Tasks 1 M2 LA 2

Instructions

Please do the following tasks to make sure you understand the Learning Activity 2.

1.                 Complete these sentences about the different stages of a recount. Use the words in the box.

a.                  The orientation stage of a recount orients the reader to the events in the story. It tells the reader who the story is about, where it happened and when the event occurred.

b.                 In the record of events stage, the writer retells the events in a logical time sequence  so that the reader can follow them easily.

c.                  In the reorientation stage, the writer rounds off the story and brings the reader back to the reason why the story is being told.

2.                 Read again the text entitled ‘Fishing’ above. How many events are there mentioned in the text? List them from the first to the last events.

Events

Fishing

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. 2)                After that, I went to the lake to start fishing. 3)                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. I threw my hook as far as I could, and then I waited for the fish eating my bait. 4)                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. 5)                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. 6)                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.

3.                 Historical Recount “Ballooning” Topic         Ballooning

Orientation  The first kind  of  air  transportation was not  a   plane.   It   was   a balloon. People traveled by balloon 100 years before there were planes or jet aircraft. Those early days of ballooning were exciting, but  they  were  also  dangerous. Sometimes the balloons fell suddenly. Sometimes they burned. However, the danger did not stop the balloonists.

Record of Events

(1)      The first  real balloon flight was in France  in 1783. Two Frenchmen,   the Montgolfier brothers, made a balloon. They filled a very large paper bag with hot air. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up. The Montgolfier’s hot air balloon went up 1,000 feet in the sky.

(2)    Later that same year, two other Frenchmen ascended in the basket under a balloon. They built a fire under the balloon to make the air hot. This made the balloon stay up in the air for a few hours. But their balloon was tied to the ground. So it could not go anywhere.

(3)     The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783. The balloon flew for 25 minutes over Paris. It traveled about 5 ½ miles. Flying a balloon is not like flying a plane. The balloon has no engine and therefore no power of its own. The wind directs the balloon. It goes where the wind blows. The pilot can control only the altitude of the balloon. He or she can raise and lower the balloon to find the right wind direction. That is how a good pilot controls where the balloon goes.

(4)    Soon balloonists tried longer flights. A major event in the history of ballooning was the first long flight over water. In 1785, an American and a Frenchman flew over the English Channel. They left England on a cold, clear January day. After about an hour, their balloon began to descend toward the water. They threw out some equipment and food to make the balloon lighter.

The   balloon   continued   to   fall,   so   they   threw   out    almost  everything in the basket—even some of their clothes. Finally, after about three hours, they landed in France, cold but safe.

Reorientation During the nineteenth century, ballooning became a popular sport. There were balloon races in Europe. Balloons were also used by scientists to study the air and by armies in wartime. After the airplane was invented, people lost interest in balloons. Planes were much faster and easier to control. But some people today still like to go up in balloons. High up in the balloon basket, they find quiet. They have a wonderful view of the world below.

Read again the text entitled ‘Ballooning’ above,  and  then  answer  these  questions  which are related to it:

a.                  Who firstly made a balloon?

 The Montgolfier brothers firstly made a balloon

b.                 When did people fly freely by balloon for the first time? And where?

 The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783. The balloon flew for 25 minutes over Paris.

c.                  What does ‘it’ in paragraph 1 refer to?

 ‘It’ in paragraph 1 refers to the first air transportation

d.                 There are two words ‘they’ in paragraph 1? Do they refer to the same thing?

 ‘They’ refers to the same thing, that is Balloon.

e.                  How was the first balloon developed?

 The first balloon was filled a very large paper bag with hot air. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up.

f.                   What does ‘Flying a balloon is not like flying a plane’ mean in paragraph 4?

 It means that the balloon has no engine and therefore no power of its own. The wind directs the balloon. It goes where the wind blows although Balloon also needs pilot to control it. But, flying plane is different. The plane has many complicated feature.

The plane needs run way to take off or to land but the plane is easier to control by people than balloon.

g.                 Why didn’t people gradually like anymore to fly by balloon?

 They didn’t like to fly by balloon anymore because planes were much faster and easier to control.

h.                 Why do some people still like to fly by balloon today?

 Because when they high up in the balloon basket, they find quiet. They have a wonderful view of the world below.

i.                    Why didn’t people stop flying by balloon although it was dangerous at the  early days?

 Because ballooning was exciting while there was no the air transportation like jet aircraft.

j.                    Summarize the text by making its outline.

ü  The first kind of air transportation was a balloon.

ü  The first real balloon flight was in France in 1783 made by two Frenchmen, the Montgolfier brothers

ü  Ballon was built by a fire under the balloon to make the air hot.

ü  The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783.

ü  Balloonists tried longer flights of ballooning was the first long flight over water.

ü  During the nineteenth century, ballooning became a popular sport.

4.                 Read each paragraph. Working in pairs, decide on the best topic. Be sure your topic is not too general or two specific. Write the topic below the paragraph.

a.                      Galileo Galilei was one of the first modern scientists. He was born in Pisa, Italy, 1564. At first, he studied philosophy, but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the way the earth and other planets move around the sun. He found out several important facts about our world. He also started a new way of working in science. Before Galileo, scientists did not do experiments. They just guessed about how

something happened. Galileo was different. He did not just make guesses. He did experiments and watched to see what happened.

Topic: Galileo’s interest in science.

b.                     Galileo is famous for his study of how things fall. He was the first person to do experiments about this problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law off falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.

