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SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM

TÊN ĐỀ TÀI SOME SUGGESTED WARM-UP ACTIVITIES APPLIED

FOR TEACHING ENGLISH 10

Người thực hiện: Trịnh Minh Tâm

Vị trí: Giao viên

SKKN thuộc lĩnh vực(môn): Tiếng Anh

THANH HOÁ, 2022

Contents Page

I INTRODUCTION: ……….

1.1 Reasons for choosing the research:………2

1.2 Aims of the research:……… 2

1.3 Objects of the research: ……….2

1.4 Methods of the research:……… 2

II CONTENT………

2.1.Rationale:……….3

2.2.Factual basis … 3

2.3.Survey……… 4

2.4.Some warm- up activities that have successfully been applied for teaching English 10 at Thach Thanh 3 High School……… 6

2.6 Results after applying ……… … 15

III CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION 3.1 Conclusion:……… ……… 16

3.2 Recommendation:……… ……… 16

3.2.1 For teachers: ……….…….17

3.2.2 For school management committee:……… 17

REFERENCES……….…… ………18

1 INTRODUCTION

1.1.The reason of choosing the topic

According to Article 28 of the education law: “The method of general education must promote the students' activeness, self-awareness, initiative and creativity; suitable to the characteristics of each class and subject; fostering self-study methods, teamwork ability; practice skills to apply knowledge into practice; impact

on emotions, bring joy, interest in learning for students.”[1]

Documents ,however,about the innovation in teaching are not much, and often only used in making requirements with testing and evaluation.Besides that,many teachers still use the traditional method of transmitting knowledge, presentations, and expainations.They have not really focused on innovating teaching methods to create excitement for students If the situation continues regularly, students will be disgusted with the subject,which can result in Education targets will not be achieved

As an English teacher at Thach Thanh 3 High School,from my own observation, I realize that the majority of the students of English classes don’t really have strong motivation to study English while those in other classes such as History,Math,Physics,Biology or Literature,etc… have motivation as well as interest in learning the subject.That learners don’t find lessons interesting enough,that the lessons in their course books,somehow,lack authenticity as well as the amount of exessive grammar in each unit seem to be some of the reasons accounting for this.It is from this fact,making students engaged in a subject can be

a real challenge Having identified the problem, I have tried to search for sollutions

to make a boring lesson an interesting one so that students really show more enthusiasm and excitement in engaging in the lesson Thus,in this writing,I would like to present my ideas “ways to get students excited about learning English through warm-up activities” with the hope that my collegues can also consider

my teaching strategies as useful suggestions to help their students become more interested and confident in learning English

1.2 Aims of the research

This paper aims :

-To introduce some ways to create excitement for students and how to organize the activities effectively

-To improve the quality of teaching and learning English in high school

1.3 Object of the Research

This subject focus on students at Thach Thanh 3 High School to help them to renew interest in learning the language

1.4 Methods of study

- Finding out difficulties that students have in English classes

- Reading reference books

- Discussing with my colleagues

- Attending classes of co-workers

- Applying ideas in teaching

- Observing and drawing out experiences

2 CONTENTS

2.1.Rationale of the study

Researches on Second Language Acquisition have shown that language is best learned through the close collaboration and communication among students This type of collaboration results in benefits for all or both learners In fact, learners can help each other while working on different types of tasks such as writing dialogues, interviews, drawing pictures and making comments about them, play roles, etc… to breaking the monotony of learning,increasing the involvement of the students Dornyei (2001) highlights the importance of the "motivational flow" when talking about the general rhythm and sequence of events in class and he considers that it is important to make students active participants and suggests selecting tasks which require mental or bodily involvement of each participant and creating specific rules and personalized assignments for everybody [2]

In language learning,excitement is generally considered to be one of the primary causes of success and failure in language learning Organizing activities and creating English environment at the various stages of the lesson really appear to promote students' involvement in the English class Moreover, boredom and tiredness have been driven away by the fun during the lessons these kinds of activities Realizing the important roles of motivational activities in teaching English is the rationale of my study

As an educator, wanting the best for the students, I understand that it is essential to keep students motivated in order to achieve the best learning results as possible They are some of the reasons why I have the initiative : “Ways to get students excited about learning English”

