Some trategies to increase the efficency of solving word - Form questions for the grade 12 students...

Some trategies to increase the efficency of solving word Form questions for the grade 12 students at tinh gia 4 high school 0 THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRANING TINH GIA 4 HIGH SCHOOL EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE “SOME TRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE EFFICENCY OF SOLVING WORD FORM QUESTIONS FOR THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS AT TINH GIA 4 HIGH SCHOOL” The author Trần Thị Thắm Job position Teacher Experience initiative about English THANH HOA – 2017 SangKienKinhNghiem net 1 TABLE OF CONTENT page 1 INTRODUCT[.]

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRANING

TINH GIA 4 HIGH SCHOOL

EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE

“SOME TRATEGIES TO INCREASE THE EFFICENCY

OF SOLVING WORD - FORM QUESTIONS FOR THE GRADE 12 STUDENTS AT TINH GIA 4 HIGH SCHOOL”

The author: Trần Thị Thắm Job position: Teacher

Experience initiative about: English

THANH HOA – 2017

TABLE OF CONTENT

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Rationale .

1.2 The aims of the research

1 3 The objects of the research

1.4 The researching methods

2 THE CONTENT …

2.1 An overview of word formation …………

2.1.1 Nouns……… ……….… ……….…

2.1.2 Adjectives……… ……… …….

2.1.3 Adverbs ……….……… … ……

2.1.4 Verbs ……….………

2 2 The situation of teaching and learning word –formation in Tinh Gia 4 High School

2.3 The solutions and application.

2 3.1 In the procedure of teaching vocabulary ……….………

2.3.2 In the procedure of practising vocabulary ……… …….

2 4 The results

3 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS …….

3.1 Conclusions

3.2 Recomendations

COMFIRMATION OF THE HEAD OFFICE ……… ………

CONFIRMATION OF THE AUTHOR ……… ………

REFERENCES

APPENDIX:

Some word – form practice tests for Grade 12 students

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1 INTRODUCTION

1.1 Rationale

In recent years, English has been considered by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) as compulsory subjects in the National examinations This shows that English can be considered as a core subject at high schools Despite its importance, students are not really interested in learning English, and the results of English have never been positive for last few years One of the reasons lies in the lack of vocabulary, which is considered as a crucial part in mastering a foreign language Students often find hard to memorize new vocabulary and feel confused by the variety of word formation What is more, for the grade 12 students, who are stuffing their head for the coming exams, vocabulary and knowledge of word formation is much more important than ever before Because of the urgent need of learning and consolidating English of our students, I decided to choose the topic "WORD FORMATION" to help students recognize word classes, practise skills of vocabulary building as well as improve the efficiency in solving questions in English Tests

1 2 The aims of the research

The research is aimed at providing teachers of English some techniques, experiences and a source of practice tests to help the grade 12 students overcome word – form questions effectively

1 3 The objects of the research

The project concerned with procedure in teaching word formation and practising word form questions in the classes 12 b2, 12 b6, at Tinh Gia 4 high school in the school year 2016 – 2017

1 4 The researching methods

During the conduction of the research, I made use of the following methods:

- Studying reference books and other sources on the Internet

- Observing and consulting from other teachers’ classes, discusses and experiences

- Using tests and ways of assessments

2 THE CONTENT 2.1 An overview of word formation in English

According to Raymond Murphy, words in English can be classified into categories as follow:

2.1.1 Nouns

- Noun is a word used as the name of a peron, thing, animal, place

Ex: Student ( person ) Blackboard (thing)

Cat ( animal ) Countryside (place)

- The functions of a noun:

- Subject (This girl is intelligent)

- Objective (She eats a banana.)

- Complement ( He is a footballer.)

- Appositive (Mr David, a famous doctor, is my father’s friend)

- Object of a preposition (Everybody is interested in sports)

- Adjective: (The Vietnam War is different from any other one).

