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Sebelum membahas tentang recount text, sebaiknya membaca halaman tentang past tense. Karena teks jenis ini berkaitan dengan kalimat bentuk lampau. Dalam materi ini akan dibahas mengenai definisi, fungsi, struktur teks hingga contoh agar mempermudah pembelajaran. Yang paling penting adalah tahu kegunaan teks ini dalam kehidupan sehari-hari menggunakan bahasa Inggris.

A. Arti literal: ‘Retell’ vs ‘Recount’ Sebelum mempelajari struktur teks, ada baiknya mengetahui arti dari recount itu sendiri. Menurut kamus Cambridge, recount means to describe how something happened, or to tell a story. Lalu apa bedanya dengan kata tell dan kenapa tidak retell text bukan recount text? Retell dan recount memiliki arti yang sama: menceritakan kembali. Melalui Wikidiff, ditemukan perbedaannya antara keduanya. As verbs the difference between retell and recount is that retell is to tell again, to paraphrase, to tell something one has read or heard while recount is to tell over; to relate in detail; to recite; to tell or narrate the particulars of . As a noun recount is retelling, narration, rendering or recount can be a counting again, as of votes.

Dapat disimpulkan bahwa recount berarti menceritakan lebih rinci.

B. Pengertian & Fungsi Recount Text Recount text merupakan salah satu jenis teks dalam bahasa Inggris yang menceritakan kembali kejadian-kejadian atau pengalaman-pengalaman yang telah dialami di masa lampau sesuai urutan kejadian (chronological order). Selain itu teks ini mempunyai tujuan untuk memberitahukan sebuah peristiwa, kejadian, atau kegiatan yang telah terjadi.

C. Jenis Recount Text Jenis recount text terbagi menjadi 3: 1. Personal Recount | menceritakan pengalaman pribadi penulis.

2. Factual Recount | merekam sebuah kejadian seperti percobaan sains (science experiment), laporan polisi (police report). 3. Imaginative Recount | menceritakan rinci kejadian sebuah cerita fiksi dalam bentuk lampau.

D. Struktur Umum Recount Text

Generic structure of recount text Struktur umum (generic structure) dalam recount text terbagi menjadi 3 bagian, yaitu: 1. Orientation (Pengenalan)| berisi pengenalan dengan memberikan informasi tentang siapa, apa, di mana, dan kapan peristiwa atau kegiatan itu yang telah terjadi di masa lampau. 2. Events (Peristiwa-peristiwa) | merupakan runtutan peristiwa yang terjadi, biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan secara kronologis (chronogical order) seperti, “In the first day, I …, And in the next day …, And In the last day …”. 3. Re-orientation (Kesimpulan teks) | yaitu pengulangan pengenalan yang ada di orientation dan events yang diceritakan. Bisa dibilang pada bagian ini adalah kesimpulan secara keseluruhan teks.

E. Ciri-ciri Recount Text

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Judul merepresentasikan kesimpulan teks Menyebutkan orang secara spesifik yang terlibat dalam peristiwa tersebut Waktu, tempat, dan kejadian diceritakan secara rinci dan deskriptif untuk memperjelas peristiwa (factual recount) Akhir cerita tentang hasil akhir (factual recount) Terdapat tanggapan/opini pribadi (maginary recount)

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Ditulis dalam bentuk lampau (past tense): simple past, past continous, past perfect tenses. Menggunakan kata penghubung seperti: next, later, when, then, after, before, first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on Friday. Recount text menceritakan kejadian yang banyak menggunakan action verbs (look, go, change), linking verb (was, were, saw, heard) dan ditambahkan adverb untuk mendeskripsikan lebih jelas. Menggunakan personal pronoun (I,we) untuk personal recount. Penggunaan passive voice.

F. Contoh Recount Text Bali Bombing (TITLE) The bomb that occured in the resort of Kuta destroyed the Sari Club and other nightspots. Many people were victims of the blast and many of them were foreign tourists, a majority being Australians. A view of the victims were burned beyond recognition. Some tourists who were ate the scene of the blast said there were two explosions around the nightclub. One bomb had exploded outside Paddy’s Bar before another bomb hit the Sari Club, which was located some meters away. (INTRODUCTION) Hundreds were injured in the explosions and about 220 Australians remain unaccounted for. The U.K. Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said that 33 British citizens were among those killed in the Bali attack. The Australian Minister, John Howard, called its border, saying this had been a problem for a long time. (EVENT 1) Lists of missing people have been posted in Bali and officials have said that it could take days to identify all the victims, some of whom were trapped in the Sari Club by a wall of flames. A notice board at the hospital in Bali includes a section called “Unknown Identity” and detailed a list of characteristics of the victims such as: “Young girl in intensive care, Caucasian, 11-14 years old, face burned” or “Girl in intensive care, about 5 years old, 130 cm, fair skin, Caucasian with reddish brown hair”. (EVENT 2)

Many embassies, including the British and the American embassies, were advising their citizens to cancel spending their planned holidays in Indonesia. US citizens were also asked to evacuated Indonesia as a safety protocol. (RE-ORIENTATION)

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https://wikidiff.com/recount/retell https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/recount Mulya, Eka, Mulya A. dan K. Shyla, L. 2016. FORWARD for Vocational School Grade X: Stories to Share. Jakarta: Penerbit Erlangga.