THE IMPORTANCE OF LEARNING TENSES IN BUILDING A SENTENCE

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This community service was carried out in Sangeh Badung village study group in the form of English conversation teaching activities. The use of tenses in conducting English conversation is very important. Therefore, this community service activity aimed to improve the English-speaking skills of students in the Sangeh-Badung village study group. The teaching method applied in the training was the Communicative Language Taeching in Secondary Level method. This English training was a collaboration between the Language Consultant course and the English Study Program. In addition, this activity was carried out offline in order to get the maximum results of learning activities. In these service activities, study group students in Sangeh village were very enthusiastic and active in participating in English conversation learning or training. Students in this study group were given some understanding of the English tenses that were often used, namely simple present tense, simple future tense and simple past tense. In addition, these community service participants also conducted direct conversation exercises with teachers. Therefore, teachers could directly monitor the development process of their students.