A procedural recount
records events such as a science experiment or a cooking experience. It
presents the events chronologically (in the order in which happened). The
purpose of procedural recounts is to inform listeners or readers.
The text consists of
three parts:
1. Orientation
It provides the
purpose of the activity. It also answers the questions: Who? When? Where? What
experience?
2. List of Events
It presents
events: What people did? It tells the event chronologically. It uses
conjunction or connectives like firs, next, then finally and so on. They show
the sequence of events.
3. Reorientation
It describes the
outcome of the activity. It can also express people’s personal opinion
regarding the events.
1. It uses simple past tense.
2. It uses connectors to put the events into order.
3. It describes events, so there are many verbs or action verbs used.
4. It uses nouns (or pronoun) to name people, places and things.
5. Details of time, places and things.
Let’s look at the example
below.
