Problems in teaching tenses to the 5th grade students of SDN Juworo IV Grobogan

In globalization era, many people in many countries use English to communicate. English makes people easier to communicate with foreign people. Moreover, people know in this era, almost all aspects of human life such as: economy, social, lifestyle and education get many influences from other countries mostly Europe countries. Therefore, people must know and speak English. It is a way to follow globalization era. For this reason, Indonesian government has decided that English is one of the compulsory lessons for the students. English is taught for the students of elementary school, junior high school and senior high school to university. The purpose is to prepare Indonesian people in order to be ready to work. In elementary school, students are given just basic materials. They learn vocabulary such as transportation, profession etc. They also learn simple grammar. The materials are given with simple questions and simple explanations. Basically, teaching English in elementary school is accentuated in teaching vocabulary, but grammar is an important part to teach. People realize that without learning grammar, people would not be able to speak English correctly. Although people know that grammar has an important role in learning English, people feel 2 that grammar is a complicated part. It can be serious problem for the learners if they do not understand about grammar. Grammar teaching has an important place in the English teaching – learning process. The writer believes that the progress in language teaching will happen if the teacher makes grammar understandable for their students. This report is written based on the job training at SDN Juworo IV Grobogan. The writer focused on problems in teaching grammar for students of year five. The writer used present continuous tense as a material for the students. After finishing the job training, the writer wrote the final project as a requirement of training degree in English Diploma Program Faculty of Letters and Fine Arts Sebelas Maret University. In this report of final project, the writer reports about the problems that are faced in teaching grammar for students of year five of SDN Juworo IV Grobogan. Based on job training experience above, the writer would like to decide the title “Problems in teaching tenses to the fifth grade students of SDN Juworo IV Grobogan”