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Using handouts to encourage the students in grade 10 to be more confident in learning speaking lessons at Quang Xuong 4 high shcool 0 APPENDIX CONTENTS PAGE A PREFACE 1 I Reasons for choosing the them[.]

II Effectiveness of using handouts in speaking lessons 4 III Handouts and the ways to organize them in speaking lessons of

English 10

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A- PREFACE

I REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE THEME :

It can not deny the importance of English in all aspects of our daily life nowadays The more the world’s economy develops, the wider the cultural, political and social exchanges become Therefore, English has been considered

as the of three core subjects in ưour country’s education system

At present, there has been considerable reform in English curriculum at secondary level Not only is it renovated in content and appearance but also in teaching method Teaching foreign languages in general and English in particular no longer focuses students on studying the language system but helps them know how to use it as a means of communication That means to improve students’ communicative ability which is expressed by the four productive skills: Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing

Of the skills mentioned above, Speaking is considered as a more difficult task for a large number of learners Not only does it require a vast knowledge about the topics they would like to talk but also a great deal of vocabulary and grammatical structures to express what they mean In addition, to acquire a perfect communicative competence, it is essential that learners should have a thorough grasp of suitable structures applied flexibly in diversified contexts

In fact, at most of school in our country, both the teachers and students manly focus on teaching and learning Grammar rather than those of communicative competence I have realized that students possibly do grammatical exercises quite well, however, hardly do they speak a sentence with correct grammatical rules, regardless say it in appropriate situations or not Especially at my school, which is located in the poor countryside nearby the sea, the students hardly ever get a chance to communicate with the foreigners It is open a question to me that I must do something to guide my students to enable

to speak out English from their mouth in some daily situations

In the school year of 2016 -2017, I taught English in class 10G and 10H

at Quang Xuong 4 high school, I realized that my students had a quite good basic grammatical knowledge but most of them could not speak a simple sentence fluently The main reasons for this problem are mainly because of the shortage of the speaking skill In the other hand, another reason might contain in the hard topics in the English 10 textbook I studied many methods and finally I was rather satisfied with using handouts to motivate them to talk After a year of practice, I got some certain success

It is the reasons mentioned above that have been encouraging me to

choose the theme : “Using handouts to encourage the students in grade 10 to

be more confident in learning speaking lessons at Quang Xuong 4 high shcool

” This is my experience I have got from teaching process last year I hope that it

may be useful for whom like the creativeness in teaching English

II AIMS OF THE RESEARCH :

“ Take it easy ” is one of my techniques when teaching the weaker

English lessons in general and speaking lessons in particular through tables, pictures or images In order to creat motivation and situations in which students are encouraged to speak, I have been using handouts not only to draw students’ attention but also enable them to actively take part in speaking activities

Through my years’ time of teaching English as well as exchanging, referring to related materials and drawing experiences after each lecture, I myself have found a suitable technique of teaching speaking skill for students in Grade 10 ( the first year of secondary level as well as the background for developing speaking skill in the next grades ) This technique has not only enabled me to lull most of students to take part in speaking lessons actively, enthusiatically and creatively but also creat an exciting atmosphere, raise students’s love for speaking English and help them increasingly upgrade their

speaking skill by : " Using handouts to encourage the students in grade 10 to

be more confident in speaking lessons at Quang Xuong 4 high shool ” This

technique has been applied in quite a long time of my teaching English 10 and I have got considerably hopeful result Therefore, I decisively exchange my initiative experience with my collegues

III - OBJECTS OF THE RESEARCH :

This subject is concerned with ways of organizing games in speaking lessons of Grade 10 English

IV- METHODS OF THE RESEARCH :

- Using the text - book English 10 to apply to each speaking lesson

- Reading reference books to improve

- Using the soft ware POWERPOINT, pictures and other materials

- Discussing with other teachers

- Observing and drawing out experiences

B - CONTENTS

I BASIC OF THEORY

In the Cambridge English Dictionary, Handout means a document give to students or reportere that contain information about a particular subject In fact, They allow teachers to provide more detailed information than we would put on

a slide or a task They give the students something to take away from our

presentation, to review later They are one more way for the listeners to be

reminded of what you have given for them

Handout is especially useful if the presentation is highly technical or

complex They can further explain important information For example, we may want to include in our handout supporting data that we chose not to include in the presentation, such who, what, where, when, why…we may use to give the students some guidelines

