b. Try Out, Evaluation, and Revision of Unit 3 1 The Try Out
The second draft of unit 3 “Let’s Keep Our World” was tried out on Saturday, 26
th
September 2014.There were 23 students in the class. In this 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. All of the students looked so excited to do the activities
today. They brought some tools that teacher asked yesterday. Some students asked what they were going to do. The teacher asked the
students to sit with their group and calm down. The lesson was started “Good Afternoon” and “How Are You?” songs. The
students could sing it well. Then, they sang “Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes”.
The teacher asked her students to keep the tools because they would use it in section 2. The first section was started by
playing “Fruit in the Middle”. The teacher explained the rules of the game. This game reminded them about the expressions how to
ask for things. It was fun game and all of the students still remembered the expressions of asking for things. Their
pronunciation was better. Next, students opened the page 38 and 39 of students’ book. The teacher explained the expressions of how to
ask someone to do something and how to tell someone that we are able to or not able to do something. Some students looked
confused. Then, the teacher asked some students to have a practice in front of the class. She helped the students with their miss
pronunciation. After all of the students understood about the expressions, then the teacher asked them to open their book on
page 39. She explained about some new words. Next, she asked the students to do the task on page 40.The students started discussing it
with their group. After they had finished, they discussed it together with the teacher.
Then, the students played “Robot Action” game. Before playing it, the teacher explained the rules and gave some useful
words as it stated on page 41 of students’ book. Some students who became the robots still confused about the instructions, they did not
know what to do. It made their friends informed them. This game replayed once again to make all of the students truly understood
about the instructions. Next, the students were asked to act the pictures on page 42
and 43 out. Each group had to practice the expressions suitable for the pictures. At first, the teacher explained and gave some
examples by asking some student to practice the expressions with her. Group 2 had the first chance to practice it. They did it good
although they missed pronunciation of some words. Then, group 3
tried to practice it. They did it very good. They had very little miss pronounce the words. The last was group 1. They did it very good
too. They had improved their pronunciation. Each group got one more star for their performances. After that, they took a rest before
going to the next section. In section 2, the students started preparing the tools for
making rujak. The teacher explained the rules when they made it. Each group got different ingredients for the rujak. They had to ask
other groups to get other ingredients. While asking the things, the students had to fill the columns on page 44 and 45. The teacher
gave an example how to fill the column. Next, every student had to ask their friends to do some thing as their job and they needed to
fill the third column on page 45. After all the students understood about the rules, they started making the rujak. They asked other
ingredients from other groups and each student had each job to do. They were very happy. Every student did their job seriously and
filled the column correctly.
Figure 24: The Students Started Making Rujak
After all of the groups finished making rujak, they prepared the place to eat it together. Then, they prayed together and ate the
rujak. They enjoyed eating rujak made by their selves.
Figure 25: The Students Ate Rujak Together
Finished eating the rujak, the students were asked to clean the classroom. The leader of the group divided some job to the