The Description of Unit 4: Describing People

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d. The Description of Unit 4: Describing People

In unit 4, the researcher created a topic entitled “Describing People”. It also becomes the last unit in this set of integrated materials. Through this unit, the students are required to know how to describe someone or people in written and spoken form. Moreover, they are also required to know how to find information and identify the meaning of description through reading and listening. Communicative Language Teaching CLT approach and Curriculum 2013 was also applied in this last unit. The researcher compiled this unit into seven main activities into 9 pages page 29-37. Warming up activity was designed by the researcher as the first activity. Similar to the previous unit, this unit is started by warming up activity. This activity must be essential to stimulate and brainstorm the students. In this warming up activity, the researcher created an interesting matching task. In this first activity, the students are required to match each picture with its appropriate description. There are eight pictures with different pysical appearances. The Communicative Language Teaching CLT approach was determined in designing this first activity. This warming up activity can be a good alternative assessment. After working on the first activity, the students are going to be delivered to know the topic deeply. The researcher designed a simple and interesting explanation which is related to the topic. In order to get the students’ understanding, teacher as the facilitator is required to explain this material clearly. The teacher is also intended to be a model that needs to produce correct 67 pronunciation. In order to check the students’ understanding, the researcher provided the second activity. In this activity, the students are required to make simple sentences based on the pictures and keywords. In designing the second activity, the CLT approach was applied. The second activity must be effective to ensure the students know how to produce texts in different types and contexts. After designing the second activity, the researcher also provided a reading passage as the third activity. This text tells about the description of a best friend. Through this activity, the students are required to understand the content of this text. In order to check what the students get from that text, the researcher put seven questions in activity 4. The combination of reading activity and answering the question must be a great opportunity for the students to get the benefit of Communicative Language Teaching CLT approach. By working on the first activity, the students can focus on meaning based on the reading passage. Then, working on exercise can ensure students in enhancing the thinking skills. In order to enhance another skill, the researcher designed writing activity as activity 5. After reading the text entitled “My Best Friend”, the students are required to know how to describe someone in written form. In this writing activity, the students have to describe one of hisher classmates in a simple paragraph. They have to describe about hisher friend’s appearance and personality. This activity is based on the goal and benefit of Communicative Language Teaching CLT. While working on writing activity, the students can be able in producing and understanding the descriptive text. The creativity of the students is also exposed by the writing activity. 68 After knowing how to describe someone in written form, the students are also required to know how to describe someone in spoken form. The learning process must be in a good balance to deal with the four English skills. In this activity, the students start thinking about hisher favorite idol. Then, they have to speak up about the appearance, career, or anything which relates to the idol. While describing the idol, the speaker cannot tell the idol ’s name. In order to check the effectiveness of speaker in describing someone, the other students try to guess who the idol is. This activity must be a great chance to explore the communicative competence. According to Richards 2005, CLT ensures the students to know how to vary the use of language. It means that the students know how to use and produce speech based on the context using English. Through this activity, the students can also focus on meaning while paying attention to the speaking. Reflection becomes the closing activity in unit 4. This activity can reflect the students’ understanding about a topic entitled, Describing People. The students’ answers can also be a good reference for the teacher about the effectiveness of learning process.

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