CRITICAL BOOK REPORT

RECEPTIVE ORAL LANGUAGE SKILLS

ENGLISH EDUCATION DEPARTMENT

FACULTY OF LANGUAGES AND ARTS

STATE UNIVERSITY OF MEDAN

2019

ARRANGED BY:

SONDANG MEILANI 2193321009

PREFACE

Praise and gratitude to God the Almighty for his abundant blessings and
grace so that I can compile this Critical Book Report paper.

On this occasion, I would not forget to thank our lecture in this subject
Receptive Oral Language Skilss who guided us, as well as other parties
involved in the process of making this Critical Book Report paper,
directly or indirectly. Thankyou for giving me the chance to make this
Critical Book Report.

Irealize that in compiling this paper, there are still many shortcomings,
the results obtained are still far from perfect. Therefore constructive
suggestions and criticisms are expected from the readers.

Finally, thank you for all the readers, hopefully working on this Critical
Book Report can provide benefits and can increase knowledge for writers
and readers.

Medan, September 2019

 Sondang Meilani

CHAPTER 1

INTRODUCTION

A. BACKGROUND
Listening is one of the most important skills in English Language
Learning. When students listen to the English language, they face a
lot of listening difficulties because listening is more than just
hearing what is said, it is an ability to understand the meaning of the
words. Every book made by different author must be have its each
goodness and weakness. So this critical book report made as a
reference for the reader.

B. PROBLEM FORMULA
1. THE STRONGNESS FROM TWO BOOKS
2. THE WEAKNESS FROM TWO BOOKS

C. PURPOSE
 To find out the strongness and the weakness from two books.

CHAPTER 2

DISCUSSION

A.BOOKS IDENTITY

THE MAIN BOOK

BOOK TITLE : Basic Listening

AUTHOR : - Farida Hanim Saragih

- Rafika Dewi Nasution
- Puan Suri Maharani

PUBLISHER : fbs unimed press

CITY RISES : Medan

YEAR RISES : 2018

NUMBER OF PAGES : 69 pages

THE COMPARISON BOOK

BOOK TITLE : Listening1 English Education Department

AUTHOR : Tri Wahyuni Floriasti

NUMBER OF PAGES : 33 pages
B. THE STRONGNESS OF THE BOOKS

THE MAIN BOOK

From the cover, I think that this book has a qood quality of paper,
the design itself is good and easy to remember.
From the substance, this book has many exercises like listening,
speaking, pronunciation activities, and grammar, which is good.
From the language, we can say that this book using a simple words,
its not so hard, so as good enough for the readers to understand
And the book is easy to find in this environment, we can also ask
the writer, which is our lecturers about this related with this book

THE COMPARISON BOOK

From the cover I think the cover on the second book is less attractive
But even though the cover is less attractive, inversely propotional
with the contents of the book.
The content in this book is very good and helpful. It has so many
illustration and color than the first book.
Also, there is a lot more exercise from the very beginning lesson,
like how to introduce yourself and so on
C. THE WEAKNESS OF THE BOOKS

THE MAIN BOOK

As seen on the book, The first book is a little boring because of the
color itself still black and white.
And the price, I assume we can cost this much of price to find a
better book, but depend on each needs

THE COMPARISON BOOK

This book is free but as an e-book, its very hard to find a free e-book
on internet. There is, but little
Hard to find the complete version
Cannot be accessed or downloaded without internet.

CHAPTER 3

CLOSING
 A. CONCLUSION

Both of the books are good for learn, both of this books have each
strongness and weakness, they are discuss the same subject which is
listening. The main book is good for those who want to learn from the
basic or just for gai ning enough knowledge about listening. The
comparison book is more detailed for learning or improve your listening
skills. In the main book, there is less exercise but enough explanation,
the second book contains almost no explanation but so many exercises
but both are interesting.

B. SUGGESTION

For the first book, it needs some variety of colour to make the book more
interesting to read.

For the second book, it will be so much better if the book can be
disseminated widely, so readers can easily find it or acces it in many sites.

REFERENCE

Farida Hanim Saragih S.Pd.,M.Hum,Rafika Dewi

Nasution,S.Pd.,M.Hum, dan Puan Suri Anissa,S.pd.,M.Hum.
( 2018 )
Basic learning. Medan : UnimedPress
Tri Wahyuni Floriasti Listening 1 English Education Department