Manipulating disciplinary knowledge in teaching part A Reading, Unit 16 Historical Places English 10 effectively INDEX Page I INTRODUCTION 1 Reasons for research 2 Purposes 3 Subjects 4 Methods 1 II C[.]
Trang 1I INTRODUCTION
1 Reasons for research
2 Purposes
3 Subjects
4 Methods
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II CONTENTS
1 Theoretical background
2 Realities before applying the research 3
3 Solutions : integrated Maths, History, Geography,
Civic Education, Information & Technology, Cultural
Knowledge in teaching Part A- Reading Unit 16:
Historical Places
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III.CONCLUSION
1 General conclusion
IV REFERENCES
V APPENDIX
Trang 2I INTRODUCTION
1 Reasons for research
Nowadays, manipulating disciplinary knowledge in teaching is very necessary Especially is English because English is a subject that can intergrate much knowledge of other subjects Therefore, how to make the method of teaching and learning advanced is vital demand to English teachers The fact shows that we can easily approach information and technology and get no difficulty in communication if we are good at Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing in English fluently Specially, reading is one of the basic skills that is paid attention to in the process of teaching and learning English For high school students, they have chances to get more information through units based on themes Thanks to the passages, they will test events related to daily activities Moreover, they know deeply cultural diversities from lessons to lessons If students are bad at reading skill, they get difficulties in getting and keeping information so long From my experiences in teaching English at Cam Thuy 1 high school, I find that my students’s skill in reading is limitative, so exchanging information from units to students is uneasy This not only makes lessons monotonic and unexcited but also affects students’ studying passively
2 Purposes
We have all known recently that manipulating interdisciplinary knowledge
in solving a problem of lesson is essential, which makes learners not only study and improve the knowledge from other subjects but also help them understand and solve the matter fast and perfectly Manipulating knowledge of subjects such as Geography, History, Mathematics, Physics , Knowledge from Culture,
Civic education and Life in unit 16: Historical Places, English 10 provide them
a brief information about the Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam Moreover, with the images of some wonders being destroyed students are aware of their duties in protecting heritages and the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long as well
Based on the innovation of the Ministry of Education & Training about manipulating interdisciplinary knowledge in teaching, I would like to give some
of my new ways of teaching part A Reading unit 16: Historical Places , English
10 effectively
3 Subjects
In this research, I just pay attention to the 10th grade students who are going
to studying unit 16 The Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam is a famous place that is in Hanoi Besides, I give my students chances to discover the interest of the lesson
by giving each group of them a handout contained duty As I have mentioned above, the lesson is so attracting that my students are all excited at doing research
to get more information
4 Methods
To make my solutions effectively, I have used some following methods
Trang 3Firstly, I always get advices from colleagues through co-working.
Secondly, I usually study, create and use new methods in teaching English such as using images, pictures, posters, real objects, etc
- Pictures of some historical places: The great Wall of China, The Taj Mahal, , The One Pillar Pagoda, the temple of Literature, Hue Imperial City, Hoan Kiem lake, Ngoc Son temple, Hung temple, the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long, Independence Palace, Citedal of the Ho dynasty, Hoa Lu Ancient Capital, etc; pictures to teach new words and phrases
Moreover, I apply science and technology in teaching, use projecters, presents films, video clips to make the lesson actively For example, I show a short film about the process of building Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam before the lesson to motivate the spirit of studying between students
Next, I often teach English through real situations such as the present situation of some world’s heritages and the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long to raise students’s awareness of protecting these places; manipulating interdisciplinary knowledge which make students interested and motivated in learning
Lastly, I classify students into groups when instructing them to search for information, then choose the best to show before the class And students have chance to improve their awareness of protecting heritages through images of current status of some historical places and know their responsibility towards this matter with the presentation of the Imperial Citadel of Thang Long , etc
