a. The Advantages of Common Mistake Game:
There are some strengths of playing Common Mistake Game. Below are the strengths
of playing Common Mistake Game:
1. The students can explore their grammar mastery 2. This game can allows the students to work cooperatively, complete with each
other and learn from mistake. 3. The students will be more easy to understand sentences about grammar
4. This game can motivated the students to be brave to correct the mistake.
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Therefore, it can be concluded that Common Mistake Game is interesting and effective technique. Common Mistake Game is a good solution for teaching
Conditional Sentence. The reason is common mistake game can create a friendly atmosphere between the teacher and students and also make the students fun and
relax in playing game.
b. Disadvantages of Common Mistake Game:
There are some weaknesses of playing Common Mistake Game. Below are the
weaknesses of playing common mistake game: 1 This game can waste time of class hour.
2 This game can make the class crowded.
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From the explanation above that doing Common Mistake Game can make the class crowded and can waste time of class hour, so the teacher must make the students
focus on this lesson through this game. The teacher should have a louder voice to handle the class and in the middle of playing game the teacher should give the
students ice breaking section to make the students relax and more comfortable in the teaching learning process. Therefore the students can have a good attention. The
teacher asks one student of each group to explain the correct answer. The teacher must divide time for each groups so for each explanation will not waste time of class
hour.
F. Concept of Teaching Conditional Sentence by Using Common Mistake Game
According to Razaq conditional sentence is a sentence to describe the condition that is necessary for a particular result to occur. The conjunctions if, even if, when,
whenever, whether, and unless often appear in conditional sentences. The meaning of conditional sentence determines which verb tenses needs to be used in the
independent and subordinate clauses.
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Teaching conditional sentence is an important part of language teaching, the teacher need a technique or strategy in teaching
conditional sentence. Based on Wright, games also help the teacher to create contexts in which the language is useful and meaningful. The students want to take part in
order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and they must
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