Learning Tasks M 2 LA 2
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a. The orientation stage of a recount
orients the reader to the events in the story. It tells the reader who the story is about, where it happened and when the event occurred.
b. In the record of events stage, the
writer retells the events in
a logical time sequence so
that the reader can follow them easily.
c. In the re-orientation stage, the
writer rounds of the story and brings the reader back to the reason why the story is being
told.
2. Read again the text entitled ‘Fishing’. How many events are there mentioned in the text? List
them from the first to the last events.
There are five events in
the text entitled ‘Fishing’.
Record
of
Events
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Text : ‘Fishing’
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Event 1
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I woke up earlier in the morning, and then I went to the marketplace to buy some
shrimps I would use for the fishing
bait. After that, I went to the
lake to start fishing.
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Event 2
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At
the lake, I looked for the best point to
fish. I went to the
place under a big tree at the bank of the lake.
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Event 3
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I threw my hook as far as I could, and then I waited for the fish eating my bait. After about
a thirty-minute waiting, I felt that a fish ate my bait,
and it was true. I got a big fish. It was the
first big enough fish I got
in fishing. I got ten
big fish and three small fish that day. I was very happy.
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Event 4
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I
would cook those fish at home and then I would call my friends to come to my
house. We would have a small party.
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Event 5
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But I was not lucky enough because on
the way home, I met a beggar. He was an old poor beggar. I gave all of
my fish to him and I wish he would be happy getting those fish. Perhaps, he
could sell them at the market and got some money to buy some food
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3.
Read again the text entitled ‘Ballooning’, and then answer these questions
which are related to it:
a. Who firstly made a balloon?
The Montgolfier brothers made a
balloon firstly.
b. When did people fly freely by balloon
for the first time? And where?
The first free balloon flight was in
December, 1783. The balloon flew for 25 minutes over Paris.
c. What does ‘it’ in paragraph 1 refer
to?
It refers to the first air
transportation.
d. There are two words ‘they’ in
paragraph 1? Do they refer to the same thing?
Yes, they do. They refer to the same
thing. That is balloon.
e. How was the first balloon developed?
The first balloon was filled a very
large paper bag with hot air. Hot air is lighter than cold air, so it goes up.
f. What does ‘Flying a balloon is not
like flying a plane’ mean in paragraph 4?
It means that the balloon has no
engine and therefore no power of its own. The wind directs the balloon. It goes
where the wind blows although Balloon also needs pilot to control it. But,
flying plane is different. The plane has many features and has its own route.
The plane’s engines are designed to move it forward at high speed and pilot can
control and use the features for its purposes.
g. Why didn’t people gradually like
anymore to fly balloon?
They didn’t like to fly by balloon
anymore because planes were much faster and easier to control.
h. Why do some people still like to fly
by balloon today?
Because when they high up in the
balloon basket, they find quiet. They have a wonderful view of the world below.
i.
Why didn’t people stop flying by balloon although it was dangerous at the early
days?
Because ballooning was exciting
experience for them
j.
Summarize the text by making its
outline!
§ The first kind of air transportation
was a balloon.
§ The first real balloon flight was in
France in 1783 made by two Frenchmen, the Montgolfier brothers
§ Balloon was built by a fire under the
balloon to make the air hot.
§ The first free balloon flight was in
December, 1783.
§ Balloonists tried longer flights of
ballooning was the first long flight over water.
§ During the nineteenth century,
ballooning became a popular sport.
4. Read each paragraph. Working in pairs, decide on the best topic. Be sure your topic is
not too general
or too specific. Write the
topic below the paragraph!
a. Galileo Galilei was one of the first modern
scientists. He was
born in Pisa, Italy,
in 1564. At first, he studied philosophy,
but later he studied mathematics and astronomy. He was interested in the way the
earth and other planets move around
the sun. He found out several important
facts about our world. He also started a new way of working in
science. Before Galileo, scientists did not do experiments. They
just guessed about how something happened. Galileo was
different. He did not
just make guesses. He did experiments and watched to see what happened.
Topic: Galileo’s interest in science
b. Galileo is famous for his study of
how things fall. He was the first person to do experiments about this
problem. Before, people thought that heavy things always fell faster than
light things. He found out that this was not true. He took a heavy ball and a
light ball and he dropped them both from a high place. They fell at
the same speed. This meant that weight is not important. This is the law off
falling bodies. It is an important law for understanding our world.
