b. Try Out, Evaluation, and Revision of Unit 4 1 The Try Out
The second draft of unit 4 “Exploring the World” was tried out on Monday, 29
th
September 2014.There were 23 students in the class. In the last day of the try out, the researcher was the teacher
who taught the students using the second draft of the listening –
speaking materials, while the English teacher was the observer. The teach
er started the class by singing “Good Afternoon” song and the students sang “Good Afternoon” song too as the
response. Then, they sang “How Are You?” song. The teacher asked the students to stand up and they started singing “Head,
Shoulders, Knees, and Toe s”. The students sat with their group and
then the teacher explained that in the last try out, the students were going to have treasure hunt activities. The student looked very
happy and excited. Before doing the treasure hunt, together they sang “If
You’re Happy” song. After that, the teacher gave a map to each group and explained what the students had to do. All of the group
made line and looked for the first post. The first post was under a mango tree in front of their classroom. They went there with their
group then made a big circle and sat down. They opened the page 51 of their book. The teacher explained the rules of “Identity
Swap” game and gave an example how to play it. Then, they started playing it. It was fun game, because the students chose
funny names as their new identities. All of them could know the new identities of their friends correctly and each group got one
more star for it. Next, the teacher taught the new song entitled “Hello, How Are You?”. The students easily sang it because they
knew the exact and correct pronunciation of each word. Then, they sang together.
Next, they went to post 2. The second post was in the school yard. In post 2, students played “Fast, Freaky Animals”
game. The teacher explained the rules of the game and gave examples how to play it. Every group prepared to play this game.
They played it cheerfully. Some students made the right pictures and some drew pictures with some mistakes. They loved doing
this. At the end of the game, group 3 became the group with less mistakes than other group. Group 3 had two stars while other
groups got each one star. Then, the students went to the third post. In post 3, students
are asked to sing together. They sang “Red, Yellow, Blue, and Green” song. The teacher change the paper with different color,
and the students could sing it. Next, the students played “Salad Fool” game. The teacher explained and gave an example how to
play this game. Every group worked seriously and they could fill
the worksheet on page 55 correctly. Each group got two more stars for their hard work.
The last post was in their classroom. They went there and wondered what treasure hid in their classroom. In post 4, they were
asked to have a performance in front of the class. They had to work in group. Every group discussed what they were going to perform
then the performance started from group 3, then 1 and 2.
Figure 26: The Students Performed in Front of Their Friends
After all the groups had each performance, then the teacher explained what treasure they got in this program. They got
friendship and togetherness. The teacher said that today was the last day of the program. She thanked to the students and asked the
students to fill questionnaires before they closed the program. After
that, the teacher announced the group winner in the program. All of the groups got each gift. They were very happy and hoped that the
teacher would teach them again. At the end of the lesson, the students sang “Goodbye” and
“Hip – Hip Hurray” songs. After that, they had a pray and went home.
2 The Evaluation
As it has been mentioned before, the evaluation of the second draft of unit 4 were obtained by administering observation
sheet for the observer. Below is the result of the observation.
Table 26: The Result of the Observation of Unit 4 No.
Statements Observer’s Note
1.
The students
did the
activities surely. Yes. They enjoyed doing
the treasure hunt.
2.
The students
seemed confident when they did the
activities. Yes. All of them did it
confidently.
3. The students seemed that