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TEACHING VOCABULARY USING HANGAROO GAME IN THE FOURTH

GRADE STUDENTS OF ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Nofi Prasetiawati

Program Studi Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Inggris FKIP

Universitas Muhammadiyah Purworejo

Abstract

Teaching vocabulary is very important to improve the students skill, because

vocabulary is one of the language components and as a base of a language. To
understand English easier, the writer use hangaroo as a media to teach vocabulary.
Hangaroo game is guessing the phrases by selecting letters from the alphabet to fill in
the blank forming words as the answers from the given questions. Usually, the
materials used in a hangaroo game consist of the definition of terms, antonym,
synonym, name of tools or things and so on.
The writer thinks that by using this media, students will be easier to
understand vocabulary. Moreover, the writer has two objectives of the study they are
to describe how to use hangaroo game in learning vocabulary of the students at
Elementary School, and to find out the advantages and disadvantages of hangaroo
game in teaching vocabulary.
The result of this paper shows that hangaroo can be used as a good media for
teacher. Before teaching the material, teacher makes a lesson plan. In teaching
learning process, the writer is divided by three steps. The first step is in the beginning
activities. It consists of greeting, getting pray together, and checking students'
attendance list. The second step is the main activities, which consists of two
activities. Those are activity 1 and 2. In the activity 1, the students are introducing
hangaroo game, and the students are given the task to describe hangaroo game in
group. Activity 2 is the assessment, and the third is closing activities where teacher
review the material which is relevant to help learners attain lesson objectives. This
media can help teacher in teaching vocabulary and make students easier to understand
difficult word, they are easy to remember what they have been learning and can be
used to add vocabulary and increase vocabulary skill. For the detail about the result,
the writer writes the advantages and disadvantages. The advantages of using
hangaroo are: it can support students to be interested in teaching English, games can
run through the boredom, it can develop their linguistics skill, especially for spelling,
pronunciation and concentration, get the students to be cooperative not competitive, it
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is more effective in learning English. The disadvantages of using hangaroo are

students will be gambling, not every student feels comfortable, difficult for teacher in
preparing hangaroo game, it is difficult for teacher to manage their students in each
group.
Finally, the writer hopes that this paper can be used as a reference for English
teacher who wants to improve their students’ vocabulary mastery.

I. Introduction

Language is very important in human life. It is used by people to

communicate with one another. There are many languages, which are used and

learned by people in many different places in many different ways.

English is one example of the languages used by people to interest to each

other. As one of the international languages, English is used and learned much by

people in the world. In Indonesia, English is regarded as the first foreign language.

That is learned from Elementary School to University, even in kindergarten they have

started to study English. It needs teacher skills. The teacher should be able to create

an interesting method and technique in order to obtain a good result and avoid the

student boredom.

Vocabulary is an important thing in language learning in spite of other

language components such as grammar, phonology, and so on. In a communication,

vocabulary also has a very important role as Mc Carthy (1990:66) says : “It seems

self evident that the most frequent words in any language will be the most useful ones

for learners of that language, and therefore the best to start off with, in order to give

the learner a basic set of skills for communication. It is said that vocabulary is used

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by people as the basic knowledge of learning a language in order to make

communication and interaction among them in their daily life.

The use of vocabulary in the elementary school is very important because

vocabulary is the basic knowledge of someone to master all language skills in a

higher study for the further knowledge. The success of English language teaching in

elementary schools depends on the extent of the teachers creativity.

Up to now, many teachers have not still used any teaching media as the aid in

improving the students vocabulary mastery and as the variety of teachers techniques

of teaching in classroom. Meanwhile, the effort to increase the students vocabulary

by using playing media has not grown well. Quite a few teachers teach using games

or other media during any of the lesson.

But commonly and usually the way of teaching makes the students lazy and

bored. The teacher needs something different to make students interested, mostly

children, because they are very easy to get bored. Therefore, teacher needs something

interesting which can make motivate them. It is based on the characteristics and

attitude of the children that they are curious and often seeks something that the

teacher notices them and shows appreciation for what they are doing. So, to motivate

them teacher needs something new that can stimulate their curiosity.

However, learning English vocabulary using games has an important role for

elementary school teachers and students. The first, as students, they have strong and

good motivation to deepen English language. The second, they are easy to accept the

English language because they learn by playing games that nowadays has been grown
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and developed in Indonesia. The third, teaching English vocabulary using games can

help teacher in teaching learning process.

Finally, they (teacher and students) can teach and learn English vocabulary

using games.

To sum up; the writer chooses Hangaroo game as the teaching media to

increase students vocabulary mastery for it is easy to do and to make. Indeed, a

hangaroo game is an interesting game, which is full of any challenge to play.

a. Statement of the Study

1. How to teach vocabulary for elementary school by Hangaroo Game?

2. What are the advantages and disadvantages of teaching English vocabulary

using hangaroo game?

b. Objective of the Study

1. To describe how to use hangaroo game in learning vocabulary of the students

at Elementary School.

2. To find out the advantages and disadvantages of hangaroo game in teaching

vocabulary.

II. Theoretical Review

a. Teaching

According to Brown (2000:7) teaching is guiding and facilitating learning,

enabling the learner to learn, setting the conditions for learning. Teaching cannot

be defined apart from learning. Teaching is giving instruction to somebody to

know or able to do something to give somebody (knowledge, skill, etc).

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Harmer (2001:56) also explains that is taken from the dictionaries which

also give a variety of messages about teaching. Based on the Cambridge

international dictionary of English, ‘teaching’ means to give (someone)

knowledge or to instruct or train (someone), ‘whereas the Longman dictionary of

contemporary English suggests that it means to ‘show’ somebody or to change

somebody’s ideas.

Based on the definition of teaching above, teaching may be defined as

showing or helping someone to learn how to do something, giving someone

instructions, guiding someone in the study of something, providing someone with

knowledge, causing someone to know or understand. What is learned is not

merely information or knowledge, but also an expression of values and attitudes.

Surya (2004:77) states that good teaching has some characteristics as

follows :
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a. Students centered

In teaching-learning process, the student is the subject. Because of that, the

students become the main of teacher’s attention.

b. Teacher-students interaction

The teacher, not only give materials but also give real examples, students will

imitate what they see.

c. Democratic situation

Democratic situation will gives many occasions to try creating and improving

their idea bravely.

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d. Teaching methods variation

Teacher should makes various methods so that the students interest in the

lesson.

e. Professional teacher

Teacher should do his duties and has responsibilities to the students in their

future. Teacher loves his job and does it with full of dedication and

responsibility.

f. Suitable and useful material

The government applies the curriculum. The curriculum can change from time

to time. The teacher must follow it. The teacher must give suitable material

with the situation and condition in students environment.

g. Conducive environment

The success of the education is influenced by the environment. Conducive

environment can support the teaching-learning process. In this case, the base

students environment is the family. Teacher should cooperative with the

students parents.

h. Supporting facility

Supporting facility will make teaching-learning process effectively, such as

teaching tools, library, and laboratory.

From the explanation above, the teacher should create good situation and

condition, so that the teaching-learning can be effective. From the effective

teaching-learning, the students will understand easily.

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b. Learning

In the school, teaching learning is the main process. It means that the

success of the education purpose was based on the effective way of teacher when

teaching the students.

According to Surya (2004:13) learning is the process which is done by

someone to get new behavior challenging as the result of the experience in his

environment.

Some basic principles in the learning:

a. Learning is as the effort to changeing behavior. It means the main

characteristic is there are some changing behaviors in someone’s life better

than before.

b. The result of learning is signed by the changing of whole behaviors. This

principle has meaning all of the aspect of behaviors will change, such as

cognitive, affective, conative, and motorik.

c. Learning is a process. The statement switches that learning is a continuously

activity. There are some steps of activity systematically.

d. The learning process will happen if there is a motivation to get achievements.

Learning will be done if there are something to do and something to get.

e. Learning is an experience. The environment teaches an individual about real

life as an experience.

From the definition, it can be concluded that learning is the process of

activity done by the person to get chance of new behavior consciously,

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intentionally as a result from someone experience in the interaction with his

environment.

The learning of one language is an inevitable process. The learning of a

foreign language is a special accomplishment. Every year many people start

learning a foreign language, but only few of them master it perfectly. It happens

on Indonesian students too.

c. Teaching English as Foreign Language

English as foreign language indicates the use of English is a non English-

speaking region. Teaching English as foreign language refers to the use or study

of English by speakers with a different native language http://wikipedia.org/wiki/

English_as_a_foreign_or_second_language)October 12, 2011, 18:30.

The meaning of the statement above, English is not used or practiced in

daily life. Learning English is as the subject in formal education, however, many

students that have formal education cannot use English well in speaking or

writing.

The aim of teaching English is to help the students to use the form English

most suitable for their purposes and teacher should be an expert to use English.

English teachers have to make their students interest in English, so the students

try to learn English and use the language well.

d. Vocabulary

English has many component should be studied. For examples:

vocabulary, grammar, speaking, etc. A teacher must master it well. When a

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teacher teaches, she or he should have an appropriate way to transfer it to the

students. Hornby (1995:1331) states “vocabulary is the total number of word in a

language”.

Napa (1991:10) says that vocabulary is one of components of language

and that no language exists without words. Words are signs or symbols of ideas. It

means that words tell our ideas, feelings, thoughts, either spoken or written.

Hornby (2000:1447) vocabulary is all the words that a person knows or

uses. And it is all the words in particular language or a list of words with their

meanings, especially in a book for learning a foreign language.

e. The Principles of Vocabulary Teaching and Learning

When teaching or learning vocabulary, several principles should be kept

in mind. Cameron (2001:93) writes down the general principles to help children

for learning vocabulary :

a. Teachers can model how to use strategies and draw children’s attention

explicitly to aspect of strategy use.

Example : teacher can show how to find clues to the meaning of a new word

in a picture.

b. Teacher can teach the sub skill needed to make use of strategies.

Example : to use a dictionary efficiently requires knowledge of alphabetical

order and lots of practice with it.

c. Classroom task can include structured opportunities for using strategies.

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Example : when teacher reads a story, teachers explicity encourage prediction

of the meaning of new word.

d. Independent strategy used can be rehearsed in classrooms.

Example : students can be helped to prepare list of words that they want to

learn from a lesson, can shown ways of learning from lists and a letter can be

put in pairs to test each other.

e. Young learners can be helped to reflect on the learning process through

evaluating their achievement.

Example : at the end of a lesson, students can be asked how many new words

they have learned and which words they needs to learn more about.

f. Games

The definition of game is an activity that you do to have some fun

(Hornby; 1995; 486).

Language games are games that are used in teaching learning activity to

make the students easy in learning English. The emphasis is on a successful

communication rather than on a concreteness of language. Games are an

extremely effective way of motivating the students in the clasroom. Language

teachers through history have interspersed their grammar of course material with

what often seem like hearted games but they do actually touch the language

directly. The most important thing is the games are fun.

g. Kinds of Language Games

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Language learning is hard work. Effort is required at every moment and

must be maintained over a long period. Games help and encourage many learners

to sustain their interest and work. Games also help the teacher to create contexts

in which the language is useful and meaningful. The learners want to take part

and in order to do so must understand what others are saying or have written, and

they must speak or write in order to express their own point of view or give

information.

There are many kinds of games which can be used in teaching English. Of

course, as a technique games need help from media.

Lewis and Bedson (2002:16-8) divided games according to their general

character and spirit. They distinguish:

a. movement games in which children are physically active

b. card games – games during which children collect, give away, sort and count

cards; cards can have a meaning in a game, or simply serve as symbols for

objects or actions

c. board games – all games which mainly involve moving makers along a path

d. dice games - games during which players use one or more dice; a dice can

have numbers on the faces or colors, letters of alphabet

e. drawing games – they require creativity and sensitivity towards world, the

children must be able to understand instructions and describe their art

f. guessing games – the aim in these games is to guess the answer to questions

of some kind
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g. role-play games – they can vary from guided drama to free speaking

