procedure text

PROCEDURE TEXT

What is procedure text?

Procedure text is a text that explains or helps us how to make or use something. 

What is the function & purpose?

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.

Generic structure?

There are three generic structures in procedure text: 

1. goals or purposes. 

2. materials or tools. 

3. 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.

Now watch the video below and make questions based on it!