A recount text is a text that tells
about a part of experience. A recount text has an orientation, a series of
events in chronological order, personal remarks on the events, and a
re-orientation that “rounds off” the sequence of events. In the text, you will
find words and phrases used to start, connect a sentence with the next one, and
end your composition.
2.
NARRATIVE
Social function : to amuse, entertain and to
deal with actual or vicarious experience
in
different ways.
Generic Structure :
·
Orientation
:
sets the scene and introduces the participants (intro-
duces the main
characters in a setting of time
and place).
·
Complication: a crisis/ problems arises.
·
Resolution : the crisis is resolved, for better or for
worse.
Language Features : - use of noun phrases ( a beautiful princess,
huge temple)
use of Simple Past Tenses ( He walked away from the village)
- use of nouns and pronouns to identify people or things involved;
- use of conjunction and time connectives to sequence the events;
- use of adverbs and adverbial phrases to
indicate place and time;
- use of adjectives to describe nouns.
Activity 1.
Answer these following questions.
1. Have you ever written a story?
2. What do you do first when you write a
story?
3. Have you ever written a
fairy tale?
4.
Are there any differences between writing fairy tales and ordinary short stories?
The Fortune Teller
In
the great city of Taipei, there lived a man called Lin and his wife. They had
no children. Because of this, they were very unhappy. One day, they found a
baby boy outside their door. He was wrapped in a blanket and crying. They took
the baby into their house and called him Sau Ling. They loved him very much.
When
Sau Ling was a young man, a fortune-teller came to the house. "You must
send your son away," he said. "One day he will become a thief and
cause you a lot of trouble."
Mr and Mrs Lin were very sad to hear this.
They believed what the fortune-teller said. They gave Sau Ling some clothes and
money and sent him away.
Several
years later, Sau Ling was having a meal in an inn several miles from Taipei. He
put his bag on the floor near his table. After finishing his meal, he picked up
his bag. "That's strange!" he thought, "It feels so
heavy."He looked inside. It was full of small gold bars. Then he realized
that someone had taken his bag by mistake and left another bag, in its place.
That
evening, a young man came to the inn, "Has anyone seen my bag?" he
asked. Sau Ling was very honest. He returned the bag to him. The young man
thanked him. "You are really very honest," he said, "I shall ask
may to say. He left the house without saying a word. Mr and Mrs Lin never
believed in fortune-teller after that. Sau Ling took them to live with him and
they were very happy and contented until the end of their lives.
Taken
from Favorite
Stories from Taiwan,
2000
Activity 3.
Punctuate and capitalize the following
story.
one day a monkey wanted to cross a river he saw a crocodile in the
river so he asked the crocodile told the monkey to jump onto its back then the
crocodile swam down the river
now the crocodile was very hungry so when it was in the middle of
the river it stopped and said to the monkey monkey my father is very sick he
must eat the heart of a monkey the he will be strong again
the monkey thought for a while then he told the crocodile to swim
back to the river bankwhat for asked the crocodile because i didn't bring my heart with
me said the monkey I left it under the tree near some coconuts
so the crocodile turned around and swam back
to the bank of the river as soon as they reached the river bank the monkey
jumped off the crocodiles back and climbed up to the top of a tree
where is your heart asked the crocodile
you are foolish the monkey said to the
crocodile now i am free and you have nothing
the monkey told the crocodile not to try to
trick him again the crocodile swam away hungry
Taken from www.aesopfables.com
Activity 4.Answer the following questions
based on the text in Activity3Setting nts Outcome 1. How many characters are there
in the story? Mention them.
2. Where
did the story probably take place?
3. What the
monkey wanted in the river?
4. What
the crocodile said when it was in the middle of
the river?
5. Did the
crocodile succeed
in getting heart of a monkey?
6. What do
you call a story that talks about animals which can speak?
7. What is the message of the story?
Activity 5. Read another narrative story .
The Fox and the Crow
A crow, perched in a tree with a piece of cheese in his beak, attracted
the eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as prettily as you sit,"
said the fox, "then you are the prettiest singer within my scent and
sight." The fox had read somewhere, and somewhere, and somewhere else,
that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese in his beak would make him drop
the cheese and sing. But this is not what happened to this particular crow in
this particular case.
"They say you are sly and they say you are crazy," said
the crow, having
carefully removed the
cheese from his beak with the claws of one foot, "but you must be
nearsighted as well. Warblers wear gay hats and colored jackets and bright
vest, and they are a dollar a hundred. I wear black and I am unique."
I am sure you
are," said the fox, who was
neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly.
"I recognize you, now that I look more closely, as the most famed and
talented of all birds, and I fain would hear you tell about yourself, but I am
hungry and must go." "Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly,
"and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he tossed the cunning fox the
lion's share of the cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship that
sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he said. "Bars may come and
bars may go, but crow bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am the
map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is known to scientists and engineers,
geometricians, and scholar, as the shortest distance between two points. Any
two points," he concluded arrogantly. "Oh, every two points, I am sure,"
said the fox. "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know you could
not spare." And with this he trotted away into the woods, his appetite appeased,
leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the tree.
Taken from www.aesopfables.com
Activity 6.Answer the following
questions based on the text in Activity5
1. How many characters
are there in the story?
2. Where did the story probably take
place?
3. Why did the fox praise the voice of
the crow?
4. Had the crow known the fox's plan
of praising him?
5. Did the fox give up trying to
persuade the crow to share his lunch?
6. What did the fox do in order that
the crow shared his lunch?
7. Did the fox succeed in getting what
he wanted?
8. What is the moral of
the story?
Let’s
Make a Summary
Every text has its own structure. The
structure of narrative text consists of three parts: complication, and
resolution. Orientation describes scene and introduces the participants of the
story. Complication begins when there is a problem in resolution. The structure
of narrative text occurs in the text variously. A text may have only one
complication and resolution but another text may have more than complication
and resolution.
3.
PROCEDURE
PROCEDURE
Social function: to
describe how something is accomplished through a sequence
of actions or steps.
Generic Structure :
·
Goal ( the
final purpose of doing the instruction)
·
Materials
(not required for all procedural texts)
·
Steps (a
series of steps oriented to achieving the goal)
Language Features : - the use
of commands ( cut, add, pour, don’t mix
)
the use of action verbs ( wash, boil,
turn, put )
the
use of connectives ( first, then, finally,…. )
the use of adverbials phrases ( for five
minutes, two centimeters from the top ).
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