Activity 3: Identifying the structure of a personal recount Read the text and answer the following questions :... Feedback: Structure of a personal recount.[r]
(1)A LESSON PLAN FOR
A LESSON PLAN FOR
TEACHING
TEACHING
PERSONAL RECOUNTS
PERSONAL RECOUNTS
Time allowance : 90 minutes
Grade : 10
Number of students: 45
Text type : Personal recount
Objective : By the end of the lesson, students will be able to
- know what a recount is,
- recognize its structure and language features
Supervisor : Dr Jennifer Tan
(2)Activity 1: Look at the picture and answer the questions
(3)Activity 1: Look at the picture and answer the questions
1 Have you ever seen a fire?
2 When did you see it?
3 Where did you see it?
4 Were you involved in? If you were tell us what happened. 5 Was it a frightening
experience?
6 How can you make people know your
(4)1.What is the text about?
2.Does it tell you what happened or what is happening? Why you know it?
3 Does it tell you when the event happened?
4 Does it tell you the details of the event?
5 Was the writer involved in the event?
6.Do you know the purpose of this text?
A frightening experience
It tells us what happened as the past tense is used.
Yes, it does
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Activity 2: Read the text and answer the following questions :
A frightening experience
Last year, I spent my summer holidays at the seaside hotel The hotel was modern and comfortable I had a wonderful holiday until the fire
It was Saturday evening and everybody was sitting in the discotheque (which was) on the ground floor It was crowded with people They were dancing and singing happily Suddenly we smelt smoke Soon after black smoke began to fill in the room Everybody started to scream in panic People ran toward the fire exits One door was blocked At this point many
people began coughing and choking Then, just we thought we had only minutes to live, the fire brigade arrived Firemen fought their way into the room and five minutes later everyone was safely out of the building Luckily nobody was seriously hurt
It was the most frightening experience in my life
Yes, it does.
To tell the reader when the event happened and give a description of the details
(5)Activity 3: Structure of a personal recount.
Read the text and answer the following questions. Activity 4: Identifying the language features
Read the text and complete the table. Activity 5: Emotive language
Put the words in the right column.
Activity 6: Jumped text (A camping trip)
(6)1.How many paragraphs can you find in the text?
2.Which paragraph is the introduction?
3.Which part of the text is the conclusion or personal
comments?
4.Which part of the text contains a series of events? 5 Underline the events How are they organized ?
Three paragraphs The first paragraph
The last paragraph
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A frightening experience
Last year, I spent my summer holidays at the seaside hotel The hotel was modern and comfortable I had a wonderful holiday until the fire
It was Saturday evening and everybody was sitting in the discotheque (which was) on the ground floor It was crowded with people They were dancing and singing happily Suddenly we smelt smoke Soon after black smoke began to fill in the room Everybody started to scream in panic People ran toward the fire exits One door was blocked At this point many
people began coughing and choking Then, just we thought we had only minutes to live, the fire brigade arrived Firemen fought their way into the room and five minutes later everyone was safely out of the building Luckily nobody was seriously hurt
It was the most frightening experience in my life
The second paragraph
In the chronological order
(7)Feedback: Structure of a personal recount.
The three-part recount
Part 1
An introduction
The first paragraph that gives the
background information about who, what, where and when
Part 2: Body (Sequence of events)
A sequence of events in the order in which they happened.
(Event 1, event 2, event )
Part
Conclusion
(8)Language features
Examples
1,Tense- verbs:(1)…… Spent, was 2.Use adjectives
3 Adverbs
4 Technical words
5.connectors to with time
6.Pronouns
Language features of a personal recount.
(9)Language features Examples
1,Tense- verbs:(1)past
tense. Spent, was, had, was sitting, were dancing,
2.Use adjectives modern, which was on the ground floor(3), wonderful
3 Adverbs Suddenly, Luckily ,seriously
4 Technical words fire brigade
5.connectors to with time
soon after, at this point, then , five minutes later
6.Pronouns Everyone, they, I
Language features of a personal recount.
(10)The use of connectors
To indicate the sequence of events and when they occurred
Other connectors
* next
* now * at this moment
* when * lastly
* following that * at this point * afterwards * before that * Meanwhile * soon after
(11)Activity 5: Emotive language
Words used in a recount can be emotive or neutral, depending on the writer’s emphasis to make people feel emotional. For example: a good holiday
(neutral)-a wonderful holiday (emotive) Work in pair Put each word in each word pair into the correct column
Pairs of words Emotive Neutral
New/ modern
Frightening/ terrifying Seriously/ badly
(12)Activity 5: Emotive language (feedback)
Pairs of words Emotive Neutral
New/ modern new modern
Frightening/ terrifying Frightening terrifying Seriously/ badly badly Seriously
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A camping trip
A We traveled by bus and arrived there at 5:30pm First, we set up our tent and had dinner at p.m The beach was full of people who also wanted to enjoy the fresh air
after their hard-working days After dinner, we walked along the beach and saw coloured lights from the big ships They looked like a marvelous floating city on the
sea.
B After an overnight camping trip, we felt tired but happy What a great time we had! C The next day, we got up at 7.30 am The morning in the sea was so pleasant with fresh air, blue sea, bright sunshine that we decided to cycle along the beach for
sight-seeing Along the way, we saw variety of green trees, plenty of turtles in a lake and group of people wind surfing After cycling for two hours, we felt so hot that all of us went swimming The cool water made us relax and we really felt comfortable Finally,
we set down the tent and caught a taxi home.
D Last weekend, we had an interesting overnight camping trip by the sea in VanDon E Then, we came back our tent at 9.30 p.m and played “silent action game” The member of each group is told about certain animal from the other group, the rest members could guess what it was At 11 p.m, we both roasted chicken and sweet
potatoes and told ghost stories We slept at 1.30 a.m
(14)Last weekend, we had an interesting overnight camping trip by the sea in Van Don
We traveled by bus and arrived there at 5:30pm First, we set up our tent and had dinner at p.m The beach was full of people who also wanted to enjoy the fresh air after their hard-working days
After dinner, we walked along the beach and saw coloured lights from the big ships They looked like a marvelous floating city on the sea.
• Then, we came back our tent at 9.30 p.m and played “silent action game” The member of each group is told about certain animal from the other group, the rest members could guess what it was At 11 p.m, we both roasted chicken and sweet potatoes and told ghost stories We slept at 1.30 a.m.
• Next day, we got up at 7.30 am The morning in the sea was so pleasant with fresh air, blue sea, bright sunshine that we decided to cycle along the beach for sight-seeing Along the way, we saw variety of green trees, plenty of turtles in a lake and group of people wind surfing After cycling for two hours, we felt so hot that all of us went swimming The cool water made us relax and we really felt
comfortable Finally, we set down the tent and caught a taxi home.
• After an overnight camping trip, we felt tired but happy What a great time we had!
(15)Consolidation: Things to remember when writing a personal recount
A personal recount
Structure Language features
An introduction
Sequence of events
Conclusion connectors
Pronouns Technical
words Adjectives
Adverbs
(16)Sequence of events
Write in paragraphs (1 or more)
Write about what happened
Use technical vocabulary
Write in chronological order
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