The Description of Unit 1

more comfortable with it, remembering they have read it before and hopefully understood it. After the Information Centre, there will be Exercises 1. The goal of the exercises in this section is to assess what they have learnt in Information Centre. There are two tasks here. The first task is determining whether a statement is true or false with its reason. The goal of this task is to improve students’ understanding in reading a text and logical reasoning. The second task is arranging jumbled sentences in a correct order. There are five pictures provided to help them. To do this task, the students need to use their knowledge which they have gained before like generic structure and sequencing. The last section in this stage is grammar centre. The objective in this section is to make students express the simple past tense properly. There are three tasks in this section, the first one is to study the grammar i.e. read the explanation and the last two tasks are correcting ungrammatical sentences and a paragraph. After clearing the Stage 1, there is Stage 2 which only consists of Exercises 2. There are three tasks in this section. The first task is reading a narrative text without title and then completing boxes and a form which follow. Students’ knowledge about narrative texts like generic structures and elements of narrative texts such as character, sequencing, setting, etc are needed here. The next task is studying stages in writing. It is important for the students as a preparation before they write. The final task in this section is developing a story from provided outline. After completing Stage 2, there will be Stage 3. In this stage, tasks are designed as independent tasks. There are two tasks here i.e. writing a narrative story and revising it. After writing and revising a narrative text, the students need to send their works to the teacher for evaluation and feedback. The next part is Summary. The purpose of this section is to provide the summary of language items which are taught in Unit 1. By this section, the students will know the focus of Unit one and can redo the activities if they were not sure about their achievement of the objectives. The final part is Reflection. The purpose of this section is to facilitate the students with self-assessment activity. The students are to measure their understanding about the language items which are taught in Unit 1. There are provided some statements which the learners must fill it by their own. Therefore, the learners will aware how much they have learnt from this unit.

b. The Description of Unit 2

Unit 2 is entitled “She looks like”. The title was taken from one of expressions in descriptive texts when describing people. The description about the objectives of this unit was provided in introductory paragraph. Based on the design, the first part is Stage 1 which consists of Lead-in, Information Centre, Exercises 1, and Grammar Centre. In Lead-in section, students are provided with tasks which create background knowledge and a context for the further activities. The type of activities for this section is guessing pictures of public figures based on some provided clues. The purpose is to give students the background knowledge about descriptive text. In Information Centre there are three tasks there. The first task is reading a descriptive text entitled “JKT 48”. It is a description of two public figures from that vocal group. Before the students read, they are asked to read a set of vocabularies which can help them in understanding the text. After finishing reading the text, the students need to complete a box which follows the text. The next two tasks in this section are to understand descriptive texts through the explanation. This task facilitates the students to know what a descriptive text is and what its parts are. By doing this task, the students are expected to be better in understanding a descriptive text. The first task deals with the generic structure and elements in descriptive texts. Then, the next task focuses on the adjectives, which often appear in descriptive texts. After information Centre section, there is Exercises 1. In this section, there is a completing a paragraph task. The students need to complete incomplete sentences in the task with appropriate adjectives which have been provided in a box. The goal of this task is to increase students’ understanding about adjectives. The last section in this stage is the Grammar Centre. In this section, students will learn about grammar which will help them to understand the descriptive text more i.e. simple present tense. This tense is chosen because in descriptive text this tense is widely used. There are two tasks in this section.