RECOUNT TEXT

before I tell you what is recount text? I will tell you about my experience

one day I and my family went to Surabaya for 3 days. The first day In surabaya I went to Citraland, Supermall, Tunjungan Plaza, and Pasar Atom. we also went to kepanjen, kepanjen was a church that was very old and big, but it was still good until now. and the next day we went to Malang and Madura. In malang I went to Jatim Park. In Jatim Park I and my sister played some games. that's all about my experience

that experience is an example of recount text

Recount text is a text that is used to retell events for purpose of informing and entertaining.

The generic structure o recount text are :

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

The significant lexilogrammatical features :

• Use of simple past tense

• Use of temporal conjunction (when,after,before,next,later,then)
• Use of personal pronoun (I,we)