1. 2. 1. 5 Planning for the Next Cycle

4. 1. 2. 2. 1 Material and Non-Projected Visual Media

The pictures that the researcher used for the presentation was the same pictures that the researcher used in the previous meetings. The researcher thought that by using the same pictures then it would make the students more familiar with the vocabulary. The researcher used the picture about situation in the classroom, the restaurant, and the kitchen. It could be seen that the students were easier to answer the teacher’s questions if the same pictures were used. The hand out that was used in this meeting was quite simple. Inside the hand out, the researcher put the rules of the tense. Besides the rules, the researcher also put some dialogs in the first section. The function of the dialogs was to give example to the students about how to apply the tense in the daily conversation. There were also some written exercises on it that the students could do individually or in group. Figure 4.8 Past Continuous Hand Out For the practice session in the second cycle, the researcher used the activities cards. However, the activities cards were a bit different than the previous cards that the researcher used in the first cycle. In these cards, the researcher put the pictures in the middle of rummy cards. In that way, the original signs of the cards were still appeared. Below was the picture of the cards. Figure 4. 9 Activities Rummy Cards 4. 1. 2. 2. 2 Learning Process Improvement The activities rummy cards were the third non-projected visual media that the researcher used in this research. By using these cards, it was hoped that the students’ speaking skill would improve better than the previous one. The sentence that was made by using these cards was a bit longer than the previous cards. If previously, by using the places cards, the students were still very guided to make the sentences. From the second cards which was activities cards, the students were led to make a simple sentence using past tense such as, “You slept yesterday”. From the third cards, the students were led to make a longer sentence such as, “She was washing the clothes at 4 p.m. yesterday”.