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.
b. Course grid of Unit 2 The course grid of 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.
c. Course grid of Unit 3 The course grid of Unit 2 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 intention 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”.
3. The Unit Design
After the course grid was developed, the next step was developing the materials. The figure below shows the parts of each unit of the materials.
Figure 4.1 The unit design of the materials
Figure 4.1 shows that each unit of the materials has four parts: introduction, lesson proper, intermezzo, and reinforcement. The introduction part
consists of warm up activities. The activities help students to have a schema building of the materials that will be learnt. Besides, the students can recall their
present knowledge through the activities. The second part of the materials is main lesson. It is divided into spoken
cycle and written cycle. Each cycle follows the steps of scientific approach that is required by curriculum 2013. Those steps are observing, questioning, collecting,
analyzing, communicating, and creating. In the observing, students read or listen to a text and are given chance to observe things they want to know in terms of
content, structure, language features, grammar, etc. Then, based on the items they want to know, they have to make questions in questioning stage. The steps of
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
