Event 2 With Phillips, our team won many tournaments in many big cities. Our team
named Treble Maker because we had so many trophies and we had so many fans too. Now, I still love football and have a team too.
Re-orientation But, my parents warn me to play attention more to study, football just for hobby.
C. Picture
1. The Nature of Picture
Picture is a drawing object and it is visual aids that are very useful for teaching, especially for English teaching. Picture can really help the learners to
ease them in comprehending the meaning of a word, a sentence, or a paragraph. By using picture, the learners can get the imagination about the objects or the
situations. Picture consists of lines and shapes which are drawn, painted, or printed on a surface. It also shows a person, thing, or scene.
According to Wright, he stated that, ―pictures are not just an aspect of method, but through their representation of places, objects, and people they are
essential part of the overall experiences, we must help students to cop e with.‖
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It means that pictures can help the learners to understand the meaning of a word
because it represents the meaning of it. Through picture, students can see people, places, and things from out of their own experiences.
From the explanation above, it can be concluded that picture is one of a media in study which is able to be used to help the teacher in delivering a material
which is given to the students. This media is used to stimulate the participation of the student in learning process. It is needed to make the learning process more
attractive and makes the material become easier to be accepted by the student. One of media in learning process, picture series is also intended to increase
student’s motivation. Through picture, language learners get both of it because
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Andrew Wright, Pictures for Language Learning, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989, p. 2.
they can directly see the object or the situation of the material. So, they can remember it much longer from the sight.
2. The Kinds of Picture
According to Andrew Wright, there are 21 kinds of picture based on the form, they are:
a. Checkchart for pictures
b. Pictures of a single objects
c. Pictures of one person
d. Pictures of famous people
e. Pictures of several people
f. Pictures of people in action
g. Pictures of places
h. Picture from history
i. Picture with a lot of information
j. Pictures of the news
k. Pictures of fantasies
l. Pictures of maps and symbols
m. Pairs of pictures
n. Pictures and texts
o. Sequence of picture Picture series
p. Related pictures
q. Single stimulating pictures
r. Ambiguous pictures
s. Bizarre pictures
t. Explanatory pictures
u. Student and teacher drawings
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As mentioned above, it can be concluded that there are so many kinds of pictures. They can be useful for teachers and students to help them in mastering
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Ibid., pp. 193 –203.
