THE USE OF “STORY STARTER HOT POTATO” GAME IN TEACHING SPEAKING FOR SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS

Abstract

One of important skills in learning English is speaking ability. By speaking, the students can communicate what they are thinking. However, most of students have difficulties in speaking since they learn English as a foreign language. Therefore, a good and interesting way is needed to attract the students in learning speaking.  Story Starter Hot Potato Game is a good and interesting activity that can be used in teaching English to improve the students’ speaking ability. In playing  Story Starter Hot Potato Game, the students are grouped into circles. The teacher  then play a music  and read  a sentence to a student. Each of the students should continue the sentence in turn. Here, the students are practicing speaking  because each of the students should say a  sentence to build the story based on the sentence given by the previous person. When the music stops, the student that has not finished his sentence yet will be lost so the last survivor of this game will be the winner. In playing this game, the students should be able to think critically and fastly. This way would be able to motivate the students to speak in the class, so the students’ speaking ability would be improved and be better.