- The ways to form a noun

AR

- Verb + ER

OR

- sailor, actor

- teacher, driver, viewer, singer

- beggar, liar

ION

- Verb + ING

MENT

- action, invention, liberation, conclusion

- writing, making, liking, cooking, learning

- movement, development, investment, punishment,

amusement

-Noun/Adjective + OM - kingdom, freedom, wisdom

- Noun/Adjective+ HOOD - boyhood, neigbourhood, childhood,

brotherhood

- Noun/ Adjective + ISM - capitalism, patriotism, terrorism, heroism,

communism

- socialism, racialism, colonialism

- Adjective + NESS/ Y/ITY

- happiness, laziness, illness, sickness

- cruelty, loyalty, difficulty

- possibility, ability, capability, ability, curiosity

- Verb + ANT - assistant, accountant, applicant, contestant

- Adjective Noun - angry → anger - long → length

- brave → bravery - proud → pride

- deep → depth - terrible → terror

- famous → fame - young → youth

- high → height - hot → heat

- true → truth

- just → justice

- Verb Noun - choose → choice - live → life

- prove → proof - strike → stroke

- sing → song - advise → advice

- enter → entry - fail → failure

- feed → food - laugh → laughter

- renew → renewal - sit → seat

- speak → speech - see → sight

- sell → sale - die → death

- bury → burial - lose → loss

2.1.2 Adjectives

- Adjective is a word that modifies a noun It usually stands before a noun

Ex: a horse a charming room

an apple a furnished house

this old house

- The uses of adjectives

- Attribute adjectives

Ex: intelligent student, large room, big house

- Predicative adjectives: as compliments for subjects and after verbs:

BE / LINKING VERBS (become / get / look / seem )

Ex: - My brother is young

- You look tired

- Object compliment a compliments for objects and after verbs: find,

make, set, keep, leave

Ex: I found this lesson difficult

The sun keeps us warm

-The adjective must be placed after the noun of time, of measurement or words (something, anything, nothing)

Ex: Twenty years old

Five yards long

Nothing strange

I didn’t notice anything wrong with him.

* The way to form an adjective:

Noun - Adjective - choir → choral

- circle → circular

- union → united

- fashion → fashionable

- honour → honourable

- notice → noticeable

- reason → reasonable

- value → valuable

- terror → terrible

- neglect → neglected

picturesque

- charity → charitable

- gold → golden

- wool → woolen

- wood → wooden

- earth → earthen

- North → Northern

Form Examples

- sense → sensible

- horror → horrible

- access → accessible

- luxury → luxurious

- victory → victorious

- vapour → vapourous

- variety → various

- danger → dangerous

- dangour → dangourous

-mountain→mountainous

- venom → venomous

- peril → perilous

- caution → cautious

- citrus → citreous

- fortune → fortunate

-apprehension→pprehensive

- West → Western

- fury → furious

- glory → glorious

- melody → melodious

- mystery → mysterious

- prosper → prosperous

- bounty → bounteous

- mischief→mischievous

- advent → adventitious

- affection → affectionate

-authority→ authoritative

- intuition → intuitive

Verb → adjective - abhor → abhorrent

- obey → obedient

- absorb → absorbent

- notice → noticeable

- compel → compelling

- please → pleasing

- learn → learned

- vacate → vacant

- marvel → marvelous

- strain → strenduous

- quarrel → quarrelsome

- benefit → benificial

- abuse → abusive

- collect → collective

- create → creative

- decide → decisive

- describe → descriptive

- affirm → affirmative

- image → imaginative

- deceive→deceptive/ deceitful

- vary → various

- accept → acceptable

- admire → admirable

- choose → choosy

- volunteer→ voluntary

- unite → united

- comply → compliant

- grieve → grievous

- prosper → prosperous

- study → studious

- meddle → meddlesome

- criticize → critical

- attend → attentive

- compete → competitive

- destroy → destructive

- express → expressive

- extend → extensive

- decorate → decorative

- inform → informative

noun - FUL - harmful - pocketful

- handful - useful

- peaceful - basketful

- successful - helpful

- harmless

- odourless

- hopeless

- useless

- helpless

- homeless

- noiseless

- thoughtless

Form Examples

- yearly

- brotherly

- fatherly

- hourly

- daily

- warlike

- statemanlike

- childlike

- godlike

- snowy

- crafty

- rainy

- faulty

- dirty

- sandy

- starry

- healthy

- silky

- shadowy

- wintery

- childish

- selfish

- amateurish

- accidental

- traditional

- occasional

- personal

- optional

- natural

- magical

- industrial

- agricultural

- patience patient

- independence independent

- vigilance vigilant

- distance distant

- circumstance circumstantial

- volcano volcanic

- sympathy sympathic

- hero heroic

- giant giantic

- energy energic

- metal metallic

- poet poetic

- academy academic

- anemia anemic

- athlete athletic

- quarrel quarrelsome

- trouble troublesome

- choir choral

- circle circular

- picture picturesque

- strain strainous

- venom venomous

- volume voluminous

- peril perilous

- mischief mischievous

- caution cautious

- advent adventitious

- citrus citreous

- affection affectionate

- fortune fortunate

- authority authoritative

- mystery mysterious

- victory victorious

- prosper prosperous

- vapour vapourous

- variety various

- bounty bounteous

- clamour clamourous

- danger dangerous

- murder murderous

- dangour dangourous

Form Examples

- charity charitable

- fashion fashionable

- honour honourable

- notice noticeable

- reason reasonable

- sense sensible

- horror horrible

- gold golden

- wool woolen

- glory glorious

- apprehension apprehensive

- intuition intuitive

- abhor abhorrent

- obey obedient

- absorb absorbent

- acquiesce acquiescent

- disaster disastrious

- advantage advantageous

- courage courageous

- mountain mountainous

- wood wooden

- earth earthen

- North Northern

- West Western

- fury furious

- benefit beneficial

- criticize critical

- abuse abusive

- attend attentive

- collect collective

- compete competitive

- create creative Verb → Adjective - admire admirable

- notice noticeable

- choose choosy

- volunteer voluntary

- compel compelling

- learn learned

- comply compliant

- vacate vacant

- grieve grievous

- marvel marvelous

- study studious

- quarrel quarrelsome

- decide decisive

- express expressive

- extend extensive

- select selective

- affirm affirmative

- decorate decorative

- image imaginative

- inform informative

- deceive deceptive / deceitful

- meddle meddlesome

2 1.3 Adverbs

- Adverbs express how, when, or where an action is done

- The positions of adverbs:

- Adverbs which modify the meaning of adjectives or other adverbs are placed “ before” the word modified

Ex: She is very beautiful.

(adj)

He sings very well

(adv)

- Adverbs which modify the meaning of a whole sentence are placed at the beginning of the sentence

Ex: Usually we go to school by motor cycle.

- Adverbs which modify the meaning of verbs

Ex: He is running fast.

I live here.

I am speaking now.

- The way to form adverbs:

* Notes:

- There is a change of the final vowel when necessary

Ex: lucky → luckily

happy → happily

slow → slowly

- Some adverbs have the same form as adjectives

Ex: - I went to New York by a fast train

(adj)

- He ran fast

(adv)

- We were late for school.

(adj)

- We went t school late

(adv)

2 1 4 Verbs

- Verb is a word or a group which expresses an action or state of being

- Types of verbs:

- Transitive verb: is one which is used with an object

Ex: The waiter brings coffee (object)

The student learns English (object)

- Intransitive verb: is one which is used without an object

It can not be used in the passive voice

Ex: The sun rises.

The baby is sleeping

*Notes:

- Most of English verbs are used both transitively and intransitively

Ex: - The boy rings the bell.

- The bell rings.

- The girl is singing a song.

- The girl is singing.

- Few verbs are used transitively or intransitively

Ex: - The boy lays the book.(object)

- The boy is lying on the table.

- He sets the bird free.

- He sits on the chair.

- Auxiliary verb: Auxiliary verb is one which helps other verbs to form tenses, moods or voices The auxiliary verbs : be, will, shall Do do, did

Ex: - He is studying English

- She will come to the party.

- An apple is eaten by Mary.

ADJECTIVE + LY → ADVERB OF MANER

- They have gone away.

- Tom doesn’t understand the lesson.

- Modal verb: Modal verb is one which can’t conjugate in all tenses, and moods

The modal verbs are: will, shall, can, may, might, need, dare, used to, ought to

Ex: - He can swim.

- Can’t he swim ?

- The ways to form verbs

NOUN→ VERB

Form Example

2 2 The situation of teaching and learning word - formation at Tinh Gia 4 High school.

For most units in the English text books, including English 10, English 11 and English 12, it can be seen that the amount of the word – form tasks is not adequate No lesson is devoted to consolidating the knowledge However, word formation questions are compulsory in most tests Students are afraid of those questions, because of the lack of lexical knowledge and the skills of analyzing the sentences Besides, the teacher has not equipped them with lexical knowledge and necessary skills to overcome these obstacles This situation not only decreases students’ motivation in English lessons but also affects the students’ test results

At the beginning of the school year 2016-2017, after finishing Unit 1 – Home Life, I conducted two 15 minute tests in the two classes with the vocabulary learned I didn’t have positive results, as the supporting table below: