Recount Text

Recount Text

Recount text is a text that is used to rettel event for the purpose of informing or entertaining.

The generic structure:

-Orientation (it gives the readers to background information needed to understand the text such as who was involved, where it happened when it happened)

$Events (a series of events, ordered in a chronologi sequence)

$ Re-orientation (restates the writer’s opinion or personal comment of the writter on the incident)

The significant lexicogrammatical features:

T Use of “Simple Past Tense”

TUse of “Temporal Conjuctions” (when,Rafter,before,next,etc)

T Use of “Personal Pronoun” (I,we)

Title “A Visit to a Sheep Property”

Orientations Last Holiday I visited a sheep property I helped in th shearing sheds and in the yards.

Seguence of Events On the First day the Merino wethers were crutched. I helped by the sweeping up after the rousebout picked up the wool pieces. Sheares start early (at 07.30 a.m).

After linch, we starter seharing the lambs. There were more than 400 so we didn’t finis until the next day. Once again I was sweeping and picking up dags.

I was tried by the and of the day in the Seed but our work wasn’t finished. We all had to help to get the weathers and lambs back into the paddocks. As, well we had to get a mob of ewes and their lambs into yards for seharing the next day.

Re-orientation This was a very long day but i enjoyed it a lot.