collecting data, analyzing data, and communicating are combined into finding out. It aims to ease students in carrying out the tasks in the developed materials.
Students collect the data by doing the tasks and communicate their finding to their classmates. The last part of main lesson is creating. In this step, students are asked
to produce a particular kind of text. The activities are developed from guided to free activities. In the end of each cycle, there is an intermezzo that contains facts
related to visual communication design, proverbs, quotes, and other information. The last part of the materials is reinforcement. It consists of homework,
summary, and reflection. The reinforcement part aims to give the students chances to have more practice outside the classroom on what they have learnt in the unit
through activities in homework. While in summary, the students have a clear picture of the text, language features, and grammar in the unit. The reflection
gives the students chances to recognize their own success and lack in learning the materials in the unit.
4. The First Draft of the Materials
The developed materials consist of three units which are elaborated below: a. Unit 1
Unit 1 is derived from core competences 1, 2, 3, 4 and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.9, 4.13, 4.14. The topic of this unit is experiences of attending art
exhibitions. The unit focuses on recount texts about art exhibitions. The title of Unit 1
is “My Art Exhibition”. The title shows that the unit focuses on retelling
experiences on attending art exhibitions. The focus of the grammar is simple past tense and time conjunctions.
The core competences and basic competences require the students to be able to analyze the social function, text structure, and language features of recount
texts and also to be able to produce the text in spoken and written forms. The unit is divided into two cycles: spoken cycle and written cycle in which each cycle
consists of several tasks. There are 30 tasks in the first unit; 2 tasks belong to warm up activities, 14
tasks belong to reading and writing activities, 13 tasks belong to listening and speaking activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of
each task is in Appendix D. b. Unit 2
Unit 2 is derived from core competences 1, 2, 3, 4, and basic competences 1.1, 2.3, 3.10, 4.15. The topic of this unit is folktales from several countries. The
unit focuses on narrative texts. The title of Unit 2 is “Stories Around The World”.
The title represents the text type that will be learnt in the unit. The focus of the grammar is reported speeches.
The core competences and basic competences require the students to be able to analyze the social function, text structure, and language features of
narrative texts and also to be able to produce the text in spoken and written forms. The unit is divided into two cycles: spoken cycle and written cycle in which each
cycle consists of several tasks.
There are 28 tasks in the second unit; 3 tasks belong to warm up activities, 13 tasks belong to reading and writing activities, 11 tasks belong to listening and
speaking activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of each task is in Appendix D.
c. Unit 3 The course grid of Unit 3 is derived from core competence 1, 2, 3, 4 and
basic competence 1.1, 2.2, 3.4, 4.5. The topic of this unit is intentions for final projects. The unit focuses on asking for and expressing intentions. The title of
Unit 3 is “I Am Going To Make A Masterpiece”. The title clearly shows that the
unit presents the expressions of asking for and expressing intentions. The focus of the grammar is the use of “will” and “be going to”.
The core competences and basic competences require the students to be able to analyze the social function, text structure, and language features of asking
for and stating intentions and also be able to produce the text in spoken and written forms that contain expressions of asking for and stating intentions The unit
is divided into two cycles: spoken cycle and written cycle in which each cycle consists of several tasks.
There are 28 tasks in the third unit; 1 task belongs to warm up activities, 11 tasks belong to reading and writing activities, 10 tasks belong to listening and
speaking activities, and 1 task belongs to homework activity. The description of each task is in Appendix D.
5. The Expert Judgment
