Procedure Text

Procedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something.
Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence
of series. Communicative purpose of this text is to describe how something is made
through a sequence of actions or steps. There are three generic structures in procedure
text. The first is goals or purposes. The second is materials or tools. The third and the
last are steps or methods. To know the text that we read is procedure or not is so
simple. You can read the title if the title is started with how to make or how to use
it can be certainly that the text is procedure text.
Generic Structure of Procedure Text
1.Goal: showing the purpose
2.Material: Telling the needed materials
3.Step 1-end: Describing the steps to achieve the purpose
Language Feature of Procedure Text
Using temporal conjunction
Using action verb
Using imperative sentence
Using Simple Present Tense
An example of procedure text:

How to make sambal korek.

Do you like spicy? Most of Indonesian people like sambal. They usually eat rice,
fish, or another menu mix with sambal. Sambal korek is one of the famous sambal in
Indonesia. To make this sambal is so easy. It takes ten minutes to prepare these
ingredients.
Ingredients: seven pieces of red chilli, two cloves of garlic, and one tablespoon of salt.
Steps:
The first is you have to wash the chilli. Then, you peel and wash the garlic. Put all the
ingredients in your blender, including the salt. Add a little of water. After that, you can
blend them all in two minutes. Do not blend them too creamy. The last is, put the
sambal into the small bowl. It is really good if served with hot rice and fried fish.

How to Plant Bean Seeds

Material

Pot
Soil
Water
Bean Seeds
Labels or paddle pop sticks
Waterproof pen
Instruction

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Level the soil off neatly with your hand.

Fill the pot with soil.
Make three holes with your finger in the middle of the soil.
Place one bean seed in each soil.
Cover the bean seeds with soil.
Water the plant.

Write your name, date and Green Beans on the paddle pop stick with waterproof pen.
Now you can grow bean seeds.

Answer the following questions!

1.

What is the main purpose of the text?

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2.

Mention the generic structure of the text!

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3.

How many steps to plant bean seeds?

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4.

Mention the verbs used in the text!

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5.

How do you call for such verbs above?

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6.

What tense does the text use?

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7.

Do the steps written in sequences!

8.

Do you find the temporal conjunction in the text?

KUNCI JAWABAN :
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to describe how to plant bean seeds

goal, materials, steps

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seven steps
level, fill, make, place, cover, water, write
action verbs
present tense
yes, they do
No, I dont

9. How to Make Brownies

Ingredients
150gram of butter.
150gram of dark chocolate.
300 gram of flour
4 eggs.
600 gram of regular sugar
1 tsp vanilla extract
Steps
1. Melt the chocolate with the butter.
2. Stir the eggs with the sugar and the vanilla extract.
3. Preheat the oven at low temperature
4. Combine the mixes you made.
5. Add the flour and stir with a wooden spoon.
6. Grease a brownie tin.
7. Add a little flour to cover the tin.
8. Add the brownie dough.
9. Bake for 10-30 minutes.
10. To check the brownies, put a knife in the mix. The knife must be moist!
11. Eat them 15 minutes after you took them out of the oven.
10. (Adapted from wikihow.com)
Glossary
Butter (n)
Mentega
flour (n)
Tepung
Melt (v)
Lelehkan
Stir (v)
Aduk
mixes (n)
Adonan
Grease (v)
Lumasi, minyaki
Tin (n)
Panci
Dough (n)
Adonan
Bake (v)
Panggang
Knife (n)
Pisau
Moist (adj)
Basah
11. 1. How much flour do you need to make brownies?
12. Answer key: I need 300 gram to make brownies.
13. 2. What is the first thing to do when making brownies?
14. Answer key: melt the chocolate with the butter.
15. 3. What should you do before combining the mixes?
16. Answer key: preheat the oven at low temperature
17. 4. What should you do after greasing a brownie tin?
18. Answer key: add a little flour to cover the tin.
19. 5. According to text, how many steps are there to make brownies?
20. Answer key: there are 10 steps to make brownies.
21. 6. According to the text, is it difficult to make brownies?

22. Answer key: no, it isnt. It is implied in the passage that making brownies is not
difficult.
23. 7. What is the purpose of the text?
24. Answer key: the purpose of the text is to accomplish how to make brownies.
25. 8. Eat them 15 minutes after you took them out of the oven.
26. The underlined word refers to.
27. Answer key: the underlined word refers to brownies.
28. 9. Grease a brownie tin.
29. The underlined word could best be replaced by.
30. Answer key: the underlined word could be replaced by oil.
31. 10. The knife must be moist.
32. What is the antonym of moist?
33. Answer key: the antonym of moist is dry.