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a. Planning
The following explanation is about preparation before conducting the cycle one.
1 After conducting pre test on August 3, 2015, the pre-test result showed that in
avarege the stud ents‟ speaking ability was low. It was 69 that means under the
school minimum standard score which is 71. Then, the pre test result was used to determine in dividing the students into group which consisted of 5-6
heterogeneous students in ability. 2
The next step was dividing the students into heterogenic group which consisted of 5-6 students. The number of eleventh Cookery Department class is 38
students that consisted of 11 boys and 27 girls. From this number the researcher divided the students into seven groups.
3 Preparing the research instruments and learning instruments that covered
lesson plans, teaching materials, the teaching media, the Snakes and Ladders board game and its instruments, and rubric for speaking assessment. The snakes
and ladders board game would be integrated in lesson plan. It would be used as media for the students activity. The game would have thirty numbers which had
the different cues. The cues were taken from the topic that been discussed. The topic for the first cycle was “Describing People”. Then, the students would play
the game in group. Each of students in the group would do the task as the number they had got. The task would be a monologue or an individual performance.
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b. Actions
The first cycle action was conducted in three meetings as the English subject schedule for XI JB1. The actions of cycle one was conducted on August
24, 2015. As stated before during the actions, the researcher became the teacher while the English teacher as the collaborator and observer as well. The details of
the process can be seen in the following explanation.
1 First Meeting
The first meeting was conducted on August 24, 2015. The topic for that day was
“Describing People” both physically and personality. The researcher greeted the students in English and the students answered positively and correctly.
Before explaining the materials, the researcher asked some questions to the students by showing two pictures using power point presentation
“ Class, what do you think about her
?” the boys students responded directly “ she is beautiful; she is an artist
.” The researcher replied “ very good What else...? what about her hair, her nose
? “ the students answered “ her hair is long and black; her nose mancung...” then the whole class were laughing because they did not know how
to say it in English. The researcher replied and gave some corrections , “yes, she
has a pointed nose, we can say hidung mancung in English by saying pointed nose. Is it clear class
?” then the students answered, “ yes sister.” After giving the warmth question, the researcher played short video to
stimulate students remembering the topic since they had learnt it in the first grade. The short video was about describing people presented in a song and dance. Then
the students were invited to follow the song and movements in order to give them PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
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