Grade : Senior High School
Subject : English
Class : X
Semester : 1
Text : Recount
Theme : The Most Memorable Experience
Aspect/Skill : Reading
Time : 40 minutes
A. Basis Competence
5.2 Responding the meaning and the generic structure of the essay accurately, fluently and acceptably in daily life and for accessing knowledge in the form of recount, narrative and procedure texts.
Sub – Basic Competence
5.2.1 Responding the meaning and the generic structure of the essay accurately, fluently and acceptably in daily life and for accessing knowledge in the form of recount text.
B. Learning Objectives
§ Identifying the meaning of essay accurately, fluently and acceptably in the form of recount text.
§ Identifying the generic structure of essay accurately, fluently and acceptably in the form of recount text.
- Identifying the communicative purpose of the recount text
- Identifying the meaning of the words in the recount text
- Identifying the meaning of the sentences in the recount text
- Identifying the variety of sentence structure in the recount text
- Identifying the information/contents, characters, and events in the recount text
- Identifying the generic structure of the recount text
D. Learning Material
1. Main Material : Recount texts (Orientation, Events, Reorientation)
2. Grammar : Past Tense and Preposition of Time
3. Ability :
a) Understanding the information/contents, characters and events in the recount text to reach reading competence
b) Applying the elements of the recount text to reach writing competence
4. Sources : New Horizon in English, www.recount.pareonity.com, BSE
5. Media : Texts and pictures
6. Input Texts :
§ My Day
§ Proposing a Girl
§ Going to The Cinema
E. Learning Activities
- Opening Activities
- The teacher introduces the students about the learning by sharing knowledge
a. Do you have any interesting experience?
b. Can you recall it?
c. Will you tell your experience to your friends?
- Main Activities
§ The students read someone’s experience and discuss it together (title: “May Day”)
§ The students comprehend the meaning of the words and sentences in the text (title: “May Day”)
§ The students answer questions based on the text (title: “May Day”)
§ The students and the teacher discuss the use of preposition of time to show time relationship in the text (title: “May Day”)
§ The students complete sentences given by the teacher with the correct prepositions of time
§ The students and the teacher discuss the generic structure of the text (title: “May Day”)
§ The students identify the generic structure of the text given by the teacher (title: “Proposing a Girl”)
§ The students rearrange the texts of pictures given by the teacher to be a good recount text (title: “Going to The Cinema”)
§ The students find a written recount text from magazines, newspaper, etc.
- Closing Activities
§ The teacher and the students conclude the learning activities and material together
§ The teacher gives the students opportunity to tell the difficulties or problems faced during the learning process
§ The teacher and the students do the reflection of the learning experience together
§ The teacher and the students plan the task outside the class or home work
§ Students’ attendance in learning process (through observation and checklist)
§ Students’ activeness during the learning process (through observation, involvement or participation)
§ Students’ learning achievement/competence achievement (through project and written task/test)
§ Activity 3 : Give 3 points for each correct answer
§ Activity 5 : Give 2 points for each correct answer
§ Activity 7 : Give 10 points for each correct answer
§ Activity 8 : Give 3 points for each correct answer
§ Maximum Score :
o Activity 3 : 3 x 3 points = 15 points
o Activity 5 : 11 x 2 points = 22 points
o Activity 7 : 3 x 10 points= 30 points
o Activity 8 : 11 x 3 points = 33 points +
Complete and correct answer
Complete and less correct answer
Less complete and correct answer
Less complete and less correct answer
Answer these following questions.
1. Do you have any interesting experience to tell?
2. Can you recall it?
3. Will you tell your experience to your friend?
Read the following text about someone's experience.
I had a terrible day yesterday. First, I woke up an hour late because my alarm clock didn't go off. Then, I was in such a hurry that I burned my hand when I was making breakfast. After breakfast, I got dressed so quickly that I forgot to wear socks.
Next, I ran out of the house trying to get the 9:30 bus, but of course I missed it. I wanted to take a taxi, but I didn't have enough money.
Finally, I walked the three miles to my school only to discover that it was Sunday! I hope I never have a day as the one I had yesterday.
Taken from Ready to Write, 2003
Read the text and choose the correct answer to the following questions.
1. What happened to the writer yesterday?
a. He has a terrible day.
b. He gets a terrible day.
c. He had a terrible day.
d. He got a terrible day.
2. Why did he wake up an hour late?
a. Because he didn't set alarm clock.
b. Because his alarm clock didn't go off.
c. Because he didn't see alarm clock.
d. Because his alarm clock didn't work.
3. What did he do after having breakfast?
a. He got dressed so quickly that he forgot to wear socks.
b. He wore socks so quickly that he forgot to get dressed.
c. He ran out of the house trying to get the 9:30 bus.
d. He burned his hand when he was making breakfast.
4. How far did the writer walk?
a. He walked for two miles.
b. He walked for three miles.
c. He walked for four miles.
d. He walked for five miles.
5. What does the writer hope?
a. The writer hopes to discover that it was Sunday.
b. The writer hopes to take a taxi.
c. The writer hopes he never had a day like yesterday.
d. The writer hopes that yesterday will be better.
Complete the sentences with the correct prepositions.
1. I lived in Jakarta ______1995 ______1998.
2. Linda was born _____1952.
3. She was born______ October 31, _____4:00____ the afternoon.
4. I'll meet you for lunch ____Tuesday ____noon.
5. Rudi goes to Singapore every weekend. She takes the train ____Saturday ____9.00 _____the morning.
Read and study the text structure of the recount text.
Read the following text and identify its text structure.
Proposing a Girl
I woke up at about five o'clock yesterday. It wasn't a regular day, because I was about to propose a girl.
After praying and taking a bath, I had my early breakfast. At about nine o'clock I was in my office but my soul wasn't there. I was thinking about the lines that I had to say to her. At one o'clock, I had my lunch but I wasn't enjoying it either. So, I practiced the lines to almost all girls I met at my lunch. Yes, I was a little bit crazy. Finally, it was three o'clock. I remembered all my lines. I wrapped my works and got ready to pick her up and of course proposed her.
I met her at four o'clock, took a little walk and went to a movie. At seven, we had a romantic dinner. I thought it was the perfect time to ask her to be my wife. Then I said the lines that I practiced the whole afternoon. She smiled. I reached my pocket to get a ring and put it around her finger. Then she said "Yes." After driven her home I went back to my house.
Taken from New Horizons in English, 2002
Arrange the sentences in the correct order to form a meaningful paragraph based on the pictures.
Going to the Cinema
a. It was an interesting film about a plane which crashed on a small empty island in the Pacific Ocean.
b. After a few weeks, the passengers were eating raw fish and meat.
c. Although the passengers were safe, nobody knew where the plane had crashed.
d. It was an American movie called The Lost Flight.
e. So the passengers had to learn how to hunt for food in the jungle and how to catch fish from the sea to eat.
f. My sister and I went to see a film last night.
g. After they had been on the island for two months, three of the men made a boat and sailed away to find help.
h. It showed how people can quickly change when they have to look after themselves in the jungle.
i. But my sister and I enjoyed the film.
j. But their boat sank and they were drowned.
k. The film ended without saying whether the passengers were rescued or not.
Activity 9 (Project)
Find a written recount text from magazines, newspaper, etc.