Course Grid of Unit II The Map of the Interactive Multimedia

order to welcome the users. From the “Introduction” page, the users are able to access the next pa ge which is “Main Menu.” This is the main page of interactive multimedia since it covers the link to the User Guide, Unit I, Unit II, Unit III, Final Test and Developer. Moreover, based on the contents of interactive multimedia, the researcher groups the contents into two parts. The first part covers User Guide which presents the information about the way to operate or use the interactive multimedia appropriately and Developer which presents the identity of the interactive multimedia developer. The second part comprises Unit I, Unit II, Unit III and Final Test which presents the main descriptive text reading material. The details of those three units will be exposed in the Unit Flowchart description. 2 Unit Flowchart This second flowchart describes parts of each unit and other sections of the interactive multimedia. The detailed materials of each unit has been explained in the course grid. The figure of unit flowchart can be viewed as follows. Figure 2: Unit Flowchart Based on the figure, a course overview page is the starting content of a unit. A course overview page introduces the material that will be discussed in the unit. This page contains the title of the unit, main menu, basic competences, indicators and the picture illustration. Then, the content of the unit will be divided into seven sections. The first section is “Let’s Read.” The focus of this section is Unit Course Overview Lets Read Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 Task 4 Task 5 Study Page Task 6 Task 7 Summary Culture Corner Fun Page Reflection Vocabulary List reading comprehension. There are five tasks in this section namely Task 1, Task 2, Task 3, Task 4 and Task 5 which contain warming up activity, passages and quizzes. The second section which is “Study Page” focuses on language features of the passages. This section contains two tasks namely Task 6 and Task 7. Those tasks present the organization of the text generic structure, notes about grammatical rules in the passage and quizzes. The third section is “Summary” which sums up the main materials in the unit. There is also additional section namely “Culture Corner” which functions to enrich students’ knowledge about culture related to the topic of the unit. Another additional section is “Fun Page” which presents some fun materials related to topic being discussed in the unit. It can be song, game, etc. The next section is “Reflection.” It asks students to reflect their feeling and achievement after learning the unit. Then, the last section is “Vocabulary List” which contains words including their phonetic transcriptions, parts of speech and the equivalence in Indonesian.

b. The Contents of Interactive Multimedia

As explained in the previous part, the contents of the interactive multimedia are divided into two parts. They are general information and main material. Since the first one does not need any further explanation, this subchapter presents the main materials which comprise Unit I, II and III. 1 Unit I The title of Unit I is “He is Very Kind.” Through this unit, the students will learn about descriptive texts about people. There are some descriptive texts about people, notes, language features and also some quizzes. Those contents are presented in some tasks. The organization of Unit I is presented in the following table. Table 29: The Organization of Unit I Name of Sections Name of Tasks Description Function Let’s Read Task I The students are asked to match some sentences about people’s description with the appropriate picture and then identify the meaning of adjectives used in the sentences. As a warming up activity to direct the students to the topic of the unit. Task II The students are given a text entitled “My Mathematics Teacher” then they are asked to complete some sentences based on the text using words given in the box. As vocabulary practice and reading comprehension practice. Task III The students are asked to classify the adjectives available in the text into several categories and read aloud the adjectives they found. - As a vocabulary and reading comprehension practice. - Training their pronunciation. Task IV The students are given a text entitled “Ms Nanda, My Music Teacher ” and are asked to state whether the statements are true or false based on the text. Checking students’ understanding about the text and as a vocabulary practice. Task V The students are asked to answer some multiple choice questions based on their understanding of the text entitled “Tommy Sugiarto”, then to read the text aloud after their teacher. As a reading comprehension practice and to train the pronunciation skill of the students. Study Page Note The students are asked to: - study the note about descriptive text and its language features. - study the example of descriptive text organization generic structure. Giving students the information about language features and generic structure of descriptive text. Task VI The students are asked to study about simple present tense and then correct the verbs of a text entitled “Nimas, One of My ɒest Friend” Giving students a grammar practice. Task VII The students are asked to arrange jumbled words into meaningful sentences then arrange the sentences and read the text aloud. Giving students a grammar and pronunciation practice. Summary - Culture Corner - The students are given a text about the description of Queen Elizabeth II. Giving students information about culture. Fun Page Cross Word Puzzle The students are asked to finish the Word Search about adjectives used in describing people. As an fun additional practice for the students. Reflection - Vocabulary List - The students are given a list of vocabularies available in the unit.