My Horrible Experience; Contoh / Example a recount text

Let me remind you my experience during an earthquake last week. When the earthquake happened, I was on my car. I was driving home from my vocation to Bali.

Suddenly my car lunched to one side, to the left. I thought I got flat tire. I did not know that it was an earthquake. I knew it was an earthquake when I saw some telephone and electricity poles falling down to the ground, like matchsticks.

Then I saw a lot of rocks tumbling across the road. I was trapped by the rock. Even I could not move my car at all. There were rocks everywhere. There was nothing I could do but left the car and walked along way to my house, in the town.

When I reached my town, I was so surprised that there was almost nothing left. The earthquake made a lot of damage to my town. Although nothing was left, I thanked God that nobody was seriously injured.

Orientation; introducing the participant, using first person point of view, I was on the car las week.

Events; describing a series of event which happened. The car lunched to one side. Telephone and electricity poles was falling down, etc.

Re-orientation; stating the writer's personal note. Thanking God because nobody was seriously injured.

Using personal participant; I

Using chronological connectives; then, and, suddenly

Using linking verb; was, were

Using action verb; moved, left, walked, made, etc

Using simple past tense pattern; earthquake happened, I was on the car, my car lunched on one side, etc