activities but it depend on the language level, curiosity, and confidence of

players

h. team games – they can belong to other categories but also require cooperative

team work

i. word games - this kind of games allow to utilize children’s enjoyment with

words

h. Hangaroo game

The game of Hangaroo is just like Hangman - guess the hidden phrase to

complete a level. Hangaroo is filled with thousands of terms and phrases,

presented in random order each time you play. HangAroo is very entertaining,

and a really good pastime for adults and kids as well, since apart from being fun it

can be a good chance for kids to learn new words and improve spelling. The

hangaroo a new product, one can find themselves stuck to the computer screen

throughout their free or party time and can take away the attention and mind from

a lot of other things that one enjoys doing also.

(primarygames.com/langarts/hangaroo/start.html)

Learning plus having fun is a good combination. The most interesting

aspect of the game is that if we run out of words and phrases, we can easily create

our own lists in text files following the conventions detailed in the help file. That

way, Hangaroo is a game with endless possibilities, as it is limited only to our

imagination. One player thinks of a word and the other tries to guess it by
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suggesting letters, until either the word is complete.

(http://games.ncbuy.com/hangaroo).

Hangaroo is a kind of games by filling the blank which is presented with

letters forming words as the answers from the clues related to the questions

provided or guessing the phrases by selecting letters from the alphabet to fill in

the blank. Usually, the materials used in a hangaroo game consist of the definition

of terms, antonym, synonym, name of tools or things and so on. Hangaroo is a

great game, which is not too difficult to learn. Unpredictable the version of the

popular hangaroo game become one of media to teach English in school.

(http://www. Articles/spare-time-with-hangaroo).

Hangaroo game was founded by NCBUY Entertainment Network. Over

the years many version of the game were produced, there are hangman games

with themes where the hidden word is only from a specific category (such as

animals, occupations, countries), there is the hangaroo version where us hang-a-

roo instead of a man, and there are time-limited versions where us have limited

time to guess each letter, making the game more extreme. (http://games.ncbuy.

com/hangaro)

Hangaroo is a game worth to be played by all ages. It is one of the few

educative games in the market that people have accepted with open arms and

minds. The most common used English letter is 'e' so we better start by guessing

it. The 4 other vowels ('a', 'o', 'i', 'u') are next popular after 'e'. Using these letters

can give us better odds for guessing the word, but they can also decrease the level
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of fun while playing and not necessarily will help us win. Hangman is used often

by teachers to practice spelling, pronunciation and concentration and just for fun.

The most popular way to play hangman games offline is to draw blank letters for

the chosen word on a paper or on the blackboard and let the players guess the

letters. Example the clues is a vehicle which runs on rail way. There is a blank

forms in a piece of papers as many as words which is decided

We better start by guessing letter is vowels (a’i’u’e’o’.). From this the clues we

can guessing the answer is train. Then we can filling in the blank form with letters

T, R, A, I, N.

i. Characteristic of Elementary School Students

According to Iskandarwassid and Sunendar (2008:140), students of

elementary school are enduring childhood developing phase and entering early

teenage age.

1. Special characteristic of elementary school students

The children are expected to learn specific skills for preparation and

self adjustment to life in adult age. The skills are:

a. Skill to help their selves

Children are able to help their selves to adjust them to their

environment. They can solve his problem so they can integrate with his

environment.
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b. Social skill

Children are able to socialize with friends of their age or people

older or younger from them.

c. School skill

Children are able to go to school, join, and absorb the lesson.

d. Playing skill

Children are able to play with toy for their age.

For children of elementary school, the role of the same age group is

meaningful. They are very long for acceptance by their group. In appearance,

behavior or self expression, especially language, they imitate to the same age of

group. Elementary school age is also called intellectual age, because the open and

the children's wish to gain knowledge and experiences.

Some of the special characteristic of elementary school:

a. Physical condition grows as schools achievement

b. Obeying the rule of traditional game

c. Love to compare themselves to another child, if it is benefits them

d. The children wants good mark without notice whether they are deserved for it

e. Interest into practical daily life

f. Curious and realistic

g. After 11 years, generally they try to do their own duty.

