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4 Describing Events It aimed to describe certain event happened in the present and in the past.
The students need to rearrange jumbled sentences in order to make a good paragraph.
5 Occupation The students should match the picture of certain occupation with its
correct description. 6 Signs
The students should match the picture of certain sign with its correct explanation.
7 Describing Things and Activities These exercises are in Unit Three on which the exercises consisted of
combined tenses. Therefore, here, the students should type correct linking verbs and correct form of verbs on the sentences. The answers are typed on the
keyboard.
B. Presentation of The Designed Materials
The Print Screen of the designed exercises would present Unit One exercise as the example.
1 The front page of the website Before the users find the front page of the web see Figure 4.1, they
should visit www.sanfunlish.freewebclass.com. After that, in order to go inside the designed exercises, the users should fill the username and the password in
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order to enter the exercises designed. The writer has listed the username and the password for all first grade students see Appendix G.3.
Figure 4.1: The Front Page of the Website
2 The front page of the design After the users login to the website, they will find the front page of the
design see Figure 4.2. There are three main courses, namely Simple Present Tense, Simple Past Tense, and Simple present Tense and Simple Past Tense
Exercises. Then, the users can select the course and following other instructions on it.
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Figure 4.2: The Front Page of the Design
3 The Main Menu of Unit One The users are free to choose the course. The writer chose Simple Present
Tense as the example. Then, the appearance of main menu in Unit One will appear see Figure 4.3.
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Figure 4.3: The Main Menu of Unit One
4 Topic: Describing Things in J-Cloze program If the users choose Describing Things, they will find the appearance as
seen in Figure 4.4. The users should answer the exercises by typing on the keyboard. They need to complete the gap by typing correct linking verb.
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Figure 4.4: Print Screen of Describing Things Exercises
5 Topic: Describing Activities in J-Cloze program If the users select Describing Activities, they will find the appearance like
Figure 4.5. The users are asked to do the same thing like the instruction on Describing Things. The focus here is not the use of linking verbs, but the form of
verbs.
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Figure 4.5: Print Screen of Describing Activities Exercises
6 Topic: Describing Activities in J-Quiz program If the users choose 2
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Describing Activities, they will see the appearance as in Figure 4.6. Before the users practice the exercises, they should click the film
link as stated in the instruction because the questions are related to the film. The users are asked to choose one correct answer from the multiple choice provided.
The students need to focus on the form of certain verb.
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Figure 4.6: Print Screen of Describing Activities Exercises
7 Topic: Describing Events in J-Mix program If the users click Describing Events, they will see the appearance like
Figure 4.7. They need to rearrange jumbled sentences in order to make a good paragraph by clicking the sentences chosen.
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Figure 4.7: Print Screen of Describing Events Exercises
8 Topic: Occupation in J-Match program If the users click on Occupation, they will see the appearance as seen in
Figure 4.8. They should match the picture of certain occupations with its correct description. They need to drag the picture and drop it next to the description.
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Figure 4.8: Print Screen of Occupations Exercises
9 Topic: Signs in J-Match program The last choice is Signs. These exercises let the users drag the picture of
certain sign and drop it next to its correct explanation.
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Figure 4.9: Print Screen of Signs Exercises
Those are the presentation of the design. In order to see all the exercises, the users are expected to visit http:sanfunlish.freewebclass.com. All of the
students have been provided with different username based on their class and their sequence number in their classroom see Appendix G.3.. However, they used the
same password that was: iGoToSanjaya2011.
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CHAPTER V CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
There are two main aspects discussed in this chapter, namely conclusions and suggestions. The conclusion summarizes the answers to the two problem
formulations of this study. Besides, the suggestions are addressed to the English teacher and the further researcher.
A. Conclusions
The purpose of this study is to design computer-based exercises using Hot Potatoes Software to facilitate independent learning of tenses to the first grade
students of SMK Sanjaya Pakem. The two questions that will be answered in this study are, first, how a set of computer-based exercises using Hot Potatoes
software to facilitate independent learning of Tenses for the first grade students of SMK Sanjaya Pakem is designed. Second, what the set of computer-based
exercises looks like. The first question is answered by using the research procedures of this
study. After the writer combined the Borg and Gall’s RD model 1983 and Dick, Carrey, and Carrey’s RD model 2005, there are five main steps in
designing the exercises of this study, namely 1 research and information collecting, which is completed by conducting analyze learners and context, 2
planning, which is completed by identifying instructional goals, conducting
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