7 pronunciation and memorization of words or sentences or even a specific formula
time after time. Drilling is a technique that has been used in foreign language classrooms
for many years. It was a key feature of audio lingual approaches to language teaching which placed emphasis on repeating structural patterns
through oral practice BBC for English Teacher, 2004. The period of drill can be done in the long term or short term depending on
students’ skills in understanding the basic notions when the drill took place. The principle underlying these drills is that provided a students repeats correct
language forms often enough he will tend to drop his faulty linguistic habits Palmer Mendelssohn, 1973: v.
2. Tenses
Tense is a grammatical structure in English in the form of time differences for the base of the pronunciation and writing in daily life. According to the Oxford
Advanced Learner’s Dictionary 2000: 1393, tense is any of the form of a verb that may be used to show the time of the action or state expressed by the verb: the
pastpresentfuture tense. Tenses are divided into three parts: past, present now, and the future. Each section has a formula and time references differently. Each
section also requires intensive memorization to distinguish events related to the time.
Tenses is a form of a verb used to indicate the time, and sometimes the continuation or completeness, of an action in relation to the time of
speaking from Latin tempus = time. Tense are a method that we used in English to refer to the time – past, present, and future. Many languages use
tenses to talk about time. Other languages have no tenses, but of course they can still talk about time, using different methods. English Club,1997
8 The priority of the research is about five basic tenses: simple past tense,
present: simple present tense, present perfect tense and present continuous tense, and future: present future tense.
3. Drills of Tenses
Tenses Drill is a combination method of teaching using drill as the training and the tenses as the sources of learning. ‘All drills are so drawn up that the
students must repeat sentences in their entirety. This insistence on the repetition of a sentences as a whole is designed to train the students to use correct sentences
form’ Palmer Mendelssohn 1973: v. The main target of agility and skill to train students in understanding both the formula of tenses, verbs, sentences, and
even its use in specific time. It will also be noticed that different drills aim to practice different aspect of
a tense. For some of the tenses there are initial drills consisting of questions and answers relating to actions performed in the classroom; the
purpose of these is to demonstrate more clearly the fundamental use and meaning of particular tense.Other drills aim to practice the forms of a
tense e.g. Question and Negative forms or the pronunciation of particular forms e.g. the 3rd Person singular –s, -es, or the –d, -ed of the Past Tense
Shoebridge Giggins 1979: xiv. Drills of tenses focus on training students’ skills in accurately, accuracy and
fluency to construct words and grammar used correctly. The teacher should insist on accuracy in the students’ responses, but at the same time these must be as
fluent and natural as possible Shoebridge Giggins 1979: xiv.
4. Supplementary Activities
