Classroom Activity: Recount Text Writing Diary

Skills : Writing

Genre: Recount Text
Context: Composing Diary

Task 1

Answer these questions and share with your partner!

1. What did you do yesterday morning?

2. What did you do last Sunday?

3. What did you do last night?

Task 2

Jodi is writing a diary. Read the text carefully and underline the past verb!

Monday, 26 September 2011.

I got up late this morning. It was 6.30. I took a bath in hurry. Without having breakfast, I left for school. 

I arrived at school at 07.30 at school. I knocked the door and said greeting. But, all my frieds were laughing. What happened? Oh my God! I brought my mother's bag. It's pink and full of flower painting. That was embarassing.

Check the answers: took a bathleftarrivedknockedbrought

Task 3

Study the following sentences!

• I got up late this morning.
• I took a bath in hurry.
• I left for school.

We call those three sentences simple past tense. We use past tense to talk about something in the past.

The pattern of past tense is: Subject + Past Verb

Task 4

Fill in the gap with a correct verb!

took - came - had - studied - visited

1. The minister of education our school yesterday.

2. I a bath very early. That was very cold.

3. They hard for final examination.

4. I late at school.

5. She big breakfast.

Check the answers: 1. visited2. took3. studied4. came5. had

Task 5

Write your diary. Take a look at Task 4 as the example.

Click here for the lesson plan: How To Teach Recount Text Writing