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recount texts. events, usually in the
order in which they happened. The purpose
of a recount is to give the
audience a
description of what occurred and when it
occurred. A recount text consists of:
an orientation that gives
background information
about who, what, where and
when; events that retell the
events in the order in which they happened;
and a
concluding paragraph
that may include a personnal
comment not always necessary
3.
Common language
features of recount texts:
proper nouns to identify those involved
in the text; descriptive words to
give tails about who, what, when, where and
how
For example
adverbs and
adjectives; the use of the past
tense to retell the
The teacher starts the lesson.
The teacher gives the students a lead-in activity
2. Main Activities:
BKOF Activity 1
The teacher
gives the
students a lead-in task consisting of five questions
and discuss the answer to the questions together with
the teacher. Activity 2
The
teacher gives
the students a list of words
related to the next activity and asks them to match each
word with its meaning in pairs.
Activity 3 The teacher divides the
students into small groups of four or five and distibutes
a series of pictures to each group. Based on the picture
sequences, the students have to make predictions to
answer some questions that follow.
MOT Activity 4
The
teacher gives
the students a recount text
related to the previous activity. Then, the teacher
and the students review the accuracy of the predictions
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Arnys R. Irjayanti and
Virga Renitasari. 2008.
Scaffolding: English
for Junior
High School Students
Grade VIII. Pusat Perbukuan
Departemen Pendidikan
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6. pictures related to the texts; and
7. student worksheets.
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events; and connecting words
that show the order of
events for
example, first, after that,
next, then,
finally.
that the students made in Activity 3 with the text.
Activity 5 The teacher guides the
students to identify the social function, the generic
structure, and the language features of the text in
Activity 4. Then, the teacher gives
the students
homework related to the language features of the text
in Activity 4, especially about connectives.
3. Closing Activities:
The teacher asks about the students’
difficulties during the teaching and
learning process.
The teacher summarizes
the lesson.
The teacher asks a student to lead a prayer.
The teacher says good bye.
b. Meeting II
1. Opening Activities:
The teacher greets the students.
The teacher asks a student to lead a prayer.
The teacher
checks students’ attendance.
The teacher
reviews materials
from the
previous meeting.
2. Main Activities:
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JCOT Activity 6
The teacher and the students discuss the homework that
the teacher has given the previous meeting.
Activity 7 The teacher divides the
students into small groups of four or five and asks
them to sit based on their own group. The teacher
gives
each group
a worksheet
to find
the meaning of words in a table.
Those words are taken from a text that they are going to
discuss in the next activity. Activity 8
The teacher shows the groups presentation slides
and tells them that they are going to have a discussion
about the content of a recount text
entitled ‘It’s Only Me
’. Then, the teacher explains the three stages of
the discussion,
namely
predicting the content of
the recount text; reading the content of the recount text;
and
confirming the
predictions that have been made. Then, the teacher
distributes a
Prediction Verification Checklist
to the groups to be filled
during the
discussion
process.
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Activity 9 The
teacher lead
the discussion and shows the
groups presentation slides. Then, the teacher shows the
title of the text slide 1 and has the groups predict what
the text will be about by writing down the prediction
on
the Prediction
Verification Checklist . The
teacher guides
the prediction making through
questions, the title of the text and the picture that the
text contains. After that, the teacher asks each group to
mention their predictions and write them down on the
whiteboard. After that, the teacher asks the groups to
read the first part of the text slide 2. Then, the teacher
and the groups decide which predictions
are accurate
based on the information from the part of the text.
This activity continues until the groups finish reading the
text. Finally, the teacher and the groups conclude the
discussion.
3. Closing Activities:
