MY HOLIDAY

   I went to Bandung last holiday with my family. We went there by my car. I took long time to reach Bandung. It was about 2 hours and we had so many traffics in Bandung. As people could see, Bandung is almost same like Jakarta, but the differences are in it’s culture. Not only that, Bandung also had so many cold areas like Ciater etc. It was so wonderful in Bandung. I could release all my things at there.

   After we arrived in Bandung city, we had a look in another place like ITB, UNPAD, TELKOM etc. Then we had a lunch in a small restaurant. After lunch, we continue our way to Ciater. Hopeless, it had a big traffic in the way to Ciater. So we stop in a café until evening. Then we continue our way. It was so dark and it was scary in the left or right side. Only trees that we could see because we were pick the way to the higher place. Finally we arrived in Ciater.

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example of recount text : big mouse

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big mouse

  one night, I asleep very comfy. then, I heard sounds from the kitchen. I gone to the kitchen and lights it. I dont saw any one in the kitchen.
  but, when I will gone back to my bad, I heard the same sounds again. suddenly, I saw a big mouse in the kitchen. I called my mother and close the kitchen door before. then my mom and I looked for broom stick. we attacked the mouse with broom stick. I killed the mouse. we leave the dead mouse in the kitchen.
  in the next day, I threw away the mouse and cleaned he blood of mouse in the kitchen.

Example of recount text : fished

Fished

  Last Month, my brother and I fished in the river. we gone to the river at 8 am. we gone to the river that near my house.
   when we arrived at the river, I splashed to the river. My brother helped me. we continued the expedition to the big river. we started fished. suddenly we cached a fish. we got many fish in few hour. when we gone home, it be rained. we run, suddenly I foll down. the fish foll to the river. we gone to home without anything.
   it was very bad, I hope in other time we got big fish.

example of recount text : master of ceremonies

master of ceremonies

  on a hot day, I studied in my classroom in my school. suddenly, I called by my teacher. I was elected to the prayers in the ceremony. my teacher told me to trained in the following days.
in the first day, I do many wrong. so that I trained hard in the next day. in the next day, I became a good prayers. I very tired, I trained in the hot day at 11 am to 1 pm. but is was no problem. I sured it was good for me.
  at the ceremony day, I really readied to leaded people to prayed. but, there were any problem, the master of ceremonies do not attended the ceremonies. my teacher was confused. suddenly, my teacher pointed me. I must became a master of ceremonies. It was not good, but I cant reject it.I became a master ceremonies, I very tense. I was grateful, I leaded the ceremony goodly.
  It was good, although I not readied to became master of ceremonies, but I can.

Example of recount text : My bad and good experience

My Bad Holiday

  In the holiday, I had message to opened my e-mail account because I sured that my brother in Jakarta city send me e-mail. so, I gone to the Purbalingga city to connected to the internet.
  All is so good when it started, but it began to bad when I arrived, I can't opened my e-mail account. oh no !!!, I forgot my e-mail password. so that I do other activity in Purbalingga City. I played football with my friends, I gone to my old school, and other. it was good day at purbalingga city. when I gone to my home, in the city became sunny day, but in the middle of the way to gone to home it be rained. I have seen the different. in my side don't rained, but the other side rained. it's very interesting.
   Finally, I arrived at home with the wet uniform. I foll it was my bad experience and good experience too.

Example of recount text : Vacation to London

Vacation to london

  Mr. Richard’s family was on vacation. They are Mr. and Mrs. Richard with two sons. They went to London. They saw their travel agent and booked their tickets. They went to the British Embassy to get visas to enter Britain. They had booked fourteen days tour. This includes travel and accommodation. They also included tours around London
   They boarded a large Boeing flight. The flight was nearly fourteen hours. On the plane the cabin crews were very friendly. They gave them news paper and magazine to read. They gave them food and drink. There was a film for their entertainment. They had a very pleasant flight. They slept part of the way.
   On arrival at Heathrow Airport, they had to go to Customs and Immigration. The officers were pleasant. They checked the document carefully but their manners were very polite. Mr. Richard and his family collected their bags and went to London Welcome Desk. They arranged the transfer to a hotel.
   The hotel was a well-known four-star hotel. The room had perfect view of the park. The room had its own bathroom and toilet. Instead of keys for the room, they inserted a key-card to open the door. On the third floor, there was a restaurant serving Asian and European food. They had variety of food.
  The two week in London went by fast. At the end of the 14-day, they were quite tired but they felt very happy.