Topic: The thing made Galileo famous
c. The life of a scientist was not
always easy in the 1500s. For example, Galileo got into trouble because of
his scientific ideas. His ideas were not the same as the religious ideas at the
time. Many religious people did not agree with him. During his whole
life he had to worry about this. He even went to prison for a while.
But no one could stop him from thinking. He continued to look for
scientific answers to his questions about the world.
Topic: Galileo got into trouble because of his scientific ideas
5.
Read this personal spoken recount by Tom Bass, a famous Australian sculptor. The
recount tells us about a particular incident when Tom discovered his talent for carving. On the left, mark the stage of orientation, record of events, and reorientation.
Orientation
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When I was 16 – that’d be in 1932 – my family lived in
St Peters and it was a very slummy part of St Peters and it was right in the
very heart of the depression and I’d realized I was an artist when I was 8
years old.
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Record of Events
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… one day my younger brother who was six or seven years
younger than me who used to play on the rubbish tip of the local foundry just
down at the end of the street came home with two pieces of what looked like
stone.
It turned out that … that what he’d brought home was
core-sand … that’s what they cast metal into and the way they used
to do it in those days – I don’t know if they do it now – but they used to
mix the sand with linseed oil and that would hold it together and then the heat
of the metal would fuse it all together … and it was dark and a beautiful
color and you know to all intents and purposes it looked like stone and I had
an impulse to try carving this because I’d been trying to do things of all
kinds but mainly drawing and things like that and we only had an old hammer
with broken handle and a funny old screwdriver and you know I started with
these …
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Reorientation
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I found myself having this amazing experience and
actually discovering I could carve. It just happened in that way.
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6.
In this recount, Tom has added another
stage of explanation
to the basic pattern. Use a
highlighter
pen to mark this stage. Why do you
think Tom added this stage to the basic pattern?
He
added carving to the basic pattern of the stone because he wanted to make it
more beautiful.
7.
Reread the orientation to Tom’s recount and write the words which tell you
where and when the incident happened.
a.
When : In 1932,
when Tom was eight years old.
b.
Where : In St.
Peters
8.
Number these events in Tom’s recount in the correct
order:
a.
I discovered that I could carve.
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3
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b.
It was an amazing experience.
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4
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c.
I started to carve with an old hammer with a broken handle and a funny
old
screw driver.
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2
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d. My
younger brother brought home some core sand.
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1
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Here is the good arrangement of the
text above and the generic structure of the text.
Orientation
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It was a hot summer day in Chicago. The Kemper family
decided it was a good day to go to the Brookfield Zoo. Janet and Kevin Kemper
had two children: Thomas, 3, and Sally, 6 months. Thomas loved going to the
zoo. He liked watching all the animals, but he especially loved the gorillas.
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Record
of Events
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The
Kempers went straight to the gorilla exhibit. There were six adult gorillas
and a three-moth old baby gorilla. In the Brookfield Zoo, the animals are not
in cages. They are in large areas dug out of the ground. These areas have
fences around them so the animals cannot get out and people cannot fall in.
But
three-year old boy are good climbers. While the Kempers were watching the
gorillas, little Sally started to cry. Kevin took her from Janet, and Janet
look in her bag for a bottle of juice. In those few seconds, Thomas climbed
up the fence.
A
woman saw him and shouted, “Stop him!” A tall man reached up to get him, but
it was too late. Thomas fell down the other side of the fence. He fell 18
feet onto the hard concrete floor. He lay very still, with blood on his head.
Janet and Kevin shouted for help. People crowded around the fence, and
someone ran to get a zoo worker.
But
before the zoo worker arrived, a gorilla went over Thomas. It was Binti Jua,
an eight-year mother gorilla. She had her baby gorilla on her back. With one
“arm” she picked up the little boy. She carried him carefully over to a door,
walking on three legs. There she put Thomas down so a zoo worker could get
him.
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Reorientation
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Janet and Kevin ran to the door,
too. Thomas was badly hurt and had to go to the hospital, but after a few
days he was better. The story was on the evening news in Chicago. Some people
cheered and others cried when they heard it. But many of them thought about
that mother gorilla and asked themselves, “What is she doing in a zoo? What
is the difference between a gorilla and me?”
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