🌷Historical Recount🌷

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Vocabulary Builder (Membangun Kosa kata):

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Before discussing further about Recount text, check the following words whether they

match with their meaning in Bahasa, put an arrow as shown in the example.

remembrance (noun)   kekuatan militer

surrender (Verb)          menyerahkan

weaponry (noun)         persenjataan

defiant (adjective)       menantang

leaflet (noun)              selebaran

drop                            memperlambat

anger(verb)                 membuat marah

be betrayed                 dikhianati

siege (verb)                mengepung

reinforcement (noun) peringatan

casualties (noun)        korban

hamper (verb)            menjatuhkan

militia (noun)            kelompok pejuang

advance (verb)          bergerak maju

rally (verb)                berkumpul untuk mendukung

Observe the social function, the generic structure and the language features of the

following text. (Amati dan perhatikan perbedaan antara fungsi sosial, struktur teks

(generic structure) dan ciri kebahasaan (Language features):

Understanding Recount Text

In English, recount is retelling of an event or series of events. In other words,

🌻Recount is a text in English that tells about experiences

or events in the past.🌻

Social Function

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The social function of recount text is to provide information and entertain the reader. (to give

the information and entertain the reader).

Generic Structures:

• Orientation: 

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In this section the speaker or writer explains what the theme and

what is the background of the story? At this stage, the author provides a

introduction in the form of information about who, where, when the event or

the incident happened in the past. In this section, the author conveys

introductory information needed to understand the entirety of the text. 

• Events:

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 Ie events that occurred began to be told by the author based on

chronology of events. In this section, the author or speaker conveys or

tells of events or events that occurred. This section is the main content

a recount text.

• Reorientation (optional): 

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This section is the final stage as repetition

introduction at the beginning of the text. This repetition part could be

is a summary of all the events or events that are told. In the

At the end of the day, the author writes a summary of all the events or incidents that happened

told by referring back to the text orientation section. Author too

usually write comments or personal impressions of events or

events described in the Events section.

                                                               Example Recount Text 

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Language Features (Language Features):

• Simple past tense (You can review the previous module (KD.

3.6 and 4.6) about simple past tense sentences)

• Action verbs:

 verbs that humans actually do consciously (“do”activities , Example sentences:

The soldier took the gun and fired the crime on his foot.

• Conjunctions: Conjunctions used to make

continuity of the recount text flow. Frequently used conjunctions

such as: first, then, after that, before, when, at last, finally, etc.

• Adverb of time and adverb of place : Adverb of time and place of one

incident

After studying the recount text, then do the practice questions.

Look at the following text and determine the sosial function, the generic structure

and the language features, put them in the table shown below the text.

The Proclamation of Indonesian Independence.

The proclamation of Indonesian independence was read at 10.00 a.m. on Friday, 17

August 1945. The declaration marked the start of the diplomatic and armed resistance of

the Indonesian National Revolution, fighting against the forces of the Netherlands and pro-

Dutch civilians, until the latter officially acknowledged Indonesia's independence in 1949.

In 2005, the Netherlands declared that they had decided to accept de facto 17 August 1945

as Indonesia's independence date. In a 2013 interview the Indonesian historian Sukotjo,

amongst others, asked the Dutch government to formally acknowledge the date of

independence as 17 August 1945. The United Nations, who mediated in the conflict,

formally acknowledge the date of independence as 27 December 1949.

The document was signed by Sukarno (who signed his name "Soekarno" using the older

Dutch orthography) and Mohammad Hatta, who were appointed president and vice

president respectively the following day.

The draft was prepared only a few hours earlier, on the night of 16 August, by Sukarno,

Hatta, and Soebardjo, at Rear-Admiral Maeda (Minoru) Tadashi's house, Miyako-Doori 1,

Jakarta (now the "Museum of the Declaration of Independence", JL. Imam Bonjol I, Jakarta).

