English Grade 7

Lesson 5 Worksheet
Comparing Recounts
and Narratives
Component 1:
Short Review
MOST ESSENTIAL LEARNING
COMPETENCIES
• Use appropriate reading strategies to meet one’s purpose
(e.g., Scanning, skimming, close reading, etc.) (EN7RC-
IV-b-10)
• Determine the worth of ideas mentioned in the text
listened to (EN7LC-IV-g-8.2)
• Cite evidence to support a general statement (EN7RC-
IV-g-10.4)
• React to what is asserted or expressed in a text
(EN7RC-IIIe-2.1.7)
 Component 2:
Lesson Purpose
 RECOUNT
Recounts generally have 3 stages:
• Firstly, similar to a narrative, they begin with who is
involved, and when and where the events happen
(sometimes called an Orientation);
• Secondly, they then outline the sequence of events;
• Thirdly, and this an optional section, there may be a
comment on the events.
 Component 3:
Lesson Language
Practice
• Narrative (a spoken or written account of connected
events)
• Recount (give an account of an event or experience)
• Setting (where an even takes place)
• Crisis (time of intense difficulty or danger)
• Resolution (a solution to a crisis)
• Sequence of events (the order in which things
happen)
INSTRUCTION:

Read the questions from

the worksheet before
READING the STORY.
 A Day Visit
to
Yogyakarta
by Juan Salman
The Carabao and
The Shell
Q1.How can you tell that isfictional/made
up?
Q2.How can you tell that A Day Visit to
Yogyakarta is NOT fictional/made up?
Q3.How can you tell that The Carabao and
the Shell is a narrative?
Q4.How can you tell that A Day Visit to
Yogyakarta is a recount?
Q5. Look at the first paragraph of each text. In what
ways are they similar?
Q6. Look at the last paragraph of each text. How do
they compare?
Q7. Read the following statement about recounts and
narratives – do you agree with it? Give reasons
in a short paragraph in your Worksheet using the ‘The
Carabao and the Shell’ and ‘A Day Visit to
Yogyakarta’.
LESSON CONCLUSION
Q1.The focus of the lesson was on learning
about how recounts work. How has the
lesson helped you to understand the
difference?
Q2.Which questions were easy to answer?
Why?
Q3.What strategies did you use to answer
the harder questions?