Sáng kiến tiếng anh (INITIATIVE IN TEACHING EXPERIENCE) EXPERIENCE TEACHING THE 28th INTERGRATED PERIOD - UNIT 4: A CLOSER LOOK 2 – ENGLISH 7

EXPERIENCE TEACHING THE 28th INTERGRATED PERIOD - UNIT 4: A CLOSER LOOK 2 – ENGLISH 7 Sáng kiến tiếng anh (INITIATIVE IN TEACHING EXPERIENCE) EXPERIENCE TEACHING THE 28th INTERGRATED PERIOD - UNIT 4: A CLOSER LOOK 2 – ENGLISH 7 Sáng kiến tiếng anh (INITIATIVE IN TEACHING EXPERIENCE) EXPERIENCE TEACHING THE 28th INTERGRATED PERIOD - UNIT 4: A CLOSER LOOK 2 – ENGLISH 7

TABLE OF CONTENTS

THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

&TRAINING

DONG SON OFFICE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING

INITIATIVE IN TEACHING EXPERIENCE

TOPIC

- UNIT 4: A CLOSER LOOK 2 – ENGLISH 7

Written by: Nguyen Thi Loan English teacher at Dong Ninh Secondary School The subject of initiative experience: English

order

I Aims of study

II Scope of study

2 3 3

I Argumentative base of the issue

II Real situation of the issue

III Solution 1.Integrated subjects

2 Process of Integrated teaching

IV Test result

4 4 5-6 7 7 8-15 16

INITIATIVES

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A RATIONALE

It is undeniable that English has become an optimal part of our life and plays an extremely important role in various fields as well English is considered as the international language in the world and the key leading to the success It is also regarded as a means to promote mutual understanding and cooperation between worldwide countries This is the reason why the number of people learns and uses English increasingly, therefore English learning needs are becoming increasingly urgent to many poeple It has become a compulsory subject in all schools from primary schools to high schools In the context of international integration, Teaching and learning English has become more and more neccessary to majority

of people at different ages It is obvious that teaching and learning English is interrelated Once learning approach has been mis-executed, we probably face challenging difficulties in achieving planned goals as a result So finding out the most suitable method to help the learners gain a good command of English and great success in teaching is the desire of any English teachers Being fluent in English definitely allows us to improve our own status and position in the eyes of international friends

In setting of further global integration, the Vietnamese education has been changing basically and the teachers are very important peoneers in this They play the part of the guiders for students during their English reception In the other word, students will take initiative in perceiving knowledge this means that teacher’s traditional function, known as pure teaching performance, should be taken into consideration

The combination of many subjects in one lesson is a demand in integrated teaching approaches in which social or natural science subjects Integrated teaching can be performed in the scope of one unit, one theme, or one certain period in a class Based on it, students are taught how to get information, collection, processing and assessment, thereby well applying acquired knowledge to their real situations of daily life

In the period of this topic, I have taken advantage of inter-subject knowledge acquired in order to encourage students to deal well with improving their knowledge, having a sense of preseving and promoting music and fine art

background of our country Literature, Fine arts, Biology, Geography, Civic education are integrated into one subject Therefore, the performance of the topic

of study on the period 28 UNIT4: MUSIC AND ARTS - Lesson 3: A CLOSER

LOOK 2 (ENGLISH 7) is in need of inter-subject teaching involved in subjects as

follows: English, Literature, civic education, music, fine art…

Being a teacher in the current situation, I am well aware of greater significance of integrated teaching approaches in dealing with potential problems

in each subject, facilitating students to have further understanding of every aspects

of the subject involved Integrated teaching helps students bring into full play their own thinking and creativity in knowledge acquisition and application in reality In the sprit, I would like to express certain experiences in integrated teaching in the

topic: “ Experience teaching the 28 th integrated period – Unit 4: A Closer Look

2 - English 7”

I AIMS OF STUDY.

The purpose of this study is to combine techniques with content accordingly in mastering the language which the students of Dong Ninh secondary School encounter so that some effective techniques can be given to help them improve success of the lesson

These are the specific aims:

- investigating the students’ attitudes towards the lesson

- finding out the difficulties which the students face to

- suggesting techniques with the hope of helping the students study better

2 SCOPE OF STUDY.

This study has 36 students with different levels who came from grade 7A at Dong Ninh secondary School in Thanh Hoa province, school year: 2018- 2019 There are both male students and female students All students have learnt English for 6 years They really wanted to study English well and took part in this study voluntarily

B PROBLEM SOLVING

I ARGUMENTATIVE BASE OF THE ISSUE.

These days, communicating in English is essential and important every corner

of the world English is conducive for a variety of different reasons, therefore

learning English is a trend: We may use English when traveling or working abroad.

