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Religion activity Religion activity focuses on reading the Holy Qur’an BTA and
Qira’ah. This activity is held everyday before the students begin to study in the class.
C. Job Training Activity
The job training activity was started from February 1
st
2010 up to March 17
th
2010. The writer did some activities during the job training; they were school observation, class observation, lesson plan making, teaching and learning practice.
Here are some explanations of the writer about the activities during the job training period:
1. School Observation
School observation was done in January 29
th
2010 up to January 30
th
2010. The purpose of this activity was to know the school environment and to make the
writer as a trainee knows the situation of SMP Negeri 19 Surakarta. During this period, the vice headmaster of curriculum system gave explanation about the job
description of the writer, the rules of the job training, and the class schedule. The writer was asked to teach the VII grade or the first year of junior high
school. There are six classes in this grade, VII A up to VII F. Each class has 35 up to 40 students. The school asked the writer to teach and to handle class VII D up to VII
F.
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2. Class Observation
Class observation was done by the writer before conducting the job training. The class observation was aimed to observe the class room condition, the English
teaching learning activity and all information needed to teach English to the students. The writer observed class VII D, VII E, and VII F. Physically, both of VII E and VII
F were conducive enough for teaching, but VII D was more noisy and active. There are 18 - 20 desks and 36 – 40 chairs for 36 – 40 students. Besides, there are some
facilities such as white board, black board, an attendance board, first aid kid boxes, some visual aids at the back of the class, a door and ten windows in each class.
Every class has five hours for English lesson in a week based on the class schedule. An hour of the lesson is about forty minutes. The teaching and learning
process of English lesson in VII D was held on Wednesday at 08.25-09.45, Friday at 08.25-09.05, and Saturday at 09.45-11.35, and for VII E was held at Monday at
08.25-09.45, Friday at 09.45-11.35, and Saturday at 09.45-10.05. While in VII F it was held on Monday at 11.35-12.10, Wednesday at 07.00-08.20 and Friday at 07.00-
08.20. During the class observation period, the writer observed the way of teacher’s
teaching the students, the condition of this class, and the material which is used. The materials used by the teacher are “Let’s Talk for VII Grade Junior High School”
distributed by BOS as main students’ handbook which was lent by the library and used for every meeting and also “Inovasi, Membina Kreativitas untuk Berprestasi,
Kelas VII” by Pustaka Mulia as students’ worksheet.
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3. Lesson plan making
