Name :
HestiKurnianingsih, S. Pd
School :
MTsNSampit
Mapel :
BahasaInggris
STUDENTS CREATIVE SHOW!!!
It has become a wide knowledge that English is considered as
one of the most difficult lesson in Indonesia. Many students are afraid of
English and lack of enthusiasm whenever they get English lessons at school.
This condition is also happening at my school, MTsN Sampit. I often saw they
got sleepy, yawned and had that kind of
blank dreamy looks when I entered their classes. Their grades were also
very low with minimum involvement in the lesson. Moreover, I have such a large
number of students in a class, FORTY EIGHT STUDENTS!!! Can you imagine that?
The class became so crowded and hot because there is very little space for students and teacher
to move, and the result is noisy , sweating, but little improving class.Another
problem is about students’ ability in Speaking. They often get stuck in
expressing their feelings and their vocabularies are very little. But the most
dizzying one is how to make them active in my lessons. It becomes my concern to increase students’
involvement in my lessons and to attract their interests in English without
making them frightened. So, I invented my own way to make all of the class
involved in the classroom activity without leaving any single student behind.
First, when we discussed about Advertisement, I told my
students to make examples of
advertisement about a student show that had been stated as an exercise in the
work book that we used. Then we chose the best advertisement and had discussion
about what programs that could be very attractive for audiences. So, we made a
list of activity that can be performed in a show. After that, we found that
these programs could exist in an attractive student show, such as speeches,
singing songs, fashion show and interviews. I said to my students, “ How if we make this show into reality? “. They
all said,” Bisa nggak ya Bu?”. “ Sure you can!”, I exclaimed. “ So, should we
make it into real show?, I’ll guide you
what you should do”, I continued. “ YES, MA’AM!”
“Whatever happens next, that will be our responsible
together, “I told them.The next thing, we arranged our show with new spirit.
The first thing that we did was choosing the Master of Ceremony. We chose one
male student and one female student to guide our show programs. I chose two
with good Speaking Skill and braver than
the others because as a Master Ceremony, they would always stay on the stage.
Next was about choosing who would give out speeches. I appointed four students
to represent the headmaster, parents, OSIS chairman and from the students
themselves. Later, we singled out about
14 students as the group of choir that would sing an English song. The
coordinator of the choir then discussed about what English song that they would
perform on the show. The coordinator reported to me after their discussion that
they had chosen “Baby” from Justin Bieber to be sung on the stage. The next
step was, we talked about how to make a fashion show in the program and the
clothes should be constructed from
recycled and used materials. It was the most fun part!!
“Okay, who wants to be models!!!”, I asked the class.
“Kaspul Anwar, Ma’am! Tiara Gadis, Ma’am! Bella! Satrio,
Ma’am!”
“Hey… hey… why do you choose them?”, I said.
“Kaspul is cute, Ma’am”.
“ Huuuuuuuuuuu!!!
Firda naksir Kaspul, Maaaammmm!!”
“Okay, the coordinator for the fashion show is Tiara Gadis.
She will be responsible for the success of the fashion show. Are you ready
Tiara?”
“Yes, Ma’am.Saya coba ya Bu”
Then, we pointed out who would be the reporters that would
interview the performers after the show.We had five people as reporters and
news readers. The reporters’ duty was to make complete report about a performer
that they chose., and the news readers would make a news as if they were on
television. We decided to perform the show in the next meeting.
A week later, the students had arranged the tables at their
class into a stage and the chairs around the stage for audiences. I borrowed a
wireless microphone from one of my colleagues for the Master of Ceremony so the
audiences could hear their voices clearly. Each coordinator made their final
preparations and after everything was ready, they reported to me that the show was
about to begin. Before the show, I played some famous English and Korean songs such as from Justin
Bieber, 2 PM “Hands Up”.
“Woooowwwww!!!!!”, almost all of the students especially the
girls were screaming together upon hearing the songs. They were crazy about
Justin Bieber and 2 PM, those handsome, fabulous and famous guys of the music
world.
“Assalamualaikumwarahmatullahiwabarakatuh, ladies and
gentlemen. Welcome to the first Students Creative Show from EIGHT ROOM ONE!!!”,
the Master of Ceremonies started the program in that sunny and beautiful
morning. “First of all, we would like to thank Allah SWT because of His
Blessings we can make this show possible today”, Adinda, the first MC, spoke
clearly and fluently that made my heart leaped into the sky because I never had
thought that she could be that good. Later was the time for the speeches. Here,
Putri Radila, a quiet girl, made her speech as the representative of the
students. Her speech made me speechless because her words were clear and very
understandable. Riswanda, the calmest
boy in class, acted as the Headmaster. Once again, I was surprised at
his long and sophisticated speech. The students and me clasped our hands loudly
after he was down from the stage.
Later on, it was the turn of the choir to sing their song,
“Baby”. They sang very well and also did attractive movement to accompany their
song. All other students sang along with the choir and most of them knew the
lyrics very well. “Hoorraaaayyyy!!!!, we love Justin Bieber, Ma’am!!!”
But, it was when the fashion show performance, all the
students became very excited and everybody stood up. I had told the students
that prepared fashion show to make dresses from newspaper, plastic bag, used
sacks or any other used materials to spread out the spirit of saving the Earth
and to keep the environment green. The students had yelled hysterically when the models walked on the
stage and, WOW!!, they looked and moved like those real ones we saw on TV. The
music was also very attractive, it was from 2NE1. At the end of the fashion
show, the designers of the dresses came on the stage and explained to the
audiences about the designs; the materials it was made, the length of time and
hard time they had taken in the process
of making.
Although some designers had some difficulties in explaining
about their work, lack of vocabularies and fluency, I felt quite satisfied
because at least they were able and willing
to speak in front of their friends.
The last part was about interviewing the performers by the appointed
reporters. Each reporter questioned one performer about his or her background
and their feelings of taking part in the show. They conducted the interviews on
the stage and some students acted like they were cameramen. Others were
giggling at their seats and gave comments.
Finally, the Masters of Ceremonies announced that the show had came to
an end and asked the students to
say Hamdalah for the success of show today.
“Ladies and gentlemen, that’s the end of our show today.
Let’s say Hamdalah for the success that Allah Gives us. Thankyou very much for
your participation.Wassalamualaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.” The applause was very deafening, many of the
boys whistled very loudly and when I looked out of the window, I saw students
from other classes had lined up in front of our class and they
watched our show with great enthusiasm too. Before the end of the
lesson, I asked my students of 8 Room 1 about their opinions of the show today.
Some said that they were happy because to them, English was not so frightening
anymore. Some told me that they were very nervous on the stage and forgot what
they should have said, some even wanted to have another show in the
future. Then I told them that nothing is
impossible if we really try, all we need
is courage and the will to go forward. After that, I played them songs from
2PM, Super Junior, MBLAQ and Greenday. I
was so glad to see they were laughing and no frowning faces like the other days
before in my classroom.
Perhaps other teachers will consider that my way is not
suitable to be used in class and a little out of the syllabus. But, here my
main purpose is to make my students attracted to English, they feel that
English is not that complicated to learn
and to erase the stigma of difficultness which circulates among students in all
over Indonesia. In the end of the lesson, I could see that students who were
rarely spoke in daily classes, showed that they actually could speak and act
better than they used to be before.
