BAB 1

RECOUNT, NARRATIVE, AND PROCEDURE

 Standar Kompetensi : 1. Memahami makna teks tulis

fungsional pendek esei sederhana berbentuk recount,

narrative, dan procedure dalam konteks kehidupan

sehari-sehari .

 Kompetensi Dasar : Merespon makna dan

langkah retorika teks tulis esei secara akurat, lancar,

dan berterima kasih dalam berbagai konteks

kehidupan sehari-hari dan untuk mengakses ilmu

pengetahuan dalam teks: recount, narrative, dan

procedure.

 Alokasi Waktu : 14 x 45 menit.

 Materi Pembelajaran: - Text tulis berbentuk Recount

- Text tulis berbentuk Narrative

- Text tulis berbentuk Procedure

1. RECOUNT

Social function: to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining

Generic structure
 Orientation : provides the setting and introduces participants
(when, and where)
 Events : tell what happened in a chronological order
 Re-orientation : optional-closure of events
Recount texts tell a series of events and evaluate their significance
in some way.
Language Features : - The use simple past tenses
S + V2 ( we went for a trip to the zoo )

Activity 1. Answer these following questions.

1. Do you have any interesting experience to tell?
2. Can you recall it?
3. Will you tell your experience to your friend?

Activity 2.Read and study the text structure of the recount text.

My Day

I had a terrible day yesterday. First, I woke up an hour late

Orientation
because my alarm clock didn't go off.
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 Then, I was in such a hurry that I burned my hand when I
was making breakfast. After breakfast, I got dressed so quickly that I
Events forgot to wear socks. Next, I ran out of the house trying to get the
9:30 bus, but of course I missed it. I wanted to take a taxi, but I
didn't have enough money.

Finally, I walked the three miles to my school only to

Re-orientation discover that it was Sunday! I hope I never have a day as the one I
had yesterday.
Taken from Ready to Write, 2003

Activity 3. Answer the following questions based on the text activity 2.

1. What happened to the writer yesterday?

2. Why did he wake up an hour late?
3. What did he do after having breakfast?
4. How far did the writer walk?
5. What does the writer hope?

Activity 4. Say it Right and find their synonym.

1. wanted /wɒntɪd/ 6. burned /bɜ:nd/

2. ran out /rʌn aʊt/ 7. woke up /wɒk ʌp/
3. walked /wɔ:kd/ 8. hurry /hʌrɪ/
4. forgot /fə'gɒt/ 9. terrible /'terəbl/
5. missed /mɪsd/ 10. quickly /kwiklɪ/

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 Grammar Spot
Simple Past Tense

(+) S + V2
(-) S + did not + V1
(?) Did + S + V1

To talk about past events and conditions, you use VERB-2 forms. Here are some examples taken
from the text.
(+) I joined the Traditional Dance Competition in Jakarta last year.
(-) I did not feel nervous anymore.
The adverbs that are usually used in the ‘simple past tense’ sentences are:
Yesterday, last week, a week ago, …ago, last…,etc

Activity 5. Fill in the blanks with correct verb forms. Look at the example.

am win take have join are

The Football Competition

When I 1) was in the Junior High School, I joined two clubs. They 2)
________ the Football Club and the Karate Club. I 3) _______ those clubs
because I love sports, especially football and karate. I 4) ________ football on
Sunday mornings and karate on Mondays at 4 p.m.
One day my football club joined a football competition. There were
eight clubs joining the competition. At first, our club 5) __________ the match.
Then, we had to defeat one club to get to the final. Remarkably, we won again.
After those two matches, we 6) _________ lunch in the cafeteria nearby. We
were so impatient to play in the last game. It was the hard one because our
opponent was very tough. Finally, we won the game with a nice score of 3 – 2.
We were very happy and proud.

Activity 6. Ask your classmate is sitting next to you and say what you did
last weekend. Look at the following example.
For example:
1. You : What did you do on your last weekend?
Your friend : It was alright. I didn't do anything special.
2. You : Did you have a good weekend?
Your friend : Yes. It was great. I had a lovely time. I went to theatre and I
watched a great movie.

