Procedural

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 Procedural Text

What is the text about?

Do you want to make a simple breakfast from

bread and fruit? You can make a toast with berries.
Just follow these steps.
First of all, prepare the ingredients. You need
three eggs, a half cup of cup milk, thirty grams of
sugar, thirty grams of butter, six slices of white bread,
two cups of mixed frozen berries, thawed them, and
Now, let’s icing
makesugar.
it. First, beat the eggs with the milk and sugar.
Then, heat the butter in a frying pan until it is bubbling. Next, dip the
bread into the egg mixture and fry in batches for two to three
minutes on each side until golden brown. After that, slice the bread
in half diagonally and place on serving plates. Last, spoon over the
mixed berries and dust with the icing sugar.
That’s quite easy, right? So, try the recipe!
Adopted from: igloobooks, 30 Minute Meals Over 100 Recipes, Sywell, Igloo Books Ltd,
2013.
Answer the following questions.

1. What is the text called?

2. What is the purpose of the text?
3. What are the elements of the text?
4. What are the language features of the text?
Read the following information.
Procedural Text Related to a Recipe
The purpose: Describing how to make an item or cook food
through a sequence of actions or steps.
The structure:
• The goal/aim, which is usually the title of the text or stated at
the opening paragraph;
• A list of ingredients or materials, which are needed in
conducting the procedure;
• The steps or methods to be followed in conducting the
procedure.
The language feature:
• Use imperative sentences, such as “Warm the tortillas in the
oven for a few minutes.”; “Remove from the oven.”,
• Use time orders or sequencers, such as first, next, then,
after that, finally.
Look at the picture.
Write a recipe that you know using the main ingredient in the
picture.
Share your work with the class.

Do the rest exercises in

your PR Bahasa Inggris on
pages 142–143.

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