So, they need a good language teaching from the teachers. A good language teaching is very important especially to deliver all those four skills. Besides the language skills, the pupils also have their “own” world or theme to understand. If we refer to the English Primary School Curriculum Specification, there are three worlds that pupils must understand it. There are World of Self, World of Knowledge and World of Stories. These three worlds are very important to classify each topic that pupils need to learn. Here, we want to evaluate these four language skills through variety of activities in the classroom using the theme, World of Stories. As we know, there are many activities that teachers can do to develop pupils understanding about these four language skill based on theme, World of Stories.

The first skill is listening. What is listening? Listening can be defined as pay attention to what someone is saying or to a sound that you can hear. Listening skill is very important in our daily life, and according to Wilga Rivers (1981), we listen twice as much as we speak, four times as much as we read and five times as much as we write. So, to teach this skill, teacher can provide many activities to develop pupils understanding. The first activity that we can do is listening to the animal’s sound. First, teachers play the sound and let pupils listen to that sound. It is better to play it twice, so that, the pupil can listen it clearly. After that, teacher let pupils guess the name of animal that provide the sound. Then, teacher asks simple questions based on that sound. The teacher can sure that the pupils able to understand and master this skill when they can answer questions correctly.

The second activity that teacher can choose is listening to the jazz chants. The teacher must chant it clearly. After that, teacher let the pupils listen carefully. Then, the teacher can evaluate the pupils understanding by let them note down the keywords, which is the difficult words in the chants. When they are able to list down the keywords, that’s mean the pupils listen deeply when the teacher chanting.

The last activity that teacher can do to develop this skill is tell a story. To make this activity more attractive, teachers can use the puppet to tell the story. When pupils enjoy this activity, they can listen carefully and give more focus on that. Teacher must tell it twice to make pupils fully understand the story. Then, teacher gives the handouts to the pupils. The handouts are based on the story. Then, let the pupils complete the missing words in that story. So, the pupils must remember the story. Here, the pupils use this skill. The teacher can know either the pupils understand or not according to the numbers of correct answer.

The second language skill is speaking, and it is important as a communication tools and making relationships with others. According to Carl W.Buechner, “they may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel”. When we speak, we must use the correct words, pronunciation and the intonation. Through this way, we can deliver the skill perfectly to the other person. To develop pupils understanding on this skill, teachers can do a lot of activity like role-play, story telling and game. The first activity that teachers can do is role-play. With role-play, teachers can create the situation for pupils to act. This activity can be done in pairs or groups. Pupils also can create their own situation to act. But, the most important thing here is every pupil must speak. It is because the language is not important but we want to see either pupil is able to speak in front of the whole class or not. Besides that, we want to see either they can play a role very well or not.

For the second activity, teacher can do a story telling to evaluate the pupils understanding. This activity can make the pupils brave to speak or deliver their story. Teachers call the pupils to come out and let them tell a story that they had chosen. It is better for the pupils to tell a story without refer to the text. Besides that, teachers also can create mini story telling competition among the pupils in the class. Teachers must prepare a present for the winner. It is to make the pupils like this activity. From that, we can sure the pupils are able to understand this skill when they brave to speak using correct pronunciation, intonation and good language. For this activity, teachers can give some guidance.

Next, the teachers also can make a puppet show. First, the teacher needs to guide pupils to make a puppet. But, the puppet must suitable with the characters in the story. After that, the pupils must act in front of the whole class using the puppet that they provide. They can use their own creativity to provide the puppet. The pupils must speak or act among themselves. Here, we can see either the pupils can deliver their speech using puppet or not.

And, the last activity for develop speaking skill is a game. It’s better for teachers to create the language game. Teacher can draw a ladder on the board and each space on the ladder has a picture of vehicles. This activity can do in groups. First, let the pupils move the marker according to the numbers they get from roll a dice. When the marker stop, the must say the name of that vehicles. For example, the marker stop on the picture of lorry, so, the pupils must said, “lorry”. From the word that was saying, the pupils must make a sentence orally and say it aloud. From all those activities, teachers can build up pupils understanding about this skill when they are able to speak or say something.

