The Teaching of Vocabulary

Firstly, Curriculum 2013 is the development of curriculum 2006. The different between them is the addition of character education which not included in 2006 curriculum. In senior high schools, English subject consists of three components. First, the expression ability which concerns in the ability to understand and produce speech and written text and it is realized in four skills, i.e. speaking, listening, reading and writing. Second, it concerns in the comprehension and production ability of various short functional and monolog texts with essays of text types genre such as procedure, descriptive, recount, narrative, and report. The last, support of competence i.e. linguistic competence the use of grammar, vocabulary, phonetic, and structure, socio cultural competence the use of expression and action language receive in various context communication, strategy competence the ability to overcome the problem which appears in communication process by using various methods and building expression competence the use of instruments of expression competence. Moreover, according to the regulation of ministry of national education, the core competence and basic competence for senior high school grade X semester one is that they have to perform several vocabulary competencies as shown in the Table 1. Table 1: Standard Competence and Basic Competence of Vocabulary Skill for Senior High School Students Grade X Semester 1 Kompetensi Dasar dan Indikator No Kompetensi Dasar Indikator 1 1.1 Mensyukuri kesempatan dapat mempelajari bahasa Inggris sebagai bahasa pengantar komunikasi internasional yang diwujudkan dalam semangat 1.1.1 Bersemangat dalam melaksanakan setiap kegiatan pada pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris. 1.1.2 Serius dalam melaksanakan setiap kegiatan pada belajar pembelajaran Bahasa Inggris. 2 3.7. Menganalisis fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan pada teks deskriptif sederhana tentang orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya. 3.7.1 Mengidentifikasi fungsi sosial seperti membanggakan, mengenalkan, mengidentifikasi, memuji, mengritik, mempromosikan pada teks deskriptif sederhana tentang orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal, sesuai dengan konteks penggunaannya. 3.7.2 Mengidentifikasi struktur teks seperti penyebutan nama, sifat, dan tindakan orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal dan nama bagian- bagiannya yang dipilih untuk dideskripsikan. 3.7.3 Mengidentifikasi unsur kebahasaan seperti kata benda dan kata sifat terkait dengan orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal serta ejaan, ucapan, tekanan kata, intonasi, ketika mempresentasikan secara lisan. 3 4.8.Menangkap makna dalam teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis sederhana. 4.8.1 menemukan gagasan pokok, informasi rinci dan informasi tertentu serta fungsi sosial dari teks deskripsi yang dibacadidengar. 4.9.Menyunting teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis, sederhana, tentang orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, 4.9.1 Melengkapi teks deskriptif rumpang tentang orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal, dengan memperhatikan fungsi sosial, struktur teks, dan struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan yang benar dan sesuai konteks. unsur kebahasaan yang benar dan sesuai konteks. 4.10 Menyusun teks deskriptif lisan dan tulis sederhana tentang orang, tempat wisata, dan bangunan bersejarah terkenal, dengan memperhatikan tujuan, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai dengan konteks. 4.10.1 Menyusun teks deskriptif dengan memperhatikan tujuan, struktur teks, dan unsur kebahasaan, secara benar dan sesuai dengan konteks. The table shows that the vocabulary competency can be seen in core competence 3.7. in indicator 3.7.2 and 3.7.3. The indicators state that students should identify the name, characters, and the description of people, tourism place and historical place. All of them need words to identify and words related to vocabulary. It means that if you want to know all of them you should know the vocabulary first. Teaching English vocabulary to Senior High School students needs an extra work and appropriate teaching method which is adjusted to the students‟ need. Therefore, the teachers should be creative in finding interesting ways to teach vocabulary.

B. Games

1. Definition of Games

Hornby 1995: 486 defined game as an activity that you do to have some fun. Richard and Schmidt 2002: 580 argue that game is an organized activity that usually has the following properties such as: a particular task or objective, a