Data from Interview of the Students

b. Acting

The action of the cycle 1 was begun on June 8 th 2013. The writer, as the teacher implemented the teaching learning process based on the lesson plan had been made. In the first meeting, the teacher taught about reading texts and the topics are about daily life and an environment. In the beginning of teaching learning process, the teacher told what the texts is about by doing the pre activity to make the students interested in learning English in the class room, the teacher asked students to tell any information they know about the texts, the things they were not sure of the text, and the things they would like to know about the text. Some students answered that they knew about the texts, they got the information from television, magazine, newspaper and internet and some of students were not sure about the texts and some of them did not answer the questions. Next, the teacher gave worksheet related the texts and asked all of the students to write the answer and the information on a paper. After students answered the worksheet, then the teacher gave opportunity for some students to share orally about any information that they wrote on the paper. Next activity, the teacher gave the students the texts and asked the students to read the text. The teacher asked students to compare the information they wrote with the information they got from the texts. And the students counted how many information matched with the texts. Then, the teacher asked students to give the worksheet back to the teacher. And in the other time and place, the teacher check, edit and figure out how many percents the answers matched Next second meeting was done on June 10 th 2013. Before students read the text, the teacher asked students to work in pairs. First, the teacher gave some small piece of papers consisted ten categories related about past and present tenses. The students who got present form of verb had to find other students who had the past form of the verb, so they would sit with their partner. Next, teacher gave some questions relate the texts the questions type was yesno questions. The students should answer before they read the texts and they shared and discussed with their partner. After the students finished their answer, the teacher gave the texts for students and asked students to read. Then the students would have number of ‘facts’ about the text and matched their answer. In the end, the teacher asked them to switch the answers randomly so they would know how many correct answers they had. The teacher gave feedback before closed the lesson and assigned the students homework about to search texts related with the materials that would be used for the third meeting, the same lesson plan with the same activities have done in this meeting.

c. Observing

In this phase, the writer as the teacher observed the students’ response, participation, achievement and everything which was found during the teaching and learning process. When observing, the teacher noticed all of activities in the classroom. Sometime, the writer also asked some students’ opinion about the teaching reading using pre questioning. It is important as a feedback for teacher after teaching-learning process in the classroom. It was found that students more active when learning process, it seemed some students had initiative to answers the questions. At the first action of the first cycle, after the teacher asked students to tell all of the things they may know about the text, the students were so excited to answer, it was proven by some students more active to answer. Although, there were some students did not do their task because they relied on the other friends who had a better answer than they had. Some students also asked about the questions they did not