Examples 1 Personal Recount M2 LA 2

Instructions

Topic	Fishing
Orientation	Yesterday I was going  to a lake for fishing. It was a nice time because I had no work to do.
Record       of Events	(1) I woke up earlier in the morning, and then I went  to the marketplace to buy some shrimps I would use for the fishing bait. After that, I went to the lake to start fishing. (2) At the lake, I looked for the best point to fish. I went to the place under a big tree at the bank of the lake. (3) I threw my hook as far as I could, and then I waited for the fish eating my bait. After about a thirty-minute waiting, I felt that a fish ate my bait, and it was true. I got a big fish. It was the first big enough fish I got in fishing. I got ten big fish and three small fish that day. I was very happy. (4) I would cook those fish at home and then I would call my friends to come to my house. We would have a small party. (5) But I was not lucky enough because on the way home, I met a beggar. He was an old poor beggar. I gave all of my fish to him and I wish he would be happy getting those fish. Perhaps, he could sell them at the market and got some money to buy some food.
Reorientation	Although I had no more fish after that, I was quite happy because I could help people.

From the recount text entitled ‘Fishing’ above, the explanations can be made as follows: (Look at some words in bold, italics, underlined as examples)

·      The text focuses on a specific person, namely ‘I’ (in bold).

·      There are a number of action verbs, such as ‘going’, ‘woke’, ‘went’, ‘use’, ‘looked’, ‘threw’, and ‘waited’ (in italics).

·      There are some adverbs of time and place in the text such as ‘yesterday’, ‘to a lake’, ‘in the morning’, ‘to the marketplace’, ‘to the lake’, and ‘at the lake’ (underlined).

·      The sentences are mostly formed in past tense like ‘was’, ‘had, ‘woke’, ‘went’, ‘would’, ‘looked’, ‘threw’, and ‘waited’, ‘felt’, and ‘got’ (in italics).

·      The text involves temporal sequences such as ‘then’, ‘after that’, ‘as far as’, and ‘after’ (underlined).

I have learned this example 1 of Personal Recount .