Recount/ Unforgettable Experiance

Recount/ Unforgettable Experiance
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Life is wonderful. There are many things we get in our life. Sometimes we get a good experience but in other time we get a bad experience. All of the experiences can be remembered by us, especially an interesting experience. It can be an unforgettable experience. How about you ? Do you have an unforgettable
experience ?

Recount/ Unforgettable Experiance
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Unforgettable Experience

In 2003 we, the first grade students, made a five-day living in Kalirejo, a transmigration area in South Lampung. We were 212 students all together. We left Jakarta for Lampung at midnight and our trip was about six hours. Arriving there, we were warm welcomed. After a little talking, we were taken to our respective hosts. Every host accommodated four to five students. The transmigrants lead a very simple life. Most of their houses are made of wood or bamboo and only some are made of bricks.

Living there, all of us helped the transmigrants plow and fertilize the soil, harvest cassava, rice, corn or other crops, or washed and fed the cattle. At home, most girls produced cassava crisps, cassava cake and fried corn. Though dirty, we were very happy to help them since the works were new and even strange for us. It is unusual for them to stay till night. They go to bed at about 8 p.m. Because of us, they were willing to chat until we asked them to sleep or they trained us to play gamelan music.

One morning, our courageous friend climbed up a ten meter coconut tree to pick coconuts. Unfortunately, just reaching about five meter, he trembled. He couldn’t continue his climbing. We we all laughed at him. But the situation changed. Looking down, his face grew pale and said nothing. We were afraid of him falling down. Then we encouraged him to climb down inch by inch. He followed our advice. It took ten minutes for him to reach the ground. Stepping on the ground, he said, “ I won’t do such a fool again.” Commented the host, “You’re really a citizen, boy”.

The last day of living, we gather together with the hosts in front of the sub-district office to say goodbye. Shaking hands, both the students and the hosts couldn’t bear to cry. We felt as if we had been a real big family.
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EXPLANATION

* We use Past Simple Tense to talk about :
o Finished states and actions in the past.

i.e. : - I saw my best friend in the street yesterday.
- My parents met him in 1970.

o Repeated actions in the past

i.e. : - I took the same bus to go to school everyday.
- She always went swimming on Monday.

* The pattern :

Positive : S + V2
Negative : S + did + not + V1
Interrogative : Did + S + V1 ?

* Adverb of Time :

Yesterday
Last month
Two days ago
In November 1997, etc.

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Sentence connectors is a connection between a sentence with other sentence

1. Finally :

It can be used to suggest that one has been waiting for a long time for something.

2. At first

It can be used to introduce the situation which happens before other situations.

3. When :

It can be used to introduce the longer ‘background’ situation, which started before the shorter event, and perhaps went on after it.

4. However :

It can be used to mean ‘in what ever way’, ‘no matter how’.

5. Thus :

it can be used as a logical consequence.

Write a recount based on the following pictures below. Use your own words to create your recount.

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* A recount tells the reader what happened. They retell a past event.
* e.g. a visit to a farm two months ago
* It begins by telling the reader who was involved, what happened, where this event took place and when it happened. This is called the orientation.
* The sequence of events is then described in some sort of order,
* e.g. time
* There may be a re-orientation at the end which summarizes the event.

Writing recounts :

* When writing recounts you should :
* Focus on individual person i. e. use the word “I” or “we”
* Use words which indicate when (e.g. after breakfast) and where the events took place. (e.g. at school)
* Write the past tense e.g. had, visited, went.

Use action words e.g. helped, climbed. This was a very long day but I enjoyed it at

REFERENCE

1. Th : M. Sudarwati and Eudia Grace, 2005. Look Ahead, an English Course for Senior High School student year X. : Jakarta, Erlangga.
2. F. A Soeprapto and Mariana Darwis, 2004. Linked to the World, English for Senior High School grade X : Jakarta, Yudhistira.
3. Marcella Frank, 1972, Modern English. New Jersey : Prentice Hall Inc.
4. Margaret Bonner. 1994. Step to Writing. Longman
5. Michael Swan.1980. Practical English Usage, Oxford.

Language features

Name the underlined words based on the terms of language features, by typing the letter in front of the following words into the box given below the text

A. SPECIFIC PARTICIPANT

B. ACTION VERB

C. LINKING VERB

D. ADVERB OF TIME

E. SAYING VERB

F. PAST TENSE

G. SEQUENCE CONNECTOR

H. ADVERB OF PLACE

Today (1) was a very good day for me. I had been looking for a new job for quite a while. I (2) listed my name at a few employment agencies and was given information about several positions, but I wasn’t (3) interested in any of these jobs. Last week (4) I filled out an application form (5) for a new company in town and arranged (6) for a personal interview. Several men were (7) interviewed for this job, and I didn’t know if I would get it. This morning ( someone from the company called up (9) and asked to see me at two o’ clock (10). When (11) I came into his office (12), he told me that I was hired. I’ll begin working on Monday. I know I’ll like this job. I’ll be paid very well and my work will be extremely interesting.

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Read the following passage and identify the language features
Determine the SPECIFIC PARTICIPANT, ACTION VERB, LINKING VERB, PAST TENSE, SEQUENCE CONNECTOR, ADVERB OF TIME, ADVERB OF PLACE, SAYING VERB, by typing them.

I was (1) feeling so happy, I decided to cancel all my appointments for the rest of the day, and I went right home to tell my wife the good news. But before (2) I could say anything to her, she told (3) me what a bad day she was having. None of the lights in the house (4) were working. She had telephoned many electricians, but they all said (5) they were too busy. Finally (6) one agreed to come and she had been waiting him almost all day.

When (7) I was able to get her to stop talking about her troubles and listen to me. I told her about the new job and we made plans to go out for dinner and then go to the movies and perhaps go somewhere else after that. We made up our minds to forget about the electrician and decided to celebrate until down. Then ( we wouldn’t need any lights, anyway.

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Arranging sentences

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Arranging paragraph

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