Teaching Simple Past Tense in Writing to EFL by Using YouTube

Abstract

This paper explores about the use of short story in YouTube in teaching simple past tense to English Foreign Learners (EFL). The development of technology has influenced in English teaching learning ways. There are some skills that should be mastered by the learners in learning English, they are listening, speaking, reading and writing. Technology can be used in all English skills, such as the use of YouTube in teaching writing. There are many short stories in YouTube that can be used as one of the media in teaching writing. Stories are related to tenses. Stories are also related to simple past tense. Simple past tense is used in retelling story. Simple past is used to show about the activity which had done in the past. There are two kinds of verb used in simple past; they are regular and irregular verb. Regular verb is the verb by adding –d, -ed, and –ied after the verb, examples: bake – baked, cook – cooked, and carry – carried; while irregular verb is the verb which some are not changed in form and some are completely changed in form, such as hit – hit, put – put, set – set, drive driven, bring – brought, and think – taught. The results of the research are: (1) most EFL have understood about the pattern of simple past tense; (2) most of them have known about using whether regular or irregular verbs; (3) some of them made mistakes by omitting the letters whether regular or irregular verb.