Course Grid Research Findings

the classroom on what they have learned of the whole unit. The summary part i s aimed to recall students’ memory of what they have learned in the unit. The reflection part is aimed to measure s tudents’ achievement by recognising their own success and lack in learning the materials in the unit. The last part of the unit i s fun part or “let’s have fun”. This part consists of idioms, crosswords puzzle, and word search puzzle which are related to the materials. The purpose of this part i s to refresh students’ mind after accomplishing the whole tasks in the unit by doing something fun.

5. The First Draft of Materials

The developed materials consist of three units. The design of each unit follow the unit design elaborated in the Figure 6. Below are the further explanations of each unit. a. Unit 1 This unit is divided into two cycles; reading-writing cycle and listening-speaking cycle. Each cycle consists of several tasks. There are 27 tasks in Unit One. There are three tasks in Warm-Up Activity, 12 tasks in reading-writing cycle, 11 tasks in listening-speaking cycle, and one task as homework. The following table presents the description of the tasks of Unit 1. Table 41: The Description of the Tasks of Unit 1 WARM UP Task Instruction Description 1 Match the pictures of baking problems below with their names. In this task, students are asked to match some pictures with their names. This task functions as the schema-builder to activate students’ schemata related to the topic of the unit. After accomplishing this task, students are expected to have a general view about what they are going to learn in the unit. 2 Study the pictures in Task 1. Then, answer the following questions. In this task, students are asked to study the previous pictures and answer several questions based on them. It aims to give the students a clearer picture of the area to cover in the unit. 3 The words in the following table will help you to understand the texts in this unit. In pairs, find the Indonesian words of the English words in the box. Then, pronounce all the words after your teacher. In this task, students are asked to find the Indonesian words of some English words related to the topic. It aims to enrich students’ vocabulary mastery and to prepare them with knowledge in order to help them to do next tasks in the unit. LET’S READ AND WRITE Observing 4 Read the consultation below. Then, tick √ and write items that you want to know. In this task, students are asked to read a consultation about baking problem and tick √ and write items that you want to know. This task aims to give students the opportunity to observe the language phenomenon that occurs in the text. Questioning 5 Formulate relevant questions based on the items you want to know in Task 4. Then, provide your temporary answers for the questions. In this task, students are asked to formulate relevant questions based on the items they want to know in previous task, then provide temporary answers for the continued