Meanwhile, the characteristics of children of eight to eleven years of age

(Scott and Ytleberg, 1990:2-4) are as follows:

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a. They are competent users of mother tongue

b. They can tell the difference between fact and fiction

c. They love to play and learn best when they enjoy themselves seriously and

like to think that what they are doing in the real work

d. They are enthusiastic and positive about learning

e. They rely on the spoken word as well as the physical world to convey and

understand meaning.

f. They are able to work with others and learn from others

g. They have very short attention and concentration on spoken

h. They own understanding comes through hands, eyes, and ears; the physical

world is dominant at all times.

Based on the characteristic above, the writer can conclude that elementary

school students are children at the age 7 to 12 years old. They are very

enthusiastic in finding out, understanding, and learning everything. They still love

to play and learn through their hands, eyes, and ears.

Therefore, the teachers should provide an enjoyable atmosphere in the

classroom which encouraged the students to be eager learn English.

III. Discussion

A. Teaching Preparation Using Hangaroo Game

1. Teacher takes the material vocabulary according to the sub topic of the lesson

that will be studied in the class.

2. Teachers choose the word as the clues based on the level of age the students.
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3. The teacher decided the words that will be guessed by the students.

4. Teacher makes the blank forms in a piece of papers as many as words which is

decided and gives the clues about the word.

5. Teacher divide students in some groups, one group is contained four or five

students.

6. Every group can start hangaroo game by filling the blank form with letters

forming words as the answers which is readable from the clues related to the

questions provided and how to pronounce it.

7. Ask them to write the word down in their vocabulary notebooks.

8. The teacher will make lesson plan before teaching activity.

One of the lesson plan that might the used in teaching vocabulary using

hangaroo game is:

LESSON PLAN

Subject : English
Class : IV
Semester :I
School : Elementary School
Time Allocation : 2X35

A. Standard Competence:
Understanding simple sentence english in context of class.
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B. Basic Competence :
Reading in English with correct punctuation and involving word, phrases,
and simple sentence.

C. Indicators :
1. Improving the vocabulary and pronunciation
2. Mention the kind of transportations
3. Writing the kind of transportations

D. Goal Objectives
After practicing this unit, the students are able to :
1. Improve their vocabulary and pronunciation
2. Mention the kind of transportations
3. Write the kind of transportations

E. Teaching Material :
The kind of transportations

F. Teaching Methods :
1. Explanation
2. Asking and answering
3. Hangaroo Game

G. Teaching Procedure
a. Beginning Activity
1. Greet the students
2. Get pray together
3. Check student’s attendance list.
b. Main activity
a. Activity I
1. Give short explanation the material about transportation
2. Give some introducing questions about transportation
3. Ask the students to find new vocabulary based on the material
4. Put the students in small groups of four or five students
5. Give the blank forms in a piece of papers as many as words which
is decided and the clues about the word to the students in group
6. Ask the students to find new vocabulary based on the material
7. The teacher asks one, two, or three students from different group to
write on the board and read aloud their work in front of the class
b. Activity II as assessment
Asking students to answer some question.
c. Closing activity
Review the material which is relevant to help learners attain lesson
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objectives.

H. Teaching source :
a. Relevant text book
b. http://www.eslgold.com/vocabulary/transportation.
I. Assessment
The assessment is done in the last activity of teaching. It is done by asking
the students to read their work in front the class.
Aspects Maximum Score
Vocabulary 25
Fluency 25
Writing 25
Creativity 25
Total 100

B. Presentation of Teaching Vocabulary Using Hangaroo Game

1. Beginning activities.

In the beginning of the class, the teacher, as usual greets the students.

Then, the class gets pray together in order to hope that the process of teaching

learning will be successful. After wards, if necessary, the teacher can check the

students' attendance list. In greeting the students, teachers can change the model

of greeting like what they want. For example, in Indonesian culture, because the

majority of people are Moslem, greeting can be done by saying Assalamu

'allaikum Wr Wb. However, the greeting in English version should follow it.
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After the activity of greeting, the teacher can also check the student’s

attendance list by calling the students name one by one. However, it can take

along time. In doing this activity, the teacher only needs to write in the attendance

list. So, the time allocation can be used efficiently.