The third language skill is reading. For your information, reading merely involves the ability to sound the words printed on page. It is important for us to realize that reading is much more complex than this. Like Andre Gide say, “to read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company”. So, to understand and master this skill, we must learn it details. In school, teachers must develop pupil’s skill through the activity in classroom. One of the activities that teachers can do is using a big book. Through big book’s activity, the teacher can do a shared reading. To do a shared reading, first, teacher sits on chair in front of the whole class and gets the pupils attention. Then, teacher reads the story. After that, teacher asks the pupils to read together. Then, teacher calls one of the pupils to come out and read the story for the whole class loudly. When the pupils can read the story very well, that’s mean; the pupils had mastered this skill. Teacher can give some guidance if the pupils cannot read it very well.

Another activity that teacher can do to evaluate pupils understanding about this skill is labeling. As we know, the classroom has a nature table, a “shop”, a model town, a model house with furniture. Pupils are asked to talk about the objects and to label the objects with prepared labels. The labels should be removed so that pupils can re-label objects for practice. On this activity, pupils read when they want label the objects. They must read what the teacher writes on the card for labeling. Teachers can sure that the pupils had mastered this skill when they read and match the labels with correct objects.

Teachers also can do reading and telling activity. This is a very simple description of animals, birds, objects or people are written on small cards. Pictures or words to match the descriptions are put in front. A pupil comes out, pick up a card from the pack, reads it and identifies the correct picture or word. This activity is like a riddle but it has a picture. So, the pupils understanding about this skill can be evaluating when the pupils can read and identify the picture or word correctly.

The fourth or the last language skill that pupils must master it is writing. Writing is very important in our daily life. It’s like a soul. According to Lord Byron, “if I don’t write to empty my mind, I go mad. As so that regular, uninterrupted love of writing, I do not understand it. I feel it as a torture, which I must get rid of, but never as a pleasure. On the contrary, I think composition a great pain”. From that, we can see that writing is valuable and important. At school, teachers must deliver this skill to their pupils and there are many activities that teachers can do to deliver this skill. The first activity that teachers can do is write a composition based on the picture series. Firstly, teachers give pupils a series of picture. Teacher let the pupils write simple sentences based on the picture series given. Before this, teachers give some example. Teachers also show the pupils one sentence that the pupils can understand. After the pupils finished write a short essay, teachers ask pupils to come out and write the story on the blackboard. Teachers can give some guided about the grammar usage.

The second activity for developing writing skill is describing a process. This activity must fully guided by the teacher. Firstly, the teacher puts up the pictures illustrating the process, including a list of materials. As an example,the process to make a paper necklace. The materials are a tube of glue, a glass-headed pin and the others. Then, teacher questions pupils to elicit sentences about the pictures. He then puts up a jumbled list of sentences describing the process. For example, “put some glue on the last inch from the point of triangle and finish rolling up the bead”. Then, pupils select sentences from the list of sentences provided. These sentences are read aloud as the teacher points to the pictures. After that, pupils write the sentences in the correct order describing the process. When pupils can write the sentences in correct order, it’s sure that the pupils understand this skill.

Besides that, the teacher also can use an origami book activity. Through this activity, teacher must teach the pupils the way to provide an origami book. Pupils can write the story on this book based on the previous story that they had learn before. After they write, the teacher must let the pupils to write on the blackboard. The teacher can evaluate the pupils understanding when the pupils are able to write the story correctly. Besides that, teachers can make a competition for the origami book. For example, the pupils must write the proverbs on the origami book using the handwriting. Here, teachers can assess the handwriting to decide the winner.

As a conclusion, these four language skills have consequences on each other. So, the pupils need to master all these language skills and the teachers need to deliver their skills to the pupils through the suitable activities. The teachers also can use good materials and create a good learning environment in the classroom. Besides that, pupils must take part in all the activities that teachers do, so that, it’s easy for them to understand each language skills. The teachers need to guide the pupils.