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the objective can be successfully achieved. There are three terms in a lesson plan: opening, main activities, and closing. Cycle 1 consists of three
meetings for presenting the material. Each meeting took 70 minutes. She plans different activities for each meeting. But, there was still a connection
between the first and second meetings. The topic of cycle 1 was “Hobby”, “Order and Request” and “Asking for Permission”. The objective of the
lesson is to introduce new vocabulary to the students related to the topic. The action plan would be implemented by the researcher who is also as a
teacher.
3. Implementing the Action
The action plan was implemented by IA as a teacher. In the first cycle, she introduced vocabulary dealing with Hobby. In implementing the
action, the researcher used the lesson plan that had been prepared before. The action consists of three sections: opening, main activity, and closing.
Each of the section is described as follows:
1. The first meeting Wednesday, 4
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October 2009
a. Opening The lesson started at 09.00 am. The researcher IA and sixth
class teacher W came to the class, greeted the students, and checked students’ attendance. The class was unorganized. The students ran here
and there and most of them were chatting with their friends. IA tried to
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create a good situation by telling the students that today activity would be learning about hobby.
b. Main Activity · Aspect of meaning
In the introduction and presentation phase, IA explore the students’ knowledge about the topic of that day to build students’
background knowledge. She asked the students about what is hobby, she asked “what is meant by hobby?” “ menurut kalian hobby itu apa sih”.
Then, some students said “ kesukaan…kesenangan…” and then the teacher said “yes, good” and then the teacher asked them to mention
kinds of hobbies. She asked ”Coba sebutkan macam – macam hobby” then some students said “berenang…membaca…dolanan bu... anu…
ngrungokke lagu bu”, IA asked the students to open their book in the topic of hobbies. Students are looking at the picture on the book and
some of them mentioned in English and the others mentioned in Indonesia. The teacher tried to help the students by giving the English
names mentioned by the students. She says “Oke, now listen to me carefully while you look at your book, sekarang tolong dengarkan
dengan baik sambil dilihat bukunya, there are many kinds of hobbies, ada bermacam-macam hobi, swimming itu artinya berenang, reading
artinya membaca, listening to the music artinya mendengarkan musik”. Then, the students matched the words about hobbies with the suitable
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pictures. By looking at the picture the students could answer and write about the words of hobbies correctly. After that, she instructed the
students to write the meanings of the words of hobbies in Indonesia on their note book.
· Aspect of spelling In improving the students’ ability in spelling, IA wrote down
some words and sentences on the blackboard. The words are such as swimming, collecting stamps, hiking, dancing, biking, gardening,
playing basket. Then, she asked volunteers to write down the phonetic transcription. One boy came to the front and wrote the spelling of
swimming. Then, he spelled the words. After all the words were mastered well, the teacher cleaned the board. Then, she asked them to
spell the words with the students. She spelled the words repeatedly. Later, she, asked students randomly to spell the words alone. IA was
listening to the students’ spelling intensively while they were spelling the words. She corrected their spelling after they finished spelling the
words. · Aspect of pronunciation
In improving students ability to pronounce the new words related to hobbies. In this activity, IA read a model of dialogue and
repeated by the students. For example: - What is your hobby?; My hobby is reading. IA divided the students into group. She asked each
group to practice the dialogue by using role play at the book and then
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elaborate it by doing conversation among them dealing with their own hobbies. This activity was conducted in 15 minutes. The situation in
doing the task was very noisy. She asked each group to do experiential learning by doing
dialogue by using role play that they had done. IA checked their conversation by listening the conversation of each group whether the
sentences are correct or not. Some students did not feel confident, so they pronounced it in low voice and not seriously.
· Aspect of using words After the students were trained how to know the meaning, the
spelling, and the pronunciation, IA let them to make new sentences based on the vocabularies given. She asked them to make a simple
sentence related to hobbies. IA gave a model of making sentences by telling their hobby. The example: “I like biking”. “He likes gardening,
etc..” Then she instructed the students to make sentence and practice like the examples with their own words. Some students could do the
exercise correctly, but there were some who still have mistake in making sentences. She corrected the errors made by the students.
c. Closing Before closing the lesson, IA checked the students’
understanding about hobbies. There were some questions dealing with
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the vocabulary of the hobbies. IA asked the students randomly to answer the questions. When the time given was over, IA summed up the lesson
of that day. She hoped that the situation would be better than the situation in this meeting. Because there were no questions and the time
was over, IA thanked to the students and closed the lesson by saying goodbye.
2. The second meeting Wednesday, 11