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1 Theoretical Background
Normally, the teacher is considered to succeed in teaching reading skill when he/ she helps students practise some new words, do all the tasks that follow and understand the lesson in a limited period of time Teaching units related to cultural, historical, mathematical, geographical knowledge, etc is a hard work because it requires the teacher has both technique knowledge and understanding about the places, peoples and events from the lessons However,
the teacher must not explain so much that makes the lesson excursive Part A
Reading in unit 16: Historical Places is an exciting lesson that have attracted
me for a long time As I love travelling to many historical places, specially, Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam always make me excited And to make the lessons more interested, I have spent a lot of time to search for knowledge related to the lesson that I am going to teach my students, about Ly dynasty, Tran dynasty, Ho dynasty, Le So dynasty, when and why was Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam built, etc The more I get to know about the Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam, the more interesting I find it is
2 Realities before applying the research
Part A in unit 16 is difficult because it contains so much information, so many
new words and theories In the past, I used to teach students for the following steps
1 Before reading
* Warm up
* New words and Phrases (10-15 words)
* Practice with new words
2 While reading
* Students do the tasks (in texbooks)
* Teacher corrects and gives feedback
3 After reading
4 Homework
In a limitation of time, I tried my best to guide and help students finish the skill That may be called success Sometimes, I explained some information but not too much, so the lesson seemed to be a bit mystery for students Although many students who have been provided pratical duties, some find no interest in getting more informations, some others search for wrong or no relation to the requirements that make the duty waste of time
What is more, there are so much information are given from different sources such as google, newspapers or magazines that both students and teacher find uneasy to choose which is the best to give before the class And the level of the
Trang 5students is unequal that limit them in working together into groups Therefore, I also help my students in need so as to have a successful lesson
3 Solutions
As the research pays attention to give some new ways of teaching part A
Reading in unit 16 English 10, I would like to present it in the form of a lesson
plan which contains both the content and the interdisciplinary knowledge inside Here is the content
Warm up: Name the historical places
Teacher: Shows pictures of historical places from number 1 to 4 and presents questions
1.What are the names of the places?
2.Where are they located?
Teacher: Asks students to work individually to look at the pictures carefully in one minutes and name them
The Great Wall of China Hoan Kiem Lake in Hanoi
Ngoc Son Temple in Hanoi Hue Imperial City
Students: Work individually in one minutes and give answer
+Picture1: The Great Wall of China
+Picture2: Hoan Kiem Lake
+Picture3: Ngoc Son temple
+Picture 4: ( not know)
Teacher: Checks student’s answers and gives feedback
Teacher: Asks students “ Which name do these places have in common?”
Students: Think about the questions then answer:they are beautiful places/ they are heritages, historical places, etc
Teacher: Concludes that they are historical places
Trang 6Guessing the topic
Teacher: Shows pictures of tortoise, stele, university, talented people, banyan tree and presents questions
1.What are they?
2.Where can you see some of them?
Teacher: Asks students to work individually to look at the pictures carefully in one minutes and guess the topic
Teacher: Checks student’s answers and gives feedback
Teacher: Asks students to answer
Trang 7Students: Think about the questions then answer.
Teacher: Can you name the topic
Students: Answer the question
Teacher: Feed backs ( Manipulating Mathematical knowledge and knowledge from life)
Teacher: Shows the picture and asks students “ Do you know this place? How special is it?”
Students: Look at the picture and then one says : “This is Van Mieu – Quoc Tu
Giam”
Teacher: Checks the and answer
Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam is a famous historical and cultural site in Hanoi Originally built in 1070 in the Ly dynasty.
Trang 8Teacher: Sums up “ Although there are a lot of historical places in our country , none is more famous and mysterious than those in Hanoi capital Today, we make a short trip to Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam which is the first university of Vietnam to discover some precious information about it.”
