teacher uses the narrative text as media in teaching simple past tense especially regular and irregular text.
In conclusion, I intend to implement Course Review Horay technique in teaching simple past tense to the students of Senior High School grade eleven.
The purpose is to make better teaching learning process and improve students‟ mastery of simple past tense. Therefore, Course Review Horay technique is
expected to give contribution in teaching grammar especially simple past tense.
1.2 Identification of the Problems
There are twelve tenses which are taught in Junior until Senior High School. According to Azar 1989 English has three system tenses; present tense, past
tense and future tense. The tenses are; simple present, present continuous progressive, present perfect, present perfect progressive, simple past, past
progressive, past perfect, past perfect progressive, simple future, future progressive, future perfect, future perfect progressive.
Based on the explanation above, it can be concluded that there are many tenses that students should know. It seems hard for the students to memorize the
pattern of every single tense. In addition, the students find difficult to use correct tenses in making sentences. In addition, sometimes the students are difficult in
identifying the tenses of a text. Teaching English tenses is not an easy job because there are many tenses
in English. There are many problems faced in teaching tenses. First, it relates to the students‟ mind that English tenses are difficult to be mastered. The students
find the difficulty with the rule or the formula of tenses. In fact, the students think
that English is a difficult subject, as a result they reluctant to join English class. Second, it is
relates to the students‟ difficulty in identifying tenses in texts. The students find it difficult because they sometimes confuse with the use of every
tense. Third, the students find it very difficult in memorizing irregular and regular verb. Fourth, the way the teacher carries on the material. Therefore, it is important
for teacher to pay attention the technique that will be applied to teach grammar.
1.3 Limitation of the Problem
Based on the identification of the problem explanations, I limit the study on the students‟ mastery of the simple past tense students by using Course Review Horay
technique for Senior high school. In addition, the mastery of simple past tense is emphasized on regular and irregular verbs.
1.4 Formulation of the Problem
