Saturday, December 8, 2012

GENRE: PROCEDURE

Read the following explanation about procedure text!
  1. Definition
Procedure text is a text tells how to do something.
  1. Social function
To describe how something is accomplished through a sequence of actions or steps.
  1. Generic structure
  • The goal of the activity
  • Materials needed to achieve the goal ( not required for all procedural texts )
  • Steps to accomplish the goal ( a series of steps oriented to achieving the goal )
  1. The language features :
  • Simple present tense
  • Imperative sentence
  • Temporal conjunctions ( first, second, then, finally, etc )
Note : procedure text sometimes only consists of goal and steps.\

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