2.2 Practical basis.

Having teaching English at Thach Thanh 3 High School for many years, I have noticed English is probably one of the most challenging subjects that often create high levels of anxiety and stress among learners here The fact is that those who were usually bored or not interested in the English class did not engage enough in class work, which leads to slow acquisition, unequal power in school They seem to feel discouraged and often neglect it.It is these problems that urge me to find out the solutions to help students get over the challenges and hold interest in the foreign languege in a flexible and easy manner To know exactly about this problem,I investigated in 5 classes 10C2,10C4 ,10C5,10C7 and 12A7 before applying “ways to get students excited about learning through warm-up activities”

by asking them the following questions:

2.3.Survey Questionaire

1 Do you like learning English by using traditional method?

A.very like B.like C.normal D.dislike

And I got the bellow result

Grade

Total

student

s

very like like normal dislike

numbe

numbe

10C2 38 1 2,6 3 7, 8 10 26, 3 24 63,1

10C4 43 0 0 2 4, 6 12 27, 9 23 53, 4

10C5 41 2 4,8 4 9, 7 20 48, 8 12 29,2

10C7 39 2 5,1 3 7, 6 15 38, 4 19 48,7

As can be seem from the tables that most of the students seem not to like English lessons with the current teaching method of their teacher and they express their preferences with suggested learning strategies of activities in classroom.From these reason,the study entitled “Using warm-up activities to get students excited about learning English” has been conducted as a motivation and a means of creating opportunities for simple communication in English lessons with the objective of involving students' more participation

2.4 Ways to get students excited about learning English through warm-up 2.4.1.Games-based learning

Learning requires constant effort and that can be tiring.Nowadays,there is an interesting movement towards learning English through language games.According

to “ Six games for the ESL/EFL Classroom” written by Aydan Ersoz [3], two of more good reasons why games should be included in the lesson are:

- Games that are amusing and challenging are highly motivating

- Games allow meaningful use of the language in context

However ,the teacher needs to consider which games to use,when to use them,how

to link them up with the syllabus,texbook and programme and how,more specially,different games with with benefit student in different ways.(Khan J,1996) [4]

*Forms of playing

-in pairs -in small groups of four or five -in large groups of two tables/each left or right hand side

-in two groups(2 teams devided from the whole class) -in individual with class/teacher

*Requirements:

The key to a sucessful language games is that the rule is clear,the ultimate goal is well designed and the game must be fun

2.4.2 Some warm- up activities that have successfully been applied for teaching English 10 at Thach Thanh 3 High School

Here I present some suggested warm-up activities that I have applied in the pre-stages and and got relatively satisfied results from my students

Unit 1: A day in the life of…….

a Lesson A: Reading

- Hang on some pictures in turn and ask students to say out what they can see

- Ask students to guess the content of the lesson

b Lesson B: Speaking

Name: matching words

Type: group work

Materials: poster, large papers, board pens

Time: 5 mins

Procedure:

- Devide the class into 2 groups

- Provide each group with 1 large and 1 board pen

- Give instruction and time allotted

- Check groups’ work and declare the winner

Subjects in English Subjects in Vietnamese

1. Civic Education

2. Technology

3. Maths

4. Phyics

c. Địa lý

d. Hoá học

5. Geography

6. History

7. Chemisrty

8. Physical Education

9. English

10. Biology

11. Literature

12. Infomatics

e. Tiếng Anh

f. Công dân

g. Lịch sử

h. Thể dục

i. Công nghệ

j. Vật lý

k. Tin học

l. Sinh học

c. Lesson C: Listening

Name: Network

Type: class work

Material: board, chalk

Time: 3 mins

Procedure:

- Write the key word on the board

- Ask sts to think of the related words and say in English

- Lead in the lesson by some guiding questions:

+ Do you like travel by cyclo?

+ Do you think cyclo-driver is easy work?

d.Lesson D: writing: Writing a narrative

Name: Telling a story

Type: Individual work

Materials: Nothing

Time: 3- 5 mins

Procedure:

- Ask sudents to think of the most impressed story that they witnessed or heard

- Call on 1 advanced to tell in front of the class (Encourage him/ her to use English)

- Give some other guiding questions:

+ What items are mentioned in his/ her story (Time, event, place……)

+ Which tense is used in the story?

+ “ Bạn …vừa dùng hình thức viết văn nào để kể lại câu chuyện đó?”

e.Lesson E: Language Focus:

Name: Describing pictures

Type: Class work

Materials: Pictures, chalk

Time: 2-3 mins

Procedure:

- Hang the 2 pictures on the board and ask sts to speak out what they can see

in these pictures

- Write the 2 key words on the board

- Call on some students to read the words

- Write the phonetic forms of them and read the words aloud several times

Unit 2: School talks

a. Lesson A: Reading:

Name: Slap the board

Type: Group work

Materials: stick cards

Time: 3- 5 mins

Procedure:

- Divide the class into 2 groups

- Ask each group to send 5 presentatives and set in a queue

- Provide each group of students 7 stick cards and give instruction

- Read aloud sentence by sentence

- Give feedback

- Declare the winner

7 Suggested sentences:

+ I often play ………online when I have free time

+ After the school year, I’ll go on a summer……

+ Soccer and badminton are my favourite………

+ Do you usually watch…….at 6p.m everyday?