Activity 7. Study and pronounce the following words. Then, read the text
on Torajan funeral and answer the questions.
balcony (kb) : balkon
coffin (kb) : peti mati
corpse (kb) : jenazah
elaborate (ks) : rumit
kin (kb) : sanak; famili
slaughter (kkt) : menyembelih

My Grandpa’s Funeral in Toraja

Last month my family and I went to Toraja to attend Grandpa’s funeral. It was my
first time to go to such a ceremony. We gathered there with our kind in the ceremony.
Overall, the ceremony was quite elaborate. It took about a week. Several days before the
ceremony was done, grandpa’s body was kept in a series of houses arranged in circular row
around an open field called tongkonan. His corpse was dressed in a fine wearing.
The funeral was performed in two phases. First, we slaughtered the pigs and buffaloes,
and then moved the corpse to face north. In this ceremony we wore black clothes. After that,
the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin. Then, it was brought out of the house and
placed on an open platform beneath the granary. Meanwhile, my uncle, my brother, and I
prepared the wooden puppet and a funeral tower called lakian. The next phase of the
ceremony was held in this place. The coffin is borne from the house and placed in the lakian.
During the day, there were also buffalo matches. They were great matches. In the night, we
were feasting, chanting, and dancing.
On the last day, the grandpa’s coffin were lowered from the funeral tower and
brought up to the mountainside family graveyard. Great shouting and excitement followed it
from the relatives and the guests. Finally, we installed the wooden puppet on a high balcony
where other puppets representing the members of a whole family were already there.
The funeral ceremonies made my family and me tired. However, we were grateful
because it ran smoothly.
Questions:
1. When did the writer attend the funeral?
2. How long did the writer and his family hold the ceremony?
3. What did they do to the corpse before the funeral was done?
4. What did they do after the corpse was placed in a sandal wood coffin?
5. What did they do on the last day of the ceremony?

Notes:
In a recount text, you find words and phrases used to start, connect a sentence with the next
one, and end your composition. Those words and phrases are: First, Then, After that, Final.

Let’s Make a Summary

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?

Activity 2.Read and study the text structure of the narrative text.

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
Orientation 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
Complication 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
Resolution 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.

Activity 3. Punctuate and capitalize the following story.

 said the monkey I left it under the tree
one day a monkey wanted to near some coconuts
cross a river he saw a crocodile in the so the crocodile turned around
river so he asked the crocodile told and swam back to the bank of the river as
the monkey to jump onto its back soon as they reached the river bank the
then the crocodile swam down the monkey jumped off the crocodiles back
river and climbed up to the top of a tree
now the crocodile was very where is your heart asked the
hungry so when it was in the middle crocodile
of the river it stopped and said to the you are foolish the monkey said to
monkey monkey my father is very sick the crocodile now i am free and you have
he must eat the heart of a monkey nothing
the he will be strong again the monkey told the crocodile
the monkey thought for a while not to try to trick him again the crocodile
then he told the crocodile to swim back swam away hungry
to the river bank
what for asked the crocodile
because i didn't bring my heart with me

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 neither crazy nor nearsighted, but sly. "I recognize
piece of cheese in his beak, attracted the you, now that I look more closely, as the most
eye and nose of a fox. "If you can sing as famed and talented of all birds, and I fain would
prettily as you sit," said the fox, "then you hear you tell about yourself, but I am hungry and
are the prettiest singer within my scent must go." "Tarry awhile," said the crow quickly,
and sight." The fox had read somewhere, "and share my lunch with me." Whereupon he
and somewhere, and somewhere else, tossed the cunning fox the lion's share of the
that praising the voice of a crow with a cheese, and began to tell about himself. "A ship
cheese in his beak would make him drop that sails without a crow's nest sails to doom," he
the cheese and sing. But this is not what said. "Bars may come and bars may go, but crow
happened to this particular crow in this bars last forever. I am the pioneer of flight, I am
particular case. the map maker. Last, but never least, my flight is
"They say you are sly and they known to scientists and engineers, geometricians,
say you are crazy," said the crow, having and scholar, as the shortest distance between two
carefully removed the cheese from his points. Any two points," he concluded arrogantly.
beak with the claws of one foot, "but you "Oh, every two points, I am sure," said the fox.
must be nearsighted as well. Warblers "And thank you for the lion's share of what I know
wear gay hats and colored jackets and you could not spare." And with this he trotted
bright vest, and they are a dollar a away into the woods, his appetite appeased,
hundred. I wear black and I am unique." leaving the hungry crow perched forlornly in the
I am sure you are," said the fox, who was tree.
 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

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 ).

