Analyzing and comparing personal recount text and biography
Name: Sally Sherina Slamet
Grade: 10A
No Question Personal Recount text
1 Generic Structure
a. What’s in Introduction of what the text
orientation part? is going to be (the main idea
of what the text is)
Introduction to the activity
they did, the location, and
who the writer did the
activity with.
b. What’s in events The writer explains and
part? describe the series of event
that happened in the past.
(The activity that the writer
experience in the location
they go to)
c. What’s in re- Describe the last day of the
orientation part? events and a personal
comment about the event
about what happened in the
past.
2 Kinds of vocabulary
a. What is the Recount text is more about
difference text that tells story (detailed)
between the about what happened during
kinds of a specific occasion in the past
vocabularies in and only in that period-of-
personal recount time. It not as complicated
and biography? and complete as biography
and tend to be more informal.
b. Example of - On the first day, I was
personal recount landed at Incheon
text Airport around 7 AM
vocabularies after a 6 hours long
flight.
c. Example of - Went to learn how to
biography make kimchi and see
vocabularies scenery of Seoul from
Seoul Tower.
Biography
The writer introduced the figure’s
name, his birthdate, the date he died,
his profession and what he’s doing in
life (what he was known for)
The writer begins to tell story about
the figures journey, from childhood,
school year, work life, achievements,
and how did the figure become who
he's known for and what he did.
Describe what had happen to the
figure, what he did, and how he
manage to reach his goals.
Biography is more about what
historical story does someone famous
has from their life’s. In biography,
vocabulary is used to tell facts from a
person’s life, for example in this
biography there’s where they from,
where they grew up, when they
became famous, and tend to be more
formal.
- Nevertheless, Habibie got more
than $400 million for
refurbishing.
- Habibie believed his enterprises
ultimately would spawn high-
tech ventures in the private
sector and allow the country to
climb the technology ladder.
- In 1993 he unveiled the first

3 Ideas Organization
a. What did the - They went to holiday
writer tell in the - Where they went (Seoul)
first paragraph? - With whom the writer
goes with (Their friends)
b. What kinds of - On the first day they
information that landed on the airport
the writer tells - They went to the hotel in
as the content of Seoul by train
the writing? - They eat traditional
Korean food
- The next day they went
to the national museum
- Learn how to make
kimchi
- Went back to the hotel
Indonesian-developed plane,
which he helped design, and in
the following year he launched
a plan to refurbish more than
three dozen vessels bought
from the former East German
navy at his initiative. 
- The figure’s name is B.J Habibie
(Bacharuddin Jusuf Habibie)
- He was born on June 25th, 1936,
Parepare, Indonesia
- Died on September 11th, 2019,
Jakarta
- B.J Habibie was the president of
Indonesia
- An engineer and politician
- Habibie is brilliant and received
his postsecondary education at
the Bandung Institute of
Technology
- In 1960 remained in West
Germany as an aeronautics
researcher and production
supervisor.
- He helped build advanced
industries Initially assigned to
the state oil company, Pertamina,
Habibie became a government
adviser and chief of a new
aerospace company in 1976.
- Two years later he became
research minister and head of the
Agency for Technology
Evaluation and Application.
- In 1993 he unveiled the first
Indonesian-developed plane
- In 1990 he was appointed head
of the Indonesian
Muslim Intellectuals Association
, and during the 1993 central-
board elections of the country’s
ruling party, Golkar,
- By the late 1990s he was viewed
as one of several possible
successors to the aging Suharto.
- In March 1998 Suharto
appointed Habibie to the vice
presidency, and two months
later, in the wake of large-scale
violence in Jakarta, Suharto
 announced his resignation. 
- He granted amnesty to more than
100 political prisoners.
c. How did the - They spent the last day in - In 1999 announced East Timor,
writer end the Myeongdong and bought had been invaded by Indonesia
writing? souvenirs then ate street - Later that year Habibie ran for
food there president, but he withdrew his
- Goes back to the airport candidacy shortly before the
- The writer told us they October election, which was won
had a fantastic by Abdurrahman Wahid.
experience and end it - Wahid took office, then Habibie
with how the whole essentially stepped out of
holiday was by telling it politics, although in 2000 he
was a great trip. established the Habibie Center, a
political research institute.
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