Procedure Text
Definition of Procedure Text
(1)Texts that explain how something works or how to use instruction / operation manuals e.g. how to use the video, the computer, the tape recorder, the photocopier, the fax.(2) Texts that instruct how to do a particular activity e.g. recipes, rules for games, science experiments, road safety rules.
(3) Texts that deal with human behavior, e.g how to live happilly.
The purpose of procedure text is to tell and explain the reader how to do or make something through a sequence of actions or steps.
Generic Structure of Procedure Text:
1. Goal/AimThis text contains about purpose of making or operating of something.
2. Materials/Equipment
Materials consist of ingredients that are used in making something. But not all parts of procedure text includes materials, sometimes a procedure text does not have materials section.
3. Steps/Methods
Contains the steps or sequences that must be done so that the objectives outlined in the aim/goal to be achieved. Steps or sequences must be a sequence from the first to the last.
Language Feature of Procedure Text:
– Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (e.g: first, second, third, the last)– Use command / imperative sentence (e.g : put the noodles on the . . ., cut the onion. . ., wash the tomatoes. . . )
– Using adverbials (Adverbs) to express detail the time, place, manner accurate, for example, for five minutes, 2 hours, etc.
– Using action verbs, e.g : make, take, boil, cook
– Using Simple Present Tense
Example :
How To Make Pancake
INGREDIENTS :
3 – 4 spoonful of flour
2 eggs
1 ½ (250 ml) of milk
1 stick of butter
MATERIALS :
1 mixing bowl
2 table spoons
2 cups
1 small pan
PROCEDURE :
Put the flour in the bowl.
Put milk in a cup.
Make sure it’s 250 ml of milk.
Put the milk in the bowl.
Break the 2 eggs into the bowl.
Mix it with a spoon.
Heat up the pan and put the butter
Put the mix in the pan.
Let the pancake mix cook about 5 minutes
Flip pancake over when the top is brown.
Your pancake its ready to be serve
