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Topics Number Percentage
10. Others:
a. Translating a song
b. Reading an article and magazine
1 1
3. 57 3. 57
From that result of chosen topics, the researcher took three topics which had higher percentage. The three topics are presented in Table 4. 11.
Table 4.11 Learning Topics No. Topics
1. Recount: My Unforgettable Experience
2. Narrative: Short Story
3. Narrative: Legend
C. Learning Objectives
After formulating the goals and the general purposes, the researcher formulated learning objectives of the design. Learning objectives were considered
as Indicators. Based on School Based Curriculum or Kurikulum Tingkat Satuan
Pendidikan KTSP, the indicators were developed based on the basic
competences. The indicators are presented in Table 4. 12.
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Table 4.12 The Indicators of the design No. Skills
Topics Indicators
1. Speaking Recount: My
unforgettable
Experience
Students are able to: • Identify verbal and nominal sentences.
• Mention the pattern of simple past
correctly. • Mention the function of simple past
correctly. • Make sentences using past tense
correctly • Use simple past tense in telling
experience correctly.
Writing
• Identify simple past tense • Use simple past tense in writing
experiences correctly 2. Speaking Narrative:
Short Story Students are able to:
• Mention the pattern of past progressive tense correctly.
• Mention the function of past progressive tense correctly.
• Use past progressive tense to tell stories correctly
Writing Narrative: Legend
Students are able to: • Identify past perfect tense.
• Differentiate simple past tense, past progressive tense and past perfect tense
correctly. • Use past perfect tense to rewrite the
legend correctly
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past tenses in speaking and writing skills, the researcher made four designs. For the first and the second designs, the researcher chose recount My unforgettable
experience as a topic. The first design was the designed learning activity for learning simple past tense in speaking skill, and the second design was the
designed learning activity for learning simple past tense in writing skill. Meanwhile, for the third and the fourth designs, the researcher chose
narrative as a topic. The topic of the third design was short story, while the topic of the fourth design was legend. Although the specific topics of both third and
fourth designs were different, but short story and legend were included in narrative. The researcher made them different because it was based on the chosen
topics. Some of the students chose short story and legend. In this study, the third design was the designed learning activity for leaning past progressive tense in
speaking skill and the fourth design was the designed learning activity for learning past perfect tense in writing skill.
D. Subject Contents
