Overview of Several Media for Teaching English Part II

5. AUDIO MEDIA

In this audio visual media, the writer use song media which the goals are to improve student’s listening skill, enrich student mastery of vocabulary and develop student ability in part of speech and lexical meaning of word especially the synonym. This media used for student in second grade of senior high school. The song that the writer took is from Maher Zain under the title By My Side. Song is relaxed audio media, beside the student have to work with the lyric of song in learning English context, they also can enjoy the music from the song.

Here several steps of teaching English using song Maher Zain : By My Side

a.       The teacher provides speaker and Mp3 of the song ( Aviable in any smartphone)

b.      The teacher spreads the paper of song lyric which has already modified with some missing word and ask student fill the space blank with the word they heard from the song.to all students and play the song audio.

c.        After the song end, it is time to discuss the lyric with man points : Synonym, memorizing vocabularies, and categorize word into several part of speech.

 6. AUDIO VISUAL MEDIA

Generally, audio visual media refers to video media. Last time, the writer had done demo of teaching “Conditional Sentences” using video compilation from several movies which contained the statement of three types of conditional sentence. In that demo, the writer explained the conditional sentence by using Grammar Translation Method. After the student understand conditional basically, the write provide the video for exercise activity. Before the video is played, the writer spread one paper to all students and ask student to conclude wether the statement shows video compilation is including into first or second or third’s type of conditional sentence.

7. BOARDGAME 

The writer had created boardgame to exercise the adjective clause. This boardgame inspired by snake board game, fast and furious movie, and the date of birth of the writer self ( August, 27^th 1997). The game is like the movie of fast and furious 6 where the players is asked to drive the car  in the road until last lap. To make they car drive fast, the players have mission to solve.  The mission is asnwering question stated in mission card ( the question is all about adjective clause). If the player can solve that mission, they car will permit to pass one in fifty blocks in the road.This game is used to play in four people and only one is the winner.

 

That's all media that the writer had created modified and already performed in Instructional Media Class. However, there is no best media for teaching English, but a good one is media that created by teacherself based on student ability. It because of teacher know of what their need.