Students' Worksheet

Students’ English Worksheet for Early Graders of the Elementary School:

Is It Advantageous or Disadvantageous?

            One day a father of a first year student of an Elementary School asked his father to help him doing his homework on English subject. What to do was to complete a dialogue on greeting, introducing oneself, introducing one another. Let’s have the following examples:

X: Hell, Good morning!

Y: Hi, Good …………!

A: Hi, my name is John. What is …… name? How do you do?

B: Hi, my name is Jenny. How do you do?

etc.

            Such kind of exercise is not something new anymore to the early graders of the Elementary School students. They have got a kind of exercise book on English in the form of student’s worksheet or Lembar Kerja  Siswa (LKS) and in some cases the exercises are taken from the English textbooks. Such kind of happening is not strange for us to know. The students of the first year of the Elementary School have not only memorized or practiced some expression in English but also done their worksheet by completing dialogues or reading text using the appropriate words.

            Textbooks are no doubt good sources of learning. By having textbooks many things and activities can be conducted.

            The questions now are: Is it right to have such activities on English subject of the early graders of the Elementary School? For the specific one is that should the a\early graders of the Elementary School have wring activities such completing sentences or dialogues  as described in the example above? What are the advantages or disadvantages? What to do then?

           

By       : SUKARDI

NIM    : 100221509255