The use of movie as a media in teaching simple past tense at the second grade of SMP Antartika Surabaya

Teaching grammar is a boring activity. Students commonly get bored when their teachers teach them grammar using monotonous ways that make them difficult to understanding simple past tense. The purposes of the researcher used movie as media in teaching grammar is to solve the problem. It observed the use of the movie to improve the second graders understanding of simple past tense and presented the problems into a research question. Those were: What are the students responses on using movies as media in teaching simple past tense in SMP Antartika Surabaya and does movie improve students understanding of simple past in SMP Antartika Surabaya.