The Description of Unit 2
guessing pictures of public figures based on some provided clues. The purpose is to give students the background knowledge about descriptive text.
In Information Centre there are three tasks there. The first task is reading a descriptive text entitled “JKT 48”. It is a description of two public
figures from that vocal group. Before the students read, they are asked to read a set of vocabularies which can help them in understanding the text. After
finishing reading the text, the students need to complete a box which follows the text.
The next two tasks in this section are to understand descriptive texts through the explanation. This task facilitates the students to know what a
descriptive text is and what its parts are. By doing this task, the students are expected to be better in understanding a descriptive text. The first task deals
with the generic structure and elements in descriptive texts. Then, the next task focuses on the adjectives, which often appear in descriptive texts.
After information Centre section, there is Exercises 1. In this section, there is a completing a paragraph task. The students need to complete
incomplete sentences in the task with appropriate adjectives which have been provided in a box. The goal of this task is to increase students’ understanding
about adjectives. The last section in this stage is the Grammar Centre. In this section,
students will learn about grammar which will help them to understand the descriptive text more i.e. simple present tense. This tense is chosen because in
descriptive text this tense is widely used. There are two tasks in this section.
The first task needs the students to learn an explanation about simple present tense. After understanding simple present tense from the explanation, the
students will do the second task to apply their knowledge i.e. transforming ungrammatical verbs into grammatical ones.
After Stage 1 has been completed, the students need to move on to the next part namely Stage 2. In this stage, there are two tasks. The first task is
students are to describe four public figures in a paragraph. Meanwhile in the second task, the students need to write an email for someone to describe their
physical appearances. All tasks in this stage need the students to deploy all their knowledge that they have learnt in Stage 1 and to prepare for writing
descriptive texts. After gaining information in Stage 1 and preparing for writing in
Stage 2, the students will enter Stage 3 i.e. to write a complete descriptive text. The students will write a descriptive text from step by step. Firstly, they need
to write an outline. After outlining, they will develop a complete text, and then finally evaluating, having feedback, and revising.
The next part is Summary. The purpose of this section is to provide the summary of language items which are taught in Unit 2. By this section, the
students will know the focus of Unit 2 and can redo the activities if they were not sure about their achievement of the objectives.
The final part is Reflection. The Reflection provides some statements about the objectives of Unit 2. The students are to fill the given spaces about
how much they learn from this unit, i.e. very much, much, and little. From
this activity, both the learner and teacher will know their improvement from learning this unit.