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Abstract
Vocabulary is an important part in Learning English because it gives big
contribution to master the language. As a result, it is important for students to
have and to understand the meaning of English vocabulary. Action verbs are one
of vocabulary components that are needed to learn and to understand by
elementary school students. However, knowing and understanding the meaning of
action verbs are difficult for them because action verbs are abstract which is
different from nouns frequently seen around by the students. Therefore, teacher
should find a suitable technique for helping them to understand the verbs easily.
One of the interesting techniques that can be applied by the teacher is Charades
Game which is an acting and guessing game that requires students to play as an
actor to describe words or phrases with silent actions while the rest of the students
are required to guess the words being acted by the actor.
B. DISCUSSION
Having vocabulary knowledge is very essential because vocabulary is the
central part of the language. Vocabulary is the major factors to be successful in
learning the four skills of English known as listening, speaking, reading, and
writing. Schmitt (1997) emphasizes that vocabulary knowledge is central to
communicative competence and to acquisition of a second language.
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/JUMPING/ /DRINKING/
/READING/ /WRITING/
/RUNNING/ /DANCING/
/EATING/ /WALKING/
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To make students more familiar with the words, teacher will do story
telling with the action verbs. While doing the story telling, teacher can act
out the words in the story, so students become more familiar with the words
that are being taught. This activity can take about 10-15 minutes
Hobbies
One day, there was a rabbit and a monkey talking each other. The
rabbit said, “Hey, monkey! What is your hobbies?” Then, the monkey
replied, “hhmm, I like jumping.” Then, the monkey was jumping. “I also
like dancing”. Then, the monkey was dancing and asked the rabbit to
dance with him. “I like running too, I am a good runner”. Then, the
monkey was running to show the rabbit that he was a good runner. After
running, the monkey said, “I am so thirsty and hungry now”. Then, the
monkey was drinking and eating banana from the tree. After eating, the
monkey asked the rabbit, “How about you rabbit?” Then, the rabbit said,
“I like reading a book and I also like writing a letter to my friend”.
“Wow, you must be smart, rabbit”, said the monkey. It was almost night,
then the monkey asked rabbit to go home together. Finally, they walked
together.
After learning all of the words, students will play Charades game to
reinforce their vocabulary, so they will master the words that have been
taught to them.
Before playing Charades Game, the teacher will divide students
into four groups. Because the amount of students in Indonesia are usually
around 30 people in each class, it will be good to divide them into four
teams rather than two teams, so there will be more participation of students
in this game. Teacher then tells students that there will be three rounds in
this game. The first round is the competition between A and B, and the
second round is C and D. The groups that win the first and second round,
they will compete in the third round or final round.
Here is the illustration.
Teacher: We are going to play a game called Charades Game. Now
make a group of four, A, B, C, and D.
Students: Yes, mam!
Teacher: There will be three rounds in this game. The first round is
between A and B, the second round is between C and D. The group
who win in the first and second round will compete in the third round.
Students: Yes Ma’am!
After that, teacher explains about the game. Teacher will model how
to play the game first. Teacher will act as an actor and the students will
shout any answer that come to their mind. After showing how the game
works and making sure that the students understand, teacher chooses one
representative for each group.
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Next, the game is played. In the first round, teacher will ask group A
and B to compete. The representative of group A will be the actor, and the
members of team B will be the ones who shout the word is being acted. For
example, teacher asks the actor to choose index cards randomly in the box,
and he gets jumping index cards.
Teacher: Now, come to the front the actor of the Group A! Choose
this card randomly!
Students: (get the jumping cards, for example)
JUMPING
Then, he must act out the words and the members of team B will guess
the word being acted within a minute. If they answer correctly, they get 1
point. If they don’t, they don’t get any point.
Teacher: act out the words in the card! The member of group B
must shout out the word correctly in a minute. Any sounds are
forbidden!
Students: Yes, Mam!
After the actor of group A finishes the game, it’s time for the
representative or actor of team B to act the words in Index cards in the
same way. After the first round ends, the groups of second round, C and D
will play the game in the same way like in the first round.
After getting the winner of the first and the second round, they will
compete each other in the third round. The third round is a little bit different
from the previous ones. In the third round, teacher chooses the
representative to be the actor, then the winner groups will compete to guess
the words acted by the chosen actor. The group who answers the word
correctly first, they will get a point.
After the game ends, the group who gets more points will win. Then
teacher discuss about the words with the students. The teacher can ask
students what words that are most difficult to guess and why it is hard to
guess.
At the end of the lesson, teacher can review the words that have
been learned by the students by asking the meaning of the words that have
been learned literally.
Teacher makes sure that most students participate in answering the
questions.
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