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From the reflecting phase above, there must be more efforts to improve students’ understanding the passive form of Present Continuous
Tense by using pattern drill. It needed to be improved again in the next cycle. This effort was done in the next lesson plan of cycle two.
2. CYCLE 2
a. Planning
The planning phase of the second cycle was implemented into a lesson plan. In this case, the writer modified previous lesson plan based
on result of reflecting phase in the first cycle. The lesson plan which was used still related pattern drill in learning passive form of Present
Continuous Tense. However, there were some modifications in the second cycle; that was the teacher needed to give more time to the
students in doing exercise of pattern drill. It was caused to ensure their grammar rules concerning the passive form of Present Continuous Tense.
Beside of that, the writer still also prepared the unstructured observation sheet to note the classroom activities. And the writer also prepared the
posttest 2 to collect the data.
b. Acting
The action of the cycle two was done on April 16
th
and 18
th
2012. After reviewing the pervious lesson, before the students read passive
sentences of Present Continuous Tense that given by teacher, they were given some minutes to identify that sentences. Afterwards, the teacher
asked students some questions which how to change from active sentence into passive sentence of Present Continuous Tense. Then, the teacher
gave exercise of passive form of Present Continuous Tense sheet to the students in order to do it. And after students finished to do exercise the
teacher asked some of students to make passive sentence by using their own words. Furthermore, before finished in teaching learning in the
class, the teacher asked to students to read and repeat loudly the passive
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form of Present Continuous Tense. Then, teacher gave the correct answers of the question based on the material.
c. Observing
In the second cycle, generally the class condition in learning process was better than the pervious cycle. It could be seen from the students who
were ready to follow the lesson and when the followed the grammar lesson, most of them were enthusiastic to answer some questions given by
the teacher. In doing task of passive form of Present Continuous Tense, they enjoyed doing the individual exercises. Furthermore, when they were
given exercises by the teacher, they did it individually without cheating one another. Related to the teacher’s performance, he showed some
progress. It meant that students understand easily. Automatically, it led a good feedback from students’ response in conveying their opinion. Then,
most of student seemed quite active in the classroom and in doing grammar exercises. In the second action of cycle two, the teacher was
held on posttest 2 regarding students’ understanding the passive form of Present Continuous Tense. Based on the result of the posttest 2, the mean
score of the class in grammar test gained 73.78 in which there were 26 students who passed the KKM 70 seventy.
d. Reflecting