2. Main Activities

Before the teacher doing main activity, the teachers give appetizers to

warming up before teaching; they are as follows :

a. Are you ready to start the lesson?

b. Can you tell me about transportation?

c. What is the transportation do you like?

Then the next steps are :

Activity I :

1) Give short explanation the material about transportation

Before the teacher doing main activity, the teacher should explain the

material. However, before explaining the material the teacher can ask the

students about kinds of transportation. For example, the teacher can ask about

the transportation (Do you know kinds of transportation? Please mention it!).

After the teacher gets the answer of the question above the teacher can give

definition of transportation.

2) Give some introducing questions about transportation

The teacher introduces the transportation which arouses the student’s

interest orally by giving some introducing questions. The function of this

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activity is to arouse the student’s interest to the topic and introduce what topic

will be discussed. For example the topic is transportation. The introducing

question as follows:

a) Where can we find the transportation?

b) Please mention it !

c) What kind of transportations can we find in land, air and water ?

3) Ask the students to find new vocabulary based on the material

The teacher then asks the students based on the material to find new

words or vocabularies and how to pronounce it. After the teacher gives some

words or vocabulary as example by writing on the board. The function of this

activity is to help the students to develop their vocabulary. Here is example of

vocabularies list.

Vocabulary/Kosa Kata Meaning/Arti

Bus Bis
Ship Kapal
Jet Jet
Van Mobil gerbong
Boat Perahu
Cart Gerobak
Lorry Truk
Train Kereta Api
Yacht Kapal pesiar
Airplane Pesawat terbang
Fire truck Truk pemadam kebakaran
Tram Kereta listrik
Pedicab Becak
Motorcycle Motor
Car Mobil
Ambulance Ambulan
Horse Carriage Delman
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Bajaj Bajai
Helicopter Helikopter
Scooter Vespa
Jeep Jep
School bus Bus sekolah
Bicycle Sepeda
Police car Mobil polisi
Taxi Taksi

4) Put the students in small groups of four or five students

This activity, the teacher divides the class into small groups consist of

four or five students. It is done in order to make the students working in

group, so that their creativity will be grown up as they work together with

friends. In putting the students in small groups of four or five students, the

teacher can do it by calling their names and deciding their groups.

Nevertheless, the teacher can also allow the students to choose their own

group. It means that the students are free in choosing friends to be their group.

5) Give the blank forms in a piece of papers as many as words which is decided

and the clues about the word to the students in group

By giving the blank forms in a piece of papers as many as words

which is decided and the clues to the students in group, it can give more

chance to guess answers of every question. Here are the blank forms in a piece

of papers as many as words and the clues:

Hangaroo Game
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(1) The clues : Large motor vehicle that carries passengers

(2) The clues : A road vehicle with an engine, four wheels, and seats for

a small number of people

(3) The clues : Aircraft powered by a jet engine

(4) The clues : Covered vehicle with no side windows, used for carrying

goods

(5) The clues : A small vehicle for travelling on water a rowing

(6) The clues : A vehicle with either two or four wheels which is pulled

by a horse, and which is used for carrying goods

(7) The clues : A car with a driver who you pay to take you somewhere

(8) The clues : A large boat for travelling on water, especially across the

sea
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(9) The clues : a railway engine connected to carriages for carrying

people or wheeled containers for carrying goods

(10) The clues : a large vehicle used for transporting goods

(11) The clues : a two-wheeled vehicle that you sit on and move by

turning the two pedals

(12) The clues : Child's vehicle with two or three small wheels, moved by

pushing one foot against the ground

(13) The clues : A type of aircraft without wings, that has one or two sets

of large blades which go round very fast on top.

(14) The clues : a three-wheel motorcycle taxi

(15) The clues : A vehicle with four wheels, which is usually pulled by

horses and was used especially in the past

6) Ask the students to find new vocabulary based on the material

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The teacher then asks the students based on the material to find new

words or vocabularies after the teacher gives some questions based on the

material.

