Determining the Actions to Solve the Problems

47 classroom. He introduced himself and called the roles. He told that everybody should bring their dictionary or borrow it at the library. At that time, he found that some students were absent because two of four students rehearsal for participating a debate competition. The other was sick, and another was not information. After that, he told the learning objective to the class. The first activity was distributed the handouts to the students, and it was assisted by the observer. After all of the students got the handouts, to encourage them, the teacher sticks a big picture on the white board. The teacher also asked some eliciting questions. The students answered the question orally using the Indonesia language. The teacher asked to the students to open the first page. In the first step, he asked them to look carefully the picture in their handouts. The teacher played a recording about the picture. That was a conversation based on the picture. When the students listened to the recording, they also read the written conversation. After all, some students answered the questions related to the recording orally. After they finished answer the questions, the teacher asked the students to read the next dialogue in the handout, then they should practice it with their own partner. It was in the practice section. Afterwards, in interval 8-10 minutes, they finished their job to read the dialogue. The teacher asked a pair to go to in front of the class to practice it. Some students in the back of the class were crowded. After, the first pair performed their conversation, the teacher asked a pair in the back for performing their conversation in front of the class. But, they were refused it. The teacher gave them opportunity to perform their dialogue in their own desk. 48 After all, he asked them to look for some difficult words and the phonetic transcription symbols. Because most of the students did not bring their dictionary, the teacher helped them to write the phonetic transcription symbols in the white board and they pronounce the words together. In this step the situation was not control well. The teacher asked them to keep silent and pay attention to the lesson. But, some of them asked the teacher to go home, because the time has been finished. The teacher only ignored them. He continued his lesson. He told to the students if they got difficulties when pronounce time and prices. He gave them some examples, how pronounce time and prices. The situation was more uncontrolled, the teacher tried to give them some questions based on the dialogue before. Some of them answer the questions enthusiastic, but the others were not. At 14.45, the students cannot be handled well. Finally the teacher allowed the students’ want. The meeting was closed by the class leader with prayer. The teacher reminded them. There was not extra time for the next meeting, then they should learned the next material at home. The overall activity in first meeting run as not well as planned. The students did not pay attention to the teacher. They wanted to go home earlier from the schedule. Some of the students tried to speaking well, even though some of them felt shy and just kept silent without saying any word. In addition, the researcher often asked them about their difficulties related to the materials.