Here, the writer tried to classify some songs which are frequently used in teaching English vocabulary. Some songs will accompany the teaching of
vocabulary when it fits to the materials of the lesson. Songs are classified as follows:
1 Activity song Looking at its type, activity song is a song which full of action verbs
vocabulary which makes the listener motivated to move and do what is written in the lyric. The song contains of the activities serve a variety of purposes: to
introduce or reinforce vocabulary knowledge, to provide practice using prediction skills, to develop awareness of coherence, and to improve
storytelling ability.
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2 Counting Song It is a song type which will appropriately be used in the teaching of
counting numbers. It is a popular in teaching basic mathematic subject in English.
3 Learning song Every English song for children is actually for their learning activity, this
song is just the song contains of vocabularies students need to know.
4. Story a.
Definition of Story
Story is told in every nation, or even our cultures have its own stories to be told in hereditary or from generation to generation whether they are real or
unreal.
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Millbower, loc. cit., p. 6-9
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Nico Lorenzutti, Beyond the Gap Fill: Dynamic Activities for Song in the EFL Classroom, Vietnam: Eng lish Tea ching Forum, 2014, p. 14.
According to Phillips in her book stated “Story is a feature of all culture and have a universal appeal. Stories in the
broadest sense including anecdotes, jokes, „you’ll never guess what happened to me’ etc. fascinate both children and adults-everybody loves a
story- and they can be used to great effec t in the language classroom.”
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Stories are created and they don’t accidentally happen. There must be a story maker and teller if there is to be a story. The story maker is the controller of
all what the story is going to be for he must know the details of his story. Therefore he has the control over who the characters are, what they do in the story
etc. he also has a control over the way of the story to be told, and who should tell the story out.
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Highlighting one of the points of view which have been mentioned above the story maker has control over the way of the story to be told, and who should
tell the story out. This point means that whoever touches the story and tell it by his ways will give quite different total story either from the aspect of the meaning,
impression or any other aspects of the story. Hence, in this case the man should be put on the right place, the one who
is able to tell the story should be there then the story itself can be delivered to the listener.
In the educational area, deeply in language teaching story is one of the techniques commonly used to teach language, here teachers need to able to
control the way of the story when it is being told.
b. Purpose of Story
Story is meant for entertainment, a description of how something happened, that is intended to entertain people, and may be true of imaginary
Entertainment is one of several numerous reasons for why the stories are told beside many of them are used to teach a moral and life lesson. Although
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Phillips, op. cit. p.16
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Robert W. Boynton and Maynard Mack, Introduction of the Short Story: Revised Second Edition, New Jersey: Hayden Book Company, Inc, 1972.p. 32
