1. Complete these sentences about the different stages of a recount. Use the words in the box.
happened reason time when events who
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 happened and when the event occurred.
b. In the
record
of
events
stage,
the
writer
retells
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
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Fishing
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Record
of
Events
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(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.
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3. 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 did.
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 refers to the first air transportation.
d. There
are
two words ‘they’ in
paragraph
1? Do they refer
to the same thing?
Yes, 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.
· The first kind of air transportation was a balloon.
· The first real balloon flight was in France in 1783
made by two Frenchmen, the Montgolfier brothers
· Ballon was built by a fire under the balloon to make
the air hot.
· The first free balloon flight was in December, 1783.
· Balloonists tried longer flights of ballooning was the
first long flight over water.
· 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
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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.
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Record ofevents
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… one day my younger brother who was six or seven years younger than me
who used to play on the rubbish tip of the local foundry just down at the end
of the street came home with two pieces of what looked like stone.
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 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.
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reorientation
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It just happened in that way.
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6. In this recount,
Tom has added another stage of explanation to the basic
pattern. Use
a highlighter
pen to mark this stage. Why do you
think Tom added this stage to
the
basic pattern?
He added because
he had been
trying it.
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 2
funny old screwdriver.
d. My younger brother brought home some coresand 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
Orientation
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It was a hot summer day in Chicago. The Kemper familydecided it was a good day to go
to the Brookfield Zoo. Janet
andKevin 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.
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Record of events
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The
Kempers went straight to the gorilla exhibit. There were sixadult gorillas and a three-month-old baby gorilla. In the BrookfieldZoo, the animals are not in cages. They are in large areas dug
out ofthe 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 Kemperswere watching
the gorillas, little Sally started to cry. Kevin took herfrom Janet, and Janet looked in her bag for a bottle of juice. In
thosefew seconds, Thomas climbed up the fence.
A woman saw him and shouted, “Stop him!” A tall man reachedup to get him,
but it was too late. Thomas fell down the other
side ofthe 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 babygorilla on her back. With
one “arm” she picked up the little boy. Shecarried him carefully over to a door, walking
on three legs. There sheput Thomas down so a zoo worker could get him.
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Reorientation
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Janet and Kevin ran to the door, too. Thomas was badly hurtand had to go to
the hospital, but after a few days he was better.The story was on the evening news
in Chicago. Some peoplecheered and others cried when they
heard it. But many of themthought about that mother gorilla and asked themselves, “What isshe doing in a zoo? What is the difference between a gorilla and me?”
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