Topic: The thing made Galileo famous

c.                      The life of a scientist was not always easy in the 1500s.  For example, Galileo  got  into trouble because of his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the same as the  religious ideas at the time. Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole life he had to worry about this. He even went to prison for a while. But no one could stop him from thinking. He continued to look for scientific answers to his questions about the world.

Topic: Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas

5.                 Read this personal spoken recount by Tom Bass, a famous Australian sculptor. The recount tells us about a particular incident when Tom discovered his talent for carving. On the left, mark the stage of orientation, record of events, and reorientation.

Orientation	When I was 16 – that’d be in 1932 – my family lived in St Peters and it was a very slummy part of St Peters and it was right in the very heart of the Depression and I’d realized I was an artist when I was 8 years old.
Record              of events	It turned out that … that what he’d brought home was core-sand … that’s what they cast metal into and the way they used to do it in those days – I don’t know if they do it now – but they used to mix

the sand with linseed oil and that would hold it together and then  the heat of the metal would fuse it all together … and it was dark and a beautiful color and you know to all intents and purposes it looked like stone and I had an impulse to try carving this because I’d been trying to do things of all kinds but mainly drawing and things like that and we only had an old hammer with a broken handle and a funny old screwdriver and you know I started with these … and I found myself having this amazing experience and actually discovering I could carve

reorientation.

It just happened in that way.

6.                 In this recount, Tom has added another stage of explanation to the basic pattern. Use a highlighter pen to mark this stage. (They are on the text above) Why do you think Tom added this stage to the basic pattern?

He added because he wanted to give more explanation about the basic pattern and he wanted to give his opinion, in that explanation.

7.                 Reread the orientation to Tom’s recount and write the words which tell you where and

when the incident happened.

a.                  When            : In 1932, when Tom was 8 years old.

b.                 Where          : In St Peters

8.        Number these events in Tom’s recount in the correct order: a.        I discovered that I could carve.	3
b. It was an amazing experience.	4
c. I started to carve with an old hammer with a broken handle and a funny old screwdriver.	2
d.      My younger brother brought home some core sand	1

9. The stages of this written recount are not in the correct order. Number the stages, and discuss why the order should be in that way. Mark the orientation, record of events, and reorientation of the recount text.

Thomas and the Gorillas

But before the zoo worker arrived, a gorilla went over to Thomas. It was Binti Jua, an eight-year-old mother gorilla. She had her baby gorilla on her back. With one “arm” she picked up the little boy. She carried him carefully over to a door, walking on three legs. There she put Thomas down so a zoo worker could get him.

Janet and Kevin ran to the door, too. Thomas was badly hurt and had to go to the hospital, but after a few days he was better. The story was on the evening news in Chicago. Some people cheered and others cried when they heard it. But many of them thought about that mother gorilla and asked themselves, “What is she doing in a zoo? What is the difference between a gorilla and me?”

A woman saw him and shouted, “Stop him!” A tall man reached up to get him, but it was too late. Thomas fell down the other side of the fence. He fell 18 feet onto the hard concrete floor. He lay very still, with blood on his head. Janet and Kevin shouted for help. People crowded around the fence, and someone ran to get a zoo worker.

But three-year-old boys are good climbers. While the Kempers were watching the gorillas, little Sally started to cry. Kevin took her from Janet, and Janet looked in her bag for a bottle of juice. In those few seconds, Thomas climbed up the fence.

The Kempers went straight to the gorilla exhibit. There were six adult gorillas and a three- month-old baby gorilla. In the Brookfield Zoo, the animals are not in cages. They are in large areas dug out of the ground. These areas have fences around them so the animals cannot get out and people cannot fall in.

It was a hot summer day in Chicago. The Kemper family decided it was a good day to go to the Brookfield Zoo. Janet and Kevin Kemper had two children: Thomas,

3, and Sally, 6 months. Thomas loved going to the zoo. He liked watching all the animals,  but he especially loved the gorillas.

Thomas and the Gorillas

Orientation	It was a hot summer day in Chicago. The Kemper family decided it was a good day to go to the Brookfield Zoo. Janet and Kevin Kemper had two children: Thomas, 3, and Sally, 6 months. Thomas loved going to the zoo. He liked watching all the animals, but he especially loved the gorillas.
Record of events	The Kempers went straight to the gorilla exhibit. There were six adult gorillas and a three-month-old baby gorilla. In the Brookfield Zoo, the animals are not in cages. They are in large areas dug out of the ground. These areas have fences around them so the animals cannot get out and people cannot fall in. But three-year-old boys are good climbers. While the Kempers were watching the gorillas, little Sally started to cry. Kevin took her from Janet, and Janet looked in her bag for a bottle of juice. In those few seconds, Thomas climbed up the fence. A woman saw him and shouted, “Stop him!” A tall man reached up to get him, but it was too late. Thomas fell down the other side of the fence. He fell 18 feet onto the hard concrete floor. He lay very still, with blood on his head. Janet and Kevin shouted for help. People crowded around the fence, and someone ran to get a zoo worker. But before the zoo worker arrived, a gorilla went over to Thomas. It was Binti Jua, an eight-year-old mother gorilla. She had her baby gorilla on her back. With one “arm” she picked up the little boy. She carried him carefully over to a door, walking on three legs. There she put Thomas down so a zoo worker could get him.
Reorientation	Janet and Kevin ran to the door, too. Thomas was badly hurt and had to go to the hospital, but after a few days he was better. The story was on the evening news in Chicago. Some people cheered and others cried when they heard it. But many of them thought about that mother gorilla and asked themselves, “What is she doing in a zoo? What is the difference between a gorilla and me?”