Main Activities: Closing Activities: Recount texts: Opening Activities:

283 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.

c. Meeting III

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:

 JCOT Activity 9 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 match words with their meaning. Those words are taken from a text that they are going to discuss in the next activity. Activity 10 The teacher tells the students that they are going to have the same activities using the DR-TA technique. Then, the teacher shows the groups presentation slides and distributes a Prediction Verification Checklist to the groups to be filled in the course of the activities. In the end of the activities, the teacher and the students conclude the discussion. Activity 11 284 The teacher distributes a worksheet that consists of 25 multiple-choice items to the students. To answer the questions, the teacher reminds the students to pay attention to clues such as titles and pictures that the texts contain.

1. Closing Activities:

 The teacher asks a student to lead a prayer.  The teacher says good bye. School : SMP Negeri 1 Yogyakarta Subject : English GradeSemester : VIII1 Text Type : Recount Texts Skill : Reading Standard of Competence : 5. Students are able to understand meaning in functional texts and simple short essays in the forms of recount in order to interact with their surroundings. Basic Competence : 5.3. Students are able to respond to the meaning and the rhetoric steps of short and simple essays accurately, fluently, and appropriately related to their surroundings in the forms of recount. Cycle II Topic Indicators Learning Materials Learning Activities Assessment Time Allocation Sources Holidays 1. Students can identify the language features of recount texts; 2. Students can identify the topic of the recount texts; and 3. Students can identify detailed information of the

1. Recount texts:

Visiting Grandma, It’s only Me

2. Rhetoric

steps of recount texts: A recount is a piece of text that retells past

a. Meeting I

1. Opening Activities:

 The teacher greets the students.  The teacher asks a student to lead a prayer.  The teacher checks students’ attendance. Technique: Written Test Form: Multiple- Choice Test 6 X 40’ 3 meetings 1. Anderson, Mark and Cathy Anderson. 1997. Text Types in English. South Yarra: Macmillan Education Australia Pty Ltd. 285 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: