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THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT

HOANG HOA 3 HIGH SCHOOL

EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE

AS MATERIALS TO PRACTICE SPEAKING SKILL

IN UNIT 12: THE ASIAN GAMES – PART B: SPEAKING

(ENGLISH 11)

Implementer: Lê Thị Gấm

Position: Teacher

Experience initiavtive in the subject: English

THANH HOA YEAR 2017

CONTENT TABLE

PART I: OPENING

I Reasons for choosing the theme

II Study purposes

III Study objects

IV.Study methods

V Some innovations of the theme

PART II: STUDY CONTENTS

Chapter I: Argument grounds

1 Theoritical grounds

2 Practical grounds

Chapter II: Real situations

1 Students

2 Teachers

3 Material facilities

4 Survey results before Unit 12

Chapter III: Some experience used to improve real situations

I Basic steps of teaching a speaking lesson in English

1 Pre - speaking

2 While – speaking

3 Post – speaking

II Some experience applied in teaching the speaking skill in

Unit 12 – The Asian Games – Part B: Speaking (English 11)

1 Before the lesson

2 During the lesson

2.1 Controlled practice

2.1.1 Pair work

2.1.2 Individual work

2.2 Further practice

2.2.1 Expected information searched by students

2.2.2 Presentation

2.2.3 Evaluation

3 After the lesson

3.1 Games: Names of sports

3.2 Homework

Chapter IV: Study results, experience lessons and measures

1 Study results.

2 Experience lessons and measures

PART III: CONCLUSION AND PROPOSALS

1 Conclusion.

2 Proposals.

3 3 3 3 4 4 5 5 5 5 6 6 6 6 6 7 7 7 7 7 8

8 8 9 9 9 9 9 12 12 12 12 12 13 13 13 14 14 14

PART I: OPENING

I REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE THEME.

With the speedy development of the world today, English is widely used in every field of life It is not only the native language of many countries but also the most popular communication language of people around the world

In order to promote international integration, communication languages especially English have played an integral part in understanding and cooperation among nations Therefore, our Vietnamese education has paid special attention

to teaching English at schools Among the skills, speaking is considered to be the most important one It helps us communicate, understand and cooperate with each other easily

Learning a language without being able to speak it in specific situations of daily life is like having hands but using them for nothing It is no use learning a language without using it for oral communication purposes Moreover, English

is an international language which is widely used in most international and regional events Speaking English fluently and confidently helps students a lot not only in their life but also in their future work

With those practical goals, the English program at secondary school centres

on forming and developing basic knowledge and skills to students about the English language and necessary intellectual qualities so that they can either continue further study or start their working life

To meet these practical demands, each teacher should study and choose teaching methods which are suitable to both himself/herself and his/her students This is very important to achieve good teaching and learning results

Actually, at most countryside schools in general and at Hoang Hoa 3 High School in particular, the results of teaching and learning English have been better and better recently, but there exist many disadvantages The biggest difficulty here, I think, is how to help students speak English fluenty not only in class but also in real life

With my experience in teaching English at Hoang Hoa 3 High School, I have researched reference documents, learned from co-workers as well as applied many different teaching methods I have gained some first positive results, so I

would like to choose the theme “Searching for internet information as materials to practice speaking skill in Unit 12: The Asian Games – Part B: Speaking (English 11)”.

II STUDY PURPOSES.

- Analysing real situations of teaching the speaking skill

- Presenting some experience in teaching the speaking skill to raise learning effects

- Bettering the results of speaking lessons

- Helping students feel confident when they present their ideas in English in front of other people

III STUDY OBJECTS.

- Real situations of teaching the speaking skill at Hoang Hoa 3 High School

- Unit 12: The Asian Games – Part B: Speaking (English 11)

IV STUDY METHODS.

1 Exploiting the basic English textbook 11 and reference documents

2 Exploiting teaching aids

3 Exploiting the internet

4 Working positively individually and in small groups

V SOME INNOVATIONS OF THE THEME.