+ What is the ……….like today?

+ Students have to………hard for the exam

+ My ………….is collecting stamps

Keys : games/ holiday/ sports/ film/ weather/ study/ hobby

b. Lesson B: Speaking

Name: Jumbled words

Type: class work

Materials: Poster

Time: 5 mins

Procedure:

- Hang on the poster

- Give instruction and time allotted

- Check with the whole class

Jumbled words:

+ nice/ been/ has/ it/ meeting/ you

+ later/ you/ see/ Goodbye

+ Hello Are/ you/ how

+ Sorry, go/ to/ have/ got/ I you/ catch/ later

Keys:

+ It has nice been meeting you

+ Goodbye See you later

+ Hello How are you?

+ Sorry, I have got to go Catch you later

c. Lesson C: Listening

Name: Missing words

Type: group work

Materials: Poster, chalk

Time: 5 mins

Procedure:

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Give instruction

- Hang on the poster

- Call on 2 representatives of the 2 groups to come to the board and write down the key words

Poster:

+ The duty of students is to S_ _ _ _

+ In summer, my family often go to the B_ _ _ _

+ 30th April is Hoa’s birthdayP_ _ _ _

+ My hobby is T_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ around the world

+ He invites me to go out for a D_ _ _ _

Suggested answers: STUDY/ BEACH/ PARTY/ TRAVELLING/ DRINK

d. Lesson D: Writing: Writing a form

Name: Brainstorming

Type: class work

Materials: Chalk

Time: 3 mins

Private information

Procedure:

- Write the key word in a circle on the board

- Ask sts to list as many things relating to this word as possible

- Write on board what the students say out

- Lead in the lesson by using some more questions:

+ Where do you often see these information?

+ Have you ever used these informaion? When

e. Lesson E: Language Focus

Name: Describing pictures

Type: class work

Materials: Pictures, chalk

Time: 3- 5 mins

Procedure:

- Hang on the 2 pictures and give the questions:

+ What is the boy doing?

+ What is the girl doing?

- Write down the 2 keys word on board

- Call some sudents to read aloud

- Read as model 3 times

- Write the phonetic forms of them

Unit 3: People’s background

a. Lesson A: Reading

Name: Game: Who am I (3 persons)

Type: Group work

Materials: pictures, some pieces of paper

Time: 5 mins

Procedure:

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Give instruction

- Read aloud the 3 clues for 1 person in turn

- Declare the winner

• Who am I?

+ I was born in Nghệ An

+ I am the greatest leader of Vietnam

+ My birthday is May 19th 1890

 UNCLE HO

• Who am I?

+ I live in America

+ My name begins with letter B

+ I am the boss of the company

Microft

 BILL GATES

• Who am I?

+ I am a famous female scientist

+ I was born in Germany

+ My name begins with letter M

 MARIE CURIE

b. Lesson B: Speaking:

Name: Listing words beginning with the letter I

Type: Group work

Materials: Large papers, boardpens

Time: 3-5 mins

Procedure:

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Deliver each group with 1 large paper and 1 boardpen

- Ask students to write down the words beginning with I in 3 minutes

- Check with the whole class and declare the winner

c. Lesson C: Listening

Name: Name some Olympic champions

Type: class work

Material: none

Time: 2-3 mins

Procedure:

- Give the question: “Can you name some famous Olympic champions in the world?”

Suggested names: Michael Phelps (swimming – 2008), Nastia Liukin (Athletes-2008)…

d. Lesson D: Writing: Filling in a form

Name: Matching

Type: Group work

Materials: posters, board pens

Time: 3-5 mins

Procedure:

- Divide the class into 2 teams

- Provide each group with 1 poster containing the matching task

- Ask students to match in 3 minutes

- Hang groups’ work on and check with the whole class

- Declare the winner

A B

2. date of birth

3. place of birth

4. school attended

5. exams passed

6. previous job

7. interests

a. Lien Truong village

b. Hau Loc I

c. 22/ 01/ 1985

d. Music and dancing

e. Private tutor

f. English

g. Hoang Thi Hoa