7) The teacher asks every group to write on the board, read aloud, and how to

pronounce it in front of the class.

The teacher then asks the students whether they have finished their

work or not. If the students have finished their works, the teacher then ask

every group to write on the board, read aloud and how to pronounce it in

front of the class. In doing this activity, the teacher needs to call the students'

name. When the students are presenting their works by writing on the board,

how to pronounce it and reading aloud in front of the class, the teacher has to

check if there is mistake to be corrected.

In giving correction, the teacher must not only focus on the students

who are presenting their works, but focus to all students in the classroom.

Activity II as the Assessment

In this activity, the students work individually since it is the assessment

of the teaching. Before doing this activity, the teacher should make sure that he

or she has copied the material as much as the number of students in the class.

Furthermore, the teacher should not forget to instruct the students to write down

their work in a piece of paper, to put their identity, and to work by themselves. In

the end of activity, the students collect their works. After the students collect the
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works, the teacher calls the students' name one by one to present their work by

writing on the board and read aloud in front of the class.

The other aspect of assessment is corrected by the teacher him or herself.

A. Fill the blanks forms in a piece of papers as many as words based on the

clues !

1. The clues : A boat with sails and sometimes an engine, used for

either racing or travelling on for pleasure

2. The clues : Large motor vehicle that carries passengers

3. The clues : A vehicle designed for air travel, which has wings and

one or more engines

4. The clues : A three -wheeled vehicle that you sit on and move by

turning the two pedals

5. The clues : A vehicle with two wheels and an engine

6. The clues : An official car used by the police

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7. The clues : a special vehicle used to take ill or injured people to

hospital

8. The clues : a large vehicle that carries firefighters and their

equipment to a fire

9. The clues : A bus for taking children to and from school

10. The clues : A car with a driver who you pay to take you somewhere

Answer :

1. Yacht

2. Bus

3. Airplane

4. Pedicab

5. Motorcycle

6. Police car

7. Ambulance

8. Fire truck

9. School bus

10. Taxi

B. Look at the picture and give the name of the kinds of transportation !
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A
1.

Y
2.

C T
3.

E U
4.

I P
5.

P
6.

D
7.

A
8.

H
9.

T
10.
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1. 6.

7.
2.

8.

3.

9.
4.

10.
5.

Key Answer :

1. Van 3. Scooter

2. Yacht 4. Fire truck

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5. Helicopter 8. Train

6. Jeep 9. Ship

7. Pedicab 10. Cart

C. Put the words into the grid. The clues will help you.

1 2

4 7
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9 10

ACROSS

1. A person who travels on the bus or plane.

5. A driver must have it when he drives his vehicle.

7. Transportation = …

9. A pilot drives it.

10. It is very important to see the way in front of you at night.

DOWN

2. It cannot run on the road. It runs on the sea. It is one of the

transportation means.

3. You must stop if that is red.

4. It is one of transportation tools without machine. It has three

wheels.

6. A vehicle which runs on rail way.

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8. When we ride a motorcycle on the road, we wear it on our head.

KEY ANSWER

ACROSS

1. Passenger

5. Driving License

7. Vehicle

9. Plane

10. Head Lamp

DOWN

2. Ship

3. Traffic Light

4. Pedicab

6. Train

8. Helmet

The assessment

The student collects their work to the teacher. After the teacher

gets all of students' work, the teacher calls the students' name one by

one to present their work by write on the board and read aloud their

work in front of the class. However, the presentation is only for

making the student ability in vocabulary, writing, fluency, and

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creativity. The other aspects are corrected by the teacher him or

herself. Here are the aspects and the score of the assessment.

Aspects Maximum Score

Vocabulary 25
Fluency 25
Writing 25
Creativity 25
Total 100

3. Closing activities

The teacher should review the material, the teacher asks the students “is

there any question about the material today?” The function of this activity is to

help the students to attaint lesson objectives and the last activity is the teacher

saying good bye or Assalamu’alaikum Wr.Wb.

