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Biographical Recount Text
 LEARNING OBJECTIVE
Students are expected to be able to :
• identify social functions, text structures, and language
features of biographical recount text
• develop a biographical recount text.
 BILL GATES
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He
is one of the world's richest people and perhaps the most successful Questions:
businessman ever. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft and 1. What is the video about?
turned it into the world’s largest software company. He is the best-
known entrepreneur of the PC revolution. He has also written two
best-selling books and started his own charity with his wife.
Gates was fascinated with electronics from a young age. In
2. What is the purpose of the
1975 he read about a small technology company. He contacted them video?
to see if they were interested in a computer program he had written.
This led to the creation of Microsoft. Gates later struck a deal with
IBM that put Microsoft's Windows on IBM computers. This deal 3. How does the writer start the
made Microsoft a major player in the IT industry.
Gates was in charge at Microsoft from 1975 until 2006. He
video?
was an active software developer at the beginning. He had a vision
that computers could change everyone’s life. He helped make this
vision come true and developed many products that are now part of
4. What kind of tense (s) is used
modern life. His management style has been studied and copied in the text?
around the world.
What is biographical recount text?
What is biographical recount text?

a detailed description or account of a person's life

and written by someone else, it is non-fiction text
THE FUNCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL RECOUNT
TEXT

What do you get after reading a

biographical text?
THE FUNCTION OF BIOGRAPHICAL RECOUNT
TEXT

• to inform by retelling past events and

achievements in a person's life
• to educate/ motivate the readers
 GENERIC STRUCTURE of the text
BILL GATES
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He is one of the world's richest people
and perhaps the most successful businessman ever. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft and
turned it into the world’s largest software company. He is the best-known entrepreneur of the PC
revolution. He has also written two best-selling books and started his own charity with his wife.
Gates was fascinated with electronics from a young age. In 1975 he read about a small
technology company. He contacted them to see if they were interested in a computer program he had
written. This led to the creation of Microsoft. Gates later struck a deal with IBM that put Microsoft's
Windows on IBM computers. This deal made Microsoft a major player in the IT industry.
Gates was in charge at Microsoft from 1975 until 2006. He was an active software developer at
the beginning. He had a vision that computers could change everyone’s life. He helped make this vision
come true and developed many products that are now part of modern life. His management style has
been studied and copied around the world.
 GENERIC STRUCTURE of the text

• giving the readers the background information of the

ORIENTATION person
• Containing narrated biodata such as full name, place and
date of birth.
• presented in chronological order
• part of the events or events experienced by the character
EVENTS • an explanation of a good story in the form of problem
solving, career processes, and various events that have been
experienced by the character

• A conclusion or a comment by the writer

RE-ORIENTATION • Telling about the contribution or the contribution of the person
(CLOSING) • views of the author of the character

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Language Features
 BILL GATES
William Henry Gates III was born on October 28, 1955. He is one of the world's richest people
and perhaps the most successful businessman ever. He co-founded the software giant Microsoft and
turned it into the world’s largest software company. He is the best-known entrepreneur of the PC
revolution. He has also written two best-selling books and started his own charity with his wife.
Gates was fascinated with electronics from a young age. In 1975 he read about a small
technology company. He contacted them to see if they were interested in a computer program he had
written. This led to the creation of Microsoft. Gates later struck a deal with IBM that put Microsoft's
Windows on IBM computers. This deal made Microsoft a major player in the IT industry.
Gates was in charge at Microsoft from 1975 until 2006. He was an active software developer at
the beginning. He had a vision that computers could change everyone’s life. He helped make this vision
come true and developed many products that are now part of modern life. His management style has
been studied and copied around the world.

Who is introduced in the text? what tense (s) is used in the text? What’s the characteristic of
biographical recount text?
 Language Features

A biographical recount uses specific names of

the people involved in the biography.
 Language Features

It is mainly written in simple past tense

Example:
He worked at McDonald's
He was born on October 28th, 1955
Habibie went to Christian Dago High School in
Bandung
 Language Features

A biographical recount describes events, so it uses many verb or

action verb

Example:
He continued his study in Germany.
She managed his business.
To Make your understanding clearer, please
do the exercise on LKPD 2 in a group
Are you ready for a project?
Do you have a favorite famous people?
Can you play Tiktok?
Let’s make a biographical recount text and film it using
Tiktok!!
 Timeline:

 Choose one of famous people.

 Find his/ her identity and life experience on the internet or
other possible resources.
17 November 2020 (Meeting 1)  Make a draft of your biographical recount text based on the
format on LKPD 3.
 Discuss it with the teacher
 
 Develop your draft independently at home and discuss it
17-18 Nomvember 2020 continuously to your teacher.
 Design a concept of Tiktok Video for your text
 Completing LKPD 4
 Create a Tiktok Video for your biographical Recount text
19 November 2020 Upload your video to Youtube and share the link to the

teacher.
 The things you should do today:
1) choose a name of famous people
2) Find his/ her identity and life experience on the
internet or other possible resources
3) Write your findings on LPKD 3
What have you learned today?
 • What made you curious today?
• What is the most interesting part of today’s learning?
• What is the most difficult thing of today’s learning?
• What will you do to overcome the difficulty you found?