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1. Definisi dan fungsi recount text.

Recount text adalah suatu jenis teks yang kontennya menceritakan kembali suatu peristiwa nyata atau kegiatan yang menimpa seseorang di masa lampau. Tujuan teks ini ialah untuk menceritakan kembali kisah nyata di masa lalu selain juga bertujuan untuk menghibur pembacanya.

2. Struktur teks (generic structure).

Recount text umumnya memiliki struktur teks sebagai berikut:

• Orientation: pengenalan informasi tentang tokoh, tempat, dan kapan peristiwa atau kegiatan itu terjadi di masa lampau.

• Events: serangkaian peristiwa atau kegiatan yang terjadi. Biasanya diceritakan secara berurutan, misalnya “On the first day, … The second day, …” (Di hari pertama, … Di hari kedua, …).
• Reorientation: akhir dari cerita dan bersifat opsional.  

3. Unsur kebahasaan

Recount text biasanya memiliki unsur kebahasaan tertentu, contohnya sebagai berikut:

• Noun: kata benda tertentu sebagai kata ganti orang, seperti nama orang.
• Past tense: menggunakan kata kerja bentuk lampau, misalnya went, visited, worked, dll.
• Time connective: kata penghubung waktu untuk mengurutkan kejadian, misalnya after, before, then, after that, dll.
• Action verbs: kata kerja yang menunjukkan peristiwa atau kegiatan, misalnya stayed, climbed, wrote, dll.
• Adverbs: kata/frasa keterangan untuk menunjukkan waktu, tempat, dan cara, misalnya yesterday, last year, at home, slowly, carefully, dll.

4. Contoh Recount Text

                                                  A Trip to Borobudur Temple

Last year, my classmates and I visited Borobudur Temple. We went there by bus. We left our school at nine o’clock in the morning. It took us 24 hours to arrive there and we arrived at nine o’clock the next day. Along the road, we saw many vehicles, unique houses, prominent buildings, and some other tourists.

After we arrived at the Borobudur temple, one of my teachers went to buy tickets. After we waited him for a moment, we entered into Borobudur temple area. Then, we went up to the top of the temple. Borobudur temple was built at Budur Village, Magelang, Central Java by Syailendra Dynasty. Borobudur Temple is the biggest temple in the world. It has 504 statues and 1.400 reliefs. From the top of the temple we can see such beautiful scenery. My friends and I went around the temple together. Finally, after having some visits, we should go to the hotel to stay and continue our study tour the next day.

We felt tired that day but we felt so happy to visit Borobudur temple which is well-known as one of the greatest legacies Indonesia has ever had. I hope the temple can be loved by all of the visitors and the government

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