D.   Genre: Recount Texts

• Social function : to retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining
• Generic structure

– Orientation : provides the setting and introduces participants
– Events : tell what happened, in what sequence
– Re-orientation : optional-closure of events

• The Characteristics of Recount Text:
• Using the simple past tense, past continuous tense, past perfect tense, and past perfect continuous tense.
• Using the conjunctions, such as: then, before, after, etc.