Procedure text

Procedure Procedures help us do a task or make

something. They can be a set of instructions or
directions
Writing procedures When writing procedures you
should:

6. Place seed tray in warm, sunny

position (at least 25 deg. C).
7. Keep soil moist by watering gently
while seeds are germinating. Seeds
will germinate in approximately 10
- 14 days.

use command sentence in present tense eg spray

include technical terms when you need to eg friable
use words that tell the reader how, when and where
to perform the task eg fill, firmly.
Use the sample procedure to answer the following
questions.

Answer The questions:

1. What is the type of the text above?
2. What is the purpose of the text?
3. How many materials are in the text above?
4. How many steps are in the text above?
5. What should we do after spraying water to
moisten the seed bed?

How To Make Fruit Ice

1 List two words from the text that are written in present Ingredients :
tense.

Mango

Apple

Avocado

Strawberries
2 List as many words as you can that indicate how, when

Sugar

grape
and where the task should be carried out.
water

Jackfruit

Milk
Procedure: example This sample procedure is

Ice
labelled to show you the structure and language features
methods
:
of a procedure text.
1. First, Cut the fruit round or dice.
2. Then, Scratching the flesh of a melon.
title (aim,
3. Then, Boil sugar with water until cooked
purpose,
for about 30 minutes.
Germinating petunia seeds
goal)
4. Next, Put in serving glasses that have
been cut round pieces or dice.
Follow these instructions to germinate
5.
Then, Pour the sugar water, put ice cubes
pertunia seeds.
and put milk on ice fruit.
6. Last, put the decorations on the glass
You will need:
with a piece of strawberry on it.
Ingredients/ a packet of petunia seeds
materials and a seed tray or small pots
Answer The questions:
equipment
loamy friable soil or potting mix
1. What is the purpose of the text?
water
2. How many steps are in the text above?
fertiliser.
3. What should we do after boiling sugar with
water?
Steps/methoo 1. Fill seed tray with soil.
4. What is the synonym of Ingredients?
d
5. What is the synonym of methods?
2. Incorporate fertiliser into soil.
3. Scatter seeds on the surface of the
soil.
4. Cover seeds with a 3 mm layer of
soil. Press firmly.
5. Spray water to moisten the seed
bed.

Rearrange then identify the generic structure of the text

How To Make Egg and Lemon Soup

Materials:

3 pints chicken stock

Juice of 2 Lemons

3 oz rice
salt and pepper
4 eggs, well beaten
Steps:
1. Stir this mixture into the remaining stock in pan.
2. Add a little of salt and pepper.
3. Add rice and cook on low heat for fifteen minutes.
4. Mix together egg and lemon juice.
5. Cook gently for three minutes.
6. Put stock into a pan and heat until boiling.
7. Add three tablespoons of stock to the mixture and stir.