The last day of semester 1 academic year 2008/2009

Hopefully all students are ready to face the last examination in semester 1. The semester will be ended by giving report marks/grades to the students' parents. It will be done on 20 December 2008. After that students will have holidays for two weeks and we will meet again in January 2009. Have a nice holiday and happy new year. I do hope in 2009 we will get everything better than in 2008.
Don't forget for the students in grade 8 that the materials for English end of semester 1 test are 50% from your book, so please read your book anywhere you are and the other 50% is your knowledge of English. If you read a lot of English books, magazine, newspaper, poems, stories, novels they will help you very much. I do believe that you will get mark up to 8. For writing section you will have to arrange jumbled words, jumbled sentences, completing a paragraph, definition and making a short composition about what you did on the day before at least 25 words. It is very simple, isn't it? OK, good luck May GOD bless you all

RECOUNT TEXT

What is it?
-It is a text that tells us about what had happened in series of events in sequence.

What is the function?
-To tell an event in the past time chronologically

What is the generic structure of recount text?
-Orientation
-Series of events
-Reorientation

What is in Orientation?
-In orientation the writer at least introduces the main character(s), the location and the time. To make it easier we can answer the questions:
*Who involved in the story?
*Where it happened?
*When it happened?

What are in series of events?
-In series of events the writer writes the events chronologically. It begins from the first event, followed by the second event to the the last event. The sum of events depend on the creativity of the writer.

What is in reorientation?
-In reorientation the writer draw a conclusion or gives comment about the story. Not all recount text closed by reorientation. It is optional.

Have a nice try in making a recount text