Developing Students Ability by Using Simple Past Tense Through Game Technique at the Eighth Grade of SMP Negeri 7 Langsa

Studying simple past tense is one of the problems for students who study English. Sometimes they feel difficult different from infinitive and past tense and they are bored learning it. So the teacher must try to find other alternative techiniques of teaching simple past tense to make students interested in simple past tense lesson. One of them is through game. Game is fun, interactive and active and in playing kinds of games, among of them is: Matching Game, word racing game and past tense flash card. Through games the English teacher can motivate the students in learning simple past tense and students can enjoy it. The main problem of this reseach is can game tecnique develop students ability in simple past tense. The research aim to find out whether or not it is significantly of game technique to develop students ability in simple past tense.