Action The Implementation of Games in the First Cycle

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2. Action

The action was conducted in two meetings. The first meeting was conducted on Friday, March 22 nd , 2013. The second meeting was on Thursday, April 4 th , 2013. The topic was writing an informal memo. a. First Meeting 1 Pre- Activity In the beginning of the lesson, the researcher introduced the researcher’s name. In pre activities, the researcher began the class by greeting the students. As the introduction, the students were asked what they knew about an informal memo. Then the students accepted call cards. 2 Whilst Activities In whilst activities, the class was divided into six groups. The names of the groups were lion, tiger, ant, dog, cat and dragon. The groups ’ name helped students remember their group names. Each group consisted of four students. Then, the students were asked to play jumbled sentences in their groups. They were asked to arrange the sentences given in to the correct arrangement of an informal memo. They were asked to stick the sentences on the paper prepared. The informal memo was about a memo from Rani to Tono. They should be cooperative with their group members. The group who had finished playing the game should then write their group names on the blackboard. Then, the researcher and students discussed together the students’ arrangement of the informal memo and the correct arrangement of the informal memo together. After discussing the arrangement of the informal memo, the students were asked to answer the 41 students’ worksheets. Then, the students also discussed the questions provided including the elements and language features of an informal memo. 3 Post Activities In post activities, the researcher reviewed what the students had learned by asking and answering questions session. Then, the researcher concluded the materials by asking the students orally. Finally, the researcher closed the meeting of that day. b. Second Meeting The second meeting was conducted on Thursday, April 4 th , 2013. There were four days of Easter holidays so the researcher could not do the study in the previous week. There were 24 students joined the lesson. There were 3 mains activities. 1 Pre- Activities In pre activities, the researcher began the class by greeting the students. The students answered the greeting enthusiastically. Then the researcher reviewed the material of the last meeting and distributed the call card. 2 Whilst Activity In whilst activities, the students were asked to do the second game; jumbled words. In this game, the students were asked to arrange the words into correct sentences in their group. The tenses of the sentences were simple present tense and simple future tense. Those were the tenses used in writing an informal memo. The students were asked to stick the arrangement of words dealt with 42 informal memos on the paper prepared. They might look at their dictionary to find the difficult words. After that, the group who had finished playing the game should then write their group’s names on the blackboard. Then, some volunteers chose the sentences that they were going to write on the blackboard. After all of the sentences had been written, the teacher and students discussed the sentences one by one. In the discussion, the researcher explained the tenses which were used in writing an informal memo; simple present tense and simple future tense because most of them forgot the tenses. The last game was flash pictures. In this game, the students were asked to look at the some pictures which were flashed by the teacher. There were seven pictures; a market, a watermelon, ten grams of grapes, a half of kilogram of carrots, a kilogram of chilies, a house and a clock indicating 11 a.m. The teacher flashed the pictures three times. After looking at the pictures, the students were asked to write an informal memo based on the flash pictures they had seen. The girls pretended to be mothers who wrote an informal memo to their sons or daughters to buy the vegetables and ingredients. The boys pretended to be fathers who wrote informal memos to their sons or daughters to buy the vegetables and ingredients. They had 45 minutes in writing an informal memo. They might look at the dictionary to help them find difficult words. The teacher was walking around the class to help studen ts and answer students’ questions during the implementation of the games. Then the researcher asked the students to submit their drafts. Then, the researcher gave feedback to their drafts and gave it back on Friday, April 5 th , 2013. After that, the students were asked to submit their revised written texts on Saturday, April 6 th , 2013. 43 3 Post Activities In post activities, the researcher reviewed what the students had learned by asking and answering questions session. After that, the researcher distributed written reflective questions to the students. Then the researcher closed the meeting of that day.

3. Observation