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1. COMMUNICATIVE PORPOSE (social function)

   Is used to retell events for the purpose of informing and       entertaining.

2. GENERIC STRUCTURE

    a. Orientation

    Provides the setting and provides participles (giving   information    about who, where and when)

    b. Events

        To tell what happend in what squence

    c. Re-orientation

        Closure of event

3. LINGUISTIC FEATURES

    a. Focus on specific participants

    b. Temporal squence

        - On Sunday      - Next

        - First                - On Day

        - Then

    c. Time Connective

        - After               - And

        - Before

        - But

    d. Simple past tense

    e. Action Verb

        - Arrived            - Brought

        - Stayed              - Bought

    f. Adjective (to modify noun)

        - Beautiful           - Small

        - Funny               - Yellow

        - Birj