The original Indonesian Declaration of Independence was typed by Sayuti Melik. Maeda

himself was sleeping in his room upstairs. He was agreeable to the idea of Indonesia's

independence, and had lent his house for the drafting of the declaration. Marshal Terauchi,

the highest-ranking Japanese leader in South East Asia and son of Prime Minister Terauchi

Masatake, was however against Indonesia's independence, scheduled for 24 August.

While the formal preparatio un of the declaration, and the official independence itself for

that matter, had been carefully planned a few months earlier, the actual declaration date

was brought forward almost inadvertently as a consequence of the Japanese unconditional

surrender to the Allies on 15 August following the Nagasaki atomic bombing. The historic

event was triggered by a plot, led by a few more radical youth activists such as Adam Malik

and Chairul Saleh, that’s put pressure on Sukarno and Hatta to proclaim independence immediately. The declaration was to be signed by the 27 members of the Preparatory

Committee for Indonesian Independence (PPKI) symbolically representing the new

nation's diversity. The particular act was apparently inspired by a similar spirit of the

United States Declaration of Independence. However, the idea was heavily turned down by

the radical activists mentioned earlier, arguing that the committee was too closely

associated with then soon to be defunct Japanese occupation rule, thus creating a potential

credibility issue. Instead, the radical activists demanded that the signatures of six of them

were to be put on the document. All parties involved in the historical moment finally agreed

on a compromise solution which only included Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta as the co-

signers in the name of the nation of Indonesia.

Sukarno had initially wanted the declaration to be read at Ikada Plain, the large open

field in the centre of Jakarta, but due to unfounded widespread apprehension over the

possibility of Japanese sabotage, the venue was changed to Sukarno's house at Pegangsaan

Timur 56. There was no concrete evidence for the growing suspicions, as the Japanese had

already surrendered to the Allies, the declaration of independence passed without a hitch.

The proclamation at 56, Jalan Pegangsaan Timur, Jakarta, was heard throughout the

country because the text was secretly broadcast by Indonesian radio personnel using the

transmitters of the JAKARTA Hoso Kyoku radio station. An English translation of the

proclamation was broadcast overseas.

EXERCISES

1. The freedom fighters were forced to _sureender __________, but their faith in God and people’s

dream strengthened them to keep on fighting against the aggressors.

2. The ____defiant ____ militia refused to obey the British army’s instruction to surrender their

weaponry to them.

3. The city was under __siege_____ so that nobody could get in or get out of the city. Luckily, the

people depended on no one for their food.

4. Do not betray me. Be loyal to our agreement. Your betrayal will ______anger ___me. I can be

really angry, and that can mean that there will be no more collaboration between us.

5. Last week, teenagers ______rallied___ in the center of the city to

support the beginning of bike-to-school program. They all came riding their bicycles.

 Read the following incomplete sentences. Complete them with

am/is/are (present) or was/were (past).

1. In 1945, they ___were__ 17, so they _are_____ 85 now.

2. Today the weather _is____ cold, but last Monday it was______ terribly hot.

3. I ___am__ very thirsty. Can somebody give me a glass of water, please?

4. The defiant freedom fighters _were______ very brave. They fought till death to defend the

city.

5. I ____am_ happy with Surabaya now. Years ago, it was_____ very dirty and messy.

6. Don’t buy those weapons. They are_____ dangerous and illegal.

7. Hey, I like your new hat. It fits you well, and when you wear it, it reminds me of the

1945 freedom fighters. __is__ it expensive?

8. This time seventy years ago my grandfather __was______ in Surabaya joining the militia to

fight against the British army.

9. “Where _____are_ the veterans?” “I don’t know. They __are_____ in the lobby of the hotel five

minutes ago.”

10. The generals and the veterans ____are__ happy and optimistic about us now. They know

we ___are____always busy with good activities and never think of using drugs. When we

met them last year, they __were______ pessimistic.

After doing the practice questions, table examples, understanding and conclusions of chapter seven part one. Thank you for visiting my blog, I hope you are always healthy. Don't forget that recount is a text in English that tells about past events or events.

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