Term 2, week 1

These flowers are from my garden.Do you know what they are?


Gday all and welcome back for Term 2!Did any of you go to Canberra for the Olympic torch relay? Or to the city on ANZAC day to see the march? What did you get up to during your 'free time'? It was a bit hard to do much outdoors though due to all that rain! Imagine, there haven't been as many consecutive wet April days since 1931! 13 in fact!The photos from our lunch turned out very well, didn't they? I hope you all remembered to bring some photos today so you can create your own bubbleshare after you've finished your work. If you forgot then you can use some of mine, ok?Today, I'd like you to write a recount of what you got up to during the last two weeks! Read below how to write a recount. Post it in your blog!Recount texts: The purpose of a recount is to inform or entertain by retelling past events or experiences. You can recount personal events, factual incidents or imaginary incidents.

The structure of the text is:

An orientation which tells about who, when and where the event or incident occurred.

The detailing of a sequence/list of events in the order in which they happened. Throughout, there may be some personal comment about the events.

Some language features of a recount are:

• mainly past tense verbs


• action/doing verbs ie walked/caught/saw/played/bought


• adverbial phrases ie on the way/in the city/on the train


• specific participants ie my friend/his daughter/our neighbours


• personal comment ie I really liked it/some people were a bit afraid


• details of time ie about two o'clock/after lunch/in the morning

You can have a look at some model texts to get some help/ideas. You can click on the link and read some recounts written by former AMEP students.

Happy blogging!