Recount Text

Answer the questions based on the reading task.

Mr. and Mrs. Charly were on a tour to Europe. They were traveling on a guided tour to five countries. They were going to travel through The Netherland, Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, and France for two weeks.
The guide for the tour was a Swiss. On the day of the travel the guide told them to check their passports, their traveler cheques, and their foreign cash. He told them to keep them safely. They traveled in a comfortable coach with a toilet, music, and video. The guide stopped the coach at many famous places. He explained the cultural importance of the places. They stayed in big hotels for the night and ate in the restaurants.
On the way, they stopped at small inns to eat lunch. In big towns, they went for shopping. They bought many souvenirs for their friends. They enjoyed the two-week tour.

1. The text is about ... .

1. traveling
2. shopping
3. tracking
4. visiting

2. Where were Mr. and Mrs. Charly touring ... .

1. Africa.
2. Europe.
3. America.
4. Australia.

3. The guide told them to check their immigration ... ., such as passport, visa, and exit

    permit.

1. papers
2. letters
3. records
4. documents

4. What is paragraph three about ... .

1. Shopping in big towns.
2. Staying in famous places.
3. Visiting interesting places.
4. Eating in big restaurants.

5. "They enjoyed the two-week tour". 

      The underlined word has the same meaning as... .

1. got bored with
2. got pleasure from
3. became addicted to
4. planned well became amazed at

(Taken from Prediksi 2, MATERI UAN AKSES MUTU 2011)

Recount Text

Purpose : To retell past experience
Generic Structure:
- Orientation
- Series of events
- Reorientation

Grammar in use:
- Simple Past Tense

Example :

 A Day Visit to Yogyakarta

Last week, I went to Yogyakarta with my family. My father drove the car. My mother sat beside him. My sister and I sat in the back seats.

We woke up early in the morning. My father prepared the car in the garage while mother was preparing food for breakfast and some snack for us. My sister and I packed some clothes. After everything got ready and we had our breakfast, we left the house at six o’clock.

It was about nine a.m. We arrived at Yogyakarta. First of all we visited our uncle. We stayed there for an hour. Then we went to Parangtritis beach. We got there at eleven. There were a lot of tourists there because it was a holiday. I saw many foreign visitors too. My parents watched us playing with sand in the beach. We did not swim and take a bath since the wave was rough. After having lunch, we went on our picnic to the museum and Malioboro shopping centre. We drove back to Semarang at 7 o’clock and arrived home at ten. We were tired but happy.

(Taken from SUKSES UN 2010)