Activity 1.Read and study the text structure of the procedure text.
Goal
 The Hole Game

Two player, one marble per person, a hole in ground,

Materials and a line (distance) to start from.
First you must dub (click marble together).
Then you must check that the marble are in good
condition and are nearly worth the same value.
Next you must dig a hole in the ground and draw a line a
fair distance away from the hole.
Steps The first player carefully throws his or her marble
towards the hole.
Then the second player tries to throw his or her marble
closer to the hole than his or her opponent.
The player whose marble is closest to the hole tries to
flick his or her marble into the hole. If necessary this
player to flick his or her opponent’s marble into the hole.
The person flicking the last marble into the hole wins and
gets to keep both marble.

Activity 2.Answer the following questions based on the text in Activity 1

1.What does the text tell us about ?
2.How many players are involved in the game?
3.What important thing is used in the game?
4.how many steps are there in the instruction?
5.How can a player win the game?

Activity 3. Now read another text and identify the structure of

the text.
 Bregedel Tempe (Tempe Fritters)
• 150 g tempe • 3 small chilies
• 2 tablespoons fried shallots • 2 red shallots
• 3 kaffir lime leaves • 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tablespoon flour • 1/2 teaspoon chopped galangal
• 1 egg • 1 candle nut
• 1 cup vegetable oil for frying • 1/2 teaspoon coriander seeds
Spice paste: • 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 3 large chilies, seeds removed • 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste

1. Mash the tempe with a fork or place in the bowl of a food processor and blend
until it resembles coarse bread crumbs.
2. Grind the spices in a mortar and pestle or place in the bowl of a food processor
and blend to a smooth paste.
3. Put the mashed tempe in a bowl and mix with the spice paste, fried shallots and
lime leaves. Stir in the flour, followed by the egg.
4. Shape the tempe into fritters the size of a golf ball and flatten a little with a fork.
5. Heat the vegetable oil in a wok over a medium flame.
When the oil is hot, drop the fritters into the oil, five or six at a time.
6. Fry until golden brown on both sides, drain on absorbent paper and serve hot
with rice.

Activity 4. Pronounce the following words and find their meaning.

Pay attention to your pronunciation.
1. instruction 9. grease
2. procedure 10. knuckle
3. recipe 11. mix
4. ingredients 12. blend
5. knead 13. oven
6. roll out 14. fold
7. sprinkle 15. margarine
8. press
 Activity 5. Rearrange this jumbled picture and Number the pictures
according to the steps. Some pictures are already numbered. First,
study the words in the box.

Step …. Step …. Step …. Step …. Step …. Step ….

1. First, prepare all the ingredients.
2. Next, slightly beat eggs and mix with fl our and half cup of water.
3. Then, mash bananas with fork and mix thoroughly with fl our and egg mixture.
4. After that, deep-fry bananas and fl our mixture in hot oil until golden brown.
5. Finally, drain on absorbent paper and dust with cheese.
6. The Fried Bananas with Cheese are ready to serve.

Activity 6.Say it Right

absorbent /əb’zɔ:bənt/ (ks) : menyerap
cheese /t∫i:z/ (kb) : keju
drain /dreɪn/ (kkt) : meniriskan
flour /’flaʊə/ (kb) : tepung
fry /fraɪ/ (kkt) : menggoreng
mash /maə∫/ (kkt) : melenyehkan
mix /mɪks/ (kkt) : mencampur
recipe /’resɪpɪ/ (kb) : resep

Let’s Make a Summary

The structure of procedure texts generally consists of three parts, namely
goal, materials needed and methods or steps. This structure is appropriately
applied in a recipe. In a how–to–text, the materials needed part sometimes is
not applicable.

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