1 Vocabulary:
Teacher gives vocabulary by asking students to look at the extra board on the projector and guess the words or phrases together with writing on their
notebooks
Teacher: Shows all words or phrases to read and asks students to listen to
carefully
Teacher: Calls 1, 2 students to read the words again, then checks their
pronunciation
Trang 9Vocabulary checking
Teacher: - Uses the vocabulary checking to review the vocabulary for them
- Shows pictures in number from 1 to 4 ,then asks them to look at the number of the pictures and give the picture’s names
Students: work individually to give the pictures’names
Teacher : - Calls 2 students to go on board and write down the words
1 Brilliant scholar 3 Banyan
2 Stele (n) / Stelae (plural) 4 Tortoise
- Checks and shows pictures again
Trang 10Teacher: Shows the video about processing of building the Van Mieu – Quoc
Tu Giam
After one minute watching film, teacher shows the content of reading passage and, then ask students to look at on the projector and listen
carefully to the audio
Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam is a famous historical and cultural site in Hanoi Originally built in 1070 in the Ly dynasty, Van Mieu was representative
of Confucian ways of thought and behaviour Six years later, Quoc Tu Giam, the first university of Vietnam, was established on the grounds of Van Mieu Between 1076 and 1779, Quoc Tu Giam educated thousands of talented men for the country In 1482, Van Mieu became a place to memorialize the most brilliant scholars of the nation The names, places of birth and achievements of top students in royal examinations were engraved on stone stelae These stelae, carried on the backs of giant tortoises, are still standing today and they attract great interest from visitors
After more than 900 years of existence, Van Mieu is an example of well – preserved traditional Vietnamese architecture The banyan trees in Van Mieu, which witnessed festivals and examinations during feudal times, continue
to flourish Van Mieu – Quoc Tu Giam is a site of national pride for Vietnamese people
2 Practice
Task 1: Choose A, B or C that best suits the meaning of the italicised word.
Teacher: shows and asks students to work individually in one minute
Students: work individually to choose the best answer
Teacher: - Calls 1,2, students to give answers
- Checks student’s answers and gives the correct answers
Video clip
Trang 11Teacher: Presents brief of the development of education through the following dynasties, the Ly, Tran, Ho, Le So and the meaning and aim of engraving on the stone stelae to prove
Students: Paying attention Answer …
Teacher: Gives information (Manipulating Historical Knowledge and Knowledge from Life)
Brief presentation of the development of education through the following dynasties, the Ly, Tran, Ho and Le So
( Main ideas in page 105 of History 10 grade)
* The Ly, Tran, Ho:
Due to the need to recruit talented people to serve the country, the education and examination are respected by dynasties.
- Ly Dynasty:
+ In 1070, King Ly Thanh Tong built Van Mieu to worship Khong Tu in Thang Long
+ In 1075, the first national exam was opened
+ In 1076, Quoc Tu Giam was built in the citadel by Ly Nhan Tong
- Tran Dynasty:
+ Education was more and more expanded
+ In 1247, Tran Thai Tong established the Tam Khoi system
- Ho Dynasty:
Enforced regulations to put the examinations into order, Maths was added at this time
* Le So Dynasty:
Most strongly developed during the dynasty of Le Thanh Tong ( 1460 – 1497).
- Expand state public schools to localities
- Royal examinations was held every 3 years to choose Doctors of Philosophy
- The names, places of birth and achievements of top students in royal
examinations were engraved on the stone stelae
Meaning: The development of education has created conditions for improving
intellectual standards and educating talents and selected many talent people through many examinations to serve the country.
The meaning and aims of engraving on the stone stelae
( Question 2, page32, Literature 10, Episode 2)
- Showing respect for talented people and saving the list of them eternally
- Encouraging talents to participate in helping the King, flourishing the country
- The wicked take it as a commandment, the good people follow it
Task 2: T/ F statements.
Teacher: Shows 6 statements and asks students to predict whether the statements are true ( T ) or false ( F )
Students: Work in groups
Trang 121 The construction of Van Mieu took place between 1076 and 1779.
2 Quoc Tu Giam is considered to be the first university of Vietnam
3 Thousands of talented men were trained in Quoc Tu Giam from the 11th to the 19th century
4 Van Mieu has now lost most of its traditional Vietnamese architecture
5 Festivals and examinations used to be held in Van Mieu - Quoc Tu Giam
6 Visitors can still see more trees which have been in Van Mieu for a long time
Teacher: Calls 2 groups to predict the statements and writes down their
prediction
Students: Predict the statements
Teacher:Checks students’ answers and gives explanation
Students: Correct the answers