C. The Advantages and Disadvantages of Using Hangaroo Game in Teaching

Vocabulary at Elementary School

1. The Advantages of Using Hangaroo Game in Teaching Vocabulary at

Elementary School

a. It can support students to be interested in teaching english

It is known that games are interesting for young learners. If the students feel

happy in teaching-learning activities, it can bring positive attitudes such as

feeling of interested in the language that they are learning.

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b. Games can run through the boredom

The lesson with less variation and which always follows a rhythmical pattern

or could be predicted would often cause students to lose their motivation and

desire. It could further cause the lose of attention. The students become

sleepy, and think of nothing else. They would be very happy if the bell rang.

Games that are used in teaching young learners can provide a pleasant

experience for the children so that they may reduce students feels of being

burdened by hangaroo.

c. It can develop their linguistics skill, especially for spelling, pronunciation and

concentration.

In the teaching activities, the students feel heeded, because the teacher will

always correct their pronunciation, spelling in reading in a piece of paper.

They also practice concentration to get the point of question.

d. Get the students to be cooperative not competitive

Language learning is a situation where everyone can win. Children compete

naturally with each other. The teacher should make room for shared

experience. They are invaluable source of language work. Using hangaroo

game the students can share experience each others and create cooperation

among them. The teacher just coordinates them. The activity may be to do

like; mention everything about hangaroo game as flora, fauna, health, season,

colours, and the human.

e. It is more effective in learning english

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From the advantages above it can be concluded that using hangaroo games in

teaching vocabulary mastery is effective enough particularly in junior high

school, because it can make students remember the vocabulary and can be

used to add vocabulary easily.

2. The disadvantages of Using Hangaroo Game in Teaching Vocabulary

a. Students will be gambling

In teaching using hangaroo game, the students who face a difficulty to answer

the questions will gamble by just guessing the answer.

b. Not every student feels comfortable

Not every student feel comfortable with the game, even they will be confused

with the game if they cannot understand the teachers explanation about how to

play the game.

c. Difficult for teacher in preparing Hangaroo game

It is difficult for teacher in preparing hangaroo game that is uncreative,

because this game demands the teacher to be creative to make clues as the

question to answer.

d. It is Difficult for teacher to manage their students in each group when they are

playing this game.

IV. Conclusion and Suggestion

A. Conclusions
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1. Teaching vocabulary using hangaroo game in elementary school involves the

following steps:

a. Beginning activities.

It consists of greeting, getting pray together, and checking students'

attendance list.

b. Main activities.

It consists of two activities; those are activity 1 and 2.

Activity 1, the students are introducing hangaroo game, and the

students are given the task to describe hangaroo game in group.

Activity 2 is the assessment.

c. Closing activities

Review the material which is relevant to help learners attain lesson

objectives.

2. The advantages and disadvantages of teaching english vocabulary using

hangaroo game as follows:

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a. The advantages

1) It can support students to be interested in teaching english

2) Games can run through the boredom

3) It can develop their linguistics skill, especially for spelling, pronunciation

and concentration.

4) Get the students to be cooperative not competitive

5) It is more effective in learning english

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b. The disadvantages

1) Students will be gambling

2) Not every student feels comfortable

3) Difficult for teacher in preparing Hangaroo game

4) It is difficult for teacher to manage their students in each group

B. Suggestion

I expect that paper will be useful and helpful for the beginner teachers or

helpful for the readers who are interested in teaching English vocabulary for children.

I give several suggestions, they are as follows:

1. English teachers should make an enjoying situation during English

teaching process.

2. Before conducting the teaching, the teacher should prepare the material,

includes media and technique.

3. The teachers would be better to use media in their teaching so the

teaching-learning process will not be boring and can add motivation for

students

4. The teachers must be creative. It means that teachers would be better to

give something different from other teaching-learning process activities.

5. To the students teaching english vocabulary is not easy to do by the

elementary school students. They must usually practice the exercises that
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given by the teacher. The vocabulary is the basic knowledge of learning

English as a preparation for the higher levels of education. The students

need further hard work to reach better achievement in English anymore.

They have to realize that the success in learning English is a matter of

individual responsibility.
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