The Result of Pre-Test

activities that the teacher done while teaching and post teaching in the first cycle.  First Meeting The first meeting in the first cycle was conducted on Friday, January 28 th 2011. It was followed by 34 students. In this activity, the transformation drill was introduced to the students. Most of them were presented in simple present form. The material which were given to the students in the first time are about the rule of simple present tense in positive, negative, and interrogative forms. After that, the teacher gave to the students the way of using the verb in this form, such as: in the third person added –s -es in back of the verb, when the verb ends in –s, -ch, -sh, -x, or –z added –es, when the verb ends in vowel –y added –s, and when the verb ends consonant –y, change the –y to –i, so added –es. So, the teacher gave the example based on the material were taught. Next, the teacher gave individual exercise to make a short paragraph about themselves and their family based on questions guided. The teacher gave an answer paper to them on by one. She asked to make a short sentence based on the questions chronologically. After that, the teacher asked to students to make group of 4 to complete the sentence using verb in the bracket in simple present form.  Second Meeting The second meeting in the first cycle was conducted on Wednesday, February 2 nd 2011. It was followed by 36 students. In this activity, the students were taught simple past tense. Most of them were presented in simple past form. The activity which were given to the students about the rule of simple past tense in positive, negative, and interrogative forms. After that, the teacher gave lists of adverb which were used in simple past tense to the students. She gave the way to make the sentence of this form. First, the students learned to make positive form followed with verb and without verb. For example with verb; I studied English last night, example of without verb; I were busy yesterday. Next, the teacher explained about negative and interrogative forms for the students. Next, the teacher gave individual work to make three simple past tense sentences in positive, negative and interrogative forms. After that, the teacher asked for the students to make group of work group of 4 to complete short sentence in simple past tense with the correct word in bracket.  Third Meeting The third meeting in the first cycle was conducted on Friday, February 4 th 2011. It was followed by 36 students. In this activity, the students were taught simple past tense focused of regular and irregular verbs. The activities which were given in this phase for the first time, the teacher gave the example of regular verb such as: study – studied, try – tried, etc, and gave the example of irregular verb such as; become – became, buy – bought, etc. The teacher asked for the students to distinguish between regular and irregular verbs and remember change of the verb such as; build – built, drink – drunk, forget – forgot, visit – visited, call – called, go – went, try – tried, walk – walked, run – ran, play – played, lose – lost. After the teacher explained the different about regular irregular verb and their changed, she gave the individual work to write verb of present form and verb of past form in the paper sheet. Next, the teacher asked to students to make group of 9. In each group got 10 word cards contain of verb. They are asked to make sentence in simple present tense with used the verb which were in the card. So, the teacher asked to the students to change each of simple present sentence form into simple past tense forms. Finally, the teacher gave the post-test 1 to know the students’ achievement score during first cycle activities.

3. Observing

In this phase, the observer accomplishes an observation phase during the teaching and learning process of the implementation. It is about the teacher’s performance, the teacher’s response, the students’ response, participation, and class condition during the teaching and learning process by using field note unstructured-observation sheet. However, in a part of learning process by using Transformation drill, the teacher usually looked nervously and also felt had some difficulties when she asked students to make sentence in simple present and simple past forms because they had not known the meaning of present and past in English. Mean that, they had very limited vocabularies unless it talked about the situation in the classroom. Meanwhile, the class situation was still under control. It means that most of students cheated each other and still did not pay attention to the teacher’s explanation, some of them also did not response teachers’ question although its kinds of simple questions such as what are you doing now? They looked confuse to answer that question in English. They were not able to explain the lesson by their own language even thought the teacher had been performing the material clearly. View of students to ask incomprehensible material to the teacher, whether some students asked her about the difficulties made the sentence in simple present and simple past forms, the teacher directly to answer their confusing by give the example of sentence in the simple present form firstly, so she asked students to change in simple past tense forms together and so on. In addition, there were found some students who actively in responding the teacher’s question correctly related to the questions in exercise sheet in the classroom liked what is your name? Where do you live?, How old are you? and What did you study last night? In the third action of cycle one, the teacher was held on posttest 1 to measure how well students’ mastery of verb I present tense and verb II past tense forms that had been studied. Based on the result of the posttest 1, the mean score of the class in English grammar of verb I present tense and verb II past tense forms test