Communicative Activities Teaching Learning Activities and Resources

68 Experience ”. Learners could be asked to read the conversation or listen to the listening passage. It was the role of the teacher to give controlled practice to make learners more familiar with the language function, vocabularies, and structures. In this part, learners could be asked to work in pair or group.

3. Language Exercise

Language exercise is also considered as part of main-activity. This part focused on the language function and grammar. Kinds of expressions related to the topic were given here. Learners may ask to pay attention on the language function that could be used in their communicative activity. This part also gave learners with the language exercises, therefore the writer named this phase in the materials “ Let’s Learn”. In this part, learners can be asked to work individually to accomplish the task. Matching and memorizing, were the kinds of tasks used in this part.

4. Communicative Activities

The communicative activities are also considered as part of main-task or main activity. In this part, learners were considered ready to engage in freer practice. Its aim was to practice the newly acquired in more communicative way, which bridge the gap, the classroom and the real world. Learners will practice producing language here. Role playing, decision making, problem solving, jigsaw, sequencing, information-gap, games, or creative tasks were kinds of tasks used in this part. In this part, lots of grammatical mistakes may be made. However, the mistakes must be seen as part of learning to communicate. The writer named this phase in the materials “Express Yourself “. In this part, learners could be asked PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 69 to work individually, in pairs, or in group. They could communicate freely using the language and grammar they have learned from the previous tasks. The writer also added one more section in the designed materials. This additional section can be considered as post-task or post-activity. The writer decided to add this section because it was considered important to make learners write about what they have learned in each section. Then, the writer named it “ Let’s Sum Up” . In this part, learners were given some questions related to what they have learned in this unit. By answering the questions, learners would find out what they have learned from the lesson. This additional section could encourage learners to think, reflect and evaluate what they have learned. Finally, table 4.8 showed all the components of the design of English instructional speaking materials using task-based language teaching for the Taman Wisata Candi Prambanan staff. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI 70 Table 4.8: The Materials Design No Unit Name of the Unit Phase in TBLT Name of the Section ActivitiesTask 1. 1 Welcome to Prambanan Temple, I am Your Tour Guide Rehearsal Task Let’s Get Started • Sharing personal experience: Questions and answers about the pictures • Predicting: predicting what is the topic for today’s lesson. • Practice saying the countries and nationalities • Matching exercise Activation Task Let’s Experience • Listening and filling in the blanks • Practice the conversation and underline the greeting and introduction expressions Language Exercise Let’s Learn • Practice saying the expressions of greeting and introduction • Match the expressions with the responses • Complete the conversation and practice it Communicative Activities Express Yourself • Role play Post Task Let’s Sum Up • Reflecting 71 No Unit Name of the Unit Phase in TBLT Name of the Section ActivitiesTask 2. 2 Go Straight Ahead Rehearsal Task Let’s Get Started • Sharing personal experience: Questions and answers about the pictures • Predicting what is the topic for today’s lesson • Practice saying the vocabulary of giving direction Activation Task Let’s Experience • Conversational pattern: reading the conversation in pairs • Underline the expressions of asking and giving direction Language Exercise Let’s Learn • Practicing saying the expressions of asking and giving direction in pairs. • Exercise: find the meaning of terms in Taman Wisata Candi Prambanan • Exercise: fill in the blanks with the correct words Communicative Activities Express Yourself • Co-operatinggroup work • Information gap task Post Task Let’s Sum Up • Reflecting 72 No Unit Name of the Unit Phase in TBLT Name of the Section ActivitiesTask 3. 3 This is Shiva Temple Rehearsal Task Let’s Get Started • Sharing personal experience: questions and answers about the pictures • Predicting what is to come in today’s lesson. • Matching exercise: match the pictures with the names Activation Task Let’s Experience • Conversational pattern: read the conversation • Co-operating: questions and answers based on the conversation • Listening and taking notes Language Exercise Let’s Learn • Practicing: practice saying the expressions of asking and giving information • Listing: list the subject followed by V1 and Vses • Exercise: make the questions based on the sentence. Communicative Activities Express Yourself • Jigsaw task: arrange the pictures of the making of relief into good order and make the information about it • Role play Post Task Let’s Sum Up • Reflecting 73 No Unit Name of the Unit Phase in TBLT Name of the Section ActivitiesTask 4. 4 Is There Any Problem? Rehearsal Task Let’s Get Started • Sharing personal experience: questions and answers about the pictures • Predicting what is to come in today’s lesson Activation Task Let’s Experience • Conversational pattern: read the conversation and answer the question • Matching activity: match the vocabulary with the meaning in Bahasa Indonesia Language Exercise Let’s Learn • Practicing: practice saying the expressions of apologizing, giving help, and asking for repetition • Conversational pattern: read the conversation and answer the questions • Exercise: complete the sentences Communicative Activities Express Yourself • Problem solving game • Role play Post Task Let’s Sum Up • Reflecting 74

F. Evaluation and Product Revision