A Procedural Recount Text

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.

Language Focus
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.

                Last week Ayu and Siska did a science project at school. They did this project to show that hot air always rises.         
                                          

                Before they started, they prepared a balloon, a bottle and a bucket full of hot water. First, they blew up the balloon. After that, they put the balloon to cover the top of the bottle. Finally, they put the bottle in the bucket that was full of hot water.

                As a result, the air in the bottle got hotter and rose into the balloon.