Handout can just be a simple small change from the difficult task in

textbook providing a great deal of new words, new structures for students to

students the opportunities to practice speaking more, but also forces them to read and think Gradually, it will make students more confident to talk what they think easily and may creat the “ habit and reflexion of speaking” in the daily situations

Therefore, handout encourages students to interact and communicate in

the target language and create a meaningful situations for language use Morever, it makes the foreign language immediately useful to the students and brings the target language to life

By using handout can students speak English as naturally as they learn their mother tongue without being aware they are studying even to the hesitant and shy students

II THE REALITY TEACHING AND LEARNING SPEAKING LESSON

AT QUANG XUONG 4 HIGH SCHOOL

As can be seen, English is a rather difficult subject to students particularly the rural ones Among four language skills, speaking is considered the most challenging task for both teachers and learners

From the matter of fact, during most of speaking lessons, if teachers apply the old teaching method – teachers only read or give illustration and students’ work is either copying or imitating, there will be only a small number of students branstorming and working actively, the rest will passively listen regardless of understand the meaning, purposes and usages of structures and communicative situations given Hence, this results in low teaching quality and few students with flying colours To make it worse, students increasingly lose interest in practising speaking skill and fail to upgrade their communicative abilities

To get a better view of the fact of teaching and learning English speaking skill, I have carried out a survey on Grade 10 students of three classes ( 10G, 10H) of my school by 5 questions relating to learning speaking skill and the reasons why they can not speak it fluently in spite of their good grammartical knowledge The questionnaire is as follow :

QUESTIONNAIRE

Put a tick (  ) in your option Question 1 : Do you enjoy learning English ?

 Very much  Not much  Not at all

Question 2 : Which skill do you consider the most important ?

 Reading  Speaking  Listening  Writing

Question 3 : How do you enjoy speaking skill ?

Question 4 : Why can’t you speak English well ?

 hard topics  shyness  lack of structures and

vocabulary

Question 5 : How do you feel if provided more sugestions about the topics in

speaking lessons by using handouts?

 Very excited  No special feeling  Boring

Here is the result of the survey :

(%)

5 Get motivated when providing more sugestions in speaking

lessons by using handouts

95

The result of the survey indicates that over 60% of students are interested

in learning English Although over 80% of students appreciate the importance of speaking skill, only 22% are fond of it On the other hand, most of them (90%) believed that the topics in speaking lessons are very hard and the number of students that get excited and stimulated by providing more suggestions in speaking lessons by using handouts is up to 95%

It can be concluded that providing more suggestions in speaking lessons

by using handouts is certainly effective in teaching speaking skill

It is known that using handouts in teaching brings about a great number of benefits Not only do the students are motivated, this also makes them get more ideas to express their thoughts They find it easier and more exciting with the difficult topics in textbook Using handouts changes the atmosphere of the class and makes the lessons more attractive

III USING HANDOUTS TO ENCOURAGE STUDENTS IN LEARNING SPEAKING LESSON

The students in my school are not very good at English because of many

reasons, the primary one is the lack of confidence and the old teaching method Generally, teachers can use handouts in many ways of teaching four skills including Reading, Speaking, Listening and Writing in any level of learners However, in this theme, I focus on Speaking skill for grade 10 first because I

had a chance to carry out this technique in the last school year, Besides this, I really want to help my students, who were lack of opportunity to talk English to

a foreigner, to be aware of the importance of English in the mordern life The third reason but most important is I dream to motivate them do what they are able to do but they do not know I only give them the ambition, the love, the confidence, the suggestion for them to do it by themselves Everything becomes easier if we know the way how to do it

Using handouts as a teaching aid requires the teacher the creation and a good knowlegde about teaching approach Indeed, if the teacher neither understand the objectives of the lesson, nor prepare teaching plan carefully, using handouts in these case is ineffective Not only is it useless but it also make the student becomes confused

There is a wide range of handouts which teachers probably take full advantages of to stimulate students in speaking lessons In this work, I mention some kinds of handouts that I used effectively last year for my students

1 Some typical handouts

1.1 Table handouts

This type is the most popular because is is easy for teachers to creat and for the students to understand It provides new words and new structures for especially the weak students who have a poor vocabulary

For example, when teaching part B Speaking of Unit 1: “The day in

the life of…”, task 3 may be difficult for most of students, teacher create a

table handout using the words and structures as in task 2

Sample handout 1 - Task 3 Unit 1 of Enlish 10:

Complete the table below with your activities and then to your

classmates.

