Definition of Five-Minutes Activities Need for Short Activities

37 Next process is to look at the arrangement of details if it is consistent and clear then look at the logically of beginning of each sentence related to previous sentence so that the idea is clear or perhaps we have to rearrange the materials. Then rewrite the text. 5 Further revising and editing Take a look the next and revise it again, we have to focus on specific details and strong word choice. Edit and proofread our descriptive text, check for misspelled words and any other errors we notice. Get a clean copy of our work. Harris 1969: 68-69 claims that although the writing process has been analysed in many different ways, most teachers would probably agree in recognizing at least the following five general components: 1 Content : the substance of the writing; the ideas expressed. 2 Form : the organization of the content. 3 Grammar : the employment of grammatical form and syntactic pattern. 4 Style : the choice of structure and lexical items to give a particular tone or flavour to the writing. 5 Mechanics : the use of the graphic conventions of the language.

2.3.3 Five-Minute Activities

2.3.3.1 Definition of Five-Minutes Activities

Five-Minute Activities, were proposed completely by Ur and Wright 1993; x in their book entitled”Five-Minute Activities”, they are “the activities that may support to realize the expected situation.” This activity has purpose, such as a 38 quick warm-up at the beginning of the lesson to the students into the right mood or learning, etc. The teacher creates some activities and compiles them. The activities are similar to the language games, but as the name suggests, they are designed to be complete in about five minutes, as a review of the previous lesson and can be applied whether at the beginning, in the middle ordering, and at the end of the lesson.

2.3.3.2 Need for Short Activities

When preparing the lesson, a teacher starts by planning items he or she wants to include the teaching of new vocabularies, for example, or reading of a text, a new grammar point. Nevertheless, once he or she has prepared the main components of his or her lesson, and made sure it is learning-rich, varied, and interesting: he or she may find that he or she still needs some ingredients to make it into a smooth, integrated unit. He or she may need, for example, a quick warm-up for the beginning of the lesson to get the students into the right mood for learning or an idea for a brief vocabulary review before starting a new text. There is some need for short activities that should be known before using the Five-Minute Activities in teaching learning process. They are sated by Ur and Wright 1993: x as follows: 1 Learning value The teacher has left out activities, which they feel to be more time fillers, or those keep students occupied doing something relatively profitless. 39 2 Level The teacher will find indication of a recommended level only in very few cases. The teacher is probably the best judge of the appropriateness of the activities for the students. 3 Timing The Five-Minute Activities are designed to be completed in about five minutes of the lesson time, but some can be even shorter and others can be lengthened. 4 Preparation The teacher thinks that the activities should demand the minimum of preparation before the lesson. 5 Integrating the activities into the lesson The teacher should try to link each short activity with what he or she has done before, or what is coming after, in topic, mood or language. 6 Organization The teacher may find it helpful to turn over the book and note down for himself or herself names of activities he or she thinks that he or she may want to use, in which he or she will easily use them when he or she needs them. From the explanation above, I conclude that to reach teaching learning process of language, a teacher should be able to create an interesting way as motivation to students by using a new method, for example five-minute activities as an intermezzo in learning language. 40

2.3.3.3 Procedure of Applying Each of Five-Minute Activities

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