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greeting, command, order, etc. Generally, the process of English teaching and learning at the 4
th
grade class was active enough although there were still some passive students.
C. Discussion 1.
Teaching English to the 4
th
Grade Students
In SD N 02 Kebak, Karanganyar, the English lesson is given from 1
st
grade students up to 6
th
grade students. The 4
th
grade students get English once a week and 60 minutes per meeting and it is not an ideal time to teach English well. For example, the 4
th
grade students have their English lesson on Friday at 09.15 am after having physical exercise and break. When the writer came in, the students were not ready to receive the lesson. The
writer decided to give several minutes until they were ready. The materials, which were taught to the 4
th
grade, were compiled from Grow with English book, FOKUS workbook, and other material related. The main book owned by the students was FOKUS. In this book, there were
4 units with 4 different themes. Each theme was provided with pictures, vocabularies, and exercises. The pictures helped the students to understand the material. The dialogues were
also provided under the pictures to help the students in the context of particular vocabulary. In this book, the materials are completed with exercises. The exercises are provided in the form
of multiple choices, matching, completing and arrangement sentences. Most of the questions are completed with small pictures.
2. The Teaching Procedure
The writer has some procedures in order to make the English teaching and learning run well. The following are the procedure of the English teaching and learning activities.
2.1. Presentation 2.1.1. Greeting
Before starting the lesson, the writer greeted the students in English after he entered the classroom. The greeting which is usually done between the teacher and the
students as follow: Teacher
: “Good morning students?”
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Students : “Good morning Mister.”
Teacher : “How are you today?”
Students : “I am fine, thank you and you?”
Teacher : “I am very well, thank you.”
Then after the greeting, the writer usually asked the students, whether there were any absent students or not.
2.1.2. Warming Up
Before the new material was given and taught, the writer gave warming up related to the material. It is useful to introduce the topic. For
example: Teacher
: “Do you have toys?” Students
: “Yes, I do” Teacher
: “What toys do you have?” Students
: “marbles, doll, gun”, etc Teacher
: “Ok, good” After giving some questions, the writer told the students that the topic
would be discussed was about toys. By doing this, the writer tried to attract the students to be involved to the material.
2.1.3. Explanation
After warming up, the teacher continued to explain the material. First, the writer asked the students to do something using simple English
command or order such as “Ok, now get your book from your bag then open page … “. After that, the writer began to explain the whole materials.
The writer gave a clear explanation and written form on the blackboard. When the writer gave the explanation orally, he repeated the
explanation again in order to make the students accept the materials easily. 2.1.4.
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In teaching English, the writer focuses on developing the four skills; namely listening, speaking, reading, and writing.
a. Listening
The materials given in the listening part were practices and questions. The writer gave instructions during the lesson then identified the respond from the students. The
instructions given were simple and usually used in the meetings. The example of instructions is “Please, open your FOKUS book page 21” or “Have you done your
homework?” The writer then watched the student‟s respond and tried to determine whether the students have understood the instruction or not. Students should pay
attention to the vocabularies pronounced. b. Speaking
Teaching speaking is one of the most difficult skills to teach. Most of the students were shy when the writer asked them to speak a particular word in English. Only few of the
students could answer the question orally. In introducing English, the writer also gave example how to pronounce the English
words to the students, then he asked the students to repeat the words and each word was pronounced more than twice. Some students made the correct pronunciation and the
others were not. Some students made incorrect pronunciations like “brother” as [broter] or [brater] not [bra ther].
c. Reading To introduce reading materials, the writer used dialogues or simple texts to the
students. The writer read it first and the students followed it. The students paid attention to the words in the book and the writer wrote the words in the blackboard. The
writer also asked the students to read the vocabularies in their books by themselves. Those activities were done in some repetitions and supported by several pictures
d. Writing
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The other difficult skill to be practice correctly by the students was writing. There were any differences between pronunciation and writing in English and Indonesian. Here are
some activities to develop the skill: i.
Straight copying The writer wrote words on the blackboard then the students wrote those
words in their own books. The students wrote the words repeatedly. The purpose of this activity is to give the student‟s vocabulary and help the
students memorize the word.
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ii. Matching
Students were given a simple test to match the words in column A to column B. The students gave the answers by drawing lines.
iii. Jumbled letter
The students have to arrange those letters in to the correct form. iv.
Completing sentences The students have to complete the sentences with their own words from
the vocabularies they had already known.
2. Difficulties in teaching English to 4