- At 6.00 + In the morning: - I always get up at …

- I …

- At 14.00,… + In the afternoon: - I often…

- I …

- At 19.00 + In the evening: - I sometimes…

The funny small pictures make our brain feel relax and work more quickly than usual The small change but the big result Students are able to talk anything crossing in their mind naturally about what they often do everyday

The table handouts can be used in Unit 3: “People background”, teacher

can mix the task 2 and 3 in one and using handouts After task 1 as warming up, teacher asks students to work in groups of 4 ( each table is one group) to make the questions for the information needed in a background interview and give the answer with their personal information Then ask one to talk about the backgroud of the others in front of the class, using the information in the table The handout for this situation may be created as below:

Sample handout 2 – Task 2+3 Unit 3 People background

Work in group to complete the table then talk about the background

of the member in each group.

What to How to say Who to be asked

2

Student 3

Student 4

Date of birth When were you

born?

I was born in

Place of

birth

Where were you born?

Home Where do you live?

Family - How many people

in your family?

- What do they do for living?

Education Where did you study

Primary/ Secondary School?

Experience How did your work

at school?

Do the same with Task 2 + 3 Unit 12: Music

The aim of this lesson is to help student ask and answer about their taste

of music If we use task 2 and task three, I think they are not very seamless The students may be get stuck when they speak Teacher can use handouts to help students feel excited with this task

Sample handout 3: Work in groups to ask and answer about the taste music

of your partner, then report the result

1

Partner 2

Partner 3

Partner 4

Kind of

music

What kind of music

do you like?

Pop/ Jazz

Reason for

listening

Why do you like

it?(Exciting/relaxing/

lyrical…)

exciting

Favourite

band/

musician/

singer

What is/are your favorite

band(s)singer(s)?

Son Tung MTP…

Favorite

song(s)

What is/are your favorite song(s)?

When

listen to

music

When do you often listen to music?

When teaching Unit 13, The students may have difficulties with the new words to describe about films Task 2 and task 3 are not very easy with the weak students The objecticve of this lesson is talk about the taste of films, therefore, teacher may use the handout to make the task simplify as below:

Sample handout 4 - Unit 13 Films and Cinema

Use the useful language in the handout then talk to your partners about your taste of flim

Kind of film Useful adjectives Useful structures

Detective

Science fiction

Love story

Cartoon

War

Action

Thriller

Interesting/

moving/

good fun/

violent/

boring/

exciting/

Moving/realxing

I like ….film most Because It is

I find it …

I often watch films on TV

The film I like best is…

I prefer …than …

1 2 Mind map handout

This type is very useful to help students express many problems in sequence

For example, with the task : causes – consequences – solutions or talk about the advantages and disadvantages of something as in Unit 9: Undersea world

Teacher can mix task 2 and 3 in one using a handout as below:

Sample handout 5 – Unit 9 Undersea world

Discuss in groups then talk about the marine pollution: causes –

Consequences – solutions, using the cues in the handouts

Mind map about the sea pollution

1 3 Picture handouts

This type is used to help student in the describing task as in Unit 8: History of my village In this speaking lesson, students have to discuss plans to

improve the life of Ha Xuyen village Teacher should use 2 pictures of a village

in the past and now with many changes to motivate them to talk Instead of reading only words in textbook, now thay have something interesting to think and to talk The handout may be created as below:

Sample hanout 6 – Unit 8: The history of my village

Look the 2 pictures carefully, (pay attention to the differences on them), use

the useful language in the middle to talk about the plans and the possible results

of Ha Xuyen village

IN THE PAST

Useful language:

1 narrow roads

2 poor crops

3 work hard all day

4 straw and mud houses

5 lack of school classrooms are

in bad condition

…

- widen the roads

- grow cash crops

- apply new farming methods and technoly

- buil a new school

NOW

1 large and raised the roads

2 big brick houses

3 having mordern device as

TV, Computer, cellphone

4 new and big school with enough rooms for all

children…

Give students 10 minutes to work in groups and prepare what they want to talk from these pictures When they speaking, teacher should ignore the grammatical mistakes to encourage them to talk Using target language to express their ideas, their thoughts is more important in a speaking lesson than grammar

For teacher, the picture handouts require the time and the to search for the suitable pictures and design handouts But the result is obvious quite good Most

of the sudents can talk about the changes of a village, at least some simple sentences for the weak The most imprtant advantage of this type is the independence from textbook They can talk without the help of the textbook and teacher as well The students feel so free when express their ideas

Teacher can use the picture handouts to help students to leanr speaking

lesson on Unit 12- Music – talk about the favourite band , musician, singer.