Nawang's Journal: Desember 2019

Selasa, 10 Desember 2019

Recount Text: Definition, Purposes, Generic Structure, and Complete Examples

Desember 10, 2019 BY Nawangsih 0 Comments

Recount Text

1. Definition of Recount Text

What is recount text? “Recount text is a text that telling the reader about one story, action or activity". Usually, recount text tells an event or experience that happened in the past, for example, like your experience on vacation or an experience you met your idol artist. Unlike the narrative text, there is no complication or conflict in the recount text.

2. Types of Recount Text

Recount text has several types of text that can be used for you to write. Adapted to the purpose of the writing itself. Various types of recount text can be seen below:

Personal recount

Personal recount is a recount text that serves to tell about the author's personal experience.

Factual recount

Factual recount is a recount text that serves to present reports of events that actually happened, such as science experiment reports or police reports.

Imaginative

Imaginative is a type of recount text that serves to present an imaginative story. Then write down events or events that have occurred.

3. Purpose of Recount Text

The purpose of recount text is to entertain and inform readers.
The purpose of communication from a recount text is to tell an experience or event that occurred in the past with the aim of entertaining and informing the reader.

4. Generic Structure Recount Text

Just like other English texts, Recount text also has an arrangement or structure. The Generic Structure recount text consists of:

Orientation: tells about background information about who, where, when the event or event occurred.
Events: tells of an event that occurs after that is told in chronological order.
Reorientation: contains a summary or conclusion of all events. This section also contains opinions or impressions of the author of the incident told.

5. Example of Recount Text

A vacation to The Beach

Orientation:

Last week, I and my friends went to the beach after school. We used public transportation. We reached the beach at 4 p.m. The beach was beautiful and clean.

Events:

At the beach, it was fun. We played football on the coastline. After that, we built a castle from the sand. In the night, we made bonfire together. We roasted fishes and squids then we ate them. At midnight, it was time to share our scary stories. One by one, we told our story.

Reorientation:

In the morning, we went home. It was a moment I never forgot.

Meet Bambang Pamungkas

Orientation:

On Friday, there was a football match between Indonesia and Japan. It held on Gelora Bung Karno stadium. I went to the Gelora Bung Karno stadium with my friend, Jono.

Events:

Before entering Gelora Bung Karno stadium, we looked at the bus that took Indonesian football players. Then, we followed that bus to the main entrance. I found that Bambang Pamugkas left from the bus. When we wanted to get close to Bambang Pamungkas, a security guard held me back. But, I thought that the security guard was familiar. It was my old friend, Budi. After that, he let me in, finally, I could meet Bambang Pamungkas and got his signature.

Reorientation:

Next, I went back to my seat at the stadium and the match just began. It was an amazing day and a good match.

Thus the explanation, hopefully useful. Thank you.

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Senin, 09 Desember 2019

Review Application Cake - Learn English Free

Desember 09, 2019 BY Nawangsih 3 Comments

Review Application Cake - Learn English Free

Before I start to tell my experience using the Cake application, I want to inform you first about this application. Cake application is a free English learning application available for Android or iOS users. The application, published by Playlist Corporation, offers a variety of attractive offers, such as the availability of video conversations and subtitles, speaking exercises with native speakers, Al Speech Recognition features (which are used to check pronunciation), and claims that all offers can be obtained with free.

Alright, to get to the point, here's a review of using the Cake app for the Android version.

To be able to use this application, of course, the first thing to do is download the application first, on the Play Store for Android users and in the App Store for iOs users. After the application has been downloaded, you are asked to choose a language (Language setting). 9 languages are available, including English and Indonesian. Then, you are asked to Sign in via Facebook or Google (the benefit you get if you Sign in is that you can save expressions that you've learned before). See the pictures below.

After Sign in, we will see the front page of the application which contains the Home, Search, Speak, Library, and Profile menus. Then in the upper right corner, there is a bell icon that contains a notification. And on the top left is the Today menu and Subscriptions. In the Search menu, there are various categories of choices, such as movies, Listening for beginners, travel, comedy, popular, American drama series, TV shows, and many more.

We can start learning English by clicking on one of the videos. Then when we listen to the conversation in the video, subtitles will be available under the video and later we can repeat the conversation in video and there will be an assessment/speaking practice about our pronunciation in saying the conversation sentence.

In my opinion, as long as I use this application, I think that this application is very interesting because it allows us to learn English, especially speaking, pronunciation, and listening. And the availability of various categories and videos makes me more excited to try.

Well, that's a review of my cake application. Hopefully what I have said can be useful for all of you. And also hopefully you become more enthusiastic about learning English because learning English is fun! ^^

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