Inside class Activity 1 November 2

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a. Inside class Activity 1 November 2

nd , 2007 The aim of the first meeting was teaching the students how to improve and learn vocabulary by texts As usual the class started at 06.30 AM. The class began with praying. After praying the teacher gave motivation to the students, explained that vocabulary is very crucial. Vocabulary is the heart of language teaching and learning, so they must improve their vocabulary. The teacher explained that there are many steps to study vocabulary: finding the part of speech of unknown words, looking the immediate context of the unknown word and simplifying this context if necessary, widening the meaning or idea of unknown word by looking at the relationship between the clause containing the unknown word and surrounding clauses and sentences, by guessing the meaning of the unknown words, and checking whether their guessing is correct or not by looking at the dictionary. Based on the steps that had been explained, the teacher applied some activities. First, she gave the students a short text, and asked them to find the unknown words by underlying them. To know the result of unknown words, she checked the result one by one. After all students found the unknown words, she asked them to find the part of speech of their words. In finding the part of speech of the words, many students were confused. As it was difficult for them to find the parts of speech, the teacher checked again the result one by one. After all the activities had been done, she asked the students to look at the immediate context of the unknown words, after that she asked them to look at the wider contexts, guess the meaning of the words, and at last asked the students to check their guessing word on their dictionary. After 118 all the students checked their difficult word at the dictionary, the teacher discussed the texts together in the class. At the end of the activity she asked them to look for their own text through internet. 2 November 6 th ,2007 The aim of the activity was to know how far the students could understand the way to learn vocabulary well. As usual the class started at 06.30 AM. After praying the teacher asked the students to take their own text, on last week meeting the class discussed about the unknown word through the text given, on November 6 th , the teacher asked the students to find their unknown words in their own texts. The activity was done in the class. All the students brought texts, moreover many students brought not only one text but more. They said that they often browsed internet to find interesting texts. Among 40 students 11 students brought one text, 23 students brought two texts and 6 students brought 3 texts. From these data it can be proved that the students began interested in finding texts. The teacher asked the students to underline the unknown words. After ten minutes she asked the students to widen words in context to relate clauses and sentences in texts. The relationships include cause and effect, contrast, generalization, detail, explanation, time, and arrangement. Because each student had different texts, the teacher had to guide them one by one. She helped the students to check the part of speech of the unknown words. Then, she helped them to guess the meaning of the unknown words. First, she asked the students to write their guessing, and then she checked the student’s works. In this activity the students often made a mistake in guessing the meaning of the words their words. At the end of the activity, she asked the students to check 119 their words in dictionary. After each student knew the meaning of the words, they were asked to make summary of the text. Having known the student’s summary, she asked the students to summit their works. In the end of the meeting, she asked each group to look for their own text. This text would be discussed in the next meeting. 3 November 9 th , 2007 As usual the class started at 06.30 AM. They were three students absent. They were thirty students in the class. The aim of the activity was the teacher guided each group of the class to discuss their own texts. The teacher guided the student to solve their difficulties in vocabulary. To make them more interested in learning English, before teaching the teacher always gave motivation to the students and then asked the students to join with their group. Actually each group consisted of four students, but that day group 3, 7, and 9 had three students because one of the members was absent. In joining with their group the students didn’t need a long time, because they had done it for many times. In November 9 th , 2007, the activities were about improving vocabulary through completing sentence. She distributed incomplete texts to each group. The texts came from them but she exchanged the texts. She gave each group a text of other group. Group 1 got group 10’s texts, group 10 got group 2’s texts, group 2 got group 9’s texts group 9 got group 4’s texts, group 8 got group 3’s texts. group 4 got group 7’s texts, group 7 got group 6’s texts, group 6 got group 5’s texts, group 5 got group 1’s texts. There were three activities: completing texts, writing the difficult words in a card, finding the synonyms. Having finished completing the text, they gave the answers back to 120 the group who owned test. For example group 1 gave the answer to group 10, etc.. This was done in order that the answers were checked by the owner of the text. In guiding this activity, she found that there was a member in group five that was still passive. She asked her why she was still passive. She said that she didn’t enjoy in studying English, she still felt afraid about English because she didn’t have many words in English Further she said that actually she had an idea to say but she didn’t know how to say in English. Focusing on this problem, the teacher gave motivation to her She convinced her. If she wanted to study, the teacher believed that she was able to speak English. The situation in the class was very noisy, because they wanted to speak up together. Unfortunately, class 2C is far from the other class, so it didn’t disturb the other classes. Most students were very active. They sometimes didn’t sit with their group, they found some information to the other groups. Sometimes they came near the teacher to ask their difficulties. Sometimes they asked to the other groups about some difficulties. 4 November 13 th , 2007 On November 13 th , 2007, the class started at 06.30. As usual the class started with praying. The aim of this activity was presenting their texts. She asked the students to join with their groups to discuss their texts. The position of their seat was changed. On November 13 th , there were 3 groups: group 3, group 7, and group 8. They discussed different topics. Each group presented their text, mentioned the unknown word, question and response. Group 3 presented about How to stay Healthy , group 7 presented about Alternative Medicine: Mango protein Smoothie 121 Recipe , and group 8 presented about HIVAIDS . This time the activity ran more smoothly than before, all students paid attention to the text. There were no students who discussed other topics. 5 November 16 th , 2007 The aim of this activity was to present the students texts. As usual the activity started at 06.30 AM. The teacher gave motivation to the students after praying. Then, she asked the students to join with their groups. The group who presented were group 4, 1, and group 9. Group 4 presented about Did you know video games can heal the Sick?, group 1 presented about Cirrhois , group 9 presented about Avian Influenza . As the previous meeting, all the students paid attention to the texts. The activities were the same as the previous meeting activities. To make the students didn’t get bored, she asked on of the students to recite her poem to entertain her friends. 6 November 20 th , 2007 As usual the class started at 06.30 AM. The aim of the activity was still to presenting the text. The groups presenting their texts were group 6, 10 and group 5. The activities were the same as the activities before. Group 6 presented about Malaria , group 10 presented about Go Stop smoke , and group 5 presented about Menopause and P erimenopause. The students paid more attention to the presentation. They enjoyed the presentation. The groups who presented the text were more ready in presenting their presentation. 122 7 November 23 rd , 2007 On November 23 rd , 2007, the presentation was done only by group 2. It was the last group who presented their texts. Group 10 presented about Healthy Food Recipe . Like the presentation before, they presented their texts, their difficulties on words, the meaning of these words and question and answer. Most of the students were active in this activity. The next action was on November 27 th , 2007, it was a post test activity.

2. Outside Class Activity