Daily Test 2 - Procedure Text - Grade 9

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How to Repel Mice

Mice might look cute, but they can be harmful pets that destroy household items, eat and mess with food and can spread severe diseases through their feces and parasites they carry. Here are some useful tips on how to repel house mice:

1. Use peppermint, put the peppermint near wall corners.

2. Pour generous amount of peppermint oil on cotton balls.

3. Place the saturated cotton balls on areas where mice are possibly seen-around counter tops, under the sofas in your living room.

4. Put them behind shelves, wall corners or on the floor beneath your kitchen sink.

Why do we use peppermint to repel mice? Because . . . .

• Peppermint is fresh to breathe

• Mice love the peppermint

• Mice will die of breathing mint

• Mice hate the smell of peppermint

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How to Repel Mice

Mice might look cute, but they can be harmful pets that destroy household items, eat and mess with food and can spread severe diseases through their feces and parasites they carry. Here are some useful tips on how to repel house mice:

1. Use peppermint, put the peppermint near wall corners.

2. Pour generous amount of peppermint oil on cotton balls.

3. Place the saturated cotton balls on areas where mice are possibly seen-around counter tops, under the sofas in your living room.

4. Put them behind shelves, wall corners or on the floor beneath your kitchen sink.

"Put them behind shelves ..." (Step 4)

The word "them" refers to . . . .

• Pets

• Peppermint

• Cotton Balls

• Peppermint Oil

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How to Repel Mice

Mice might look cute, but they can be harmful pets that destroy household items, eat and mess with food and can spread severe diseases through their feces and parasites they carry. Here are some useful tips on how to repel house mice:

1. Use peppermint, put the peppermint near wall corners.

2. Pour generous amount of peppermint oil on cotton balls.

3. Place the saturated cotton balls on areas where mice are possibly seen-around counter tops, under the sofas in your living room.

4. Put them behind shelves, wall corners or on the floor beneath your kitchen sink.

From the text above, we can conclude that . . . .

• Mice spread severe diseases through feces

• Peppermint is useful to repel mice

• Mice love peppermint

• We can place oil everywhere to repel mice

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Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

3 pound, whole fried chicken

6 to 8 cups of water

1 diced garlic clove

1 cup of sliced onion

1 cup of sliced celery

½ cup of sliced carrots

2 cup of chopped leeks

3 tablespoons of fresh chopped parsley

Freshly ground black pepper

Pinch of salt

Method:

Rinse the chicken.

Place the chicken in a bowl and add vegetables, and enough water to cover them. Put the bowl into an oven and boil over medium-high heat.

Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered for 90 minutes. Remove the chicken from the heat. Serve the steaming hot chicken, garnished with parsley, salt and ground black pepper.

What is the purpose of the text?

• To describe about the chicken soup

• To explain what the chicken soup is

• To show how to make the chicken soup

• To entertain the readers about the chicken soup

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Chicken Soup

Ingredients:

3 pound, whole fried chicken

6 to 8 cups of water

1 diced garlic clove

1 cup of sliced onion

1 cup of sliced celery

½ cup of sliced carrots

2 cup of chopped leeks

3 tablespoons of fresh chopped parsley

Freshly ground black pepper

Pinch of salt

Method:

Rinse the chicken.

Place the chicken in a bowl and add vegetables, and enough water to cover them. Put the bowl into an oven and boil over medium-high heat.

Reduce heat to low and simmer, covered for 90 minutes. Remove the chicken from the heat. Serve the steaming hot chicken, garnished with parsley, salt and ground black pepper.

What do we do first after rinsing the chicken? We . . . .

• put the bowl into an oven

• place the chicken in a bowl

• reduce heat to low and simmer

• add vegetable and enough water

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Sunrise Salad

Ingredients:

- Some strawberries

- Some grapes

- A banana

- A cup of yogurt

- Some mint leaves

Equipment:

- A knife

- A small bowl

Steps:

1. Wash the fruit and let them dry on paper towels

2. Cut the strawberries and grapes in half on two slices

3. Slice the banana into chunks

4. Combine all the fruit in the large bowl and mix

5. Take three spoonful of mixed fruit and put them in a small bowl

6. Add a bit of yogurt on top of the fruit salad

7. Place a small bundle of mint leaves on the yogurt as a garnish

8. Sunrise salad is ready to serve

“Slice the banana into chunks” (step 3)

The underlined word means . . . .

• small pieces

• large amount

• thick pieces

• thin pieces

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Pineapple Stew

Ingredients:

1 pineapple cut into dices

3 glasses of water

1 glass of granulated sugar

Methods:

1. Boil water until boiled.

2. Then add sugar, cinnamon, and clovers.

3. Bring it to boil and add the pineapples.

4. Wait until you can smell the pineapple.

5. Remove from heat and serve cold.

The recipe tells you how to make . . . .

• ingredients

• dice

• granulated sugar

• pineapple stew

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Pineapple Stew

Ingredients:

1 pineapple cut into dices

3 glasses of water

1 glass of granulated sugar

Methods:

1. Boil water until boiled.

2. Then add sugar, cinnamon, and clovers.

3. Bring it to boil and add the pineapples.

4. Wait until you can smell the pineapple.

5. Remove from heat and serve cold.

How much sugar do we need? We need . . . .

• 1 glass

• 3 glasses

• 1 cup

• 3 spoons

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Pineapple Stew

Ingredients:

1 pineapple cut into dices

3 glasses of water

1 glass of granulated sugar

Methods:

1. Boil water until boiled.

2. Then add sugar, cinnamon, and clovers.

3. Bring it to boil and add the pineapples.

4. Wait until you can smell the pineapple.

5. Remove from heat and serve cold.

When do we have to stop boiling the pineapple? We stop boiling . . . .

• when the water is boiled

• after sugar, cinamon, and clovers are added

• when we can smell the pineapple

• after we remove the stew from the heat

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How to Make Sekoteng

Ingredients:

1 large ginger granulated sugar as desired

1/2 piece of palm sugar

100 g peanuts, fried and get rid of its inner skin.

100 g green beans, boiled

3 slices of bread, slice into dices

100 g pomegranate seeds, boil until soft

Steps:

1. Peel and slice the ginger.

2. Boil it in a liter of water.

3. Add some granulated sugar and 1/2 piece of palm sugar.

4. Strain once it's boiled.

Methods of serving:

1. Pour some boiled ginger water into a small bowl

2. Add 1 tbs of pomegranate seed, green bean and peanut.

3. Add some bread on top.

The generic structure of the text contains . . . .

• Goal - Ingredients - Steps

• Goal - Steps

• Orientation-Events

• Identification - Description