THE SIMILARITY

•Have the same language feature: use past tense in the text
•Have the same purpose: retelling past events
•Both of the generic structure are almost the same
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 THE DIFFERENCE
NARRATIVE TEXT RECOUNT TEXT
• Orientation, complication, • Orientation, event, reorientation
resolution • Doesn’t have conflict but it tells
• Has conflict in the story series of events chronologically
• The time is not exact, commonly • Has precise time of the things
use “Once upon a time” happen

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VACATION AT THE BEACH
RECOUNT TEXT
Orientation:
Orientation:
Last
Last
week,
week, I and
I andmymy
friends
friends went
went
to to
thethebeach
beach after
afterschool.
school.WeWe used
usedpublic
public
transportation.
transportation. We We reached
reached thethe
beach
beachat at
4 P.M.
4 P.M. The Thebeach
beach was
wasbeautiful
beautifulandand
clean.
clean.
Events:
Events:
AtAtthethe
beach,
beach,it was
it was fun.
fun.
WeWeplayed
played football
football
in in
thethecoast
coast
line.
line.
After
After
that,
that,
wewe built
built
aa
castle
castlefrom
from
sand.
sand. In Inthethe
night,
night,
wewe made
madebonfire
bonfire together.
together. We Weroasted
roastedfish
fish
andand
squids
then
squids
we atethen
them.
we ate In the
them.
midnight,
In the midnight,
it was timeit was
to share
time our
to share
scaryour
stories.
scaryOnestories.
by one,
weOnetoldbyourone,
story.
we told our story.
Reorientation:
Reorientation:
AtAtthethe
morning,
morning, wewe went
wenthome.
home. It was
It was
a moment
a moment i never
i neverforgot.
forgot.

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QUEEN OF ARABIA
AND THREE SHEIKS
NARRATIVE TEXT
 Once upon a time there was a queen of Arabia named Maura. Maura is the most
beautiful lady who had many suitors. Almost of it counts had discarded one by one, until just
three sheiks reduced to the list. Those three were young and handsome. They were strong and
Orientation:
also rich. The queen was hard to decide who would be the only one being the best. (Orientation)
Last week, I and my friends went to the beach after school. We used public
One day in the night, Maura disguised herself and went to the sheiks’ camps near her
transportation. We reached the beach at 4 P.M. The beach was beautiful and clean.
castle. Maura had an idea to made a dinner for them, “would you like something to eat,
Events:
sheiks?” Asked her. The first gave her some left in the table over food. And the second one
At the her
gave beach, it was strange,
something fun. We some
played football in the
unappetizing coast
camel’s line.
tail. TheAfter
last that, we built
one who named a castle
hakim,
from sand.
offered the In the tasty
most night,meat
we made bonfireAfter
and tender. together. We roasted
the lovely occasion, fish
theand squids
queen left then we
the camp.
(Complication)
ate them. In the midnight, it was time to share our scary stories. One by one, we told our
story. Then in tomorrow, the queen invited those three sheiks to have a dinner at her castle.
She ordered as same as the foods which is given to queen yesterday. The first sheiks who
Reorientation:
gave all over the food get the same menu. And he ate all the menu by himself. The second one
At
whothegave
morning, we went home.
the unappetizing It was
camel’s a moment
tail get the samei and
never
ateforgot.
by himself. The third one , hakim,
get the same menu as he gave to the queen, but he didn’t want to eat it if all the people around
him could not get too. (Resolution)
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