E. Material

•   Text monologue / essay form simple recount

Last weekend, my friends and I went camping. We reached the camping ground after we walked for about one and a half hour from the parking lot. We built the camp next to a small river. It was getting darker and colder, so we built a fire camp.

The next day, we spent our time observing plantation and insects while the girls were preparing meals. In the afternoon we went to the river and caught some fish for supper. At night, we held a fire camp night. We sang, danced, read poetry, played magic tricks, and even some of us performed a standing comedy.

On Monday, we packed our bags and got ready to go home.

• In the recount text always use the past tense, past tense following explanation:

1.      Simple Past Tense

The ‘simple past tense’ is used to tell actions or situations in the past. In Unit 1 you learned the ‘simple past tense’ used in positive and negative sentences. In this unit you learn the ‘simple past tense’ in interrogative sentences. Here are the patterns.

1. Verbal Sentence.

S + V2 + O (positive sentence)

S + did + not + V1 + O (negative sentence)

Did + S + V1 + O (interrogative sentence)

Example:

§  Donita went to Jakarta yesterday.

§  Iman walked alone last night.

2. Nominal Sentence.

S + to be (was/were) + adj/adv/N  (positive sentence)

S + was/ were + not + adj/adv/N  (negative sentence)

Was/ were + S + adj/adv/N  (interrogative sentence)