Match the topics below with the paragraphs (A-H).

There
is one extra topic.

 The accident
 His support team
 Before the accident
 His parents
 Road to recovery
 His children
 His achievements since the accident
 Everyday life
 Exercise and treatment
 a. accident to a person

1. injury (B)
b. damage to something

a. usual

2. remarkable (C)
b. surprising

a. very small

3. huge (C)
b. very big

a. strong will

4. determination (D)
b. intelligent

a. topic

5. issue (E)
b. trend

a. treatment for people with paralysis

6. research (E)
b. serious study to discover new ideas

a. admirable

7. Impressive (E)
b. dangerous
 a. survive

1. pull through (B)

b. walk

a. be afraid

2. give up (B)
b. stop fighting

a. continue

3. carry on (G)
b. like

a. live

4. deal with (H)

b. face and solve
NO Sentences Definition

1 Some rich people want to get out of paying taxes return

2 People emigrate to get away from dangerous situations like war arrest

3 The police picked up the man and his brother return someone to where they have come from

4 The woman is affraid to go back to her own country escape from

5 The police want to send her back avoid

 Thepurpose of a recount is to list and
describe past experiences by retelling
events in the order in which they
happened (chronological order).
 Personal recount
These usually retell an event that the
writer was personally involved in.
 Factual recount
Recording an incident, eg. a science
experiment, police report.
 Imaginative recount
Writing an imaginary role and giving
details of events, eg. A day in the life of a
pirate; How I invented...
 focuses on individual participants/events
 the recount has a title, which usually summarises
the text
 specific participants (Mum, the crab)
 The basic recount consists of three parts:
• the setting or orientation - background information
answering who? when? where? why?
• events are identified and described in chronological
order.
• concluding comments express a personal opinion
regarding the events described
 details are selected to help the reader
reconstruct the activity or incident (Factual
Recount)
 the ending may describe the outcome of the
activity, eg. in a science activity (Factual Recount)
 details of time, place and incident need to be
clearly stated, eg. At 11.15 pm, between Reid Rd
and Havelock St a man drove at 140 kms toward
the shopping centre (Factual Recount)
 descriptive details may also be required to
provide information, eg. He was a skinny boy with
a blue shirt, red sneakers and long tied back hair
(Factual Recount)
 includes personal thoughts/reactions
(Imaginative Recount)
 is written in the past tense (she yelled, it nipped, she
walked)
 frequent use is made of words which link events in
time, such as next, later, when, then, after, before,
first, at the same time, as soon as she left, late on
Friday)
 recounts describe events, so plenty of use is made of
verbs (action words), and of adverbs (which
describe or add more detail to verbs)
 details are often chosen to add interest or humour to
the recount.
 use of personal pronouns (I, we) (Personal Recount)
 the passive voice may be used, eg. the bottle was
filled with ink (Factual Recount)