personal recount

Chapter 1 Personal Recount

Recount text tells the readers about the writer’s experience. It is usually uses past tense.

The generic structure :

Orientation : introducing what happened, where the story happened and who was involved in the story.

Sequence of events : describing series of events

Re-orientation : giving the closure of events ( or conclusion)

Here is the example of recount text :

Orientation

Last week, Super Junior or Su-Ju-M, a famous Korean boy band that is widely known for its pop songs and dance, performed in Jakarta. The band of eight boys were to perform on Sunday night and they had arrived in Jakarta one day before the concert.

A sequence of events

They arrived at Soekarno Hatta airport on Saturday evening. To welcome them, several fans and I decided to wait for them at the hotel they were booked into. After waiting for several minutes, they arrived. We cheered happily and wanted to shake their hands. However, their management wanted the boy band to take a rest for a while. They promised that there would be a press conference at later.  Not long after the boy band had a press conference at the hotel lobby. During the final section, many fans, including me, took photographs with them and received their autographs.

On Sunday night we went to the convention hall where the concert was held, by taxi. The concert was due to begin at eight, but we had arrived there at  six thirty. The tickets were sold out and it was very crowded. You know what, most of the audience were teenagers, especially girls, and many of them wore K-pop costumes. The police and security officers guarded the line between the stage and audience.

At about eight, the boy band appeared on stage. They sang their songs and danced. The audience cheered, sang and followed their dances. At the end of the concert, the band said thank you in Indonesian and the audience gave them a big round of applause.

Re-orientation

Overall, the concert was a success.

Choose an item.

Grammar Review

Was/Were + adjective

I was  happy You were lucky

Fery was helpful We were diligent

It was memorable The children were creative