PROCEDURE TEXT

• Purpose To help us do a task or make something. They can be a set of instructions or directions.

 • Text Organization

1. Goal (the final purpose of doing the instructions)

2. Materials (ingredients, utensils, equipment to do the instructions)

3. Steps (a set of instructions to achieve the final purpose)

• Languange Features

- Use of imperatives. e.g: cut, don't mix

- Use of action verbs e.g: turn, put, mix

- Use of connectives e.g: first, finally, then, ...

 - Use of adverbial phrases e.g: for five minutes, 2 centimeters from the top.

• Example of Procedure Text

How to cook rice

 1. well, to cook rice you will need some rice and water. Now, let me tell you steps of cooking rice.

2. First, wash some rice in cold water. Like this.

3. Second, put the rice with some water in a pot.

 4. Then, boil and cool it slowly for about 20 minutes. (After 20 minutes) see, there is no more water now.

5. After that, put the rice to the simmer and steam it for about 45minutes.

6. Now, the rice already to be served