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However, the students played the games very well. They followed the rules and participated in the speaking activities. They spoke using the right expressions.
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b. Giving listening activities to provide the model of expressions
After the researcher introduced the topic of the material, she presented the expressions in a spoken form by playing a recording. She also asked the students
to listen carefully and identify the expressions of asking for information, giving information and denying information in the recording. In the recording there were
some short conversations. The researcher played the recording once only. Then she invited the students to do a task. It consists of some questions related to the
recording. The students also had another listening activity. Here the researcher
presented the model of pronunciation in the spoken form using an electronic dictionary. The students were asked to listen to the pronunciation and repeat it. It
aimed to make the students to have accurate pronunciation. By using the electronic dictionary provided with the sounds of the pronunciation, the students
learnt how to pronounce some English words accurately. Although their printed- dictionary provides the phonetic transcription, some students still had difficulties
to pronounce the English words. To minimize the students’ mispronunciations, the researcher used the electronic dictionary, so that they could listen directly to the
model of pronunciation then repeated it. In the second meeting, after the researcher introduced the topic of the
material that the students were going to learn at the day she gave them listening activities at the stage of presentation. In this meeting the students were going to
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learn how to ask someone’s opinion and how to give an opinion. The students then were asked to watch video containing a conversation. The researcher played
the recording once only and asked the students to listen carefully to the conversations. Then, the researcher invited the students to discuss the expressions
in the video. The video showed a conversation between two people who are talking about a movie. Then the students were given some questions that they had
to answer based on the video. Afterwards, the students were given another listening activity. The
researcher presented the model of pronunciation in the spoken form using the electronic dictionary. Here the students learnt how to pronounce some English
words accurately. The students were asked to listen to the pronunciation and repeat it. It aimed to make the students to have accurate pronunciation.
In the third meeting, the researcher taught how to agree and how to disagree someone’s opinion. After she introduced the topic of the material, she gave the
students listening activity. She presented the model of the language as the input of speaking. She played a recording containing a conversation between two people.
In the conversation there were some expressions of agreeing and disagreeing that the students had to identify. After listening to the recording, the students were
asked to answer some questions related to the conversation in the recording. After they finished, they discussed it with the researcher.
The next activity was also listening activity. Here the researcher presented the model of pronunciation in the spoken form using electronic dictionary. The
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students were asked to listen to the pronunciation and repeat it. They learnt to pronounce some English words, so they could have accurate pronunciation.
c. Giving the students some practices
