part, there are warm up activities which help students to have a schema building of the materials that will be learnt in the unit, also the students can recall their
knowledge by doing the tasks that are provided. The second part of the materials is the lesson proper or the main lesson.
Each unit has two cycles, the spoken cycle and the written cycle that follows the steps of a scientific approach. The steps are observing, questioning, collecting,
analyzing, communicating, and creating. In the observing stage, students read a text or listen to a monologue. Students have chances to observe things they know
or want to know further in terms of content, structure, language features, grammar, pronunciation. Based on the items they know or want to know further,
students make questions in questioning stage. The collecting, analyzing and communicating stage are combined into finding out. It is made to ease the
students in learning the materials through tasks. Students collect the data by doing the tasks, then communicate their finding through discussions in pairs or groups.
The last step of the scientific approach is creating. In this stage, students apply what they know from the discussions by producing a particular text. Each unit is
developed integratedly, from guided to non-guided activities. In the end of the spoken cycle, there is an intermezzo “
Did You Know?
” that is related to the topic of each unit.
The last part of the materials is reinforcement which consists of homework, summary, and reflection. Students have chances to reflect what they
have learnt in the unit through activities in homework. In summary, the students have a clear explanation of the text, language features, and grammar in the unit.
While in reflection, students have chances to reflect what they felt, their success on mastering something, and also their difficulties in learning the materials in the
unit.
4. The First Draft of the Materials
In the developed materials, there are three units which are described above:
a. Unit 1
Unit 1 is derived from core competences 1, 2, 3, 4 and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.6, 4.9. The topic of this unit is knowing and learning the
face treatments. The unit focuses on procedure texts about how to do activities in steps or following instructions in conducting the face treatments. The title of Unit
1 is “
Do It Yourself
”
.
The title represents that the unit focuses on how to follow some steps or instructions by themselves. The focus of the grammar is the simple
present tense and imperative sentences. The core competences and basic competences require the students to be
able to analyze the social function, structure of a text, and language features of procedure texts and also to be able to produce the text in spoken and written
forms. The unit is divided into two cycles: the spoken cycle and the written cycle in which each cycle consists of several tasks.
There are 27 tasks in the first unit; 3 tasks belong to warm up activities, 11 tasks belong to listening and speaking activities, 12 tasks belong to reading and
writing activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity.
b. Unit 2
Unit 2 is derived from core competences 1, 2, 3, 4 and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.9, 4.13. The topic of this unit is about skin health. The
unit focuses on report texts related to skin health. The title of Unit 2 is “
What is Skin?
”
.
The title represents that the unit focuses on knowing information about skin in the form of report texts. The focus of the grammar is timeless present and
passive voice. The core competences and basic competences require the students to be
able to analyze the social function, structure of a text, and language features of report texts and also to be able to produce the text in spoken and written forms.
The unit is divided into two cycles: the spoken cycle and the written cycle in which each cycle consists of several tasks.
There are 28 tasks in the second unit; 2 tasks belong to warm up activities, 11 tasks belong to listening and speaking activities, 14 tasks belong to
reading and writing activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity.
c. Unit 3
Unit 3 is derived from core competences 1, 2, 3, 4 and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.8, 4.12. The topic of this unit is dream. The unit focuses
on learning how to talk about possible or imaginary situations.. The title of Unit 3 is “
If I..., I would...
”
.
The title represents that the unit focuses on learning the use of conditional sentences to talk about possible or imaginary situations. The focus
of the grammar is conditional sentences.
