Applying Photographs Based Activities.

c. Giving more feedback written and oral to the students related to their writing

performance. When students produced their writing product, they still had problems to make sentence correct patterns in using present tense and possessive pronoun. They sometimes forget the „s‟ adding in the action verbs and to be „is, am, are‟ when answering the questions and making their own texts after that they were confused in using possessive pronoun “him, her” with subject „he, she „ and object „him, her‟ . Furthermore, I did some explanation and repetition on how to use correct present tense and possessive pronoun. Then, students had to consult their writing product personally. When consulting their draft first, the feedbacks were given. Usually the most feedbacks related …Then, I said “ I have checked your adjectives and nouns words then sometimes still found incorrect adjectives and nouns forms so I gave circle sign to correct . ” ” Saya sudah mengecek pekerjaan kalian lalu masih menemukan beberapa bentuk kata sifat dan benda yang kurang tepat sehingga saya memberi tanda lingkaran untuk diperbaiki. “ I explained using one example on how to make adjectives and nouns forms correctly. “Ok when we want to say in English dia punya rambut yang lurus panjang hitam, gimana nulisnya? “ I tried to guide them “Her hair is long straight black hair.” Ss checked their answer and tried to correct their adjectives and nouns words… FN. 1022 nd May 2014 …“When you want to make your unorganized sentences in descriptive text , you should use present tense. Ketika kamu membuat kalimat lepas di teks deskriptif, kamu harus menggunakan keterangan waktu present tense. Ciri- cirinya apa?“ Ss answered that using to be is, am, are and verbses. FN. 1022 nd May 2014 to their writing mechanism including the use of punctuation and capitalization, students sometimes still missed some punctuation rules. After revising their draft, students became more aware about this mechanism and be careful when they were writing. Later, in making students more understand on how to organize their sentence to be well arranged from top part to bottom part of photograph related to physical appearance and costume wore. Students were asked to sing head, shoulders, knees and toes together. The lyrics of the song contained on how parts of human body from top to bottom. The lyrics would make students understand better on how to arrange their own descriptive text and enjoyed learning English.

3. Reflection

After conducting the actions in cycle 1, there were some discussions done in order to make some reflections. In the discussion, the data which were obtained by interviews and observation were analysed to evaluate the actions conducted. The research team which were teacher and students were free to express their opinions, R : “Are there any diffiucties when you get practice writing in my class?” Ada kesulitan lain gak pas kalian latihan nulis bareng di kelas bapak? S22 : “Forget to use correct present tense” Ada pak kadang lupa tenses nya S23 : “Using Capitalization” Iya, huruf besar S18 : ” Punctuation including full stops and commas, sometimes I missed them. So I have to check my writing before collecting to you, Sir ” Sama tanda baca titik koma lupa gak teliti gitu pak. Jadi harus saya cek berulang kali dulu sebelum ngumpulin hehehhhe Interview Transcripts, 21 st may 2014 R : Researcher S22, 23, 18 : Student 22, 23, 18 feelings, and suggestion related to the actions. The results of reflections were presented below.

a. Applying Photographs Based Activities

The implementation of photographs based activities was successful. The use of photographs and their following activities could draw the students‟ attention as they were designed in colourful and attractive way as the stimulant for the students. Through using this media, I could give students support during writing especially when they were clueless of ideas. The photographs could be used to generate the ideas in their writing. During cycle I, students had more opportunities to enhance their writing performance in some writing practice designed. They had developed their confident to express their idea in written and be encouraged to write. The students had begun maximizing their creativity to write their product. They could start to generate ideas by mentioning some possible adjectives and nouns found on their photographs choice, then to construct their sentences based on the ideas found, and to organize their sentences to be well arranged texts.

a. Giving rewards to the active students.