Observation CONCLUSIONS, IMPLICATIONS, AND SUGGESTIONS

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A. Observation

October 24 th , 2015 The English teacher and the writer came to class X KP2. The lesson started at 08.30 am. When the teacher entered the classroom, the teacher greeted the students, opened the class by saying a prayer, and checked the attendance list. After checking th e students’ attendance list, teacher asked the students to mention several jobs doctor, teacher, and mechanics in order to build their knowledge of the topic being discussed. Some students answered to the teacher orally. Most of their pronunciations were false. After that, the students are asked to listen and repeat after the teacher in mentioning some professions and their descriptions. Next, students are explained with the description of some jobs Nurse, teacher, doctor, and farmer and are asked to complete some missing words in their handbook guided by the teacher. However, most of the students still confused about the meaning of some words in their handbook. Then, the teacher asked them to check their dictionary. After explaining about Professions, the teacher came to the next topic which is Nationalities. Here, students did the listen and repeat activity related to Nationalities and are asked to mention someone’s nationality and profession Mr. Jokowi, David Beckam in order to practice their pronunciation. Beside Professions and Nationalities, the teacher also explained about the expressions used to ask som eone’s nationality and language. After that, together with the teacher, they completed some missing words in their handout as the exercise. The students are also explained with the expressions used to ask someone’s physical and non-physical appearances. Again, students did the listen and repeat activity related to physical and non-physical appearances and are asked to mention people based physical and non-physical appearance Mr. Jokowi. Finally, students are asked to mention their parents based on the physical and non-physical appearances as their task. Because of the time limitation, only some students able to mention their parents’ job to the teacher. They did not have enough chance to speak English in the class. Besides, they also laughed at a classmates who made a mistake and made up something for fun in answering the teacher’s questions. At last, as the bell rang, the teacher told the students about the next topic and closed the lesson by saying a prayer. 109

B. Pre-test