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Apa Itu Teks Recount?

Teks Recount adalah teks yang menceritakan tentang peristiwa, kejadian, atau kegiatan di masa lalu. Biasanya cerita yang disajikan adalah sebuah cerita pengalaman pribadi si penulis.

Ciri-Ciri dari Teks Recount:

1. Menggunakan pola bahasa Simple Past Tense;
2. Menggunakan adverb dan adverbial phrase untuk menjelaskan waktu, tempat dan bagaimana suatu peristiwa terjadi. Contohnya Last June, Jakarta, happily, etc.
3. Menggunakan conjunction dan time connectives untuk mengurutkan peristiwa. Contohnya and, before, after that, then, etc.

Struktur Teks Recount:

1. Orientation
   Ada di awal paragraf, menceritakan latar belakang dari teks tersebut. Biasanya berisi siapa, kapan, dan dimana peristiwa itu terjadi. 
   
   
2. Events
   Menceritakan urutan kejadian dan peristiwa secara kronoligis.
   
   
3. Re-orientation
   Ada di akhir paragraf, berisi kesimpulan dan opini penulis terkait teks yang diceritakan.

Untuk lebih jelasnya silahkan kunjungi video pembelajaran berikut ini:

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PRACTICE

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TAKING A BUS

About three years ago, I had an experience that made me panic. It was my first time to take a bus by myself. Furthermore, I just moved to Solo because my dad had to work there. 

My dad always took me to the school and picked me up at noon because it was quite far from home. Actually, I had not memorized the way from home to school until I tried to go by bus. 

It was the first week of me studying in junior high school. My parents called me that they couldn’t pick me up because they were in another town. They told me to take a bus. 

I didn’t have an idea which bus that I should take. Then I asked one of my teacher. He said, “Just take the bus number 2, then get off at the fourth stop. You can walk to your house from that place.” 

I went to the bus stop near my school. Bus number 2 was coming and I prepared myself. I got a seat in the back. I made myself as comfortable as possible and looked at the street through the window. I was so tired that I couldn’t open my eyes, then I fell asleep. 

There was a horn sound and it woke me up. The bus was about to stop and I immediately got off. The bus left. Then I realized that I didn’t know whether the stop was the fourth one or not. I didn’t recognize the street or the buildings around it. 

I almost cried since I didn’t know what to do. I only had one thousand rupiah left. Suddenly, a grey car stopped in front of me. My uncle got out of that car and approached me. He just met his client in the café near the bus stop. He asked me why I was alone in that area and I told him the reasons. He laughed at me when I told him that I fell asleep in the bus. After that, my uncle took me home. 

I was very grateful because my uncle passed by at that time. My mom then asked me to go to school by bus on the weekend then went home by bus again so that I could memorize it. Now I almost memorize all the corners of the city since it is my fourth year in Solo.