Recount text

Recount text is a text which retell events or experiences in the past. It’s purpose is either to inform or to entertain the audience. There isno complication among the participants and that differential from narrative.

• Generic structure
1. orientation: introducing the participants,place and time
2. event: describing series of event that happened in the past
3. re-orientation:{optional} stating personal comment of the writer to the story
language feature
1. introducing personal participant(i,my group,ets)
2. using chronological(then,first,etc)
3. using linkingverb(was,were,saw,heard,etc)
4. using action verb(look,go,change,etc)
5. using simple past tense.


VISIT TO A SHEEP PROPERTY

Last holiday, i visited a sheep property. I helped in the haring sheds and in the yards. ( orientation)

on the first day the Merino wethers were crutched. I helped by sweeping up after the rouseabout picked up the wool pieces.
Sheares start early(at 7.30 am). (events 1)

After lunch,we started shearing the lambs.
There were more than 400 so we didn’t finish until the next day. Once again i was sweeping and pickingup dags. (events 2)

I was tired by the end of the day in the shed but our work wasn’t finished. We all had to helped to get the wethers and lambs back into the paddocks. As well, we had to get a mob of ewes and their lambs into the yards for shearing the next day. Then it was time for tea (that’s what my nanna calls dinner) (events 3)

This was a very long day but i enjoyed it a lot (reorientation)