1. Language Features of Procedural Texts
Year 8 english

2. Nouns
Nouns or noun groups are used in the listed material or equipment e.g. screws, nuts, bolts, screwdriver, wood

3. Concise wording
Often the name of an item is omitted instead of being constantly repeated and an ellipsis is used

4. Personal pronouns
The person following the instructions may not be referred to or may be referred to in a general way as one or you. There is little use of personal pronouns e.g. he, she, me, we

5. Conjunctions Conjunctions are used to show chronological order
e.g. before, while, then, after, when

6. Action verbs
Action verbs start most sentences e.g. take, put, link

7. Adjectives
Adjectives add details relating to size, shape, colour and amount e.g. place the red cube there

8. Tense
Present tense is generally used e.g. ‘is’ instead of ‘was’, ‘now’ instead of ‘then’

9. Vocabulary
Vocabulary ranges from technical to everyday language according to the target audience Examples of technical language: Cars – torque, caster, EPA fuel technology Downloading Music – FLAC, zip files, bpm, torrenting

10. Emphasis
Emphasis is often given to important information by underlining it or writing in bold

11. Adverbs
Adverbs add detailed information about how, where and when

12. This isn’t a story
Clear, simple, precise but detailed language is to be used