Procedure Text
Procedure Text
Generic
About
Structure
Lang
Example
Feature
Exercise
What is Procedure Text?
Types of Procedure
Texts that instruct how to do a particular Generic
activity : recipes, rules for games, science About
Structure
experiments, road safety rules.
Texts that instruct how to operate things :
how to operate an appliance, a machine, Lang
Example
the photocopier, the computer Feature
Goal or aim
States what is to be done/showing the Generic
About
purpose. Structure
Materials :
1 large ripe banana
200 ml milk
Generic
100 ml heavy cream About
50 gm caster sugar
Structure
Steps:
Lang
1. Mash the banana in a food processor until Example
Feature
smooth.
2. Mix in the milk, heavy cream and sugar.
3. Pour the mixture into ice-cream maker and Exercise
freeze it according to the manufacturer's
instructions, about 20 minutes.
4. Once the ice cream has been formed in the ice
cream maker, it would be quite soft in texture.
5. Transfer to an air-tight plastic container and
place in the freezer for several hours until the
ice-cream is frozen. Or you might like to have it
after freezing for an hour or so.
Exercise
Answer this question based on both example
above !!
Generic
About
1. What kind of text above? Structure
2. What is the social function of each
example?
Lang
3. What is the generic structure of each Example
Feature
example?
4. What are the action verb that
mention in each example? Exercise
5. Mention the imperative sentences
that exist in each example !