Tujuan komunikatif : memberi petunjuk cara melakukan sesuatu melalui serangkaian tindakan atau langkah.
(Procedure; the communicative purpose is to tell the steps of making or doing something.)
Generic Structure: Goal/Aim – Materials/Tools – Steps/Methods
Language Features of Procedure text: Imperative form. ( examples: Cut, Pour, Don’t mix,)
Action verbs: turn, put, don’t mix
Connectives: (untuk mengurutkan kegiatan), examples: then, while.
Adverbials (untuk menyatakan rinci waktu, tempat, cara yang akurat), examples: for five minutes, two centimetres from the top.
Contoh:
SESAME DROP BISCUITS
Ingredients/Materials:
2 cups flour
1 ½ teaspoons baking powder
½ reaspoon each baking soda and salt
Butter or margarine
2 tablespoons sesame seed
1 cup buttermilk
Night Before:
In a large bowl stir together flour, baking powder, soda and salt.
2 knives or pastry blender cut in ½ cup butter until particles are fine .
Stir in sesame seed.
Next Morning:
Add buttermilk to flour mixture and stir with a fork just until mixed.
Drop by tablespoons on greased cookies sheet.
Bake in preheated 450 degrees oven until light brown. 12 to 14 minutes.
Serve at once with butter.