Example of recont text : REMOTE CONTROL RACING CARS

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REMOTE CONTROL RACING CARS

On the weekend of the 3rd of March, I went to the Ryde BMX track with Robert and Christ.
When we got there it was very crowded in the car park and we wondered where everyone was because there weren’t many people on the BMX track.
So we parked the car and then we saw a lot of people surrounding a little track with speeding cars going around it. There were also about five people controlling the cars from a high platform. The cars were about 30 cms long and 15 cms wide with big tread on the tyres and a flap on the front so that they wouldn’t tip over.
The after the races they were awarding trophies to the winners. When we were just going a boy was controlling a car around the track and it was going very fast. Someone else had a three wheeler motorbike, but it didn’t go as fast. Then we had to go, so we packed up the car and then we left.

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Definition of recount text

Recount text is text that retell about a story, experience, and other. recount text use simple past tense or past perfect tense in its phrase. recount text retell about past event. recount text use adverbs of time, for example : when, one day, once upon a time, last holiday , after, before, and other. its very easy to different recount text from another text. you can make recount text from your story.
in the recount text we will not get "is" or "are" in the phrase but it will change to "was" or "were". usually in recount text, the subject is I, or the name of human.

example of recount text : Diving In Bunaken Island

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Diving In Bunaken Island

  Last year I left New Zealand for Bunaken island. I went there with a group of New Zealand divers. Getting there was not quite easy. Soon after our arrival at Bunaken, we got a general briefing. It included a description about how to take pictures under water.
  Then, we began our diving. In our diving, we saw groups of tiny fish. In order to identify them, we needed a good guide. Without some knowledge of their habitat and behavior, it was difficult to identify.
In summary, the trip was mostly enjoyable. This place is so impressive with its marine life.

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Example Of Recount text : Camp In The Mountain

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Camp In The Mountain

   Hexa and I camped in the mountain last weekend. It was very beautiful and very quiet there. The air was fresh. The location of our camp site was on the side of the hill, so we could see the scenery around us. It was amazing. It was green everywhere. It was also easy to get water as it was near a small river. You see the water is as clear as a crystal. We brought a lot of food from home. There were some noodles, cans of sardines, soft drinks, and biscuits. Hexa brought cooking utensils for cooking noodle.

  On the first day, we spent our time setting up tent and exploring the surrounding area. I was happy to find that there were many campers there. At night, after we had dinner, we met other campers. We chatted and played guitar. It was fun meeting people who had the same hobby. It was not frightening at all at night in the forest a it was very noisy that night. We laughed and sang, and some campers even danced. We went to bed almost dawn. No wonder we got up late the following day. We hiked with others campers until afternoon. We did not realize that it was almost five in the afternoon and we had to go back home soon. It was really nice. I planned to go there again on the next long holiday. I would ask other friends to join.

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Book Worm

  I have a friend named Yoyon. He is a book worm. Do you know or remember the term of a book worm? It means that Yoyon loves reading very much. He reads many books, magazines, and newspapers. He reads books before the school begins, during the break, or when he waits for city bus. Every time he reads books.
  One day I asked him. “Yon, you are a book worm. Don’t your eyes get tired? Don’t you get dizzy?” he replied, “on the contrary, my eyes will be tired or I will get dizzy if do not read any books.”
  Yoyon also told me, “I don’t need to go to Japan, Korea or other countries around the world. I just need to sit and read books on those topics. It is quite cheap and not tiring.”
  Yoyon is right. We can broaden our knowledge and learn about the development of the world through reading. As a matter of fact, reading can give us pleasure and contentment.

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Example Of Recount text : Barbecue In The Park

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Barbecue in the park

  Last Sunday, my friend and I went to the park because David’s family invited us a barbecue party in the park. We lived nearby so we just walked there.

When we got to the park, there were not many people. David’s family was already there. They arrived there early to get best picnic spot with an electronic barbecue grill nearby. when we arrived, they were cleaning the barbecue. After making sure the barbecue was clean, they turned the barbecue on by pushing the button. The electric stove turned on and the metal plate became hot.

  David’s mother put some cooking oil on the metal plate, and after that she put some sausages, beef steaks, and some onions on the barbecue. Meanwhile, David’s father was preparing the bread, butter and the drinks.

  While waiting for the meat to cook, David and I joined other boys playing football. When we got tired, we stopped and enjoyed the sausages, steaks, and some cold soft drinks.

The food was delicious. I think David’s mother is one of the best cooks in the world.

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TRAVELING BY AIR

  I really hate flying. Once something happened to me. when I was on board, the plane started taking off. It seemed that everything was all right. But suddenly I saw smoke coming from engine of the plane. The engine was on fire and the plane started to rattle. Suddenly the captain said to us in a very calm voice. “Ladies and gentlemen, we are having a little problem with one of the engines. There is no need to panic. Keep your seat belts fastened. We are going to return to the airport.”
  You can imagine how frightened I was, but the crew was fantastic. The flight attendants were really calm and told us not to worry. One of them told me to relax and said that everything would be all right.
  A few minutes later, we were coming in to land, the pilot made a smooth landing on the runway. It was over, and we were safe.
  I took a taxi and went home. From that day on, I decided not to fly anymore.

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