Method Teaching Learning Activities

471 j. The students are checked whether or not they know what materials they are going to learn. If they do not know it yet, the teacher instructs them to check their syllabus. k. The students are introduced to the materials they are going to learn which is describing animals. l. The students are involved in a conversation with the teacher to talk about pets. 5. Main Activity No. Steps Learning Activity Allocated Time 6. Observing a. The students are asked to enjoy the first video, and notified to focus on the information in the video. b. The students watch the video in which there are a boy and a girl talking about their pets. This step is the introduction to the materials that the students are going to learn. Besides introducing the materials, this step is done to attract the students’ attention to the class activity. c. The students are involved in a discussion talking about what the video is about. Besides, they are asked to give their comments on the video. This is to engage the students in the learning activity. By doing so, the students are expected to be willing to speak up their mind. d. The students are asked to watch another video in which there are two women talking about a pet. e. The students are led to discuss these following questions. 15’ 472 d. What does the speakers tell us about? e. What is the color of the pet? f. What is the name of the pet? g. How does the pet look like? h. How many times a week does the owner bathe her pet? 7. Questioning a. The students are led to some questions like: 1. How does a descriptive text function? 2. What information does a descriptive text contain? 3. How can we describe a pet?  What part of a pet can we describe?  What kind of sentence structure can we use? b. The students are asked to do task 1 as the introduction to the next discussion in which the students analyze a descriptive text of a kitten. See attachment. 15’ 8. Collecting data a. The students are provided with a text. See attachment. b. Some student are asked to read aloud the text partially, and the rest of the students are asked to listen to them attentively. c. If there are any miss- pronounced words, drilling of pronunciation is to be carried out d. The students are led to discuss the content of the text. 45’ 473 The discussion is directed to answer the questions below. 1. What is the text about? 2. What is the name of the pet? 3. What are the colors of the pet? 4. What is the meaning of the words heart-shaped pattern in line 4? 5. How long is the body of the cat? 6. How many times does the writer cut the pet’s nails a week? 7. Is Moncy a good pet? Why? e. The students are asked to do task 2 and 3 in pairs to strengthen their vocabulary mastery. See attachment. f. The students are asked to do task 4 in which they have to rearrange jumbled words into good sentences to strengthen their understanding toward the sentence structure used in describing a pet. See attachment

6. Post Activity 10 minutes

f. The students are stimulated to summarize what they have learned i.e what can be described from a pet, what sentence structure is used in describing a pet, and how a description of a pet functions in the daily life. g. The students are given an opportunity to ask questions related to describing a pet. h. The students are given an opportunity to deliver their comments or opinions toward their learning process. i. The students are told that on the next meeting, they are going to learn more about describing a pet. They are informed that they are going to see more examples of descriptive texts of pets and have a speaking activity at the end of the next meeting. 474 j. The students are appreciated for being cooperative. They respond to it and say their goodbyes. k. The teacher responds to the students’ goodbyes and leaves the class.

D. Meeting 2

3. Pre- Activity 5 minutes

g. The students greet the teacher soon after the teacher enters the class. h. The students’ attendance is checked by the teacher. i. The students are stimulated to review the materials related to describing a pet that they have learned in the previous meeting. j. The students’ understanding is checked by asking them questions. k. The students are involved in a conversation with the teacher to talk about pets.

4. Main Activity

No. Steps Learning Activity Allocated Time 1. Collecting Data Continuation of the previous meeting a. The students are asked to do task 5 that is a listening activity in which they have to listen to a recording and then number the pictures based on the recording. See attachment b. This listening activity gives the students an input for their speaking activity. c. The students are guided to discuss the answer to the questions in the task. 15’ 2. Associating a. The students are guided to associate one of the texts to the other. b. They are asked to find what appears at the beginning of the texts i.e the identification. c. Then, they are guided to find out what are described in the 20 ’