Procedure Text

PURPOSE

Procedures help us do a task or make something. They can be a set of instruction or direction

GENERIC STRUCTURE
1. Goal : Title of the text (especially for a recipe)
2. Materials : Optional, not for all procedural texts
3. Steps : a series steps oriented to achieving the Goal

LANGUAGE FEATURES

• The use of Simple Present Tense, often in an imperative form e.g. Add some sugar, prepare it,.
• The use mainly of temporal conjunction (or numbering to indicate sequence especially in written text)

a. As the sentence introducers (sequencers) especially in spoken text:
First … Firstly …
Second … Secondly …
Then … Thirdly …
After that … Afterwards …
Finally … Lastly …
e.g. Firstly, prepare some water!

b. As time introducers, especially in written text
… before …
After …
When …
While …
… until …
During …
e.g. While you are boiling the water, grind the chilies, onions and salt


Example of Procedure Text / Contoh Procedure Text 
SAMPLE.1.

How to activate a Handphone

Nowadays, we need a handphone to connect to our colleagues. We can get it easily in the shop. When we buy it we shall get a handphone, a SIM card, a battery and a charger

steps:
This is the way to activate the handphone:

• First, open the cover of the handphone
• Second, insert the SIM card after being installed
• Third, insert the battery inside
• Fourth, close the battery with a cover of handphone
• Fifth, connect the lead from the charger to the bottom of the phone.
• Sixth, connect the charger to an AC wall outlet. Charging the battery supplied with the phone may take four up to six hours.
• Seventh, when the battery is fully charged, the bar stops scrolling. Disconnect the charger from the AC outlet and the phone. Then, we are ready to make a phone call.

SAMPLE.2.

How to boil an egg

Do you know how to boil an egg? Well, this is the way!

steps:

• First, heat a saucepan of water on the stove.
• Then put the egg in the boiling water.
• After that, heat it until it boils.
• Next, cook it for three minutes.
• Don’t leave the eggs until it gets burnt.
• Now, the egg is ready to serve.
• Finally, serve it with pepper powder and salt

Sources:

Cahyono, Kristiawan Dwi and Eka Purnama.2006. Communicative Competence 2B: A course in Acquiring English Communicative Competence, For Senior High School Level, Grade XI Semester 2. Jombang: CV Karunia Agung

Sudarwati and Eudia Grace.2007. Look Ahead: An English Course for Senior High School Students Year I, Science and Social Study Program. Jakarta: Erlangga