Recount text,reading and exercises

Read the letter below.

Dear Grandpa and Grandma, Yesterday at my school we had an International day. We had performances, food stalls, displays, raffle ticket draw, and some of us were dressed in costumes. We started our day off with performances but the one I liked best was the one from fourth grade. We played games. The performance I was in was Labamba. Straight after our performances we had our lunch.There were food stalls. They came from Australia, Asia, Arab, and Greece Everyone had a job. These people were from sixth grade. I did my job after I had lunch. My job was to sell International Day Books. We had displays in the hall. These displays were good but I didn’t get to see them. The displays came from a lot of countries. There was also a Trash and Treasure stall where they sold toys. The school got these things by asking the children to bring them in. Although I didn’t win anything, International Day was still fun.                                Love from Sue

Orientation (who/where/when)  Event 1    Event 2  Event 3    Event 4 Event 5 Re-orientation

Answer these questions

1. Why did Sue write the letter?

2. To whom did she write the letter?

3. What did she tell in the letter?

4. Mention the words that Sue uses to tell the order of events.

5. Are the verbs in the present or in the past tense?

6. Write all the action verbs (e.g., started, played etc,) you find in the letter.

Read this text and then discuss with your friends the questions that follow.

One day Sandra Dewi fell sick in the middle of the English lesson. All the students did reading tasks. Suddenly Sandra Dewi vomited. All other students stopped writing. Mrs. Lidia helped her immediately. The chairman of the class sent for the school’s doctor.      In five minutes the doctor came. He examined her carefully. He examined her eyes. He felt her stomach. He listened to her heart beat. He measured her blood pressure. Then he took her temperature.      “I’m afraid she suffers from malaria. Her temperature is very high. That is why she vomited. She has a very bad cough, too. I’ll give her some pills for her malaria, some tablets for her fever, and syrup for her cough. She needs a week’s rest”, said the doctor.

Questions:

1. What is the text telling you about?

2. What did the students do? What happened?

3. What was the name of the teacher?

4. What did the doctor do?

5. What was Sandra Dewi suffering from?

6. What did the doctor recommend?

7. Identify the text structure by listing the happenings according to

    these categories of: orientation, events, and re-orientation

You have also learned these. • Recount is a text which has social function to retell events for the purpose of informing   or entertaining. • When you tell about the happenings in the past, it means that you make a recount text. • A recount text begins with information about who, where, and when;continues to list   the events  that happened; and ends with a closure.

Fill in the blanks with the words in the box.

It was my grandpa’s birthday last Sunday. On Friday, my sister and I went shopping at the …..(1)…... We bought a nice …..(2)…... Then, we wrapped it in a blue paper. Blue is my grandpa’s favourite colour. On Saturday morning, my brother and I helped my sister making a birthday cake in the …..(3)…... It was a big and beautiful …..(4)…... I wrote ‘Happy Birthday’ on it. After that, we put some chocolate and a ….. (5)….. on the top of the cake. On Sunday evening, my uncle and my aunt came to my …..(6)…... They brought several bottles of soft-drink, and …..(7)….. for grandpa. Then, we sat together in the …..(8)…... Finally, grandpa blew the candle and cut the cake while we were singing a ‘Happy Birthday’ song for him. After giving each of us a piece of cake, he opened the present. He told us that he liked the present, and he was very …..(9)…...

mall     shirt      house      kitchen      birthday cake   candle    flowers       living room      happy

Match each word in list A with its opposite in list B

A 1) beautiful 2) big 3) cheap 4) clean 5) friendly 6) interesting 7) quiet 8) dangerous

B . . . boring . . . rude . . . dirty . . . expensive . . . small . . . noisy . . . safe . . . ugly