1. GENRES Factual Genres Procedures Explanation Report Description
Exposition
Discussion
Story Genres
Narratives
News Story
Exemplum
Anecdote
Recount

2. RECOUNT Personal letters to friends are often recounts of experience.
To retell events for the purpose of informing or entertaining.
Events are usually arranged in a temporal sequence. Interpersonal meanings occur scattered throughout a text, if they are there at all.
Recounts are used in most subjects to show memory of a series of events as in accounts of a Science excursion, everyday life in another time or culture.
Personal letters to friends are often recounts of experience.

3. GENERIC/SCHEMATIC STRUCTURE OF A RECOUNT
Orientation : Provides the setting and introduces participants
Events : Tell what happened, in what sequence.
Event 1
Event 2
Event 3 etc
Re-orientation (optional element) : Closure of events.

4. on the incident (e.g. we had a wonderful time.). (Derewianka, 1990)
The focus of a recount is on the sequence of events, all of which relate to a particular occasion. The recount generally begins with an ORIENTATION
giving the readers/listeners the background information needed to understand the text (i.e. who was involved, where & when it happened) Then the recount unfolds with a SERIES OF EVENTS
ordered in a chronological order/sequence. At various stages there may be some PERSONAL COMMENT
The focus of a recount is on the sequence of events, all of which relate to a particular occasion.
on the incident (e.g. we had a wonderful time.). (Derewianka, 1990)

5. LEXICO GRAMMATICAL FEATURES
Focus on individual participants
Use of past tense
Focus on a temporal sequence of events
Use of material (or action) clauses
LEXICO GRAMMATICAL FEATURES

6. TYPES OF RECOUNT RECOUNT FACTUAL RECOUNT PERSONAL RECOUNT
IMAGINATIVE RECOUNT

7. Personal Recount Use of first person singular
Personal responses to the events can be included, particularly at the end.
Details are often chosen to add interest or humor.

8. Factual Recount Use of third person Pronouns
Details are usually selected to help the reader reconstruct the activity or incident accurately
Sometimes the ending describes the outcome of the activity (e.g. in a science experiment)
Mention of personal feelings is probably not appropriate
Details of time, place and manner may need to be precisely stated.
Descriptive details may also be required to provide precise information
The passive voice may be used
It may be appropriate to include explanations and justifications

9. Imaginative Recount Usually written in the first person.
It may be appropriate to include personal reactions.

10. To look at various types of plants in different areas
Recount Project
Plant Observation
To look at various types of plants in different areas

11. What was found at the places visited
Excursion Program
What was found at the places visited
Recount of the trip

12. Preparation Get the terminology of Recount
Give models (read different types of recount)
Pin the printed text as models

13. Going on Excursion
Prepare a video camera
SS take notes
SS make sketch

14. After Excursion
SS share oral recount to friends with a sequence of pictures
Ask guiding questions to help students write
SS write own recount.

15. SAMEPHOONS