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4. Implementing the Media to the Students;
Teaching and learning activities in the classroom were developed based on PPP Presentation-Practice-Production method. Talking puppets
media and some flash cards were used In delivering the learning materials. The teaching-learning activities are described below.
Presentation
a. Giving input to the students In this step the teacher should introduce new vocabularies as the
input before activities. Flashcards were used in this step. The teacher showed the pictures to the students and asked them to listen and repeat.
The pictures should be clear enough so all students could understand it. The following are the flashcards used to give an input to the students.
Figure 3.1: Flashcard picture
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b. Sing a song After the first activity, singing a song was conducted. This
step is aimed to stimulate the students’ psychomotor. Before the song began, the rules were explained by the teacher. Then the teacher and the
students sang a song together.
Practice
In this stage, talking puppet was used to deliver the material. The teacher used it in front of the class. There were two parts in this stage:
1. Stating the Title and introduce the characters The teacher wrote the title on the white board and pronounced it.
Then, the characters of “very hungry caterpillar” were introduced by the teacher. The researcher only used one puppet in the story.
2. Telling the story The story began after the teacher pushed the button on the media.
The story should be repeated more than twice so that the students could understand the learning material and memorize the
vocabularies. If the English teacher could catch the story or the main points, they could read the transcript in the teacher guidance book in
the appendix. While listening to the audio, the students also did task 1.
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c. Task 1 The first task was match pictures with the right words by drawing
lines. In this activity, the flashcards were stuck on the whiteboard. Then, the name of each picture in the flashcard was written by the teacher. After
that, the teacher asked the students to connect a picture with the right word by drawing lines on the whiteboard.
d. Task 2 The vocabularies about the story were introduced using flash cards
before this task. In this task, the teacher pronounced some vocabulary about food that the characters ate in the story. After that, the students
asked to color the picture. The following is the example of the second task and the complete task can be seen in appendix.
C_ T_ _ P_ L L _ R C H_ _S_
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Figure 3.2: The Example of the task 2
e. Task 3 After task 2 was done, the students did task 3.This task was aimed to
measure the students understanding. The teacher gave a command to arrange the picture and make a good story by putting numbers in the
boxes. The teacher gave a command to arrange the picture and make a good story by putting numbers in the boxes after explained the
instructions. The following is the example of the third task and the complete task can be seen in appendix.
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Figure 3.3: The Example of the task 3