TEACHING SPEAKING BY DESCRIBING PICTURE

Abstrak

This paper aims to teaching speaking by describing picture; the teacher should apply an interesting media. Speaking is important for us because by speak we can make interaction with the other. In teaching speaking there is a media that can help the teacher, for example teaching speaking by describing picture. We can use a picture to increase students’ speaking ability because by using the picture they can express their idea with their own word by see the picture. The teacher hangs a picture in the board and asks the teacher to make a list of word that related with the picture. And then the teacher explains the picture with his/ her own word. And then the teacher asks the students to describe the picture with their own word in front of the class. Every student who has been presented in front of the class will get a point. And then suggestion that ought to be considerably the teachers when they conduct the teaching and learning English, it is important for teacher to have interesting picture in order to catch up student’s attention and the picture should be clearly

Keywords: Teaching speaking by describing picture