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THE DESCRIPTION OF UNIT 1 OF THE MATERIALS
Could You Explain What an Accountant Is? Description:
The title is taken form one of the expressions to carry out the language functions used and explained in the unit. This unit
encourages the students to learn about the expressions to ask for and give explanations, digraphs, and correlative conjunctions.
Learning Objectives
Description: This part describes the learning objectives that will be
achieved by the students after learning the unit of the materials.
A. Pre-Task
Task Description
Task 1 Instruction:
What do you think of when you hearread the
word accounting? Write your ideas in the boxes below. Description:
This task is designed to lead the students to have background knowledge about the scope of the unit topic. By
filling in the box about words related to accounting, it is expected that students will have a general view about what
they will learn in this unit.
Task 2 Instruction:
Work in pairs and study the pictures below. What probably are they? What do they do?
Description: In this task, the students are given a clearer
concept about the topic of the unit, which is about jobs in accounting.
Task 3 Instruction:
Below are some words you will find in Task 4. Find their Indonesian equivalents in the dictionary and then
repeat after your teacher. Description:
This task is aimed to prepare the students for the next task. By reading the vocabulary items, trying to
pronounce them, identifying their parts of speech, and finding their Indonesian equivalents, the students are expected to
understand the text they are going to listen in the next task better.
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B. Task Cycle
Task 4 Instruction:
In this task, you will listen to a dialogue twice. Listen carefully and check your comprehension by deciding
whether each of the following statements is true or false and give your reason. After that, compare your answers with your
classmates’. Number 1 has been done for you. Description:
In this task, the students are given a spoken dialogue describing about some types of jobs in accounting.
After listening to the dialogue twice, the students are asked to decide whether a statement is true or false based on the
dialogue to check their comprehension of the dialogue.
Task 5 Instruction:
Listen to the dialogue in Task 4 once again and complete the following table and have a class discussion to
check your answers. Description:
This task is designed to check the students’ comprehension of the dialogue in the previous task deeper.
The task consists of a table, and the students are asked to list types of jobs and what their duties are. Besides to check their
comprehension, this task also can give the students a brief explanation about types of jobs in accounting.
Task 6 Instruction:
Study the dialogue below. Check your understanding by answering the questions orally. Then, act
out the dialogue with your partner. Description:
This task is developed to give the students an example of written dialogue discussing about the topic of the
unit, jobs in accounting. The dialogue also contains some expressions used to carry out the language functions discussed
in this unit those are asking for and giving explanation. After reading and acting out the dialogue, the students are asked to
answer WH questions to check their comprehension.
Task 7 Instruction:
Study the explanation below with your partner. Description:
In this task, the students are given a brief explanation about what digraph is and the example of digraph.
Students are also asked to pronounce the words. Task 8
Instruction: Match the jobs in the box below with their job
description by putting the letter a, b, c, and so on. Number 1
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has been done for you. Description:
This task is designed to check the students’ knowledge about terms in accounting. The terms are types of
jobs in accounting. The students are asked to match the terms with their correct definition.
C. Language Focus
