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If there is an old game that success applied in the class before. It is ok to use it again in another class.
9. Make a file Make a file that consists of games. It can make you easy if you want to use
games in another time. 10. Share
If you have a favorite game that you use to play with your best friend. You can use that game to your class.
11. Don’t do overdo it
Game is joyful and interesting play in the class, but if you do it too much, it can waste the time and make another important thing do not have time to
teach in the class.
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C. Guessing Game
Guessing game is a simply game that can be applied in the class. This game is played by several group in the class. Allen’s said that Guessing game can
be applied in the class in intermediate school.
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There are some rules in Guessing game. We can choose and adjust depend on the material and situation in the class.
One such game is conducted as follows: 1. Four students are asked to come to the front of the classroom.
One of them is selected to draw a slip from a box which contains words related to many different categories.
2. The student who has drawn a slip from a box which contains words related to many different categories.
3. The other members of the class try to guess the word on the slip which has been drawn from the box. They take turns asking first about the category,
“is it a word for food? For furniture? For transportation?” The four students who have seen the slip take turns answering “No, it isn’t” until
the right category has been guessed.
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Hall Houston, „Playing Games’ Modern English Teacher, Vol 18 no. 1, p. 33
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Allen, op. cit., P. 50
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4. After the correct category has been discovered transportation, for instance members of the class continue to ask YesNo questions: “Is the
word bus? Is it taxi? Is it train?”
5. The one whose guess is correct may draw a slip from the box the next time the game is played.
D. Vocabulary
In Hornby dictionary, vocabulary can be defined as the total number of words that with ruler for combining them make up a language.
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Vocabulary also can be defined, roughly, as the words we teach in the foreign language. The words
also can be made up of two or three words or more but express a single idea.
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In turn, word is defined as a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken
sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning.
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In Webster’s Dictionary, vocabulary is defined as follows:
1. A list or collection of words and phrases usually alphabetically arranged and explained or defined.
2. A sum or stock of word employed by a language group individual or work or in relation to a subject: Scope of language.
3. A list of a foreign language textbook of the word and phrases taught or used.
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While Hatch and Brown define vocabulary as a list or set of words for particular language or a list or set of words that individual speakers of language
might use.
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A. S Hornby, 1985. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary.Oxford University Press.
P. 956
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Penny Ur, A course in Language Teaching Practice and Theory. Cambridge: University Press, 2003. P. 60
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P. David Pearson, Elfrieda H. Hiebert and Michael L. Kamil, „Vocabulary Assessment: What
We Know and What We need to Learn’, Reading Research Quarterly, Vol. 42 no. 2 p. 284
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Philip Babvock Gove 1966. Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. USA:
Massachusetts. G C. Meriam Company, 1966. P. 2560.
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Evelyn Hatch and Cherryl Brown. Vocabulary, Semantics, and Language EducationCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995, p.1
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E. Kinds of Vocabulary
