Procedure text

Procedure text

Pernah kan kalian bantu ibu masak di rumah? Klo aku sih setiap hari (pede banget). Pasti kita nanya yang ini diapain, yang itu diapain, ya kan? Sama aku juga gitu kok. Nah ini nih gunanya kita belajar ma text yang satu ini yaitu procedure text. Selain itu, text ini juga berguna supaya kita bekerja sesuai dengan aturan yang berlaku atau cara kerja yang baik dan benar. Ga percaya? Please read the text below.


Procedure text is a text that is designed to describe how something is achieved through a sequence of actions or steps. It explains how people perform different processes in a sequence of steps. This text uses simple present tens, often imperatives sentences. It also uses the temporal conjunction such as first, second, third, then, next, finally, etc.

Generic structures of procedures text:
1. Goal or aim (title)
2. Material (not required for all procedural text. Besides using materials, some procedure text often using ingredients, utensils, equipment to do the instructions)
3. Steps (the action must be taken or a set of instructions to achieve the final purpose)

Language features of procedure text:
• Use of imperatives
(e.g.: cut, don’t mix)
• Use of action verbs
(e.g.: turn, put, mix)

• Use of connectives
(e.g.: first, then, finally)
• Use f adverbial phrases
(e.g.: for five minutes, 2 centimeters from the top)


Example of procedure text

Es Teler (Ice Fruit Cocktail with Condensed Milk)

Ingredients:
• 150 sugar
• 2 pandan leaves
• 50 ml water
• 400 gram ripe avocado, cut into 1 cm cube
• 400 gram ripe jackfruit, deseeded and cut into 1 cm cube
• 3 young coconut , meat scraped out
• Crushed ice
• Condensed milk

Steps:
1. Combine sugar, pandan leaves and water in small saucepan.
2. Heat for a few minutes until sugar dissolves.
3. Cool syrup.
4. Place generous spoonfuls of cube avocado, jackfruit, and young coconut into a serving bowl.
5. Add a little syrup to sweeten.
6. Top with crushed ice and drizzle on a condensed milk.
7. Serve immediately.