What is a Procedure Text?
- Procedure Text/Manual is a text that explain how to operate or use something.
- Procedure Text/TIPS is a text that explain how to do an activity.
- Procedure Text/Recipe is a text that explain how to make food or beverage.
In general, we can say that procedure text is a text that explains how to do something in sequence of actions.
Social Function or Purpose of a Procedure Text.
The social function of procedure text is to inform the reader about how to make, how to operate, and how to do something in a sequence of actions or steps and to explain steps/instructions to make/operate/do something.
Generic Structure of Procedure Text
~ Goal: states what is going to do.
(How to make Pancake)
~ Materials: Contain about things that we need to make/do something.
(the material to cook omelet are egg, onion, vegetable oil, etc)
~ Methods or Steps: is a series of actions to do or to make something.
(First, wash the tomatoes, onion, ...., second cut the onions becomes slice)
Language Features of Procedure Text
- Using Simple Present Tense
- 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..., ut the onion...., wash the cucumber....)
- Using adverbials (Adverb) to express detail the time, place, manner accurate, for example, for five minutes, 2 hours, etc.
- Using action verbs, e.g: make, ake, boil, cook
- Using connectives
For The Example:
How To Make Fruit Ice
Fruit Ingredients (you can adjust with any fruits):
Avocado, as desired
Watermelon, diced
Strawberry, cut it into 4
Pineapple, cut into small triangles
Melons, make a circle like a marble
Longan, remove the seeds
Papaya, diced
Mango, diced
Grape, halve
Soup Ingredients:
1 glass of boiled water
5 tablespoons of coco pandan syrup
1 sachet of white sweetened condensed milk
Shaved ice
How to Make:
Put all the fruit ingredients in a medium-sized bowl. Blend a glass of boiled water with condensed milk; then stir well and pour it into the bowl of fruits. Add some shaved ice and pour the coco pandan syrup over it. Sop Buah is ready to be served.
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