Pre-Activity 5 minutes Main Activity

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A. Meeting 5

1. Pre-Activity 5 minutes

a. The students greet the teacher soon after the teacher enters the class. b. The students’ are asked about their condition and are expected to answer in various ways. c. The students’ attendance is checked by the teacher. d. The students are checked whether or not they know what materials they are going to learn. If they do not know it yet, the teacher instructs them to check their syllabus. e. The students are introduced to the materials they are going to learn which is describing people. 1 The students are involved in a conversation with the teacher to talk about people in their surroundings. 2 One student is asked to come in front. 3 The rest of the students are asked to say what they can tell about the student. 4 The students are asked what actually the functions of describing people are. This step is done further in the step of questioning.

2. Main Activity

No. Steps Learning Activity Allocated Time 1. Observing a. The students are asked to listen to an audio recording played by the teacher and required to do a listening exercise. See attachment b. After the recording finished, the students are guided to discuss the answers to the exercise they have 8’ 2. Questioning a. The students are guided to construct some questions like: 1 What can we describe from someone? 2 How can we describe someone this will deal with the vocabulary and the grammar? 2’ 439 3. Collecting Data a. The students are guided to discuss the key vocabulary in the recording. b. The audio is played again and the students are asked to pay attention to the pronunciation of each word. c. Then, the students are guided to discuss what parts of someone are described in the recording. The parts are then listed on the board in front of the class. d. The students are asked to collect more data from their textbook. e. Two students are pointed voluntarily to act out the dialog in their textbook on page 139. See attachment f. If there are any mispronounced words, pronunciation drills are to be carried out after. g. The students are asked what the meaning of the conversation is. h. The students are asked the meaning of several keywords like fair skin, and chubby. i. Again, what is described is listed on the board. j. Step d-h is repeated for page 140. 37’ 4. Associating a. Looking at the lists on the board, the students are asked to associate the lists to one another and conclude the pattern of the lists i.e what comes first and what follows. b. The students are guided to conclude the text structures 15’ 440 of the texts describing people. They are guided to conclude that in describing someone, they first identify who the one is, how shehe looks like and how shehe behaves.

3. Post Activity 12 minutes