Procedural Text

What is the social function of Procedural Text?

• To entertain the reader with interesting stories

• To inform the readers about newsworthy events

• To explain how something is accomplished

• To tell about something happened in in the past

Tags

CCSS.RI.11-12.5

CCSS.RI.11-12.3

CCSS.RI.9-10.5

CCSS.RI.9-10.3

CCSS.RI.8.3

The following are examples of procedural text, except ...

• News Item

• Tutorial

• Manual

• Experiment

The generic structure of procedural text is...

• aim/goal, materials/ingredients, manuals

• aim/goal, material/ingredients, methods

• title, aim/goal, set of steps

• title, materials, ingredients

Why should we give a title for our procedural text?

• To help the reader understand the tense used in the text.

• To help the reader in mastering the activity.

• To help the reader understand each step.

• To help the reader understand the goal of the text.

Which one is the example of procedural text ?

• My Trip to New Zealand

• Why Cats are Cuter than Dogs

• How to Make Sandwich

• My cat

How to Use a Glue Gun

1. Check and clean the glue gun from any old glue clogging in the nozzle.

2. Put the glue stick into the gun nozzle.

3. Insert the plug into the electricity socket.

4. Prepare a sheet of paper and put the glue gun on it.

5. Wait until the gun gets warmer.

6. Squeeze the trigger gently to check if the glue stick has changed into liquid form.

7. Finally, you can apply it on any surface that you want to stick by using this glue gun.

What should we do to melt the glue stick to be liquid form?

• By warming it up in the gun nozzle

• By changing it into a liquid from

• By applying it on any surface that you want

• By cleaning the glue gun from any old glue

How to Use a Glue Gun

1. Check and clean the glue gun from any old glue clogging in the nozzle.

2. Put the glue stick into the gun nozzle.

3. Insert the plug into the electricity socket.

4. Prepare a sheet of paper and put the glue gun on it.

5. Wait until the gun gets warmer.

6. Squeeze the trigger gently to check if the glue stick has changed into liquid form.

7. Finally, you can apply it on any surface that you want to stick by using this glue gun.

Finally, you can apply it on any surface that you want to stick by using this glue gun. The underlined word has similar meaning with....

• use

• unite

• appropriate

• apologize

Washing clothes in a semi-automatic washing machine:

1. Put your dirty clothes and detergent into the drum of the machine.

2. Fill the drum with water at the temperature you require. Read the instructions to decide how much water to add.

3. Perform the ‘wash’ cycle – remember, a large load will need more time to wash than a smaller one.

4. Once the ‘wash’ cycle has finished, drain the dirty water using the hose. Refill the drum with clean water. Switch on the ‘Rinse’ cycle. A fully automatic machine will do all of this for you.

5. After the ‘Rinse’ cycle, your clothes should the completely clean. Now you need to dry clothes by pressing the ‘Spin’ button. A fully automatic machine will do this for you, but if you have a semi-automatic machine, now you need to transfer your clothes from the washing drum into the other drum – again, the size of the load will determine how long you need to spin them.

6. With all types of machine, once the spin cycle is finished, you should remove the clothes as soon as possible and hang them up to dry.

With the text above, the writer intends to inform readers how to …

• Wash clothes automatically

• Read the washing machine manual book

• Instruct to put in clothes into washing machine

• Wash clothes using semi-automatic washing machines.

Washing clothes in a semi-automatic washing machine:

1. Put your dirty clothes and detergent into the drum of the machine.

2. Fill the drum with water at the temperature you require. Read the instructions to decide how much water to add.

3. Perform the ‘wash’ cycle – remember, a large load will need more time to wash than a smaller one.

4. Once the ‘wash’ cycle has finished, drain the dirty water using the hose. Refill the drum with clean water. Switch on the ‘Rinse’ cycle. A fully automatic machine will do all of this for you.

5. After the ‘Rinse’ cycle, your clothes should the completely clean. Now you need to dry clothes by pressing the ‘Spin’ button. A fully automatic machine will do this for you, but if you have a semi-automatic machine, now you need to transfer your clothes from the washing drum into the other drum – again, the size of the load will determine how long you need to spin them.

6. With all types of machine, once the spin cycle is finished, you should remove the clothes as soon as possible and hang them up to dry.

What should we do after finishing the ‘Rinse’ cycle?

• Refilling the drum with clean water.

• Washing the clothes for second time.

• Drying the clothes by pressing the ‘spin’ button.

• Removing the clothes and hanging them up to dry.

Washing clothes in a semi-automatic washing machine:

1. Put your dirty clothes and detergent into the drum of the machine.

2. Fill the drum with water at the temperature you require. Read the instructions to decide how much water to add.

3. Perform the ‘wash’ cycle – remember, a large load will need more time to wash than smaller one.

4. Once the ‘wash’ cycle has finished, drain the dirty water using the hose. Refill the drum with clean water. Switch on the ‘Rinse’ cycle. A fully automatic machine will do all of this for you.

5. After the ‘Rinse’ cycle, your clothes should the completely clean. Now you need to dry clothes by pressing the ‘Spin’ button. A fully automatic machine will do this for you, but if you have a semi-automatic machine, now you need to transfer your clothes from the washing drum into the other drum – again, the size of the load will determine how long you need to spin them.

6. With all types of machine, once the spin cycle is finished, you should remove the clothes as soon as possible and hang them up to dry.

The word rinse in the text is closest in meaning to....

• wash off

• show off

• clean

• dry