Commentary

Research has shown that student learning is correlated to teacher planning. When a
plan is ready, teachers can focus on its implementation. When teachers do not have to
think so much about what they need to do next, they are able to focus on other parts of
the lesson. Planning this grammar lessons requires many decisions making. First,
choose the topic of Care for the Sea in Year 4 SK primary school. One of the most
important thing in planning a lesson is to know the level of our students. After that
only I can plan the activities to e carried out. In the set induction! I downloaded a
music video from the internet that shows the use of present continuous tense.
"he music video is aout a song! #$emon "ree%. "he song uses present
continuous tense throughout the lyrics. &y showing the video! I can arouse pupil%s
interest. "his stage is 'ust an e(posure of what they are going to learn in that
lesson. "eacher will not e(plain aout the topic yet at this stage.
At the presentation stage! I uses prescriptive approach. )rescriptive grammar
is a set of rules and e(amples dealing with the synta( and word structures of a
language! usually intended as an aid to the learning of that language. It refers to
the structure of a language as certain people think it should e used. )rescriptive
grammars prescrie the rules of a language. In the lesson plan! the way I e(plain
to the pupils on how to use correct present continuous tense in sentence is a
prescriptive approach.
At the practice stage! I use overt approach. In all the activities at this stage!
teacher actually provides the pupils grammatical rules and e(planation and the
information is openly presented in the activity. *ith overt teaching! grammatical
rules are e(plicitly given to students.
I use reader%s theater to enhance students understanding at the production
stage. "his type of activity is a grammar in conte(t approach. "his activity
involves teaching grammar in relations to the conte(t of the situation the
utterances are usually used. "his activity focus on forms! meaning and usage.
"hen! specific instruction would e given to individual pupils. +or e(ample when
teacher ask each pupils to choose one paragraph to e read.
As an overall view of the lesson! I use oth inductive and deductive approach in
the grammar lesson. "he deductive approach derives from deductive reasoning
where the concept goes from general to specific. ,ules! patterns! principles are
presented first! then moves to the e(amples. -eductive approach is also known
as rule.driven teaching. "he most favourale method for this deductive teaching
is /rammar "ranslation 0ethod where the grammar instruction is commonly
initiated y an e(planation 1asically in learners mother tongue2 aout the
grammar points. In this lesson! there are some part which teacher has to e(plain
aout the grammar rules in mother tongue. On the other hand! inductive
approach starts with some e(amples from which a rule is inferred. In grammar
teaching! teachers present the e(amples at the eginning then generali3ing rules
from the given samples.