Recount Text (Concept - Example)

Level: English for Junior and Senior High School
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Explanation

Social Function	To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Generic Structure	Orientation: provides the setting and introduces participants. Events: tell what happened, in what sequence. Reorientation: optional - closure of events.
Significant Lexicogrammatical Features	Focus on specific participants. Use of Material Processes. Circumstances of time and place. Use of past tense. Focus on temporal sequence.

Example

Read the text below attentively.

The Clever Servant

 This is an old story. It was first told long ago. A rich man wanted to make a journey to another town. He was a businessman. He wanted to take things to sell. He also wanted to take gold to buy things with. He decided to take ten servants with him. They would carry the things to sell and the gold, and also food to eat on the journey.

He was a kind man. He said to one of his servants, "You are the smallest, the thinnest and the weakest of all my servants. You cannot carry a heavy load. You must choose the lightest load to carry."

The servant thanked his master for his kindness. He pointed to the biggest load. This was bread to eat on the journey.

His master said, "You are foolish. That is the biggest and heaviest load." But the servant picked up the load cheerfully and the journey began. They walked for four hours. Then, they stopped for a rest. They all ate some of the bread. There was less bread for the servant to carry. The servant's load grew smaller and lighter every day. At the end of the journey, the servant had nothing to carry.