Procedure Text
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Name : Adam Muchammad B.
Ade Rahma Rucitra.
Number : 01 & 02
School : Senior High School 1 Magelang
1. The Definition Of Procedure Text
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 tense, often imperative sentences. It also uses the temporal
conjunction such as first, second, then, next, finally, etc.
The generic structures of procedure text are :
Goal/aim ( or title)
Materials (not required for all procedural texts)
Steps (the actions that must be taken)
Other definition:
A procedure is a specified series of actions or operations which have to be executed in the same
manner in order to always obtain the same result under the same circumstances (for example,
emergency procedures). Less precisely speaking, this word can indicate a sequence of tasks,
steps, decisions, calculations and processes, that when undertaken in the sequence laid down
produces the described result, product or outcome. A procedure usually induces a change. It is in
the scientific method.
2. Language Features of Procedure Text
a) Use adverbial of sequence / Using temporal conjunction (e.g: first, second, third, the last)
b) Use command / imperative sentence (e.g : put the noodles on the . . ., cut the onion. . ., wash
the tomatoes. . . )
c) Using action verb
d) Using Simple Present Tense
3. Generic Structure of Procedure
Goal : It is containt the purpose of the text. (e.g : How to make spagheti)
Material or Ingredient : it is containt of the materials that used in the process. (e.g : the
material to cook omelette are egg, onion, vegetable oil, etc)
Step : it is containt of the steps to make something in the goal. (e.g : first, wash the
tomatoes, onion, ...., second cut the onions becomes slice. . . )
4. Social Function
Its social function is to describe how something is completely done through a sequence of
series.A particular course of action intended to achieve a result. Or To help us do a task or make
something. They can be a set of instructions or directions.