A Recount Aims to Recall Past Events (To Give a True Record of What Happened). It Has 3 Parts

Recount A Recount aims to recall past events (to give a true record of what happened). It has 3 parts: 1. Setting – to tell the reader the basic information of the events e.g. date, time, place 2. Events in time order – to retell what happened in the order / sequence of the time in which the events happened 3. Evaluation – to tell the reader what you think or how you feel about the events

The following is an example of a typical recount text: Our School Sports Days. started The text tells you what happened (verb: past tense) on our school sports days. ended

Parts in the text Information Language use (Use the names of the 3 (write down the words used in the text to tell you the What are the 2 parts (Setting, Events in verbs used to information; the first one is an example for you) tell you this? time order, Evaluation) to What is the verb used to label each paragraph) tell you this information? were held Our School Sports Days st nd This year, our school sports days were held on 1 st and 2 nd Paragraph 1: 1. Date: ______on 1 and 2 January January at Ma On Shan Sports Ground from 9.00 to 4.00 Setting 2. Place: ______at Ma On Shan Sports Ground on both days. It started with the opening ceremony and 3. Time: ______from 9.00 to 4.00 ended with the closing ceremony. 4. First and last events: [we use prepositional phrases to tell date, time and opening ceremony place] closing ceremony The opening ceremony began with a parade by the four Paragraph 2: Subject Verb Object Other parts Houses: Red, Green, Yellow and Blue. Then everyone sang Events in time order Events (start with a verb): The opening began with a parade by the school song. Our Principal, Mr Chan, gave the 1. began with a parade ceremony … four houses 2. sang the school song

1 welcoming speech. Our Guest of Honour, the famous 3. gave the welcoming everyone sang the school athlete Sarah Lee Wai Sze, then gave her speech. She speech song encouraged us all to participate actively in sports for our 4. gave her speech Our principal gave the good health. (, Mr Chan,) welcoming speech Our Guest of gave her Honour (,the speech famous athlete Sarah Lee,)

Paragraph 3: Track events: sprints for Write down the prepositional phrase that starts the On the first day, we had both the track events and the Events in time order 60m, 100m, 200m, paragraph: On the first day field events. For track events, we had the sprints for 60m, 400m, 60m & 100m Write down the preposition phrases that introduce 100m, 200m and 400m; we also had the 60m and 100m hurdles the track events and the field events: hurdles. For field events, we had long jump, high jump, Field events: long jump, For track events, For field events shot put and discus. high jump, shot put, Write down the verb that tells you the track and discus field events: We had

Write down the prepositional phrase that starts the On the second day, we had the semi-finals and finals for Paragraph 4: Events: paragraph: On the second day most events. We also had the relay races and the friendly Events in time order 1. semi-finals and finals race between students and teachers. The champion of 2. champion came out Subject Verb Object Other parts each event came through. The Green House won the 3. relay and friendly races we had the semi-finals for most house cup this year. We also had two record breakers. 4. Blue House won and the finals events Simon Yu of 4D broke the school record in the boys’ 100m 5. 2 records broken We had the relay races

2 sprint at 11.5 mins. The old record was 11.8 min. Vincy and the friendly Lee of 5B broke the record for the girls’ 200m hurdles. races between students and teachers

The came champion of through each event The Green won the house this year House cup We had two record breakers Simon Yu broke the school in the boys’ of 4D record 100m sprint at 11.5 mins The old was 11.8 min record Vincy Lee broke the record for the girls’ of 5B 200m hurdles

Paragraph 5: Write down the prepositional phrase that starts the In the closing ceremony, medals and prizes were given. Evaluation paragraph: In the closing ceremony, We all felt tired but we were all happy as it was a holiday How did the writer feel (write 2 adjectives): the next day. tired, happy Write down the verbs that tell you how the writer felt: felt, were

3 The following table shows all the track and field events. Circle the ones that took place in your school’s sports days.

Track Field Sprints Middle-distance Long-distance Hurdles Relays Jumps Throws 60m 800m 5000m 60m hurdles 4 x 100m relay Long jump Shot put 100m 1500m 10,000m 100m hurdles 4x 400m relay High jump Discus throw 200m 3000m 110m hurdles Triple jump Hammer throw 400m 400m hurdles Pole vault Javelin throw

Choose 2 track events and 2 field events to write about. Remember there is also the student-teacher friendly race. Write about the number of heats, who participated, when it took place, who won etc. Start with a preposition phrase, for example: For the 60m sprint, we had 10 heats. Five heats were for girls and five heats were for boys. They took place in the morning on the first day. (Name of student) of (class) won the champion (OR A classmate in my class won the first runner-up).

1st track event chosen: ______2nd track event chosen: ______1st field event chosen: ______

4 2nd field event chosen: ______Now, write about your School Sports Day. Use what you have learnt (e.g. preposition phrases, verbs (past tense), a SVO sentence).

Our School Sports Day Write the paragraphs here: Setting [use a preposition phrase] Date: ______Place: ______Time: ______Other parts Subject (noun) Verb Object Other parts (adverb / (adverb / (past (noun) preposition phrase) preposition phrase) tense) This year, our school were sports days held

Events in time order The opening ceremony For each sentence: 1. First, write the noun for the event / people you want to write about (i.e. the Subject); 2. Then, write the verb for what happened / what they did;

5 3. Then write the Object and the other parts. Other parts Subject (noun) Verb Object Other parts (adverb / (adverb / (past (noun) preposition phrase) preposition phrase) tense)

The first day For each sentence, 1. First, write the prepositional phrase for the track/field event you want to write about in the first column; 2. Then, write the noun for the Subject (think of what you want to say about the event); 3. Then, write the verb for what happened; 4. Then, write the Object and the other parts. [You can also use the sentences you have written for the 2 track and 2 field events here.]

Other parts Subject (noun) Verb Object Other parts (adverb / (adverb / (past (noun) preposition phrase) preposition phrase) tense)

6 The second day Other parts Subject (noun) Verb Object Other parts (adverb / (adverb / (past (noun) preposition phrase) preposition phrase) tense)

Evaluation [write about how you felt] Other parts Subject (noun) Verb Object Other parts (adverb / (adverb / (past (noun) preposition phrase) preposition phrase) tense)

7 Word bank:

Sports day prizes: gold medal, silver medal, bronze medal, trophies Winners: champion, first runner-up, second runner-up, the best athlete of the year Adjectives to tell how you feel: exhausted, bored

[Do not include too many words. It’s more useful to encourage students to ask you for a word they do not know or to use a Chinese-English dictionary so that they are learning to use words that they want to use. When given a list of words that do not actually say what they want to say, they don't actually learn very much.]

General sports day vocabulary for reference: annual sports days, the programme, athletes, pitch, races / events, heats, three-legged race, blind fold race, sack race, tug of war, triathlon, pentathlon, (pledge to) the spirit of sportsmanship, team spirit, in the spirit of the Olympics, the guest of honour presides over the function, march past / parade, pistol shot, stop watch, the cheering team, baton, losers, referees, scores