt strange with the bike. It was broken and I was falling down at the time. Oh no, my new bike was broken.
- Reorientation
That was my bad day ever. I will not be using something new without any instruction first.
22. In Charge
- Orientation
My parents weren’t at home last week. I was told to take care of my little sister until they came back.
- Events
Everything was settled up by my mother the day before she left. I and my little sister were a great teamwork, so when we left alone we can handle everything at home. Fed the cats, set our table for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Even washed our laundry together and dry them in the backyard. My little sister and I were able to handle all of the home stuff.
- Reorientation
I was very happy we could solve all the problem we had when our parents weren’t at home.