The English Teaching Process to the Fourth Grade Students
1. Brainstorming In this step, the writer guided the students to the topic. It could
motivate and develop studen ts’ thinking, especially the idea about the new
material. The writer brainstormed students by greeting, reviewing the previous material, and attracting them to the new material.
a. Greeting Greeting is used to start the lesson. Familiarizing greeting to students
is good for them, because they can apply their English skill directly. It also can be their daily habit. The writer greeted students after entering the
classroom, as follows: Teacher
: “Good morning, students?” Students
: “Good morning, miss.” Teacher
: “How are you today?” Students
: “I am fine. Thank you, and you?” Teacher
: “I am fine too. Thank you.” The students always said greeting enthusiastically and loudly. It made
the writer and the students have high spirit and motivation to start the lesson. After that, the writer checked students attendance one by one based on the
name list. By checking students’ attendance, the writer could know and memorize each student’s name.
b. Reviewing After greeting, the writer reviewed the previous lesson by asking some
questions about the previous topic. It helped the writer to check whether the students remember the previous lesson and had difficulties or not.
c. Warming Up In introducing the new materials, the writer gave ideas about the topic
to the students by asking some questions while showing pictures. The topic was about clothes. The sample questions are as follows:
Teacher : “What are you wearing?”
Students : “I am wearing uniform.”
Teacher : “What the color is it?”
Students : “Red and white, miss.”
Teacher :
“Ok. Good” “You are clever students.”
After giving the questions, the writer told the students that the topic for that day was about clothes. The writer also informed about the lesson
objectives. After that, the writer asked students to mention kinds of clothes in Indonesian first, and then in English. By asking some questions like this, the
writer could make students interested to know more about the topic. 2. Explanation
The next step is explaining the material. The writer used both English and the mother tongue. Most of language used was Indonesian with little
English, because it helped students accepting the material fast. The writer
showed clothes flash cards to explain the material, so that the students interested and understood the lesson deeply. The writer also repeated the
material more than once to improve their memory. After giving the explanation, the writer gave opportunity to students to ask questions, if they
found difficulties in accepting the material. 3. Exercises
This step is the time for students to apply and practice the material taught by the teacher. The students had to do some exercises based on the
writer’s instructions. The writer gave the instructions clearly and checked students’ work one by one. The exercises given was taken from students’
English handbook or made by the writer. The exercises were also divided into several activities, such as:
a. Listening activity
Listen and repeat
In the listening activities, the writer said words or sentences first, and then students repeated what the writer said. The writer said
words and sentence once or twice until the students could say it correctly.
For example: T-shirt
– T-shirt It is a yellow T-shirt - It is a yellow T-shirt.
b. Writing activity
Describing Pictures
In this exercise, the writer divided students into six groups. Each group got one picture. The students had to describe what the
people in the picture were wearing including the clothes name and color. They could discuss with their friends about it, but they had to
write it down in a piece of paper individually.
Arranging Puzzle
The students were asked to arrange a dialogue puzzle in a good order.
c. Speaking activity
Practice the dialogue
In this activity, the writer asked students to practice the dialogue in pairs in front of the class. The other students, who did not
get turn to practice, asked to pay attention, so that they did not repeat the mistake again if they got turn. The writer also listened to every
word said by students and corrected if they made any mistake. d. Reading activity
Matching Pictures
In this reading activity, the students had to match a sentence with the correct picture by giving checklist in the picture.
Reading Simple Text
The writer read a simple text loudly, so the students could hear clearly, and then the writer asked them to read the text together. The
writer also gave correction if the students made mistakes in reading the text. After that, the writer and the students translated the text
together. During the lesson, the writer gave some various ac
tivities to increase students’ interest, attention, and motivation. The activities also could help students to
understand the material easily. Moreover, it could prevent students bored fast. The activities could be described as follows:
Games
The writer used games to teach English to the students. Playing games could make students paying attention fully to the lesson and help them
accepting the material fast. Games also could motivate them in learning English. The games were guessing word, describing pictures, arranging
puzzle, etc. The writer also gave motivation and encouragements when students played the games. It could create fun activities for them.
Songs
Singing songs is very beneficial for students to improve their vocabularies and pronunciation. Firstly, the writer wrote the lyrics in the
white board, and then translated it together with the students. After that, the writer and the students sang the song together until the students could sing the
song correctly by themselves.
4. Ending the lesson Before ending the lesson, the writer reviewed all the materials that
have been taught, so that the students could refresh their memory. The writer also gave opportunity to students, if they had any question about the materials.
After that, the writer gave homework to the students, so they could learn more the materials at home. Finally, the writer closed the lesson by saying “Thank
you for your attention and see you” to the students.