- Not depending on controlled tasks in textbook completely

- Promoting students’ abilities to exploit information in the Internet

- Providing students with chances to cooperate with each other in

completing their duty, so that students can learn how to solve the

problems by themselves

- Bettering students’ confidence when they speak in front of other people

PART II: STUDY CONTENTS CHAPTER I: ARGUMENT GROUNDS

1 Theoritical grounds.

Just when students start learning English, they get accustomed to four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing It is through these four skills that teachers pass knowledge to students and students gain their knowledge Among these four skills, speaking is an important skill to students

It requires that teachers not only understand well effective teaching methods but also apply smoothly the principle “Learning parallels hands-on” [5]

Starting from the view of “Learners are the centre”, teaching and learning methods have changed greatly Teachers are not those who hold knowledge and pass it to students, but those who guide, support, consult and check students’ working Students do not absorb knowledge passively Becoming the centre of the teaching-learning process, students are completely active and creative in study to achieve good learning results and know how to apply knowledge in real life [4]

From the grounds above, how to apply innovative methods of teaching the speaking skill is very important It helps students feel confident when they present their ideas in front of other people and communicate effectively in daily life

2 Practical grounds.

Most high schools have used new English teaching and learning materials, which ask students to develop equally all four skills, among which the speaking one requires that students have to spend much time practising not only in class time but also outside class so that they can communicate better in English

In order to raise the effect of speaking lessons, teachers had better study each lesson carefully, ask students to prepare necessary things before the lessons, find out and apply a wide variety of practice forms which are suitable to material facilities of each school to improve students’ English

When experimenting in some classes of grade 11 at my school, I have gained some encouraging results My periods of teaching speaking skill become more interesting, which makes students more active and betters their communication in English

CHAPTER II: REAL SITUATIONS

1 Students.

Generally, the level of students’ knowledge is quite low due to the difficult economic conditions Besides, the English knowledge of students is not equal in the same class and among classes in the same grade Besides, the number of students in a class is quite high (about 40-45 students) These result in difficulties when teachers decide to choose methods as well as control class activites during speaking lessons

2 Teachers.

After testing some teaching methods, teachers often feel discouraged because students do not participate in activities actively Thus, the practical results are not as good as expected ones Gradually, teachers seem not to pay serious attention to speaking lessons They often use some simple traditional techniques to teach speaking tasks in each unit quickly Therefore, most of class time is spent on controlled tasks in textbook

3 Material facilities.

Due to the lack of essential material facilities especially projectors, most teachers do not make full use of such document sources as the Internet, pictures, video clips,…

With these limitations, the effect of speaking tasks is not good enough to satisfy the general purposes It is like a vicious circle which has no exit for quite

a long time

4 Survey results before Unit 12.

Levels of interest Class Student

number Dislike Normal Like

CHAPTER III:

SOME EXPERIENCE USED TO IMPROVE REAL SITUATIONS

I Basic steps of teaching a speaking lesson in English

1 Pre - speaking.

- Warm students up before speaking lessons by some ways such as: games, pictures, videos,…

- Introduce purposes and topics that students are going to talk about, help students recall related things they have gained to prepare for their speaking (This not only helps good students revise their knowledge but also helps other students have necessary materials before doing the required tasks)

- Help students know some useful languages like vocabularies, structures that help them speak more effectively

This part is very important because it helps prepare necessary things for the speaking lesson Thus, it is necessary that students know how to pronounce words and phrases correctly, understand how to use the structures effectively

2 While – speaking.

Depending on different speaking tasks, teachers may let students work in

one of the following ways

a Working in pairs.

Basing on the requirements, students can ask and answer using the given suggestion They also role-play in conversations or talk about some other things

b Working in small groups.

