The Teacher Introduces Numbers The Teacher Introduces Colours

35 not forced to pronounce those words correctly, because here, teacher just wants to give the understanding for those words in English. As shown above that the materials taught by teacher are about numbers, colours, fruits and vegetables, somethings around and outside near the class, parts of body, some activities, some emotional reaction, some simple daily conversations, and songs. For those clearer feature of this process, here are some teacher‟s and students‟ activities in teaching-learning process.

4.1.3.1.1 The Teacher Introduces Numbers

In teaching numbers, for the first time, teacher mentions the numbers from one till ten by using her fingers. She says, “one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten” for three times and asks all of students to follow her. Then the students try to follow what the teacher says and also use their fingers to show the numbers like what the teacher do in front of the class. And in other days, the teacher teaches students about the numbers by using different way. For this time, the teacher dose not use her fingers again, but she uses something like pencils, small balls, artificial fruits, books, and etc, to show the amount of those things. For example, the teacher holds two pencils on one of her hands, shows them to her students and says, “two pencils” or “there are two pencils”. Then she asks the students to follow what she says. And all of students say, “two pencils” together and loudly. Next, she takes another one on the other handm gathers them and says, “three pencils”. And the students also say, “three pencils” loudly. Universitas Sumatera Utara 36 In this part, the teacher uses Direct Method, Audio-Lingual Method, and Communicative Approach. The techniques that are used by the teacher are authentic material, repetition drill, chain drill, and memorization.

4.1.3.1.2 The Teacher Introduces Colours

For the beginner students, the teacher introduces them with three basic colours by using some colourful things like blocks, small balls, artificial fruits, or pictures. The teachers puts a red block on her hand and shows it to the students and says, “it is red, merah” she asks he students to say it and students do that. Then she tak es a yellow small ball, shows it to them and says, “it is yellow, kuning” and again they follow the teacher by saying “this is yellow”, together and loudly. And for other days, the teacher teaches some different colours with different or same things. For example, green small balls, brown beams, black hair, blue, white, and etc. In this part, the teacher uses Direct Method, Audio-Lingual Method, and Communicative Approach. The techniques that are used by the teacher are authentic material, sound color chart, repetition drill, and memorization.

4.1.3.1.3 The Teacher Introduces Fruits and Vegetables