55 audio visual recordings to increase the students’ interest in listening class. The
subject content of the designed materials can be seen in the following table.
Table 4.3: The Subject Content
Unit Topic
Title Subject Content
1 Invitation
Celebration Recordings of the birthday party and
concert show invitations. Video of the concert show invitation.
The feature characteristics of invitation.
2 Announcement
Attention please
Recording of the safety demonstration of flight attendant.
The feature characteristics of announcement.
3 Narrative Text
A Bed Time Story
Recording of the story “The Lion and The Mouse”.
Video of the story “The Lion and The Mouse”.
The language features of narrative text.
4 Recount text
How was Your Vacation?
Recording of the holiday experience. The language features of recount
text.
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5. TeachingLearning Activities
After knowing the students’ need for listening activities, the writer came up with the teachinglearning activities which were based on the task-based
language teaching framework. The teachinglearning activities for each topic can be varied. However, there were three tasks in each unit namely pre-task, main-
task, and post-task. Pre-task facilitated the teachers to introduce the topic to be discussed. It dealt with gaining the students knowledge on the topic discussed.
There were two sections in the pre-task. Both sections recalled the students’ prior knowledge related to the topic. There would be some pictures followed by some
questions to be discussed, predicting task, and matching task. Besides, the students were provided by some vocabulary related to the words which would be
occurred in the recording. The main-task led the students to enter the listening section. While
listening to the recording, the students were given some tasks. There would be listing task, predicting task, arranging the jumbled pictures, sentences, and
paragraph, followed by pairs and groups discussion. The students also had chances to be more communicative in sharing their ideas on every answer of task
they had done. Meanwhile, the post-task led the students to show their understanding on
each topic they had discussed. This part provided the students chances to reflect and implement what they had learned through the topic discussed. The task was
mainly related to the language focus of the topic discussed and the content of the
