KINDS OF TEXT
A. Recount
Adalah jenis text yang digunakan untuk menceritakan pengalaman masa lalu ataupun peristiwa sejarah masa lalu (historical recount).
Ciri – ciri text Recount :
- Menggunakan action verb ( kata kerja tindakan ), misalnya went,
catch, step, see.
- Menggunakan Simple Past Tense.
- Menggunakan conjunction dan time connective yang mengurutkan
peristiwa, kejadian, atau kegiatan, misalnya when, as soon as, so.
Struktur teks recount :
Orientation (pengenalan), memberi informasi tentang siapa, dimana dan kapan.
Event, rekaman peristiwa, kejadian, atau kegiatan yang terjadi, yang biasanya disampaikan dalam urutan kronologis.
Re-orientation, pengantar akhir yang merangkum rentetan perstiwa, kejadian atau kegiatan.
Contoh text :
This morning with my hands full of bags. I went to the railway station to catch my train at 10.00.
I went there with a cab. To my surprise, when I just step my feet outside the cab. I could see a terrible very huge crowd inside the railway station. As soon as I got my self into the crowd. I could smell of odour smells that were really horrible. I could not help myself to get rid of that because my hands were full of luggage. I just squeezed myself between two Chinese people and managed to pull myself out off crowd onto the bridge to the railway station. I was lucky as I have booked the ticket to Alor Setar. So I didn’t bother to queue up for a ticket.
· Contoh text dan soal :
The bomb, in the resort of Kuta, destroyed the Sari Club and a crowded nightspot. Many people have fallen victims to the blast. Many of them were foreign tourist, especially from Australia.
They were burned beyond recognition. Some tourist who were at the scene of the blast said there were two explosions around the nightclub. One bomb had exploded outside Paddy’s Bar before a car bomb hit the Sari Club which was located some meters away. Hundreds were injured in explosions and about 220 Australian remain unaccounted for. The U.K. Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, said that 33 Britons were among these killed in the Bali attacked. The Australian Prime minister, John Howard, called on Indonesia to do more to fight terrorism within its borders, saying it had been a problem for a long time.
List of missing people have been posted in Bali and officials 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 sections called “Unknown Identity” and detailed list on victims such as: “young girl in intensive care, 11 – 14 years old, face burned, income, Caucasians,” or “Girl in intensive care, about 5 years old, 130 cm, fair skin, Caucasian with reddish brown hair, she has a purplish belly button ring.”
Many embassies, including the British and the American, are advising their people to cancel spending their planned holidays in Indonesia, and all U.S. citizen in the country have been told to leave including diplomats and non-essential government staff.
1. The topic of paragraph two is about ….
a. the effect of the explosion on the people
b. some foreign who were injured
c. Australian as the main target of the explosion
d. the large number of victims in the accident
e. a list of injured people
2. Which of the following statements is TRUE about the bomb?
a. The bomb caused one explosion
b. The bomb damaged the Sari Club and a crowded nightspot
c. The explosion injured mostly domestic tourists.
d. The bomb made the victims identified.
e. Both were huge homemade bombs.
3. The following statements are true, except ….
a. there were two bars destroyed
b. many victims’ identities were unknown in a hospital section called
“Unknown Identity”
c. many people were injured and killed
d. the Indonesian government forbade its people to go to Bali
e. some foreign people embassies advised their people to cancel going to Bali