Each group should appoint a secretary who selects and writes down other students’ ideas All group members take part in the group discussion on a specific topic by giving their own ideas and viewpoints Other members listen and express their opinions, add further information or give the opposite ideas….After finishing discussion, all group members check their discussion ideas again together and get ready to present their discussion

While students are working, the teacher should go round to help them if they have difficulties in vocabulary, structures, idea expressions,…

3 Post – speaking.

This is utmost importance In this step, students present their groups’ discussion in front of the whole class This helps students practice some important skills in speaking such as patience, confidence, concentration, reaction, persuasiveness, manner,…

This is also a completion step of a speaking lesson Thus, teachers should pay serious attention and never pass it easily because it helps students a lot in

completing, self-checking their own speaking skill and improving their language knowledge by themselves

II Some experience applied in teaching the speaking skill in Unit 12 – The Asian Games – Part B: Speaking (English 11)

1 Before the lesson

- Divide students in each class into 6 groups

- Give each group a task for them to prepare at home: Students have to search the Internet for required information which they will use to present in the speaking lesson

- Ask each group either to write their preparation on the A0 paper or present their preparation in powepoint slides to display on the projector screen (Students may insert pictures, images to make their products more interesting)

+ Ask students of 3 groups to search for the information about the Asian Games and complete the following table:

( Group 1: The 15th Asian Games Group 2: The 16th Asian Games Group 3: The 17th Asian Games)

THE……….ASIAN GAMES

Medals Host

Number

of countries

Number

of athletes

Number

of sports

Country ranked

+ Ask students of 3 other groups to search for the information about the medals won at the Asian Games by Vietnamese athlethes and complete the following table:

( Group 4: The 15th Asian Games Group 5: The 16th Asian Games Group 6: The 17th Asian Games)

MEDALS WON BY VIETNAM (at the…….Asian Games held in……… )

Sports Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals Total

……(by…)

……(by…)

……(by…)

……(by…)

……(by…)

Total Rank

2 During the lesson

2.1 Controlled practice

Ask students to read the information in the table – page 139 textbook English 11 and make sure they understand the given information

2.1.1 Pair work

- Ask students to work in pairs to ask and answer about the Asian Games, using the information from the table

Example:

B: (They were held) in 1951 in India.

A: How many countries took part in the Games?

B: Eleven (countries took part in the Games)

A: How many sports were there at the Games?

B: (There were) six (sports at the Games) [1]

- Call pairs of students to ask and answer similarly as the given example They replace the underlined information in the example with information from the table [2]

2.1.2 Individual work

- Present some more useful phrases to help student talk individually:

+ take place in… = be held in…

+ with the participation of….countries

+ take part in / participate in…….(different) sports [3]

- Ask students to work individually to talk about the Asian Games using the information in the table and the suggestion above

- Call students to talk (Each student talks about one Asian Games)

2.2 Further practice

Before students present their tasks, the teacher checks each group’s preparation to prepare some other necessary things to help students do their tasks better such as magnet, laptop, projector,…

2.2.1 Expected information searched by students

Group 1:

THE 15TH ASIAN GAMES

Medals Host

Number

of countries

Number

of athletes

Number

of sports

Country ranked

China (316 medals:

165 golds,

88 silvers,

63 bronzes)

[6]

Group 2:

THE 16TH ASIAN GAMES

Medals Host

Number

of countries

Number

of athletes

Number

of sports

Country ranked

China (325 medals:

163 golds,

83 silvers,

79 bronzes)

[6]

Group 3:

THE 17TH ASIAN GAMES

Medals Host

Number

of countries

Number

of athletes

Number

of sports

Country ranked

China (342 medals:

151 golds,

108 silvers,

83 bronzes)

[6]

Group 4:

MEDALS WON BY VIETNAM (at the 15th Asian Games held in Doha, Qatar)

Sports Gold medals Silver medals Bronze medals Total

Sepaktakraw

2 (1 team,

1 pair: Luu Thi Thanh,