Third Meeting Action 1 First Meeting

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3. Third Meeting

The third meeting was conducted on Monday, March 28 th , 2011. It was the last meeting of cycle 2. The researcher and the collaborator entered the class at 7.35 A.M. They greeted the students and the researcher checked the students’ attendance. There were two students who were absent. They were Elang and Abigail. Both of them were sick at that time. The researcher prepared all the media and learning sources. She turned on the LCD and plugged in to her note book. In pre-vocabulary activity, the researcher played the sequence of Play School DVD. But before doing that, she explained to the students the topic of that day. The topic was animal’s parts of the body. The researcher stopped the DVD and showed some pictures related to the topic. She asked the students to pay attention to it. In whilst-vocabulary activity, the researcher played the sequence on Play School DVD once more. She asked the students to raise their hands when they heard the words or saw the pictures of the vocabulary given on the beginning of the lesson. Everytime they rose their hands, the researcher paused the DVD. She ask the students to say the word. The researcher then rewound the DVD and asked the students to imitate what the native said on the DVD. She rewound it several times so that the students could pronunce it correctly. The researcher then stuck the pictures on the board and wrote the name of each picture. She asked the students to spell the word several times. She corrected commit to user the misspelling that was done by the students. She also motivated students to be actively involved in this activity. The researcher showed the picture of parts of animal’s body and made a simple sentence by using the names of the parts of animal’s body on the picture. First, she took a tail picture. She said, “It is a tail?”. Almost all of the students answered it by saying, “Yes, it is”. The researcher then showed another picture and asked the same question to the students. The researcher did it until all the words in the picture had been used. The researcher then picked a head picture and asked the students, “What is it?” and the majority of the students said, “It is a head”. The researcher then showed the picture one by one and asked the students the questions about it. In doing this activity, the researcher made competition between them by dividing the students into three groups based on the place of their seat. She gave score to the group which could make the sentence. The researcher then wrote the sentence on the board. She asked the students to pay attention to it. In post-vocabulary activity, the researcher gave assessment to the students. She gave the students 5 minutes to finish it. The class ended at 8.10 A.M.

c. Observation of Cycle 2