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1. Warming-Up
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Look at the picture and answer the following questions.
1. Do you have an interesting experience?
2. Tell me about your interesting experience.
3. What did you feel at that time?
4. What did you get from that experience?
Let’s Start
Task 1
Your teacher will play the video and answer the following questions based on the video.
1. Who are the characters of the story?
2. Who did the writer meet?
3. What did the writer get from the person?
Task 2
Your teacher will play the video. Work in group, pay attention to the video and guess the story of the
video. The following words may help you.
Flute (……..): Desperate (……):

2. Support (……): Train (……):
Play (…….): Amazing (……):
Task 3
Work in groups, read the text below and answer the following questions.
1. What is the purpose of the text above?
2. How many clubs did the writer joined?
3. Where did the writer and his club have lunch?
4. What was the score of the final game?
5. What did the writer and his club feel?
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Task 4
Pay attention to the following notes.
The text above is a recount text telling about ‘what happened’. The purpose of the story is
to tell a series or sequence of events. It has the expressions of attitude and feeling, usually
made by the writer about the events.
Paragraph Parts of Recount Text

3. When I was in the Junior High School, I Introduction:
• Who
joined two clubs. They were the Football Club
• When
and the Karate Club. I joined those clubs
• Where
because I love sports, especially football and
What
karate. I had football on Sunday mornings and
Karate on Mondays at 4 p.m. One day my
football club joined a football competition.
The competition is very challenging. There Order:
1. What happened first?
were eight clubs joining the competition. At
2. What happened next?
first, our club won the match. Then, we had to
3. What happened last?
defeat one club to get to the final.
Fortunately, we won again. After those two
Use “Connecting Words” to show the order of
matches, we had lunch in the cafeteria. We events.
were so impatient to play in the last game. It
was the hard one because our opponent was
very strong. Finally, we won the game with a
nice score of 3-2.
We were so tired. However, we were happy The end:
• What was the last thing that happened?
and proud to be the winner of the
How did it finish?
competition. It was a very interesting
competition in my experience.
Your teacher will play the slide show. Pay attention to the grammar.

4. Task 5
Read the text in Task 4 once again and find the meaning of the following words based on the
context. Work in groups.
joined (…..):…………………………
competition (….): …………………..
challenging (…..): …………………
match (…..): ……………………….
cafeteria (….):………………………
proud (….): …………………………
Task 6
Work in groups to correct the verbs in brackets below.
Last Friday we (go) to the museum. There (are) four people in my group. We drove to the train
station and caught the 8o’clock train. When we got off the train it (is) pouring with rain.
First we met our museum guide. He took us into the dinosaur exhibition. They (are) only
pretend dinosaurs and the walls were fake but they looked awesome and made loud, scary, roaring
noises. Next Mr. Smith took us to where the games were. First my group (play) Hidden Tomb. It (is)
very easy. All you (have) to do was to follow the clues to get through the pyramid maze. I found the
first tomb.After that we went into a room to have our lunch while we watched a video about mummies.
Mr. Assiz gave us a sheet to do. When we finished we went to see real mummies.
When we (return) to school it was time to go home. I (love) going to the museum. It (is) a very
interesting experience.
Task 7
Work in groups to analyze the recount text below. Use the form provided by your teacher.
Paragraph Parts of Recount Text
Introduction:
• Who

5. • When
• Where
What
Order:
4. What happened first?
5. What happened next?
6. What happened last?
Use “Connecting Words” to show the order of
events.
The end:
• What was the last thing that happened?
How did it finish?
Task 8
Go to this website (http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/writingfun/writingfun.html) to
find out more information about the recount text. Work in groups to report what you get from
the website. Use the worksheet provided by your teacher.

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Let’s Practice
Task 9
Work in groups to make a recount text based on the jumbled pictures below. Pay
attention to the following rule:
• First, arrange the jumbled pictures into a good order.
• Second, write down a story based the pictures.
• Third, present your groups’ work in front of the class. The other groups should pay
attention to the presentation and give comments to it.

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Let’s Do More Practice
Task 10
Now think of your most interesting experience,
write it like a diary entry and make it interesting.
The following questions may help you.
1. What was it?
2. Who was in your experience?
3. When and where did it happen?
4. How did it finish?
Task 11
Post your writing in the blog provided by your teacher. Correct your writing based on your teacher’s
comments in the blog.