d. Preparing some teaching facilities, such as “High Town” Card, audio recorder and board marker.
e. Preparing the instruments for data analysis during the research process, namely students’ observation checklist.
2. Action
There were two teaching learning activities in speaking class by using “High Town” Card Game as the action phase. The elaborations were as follows:
a. Teaching Learning Activity 1
In this first meeting of cycle 1, all activities could run well. All of the students were paying attention to the teacher seriously during teaching learning
activity. The activities which were carried in this meeting were the importance of speaking English and asking the difficulties why students rarely use English in the
class. After that I introduced what “High Town” Card Game is and the purpose of learning speaking using “High Town” Card.
Firstly, I opened the class by greeting the students, let them praying and checking their attendance. In this meeting, there were 36 students and all of them
attended the class. I told the goal of the lesson so that they could make their own map about why and how the class will be conducted.
Secondly, I asked them who like English but all students dislike English, especially in speaking English. They felt English is difficult, so they rarely spoke
English in and out class. I also asked about media usually used by their teacher, especially to improve speaking skill. Most of them agreed that text book is the
only learning source for all English competencies e.g. listening, speaking, reading and writing.
Thirdly, I introduced “High Town” Card as media to enhance mastering English, especially in speaking. Some students asked what the use of “High
Town” Card interactively when I was laying down the media around the class. I also explained the purpose learning speaking using this media.
After the students knew the mind mapping of the lesson, so I started to teach how to greet other people. I asked the students to pronounce the expressions.
Students are asked to make group in pairs and made role play for practicing the greeting expression using the card. The students used the name of each card, so
they acted like an artist based on the card, such as • A: Good morning
B: Good Morning A: How are you?
B: I’m fine, thank you. And you? A: I’m fine too. Thanks
• A: hello B: hello
A: what is your name? B: my name is Lisa. And you?
A: I am Tom. Nice to meet you B: nice to meet you too
After they practiced with the partner, it was time to ask the students one by one to greet other students and introduce the name in front of class, and then other
students answered the greeting and gave the comment from the performance.
b. Teaching Learning Activity 2