If we know English, it is easy for us to find a good job, we can trade with other countries in English around the world to bring benefits to business and economic development Knowing English helps us understand documentaries written in English such as the songs, books, movies, TV programs In the current process of national industrialization and modernization, further international integration is of greater significance What the teachers can do to be effective in teaching proccess, the teachers need to learn, explore and be creative to have appropriate skills, methods to apply in their lessons In fact, English is open to all learners at any level, but it requires reasonable learning approaches and know- hows for truly great efficiency In other words, how to teach English well is an issue of much interest

About all, learning English requires all learners to make ultimate self-motivation, which drive them to be patient determining specific goals within a certain period of time What is learning English for? Just be well aware of individual goals, like foreign business communication, abroad traveling, tourism,

or overseas learning, and so on Any successful teaching is in need of careful preparations and I think that the decisive factor is how teacher performs it in class

In detail, do class organization and direction drive students inspired to learn English? Do they master their knowledge? Is there a synchronized combination of lesson content- curriculum- teaching approach- class facilities or not? Once specific goals have been set and determined, best learning English approaches are probably found out The same can be said about English teachers

II REAL SITUATION OF THE ISSUE.

Teaching and learning English at Dong Ninh Secondary School are facing a great number of issues, caused by certain things as follows:

1 STUDENTS AND THEIR PARENTS.

It is true that a certain number of students and their parents are not clearly aware of English significance That is the reason why students take little interest in learning English, while their parents pay no attention to their children’s reception

at school

A contingent of students take no notice of their lessons due to chatting; insensitivity to teachers’ performance, as well as distraction caused by outer-social factors like online games, social networks and teenager tendencies ect

Also, Students’ performance are uneven and low quality inputs, most of them can’t be able to attend high schools In addition, they fail to balance their interests

in their life Many students have lost their English background, that is proven via the outcome of school year beginning placement test

Students’ attitude towards preparation before class is not clearly good They frequently forget to review lessons, do homework and make preparations for new classes In addition, they do not have enough kinds of books and notebooks for that class

Students themselves are not really hard working Students generally show signs

of laziness and poor awareness of self-study Sometimes they may uncomply with teachers’ guidelines

2 TEACHERS

To have success in the lesson, the teacher makes numerous efforts with a variety

of factor namedly a crowded class, students’ uneven levels, overloaded course book contents… This demands teacher’s hard preparations However actual results are not always good, teaching English outcome has failed to meet the demands up

to now

3 ENGLISH CURRICULUM.

In spite of the attraction in contents, the English curriculum, in fact, is much difficult to students in the countryside, it can be considered as a huge challenge to students of poor background As a neccessity, English is in close connection with other subjects in the over-all curriculum at secondary school levels, so it requires learners a certain level of background which ensures them a relatively performance

at school In reality, a lot of students meet difficulty in keep up with the curriculum and eventually are left behind

III SOLUTION

1 INTEGRATED TEACHING WITH SUBJECTS.

In some cases, the allocation of English contents in each period is to some extent uneven Some English contents can not be dealt with in just forty five minutes as scheduled, time for further practice of grammar points is in fact limited, teachers are forced to adjust their own teaching approaches that are much more in line with such new situation At the same time, new goals are set, as the result, one

of new teaching approaches is taken into consideration in my topic, namely English-Literature- Fine Art- Civic Education integrated teaching It is as follows:

*ENGLISH:

Teaching vocabularies about “MUSIC AND ARTS”, introducing some model sentences and structures in the lesson to talk about the same or differences between kinds of music and things students like or do not like aim to teach students to keep available music and arts of Viet Nam Giving the pictures about the music and artscters (Textbook English 7- page 41, 42)

* MUSIC:

Students can tell names of music,musical instruments, understanding the differences between types of music as well

* CIVIC EDUCATION:

Educating students not only love national music and arts but also preserve and promote them

* LITERATURE:

Students use their literature knowledge to introduce their classmates or school-mates understand more about music and arts of Viet Nam Moreover, they use languages to propaganda everyone talking about them

* FINE ART:

Guiding students draw some pictures about musical instruments and display banners to propaganda people about the importance of them to our daily life

2 PROCESS OF INTEGRATED TEACHING

1 WARM-UP : Discussing and Writing:

Teacher divides students into groups six and asks them to write some names of music

Blue music Pop music Red music

Rock and roll Folk music Rap

Teacher asks the volunteers of each group to say their answers before the class

Teacher asks others to give their opinion, then teacher shows the kinds of music on the screen and gives marks to each group

2 PRESENTATION:

* GRAMMAR

- Teacher gives some examples, asks students to look at them and introduce quickly some new structures about the comparisons :

+ (not) as…… as This bag is as beautiful as that one

+ the same as The price of this bag is the same as it was last year

+ different from City life is quite different from life in the country

Kinds of music

Vnd

City life Country life

- Teacher asks students to repeat in chorus and individually

- Get students to write down the structure and have some make up models

3 PRACTICE:

1- Put as, or from in the gaps

- Teacher divides students into two teams and orders students to do activity 1 (on page 41-) by playing game: Who is quicker?

1 The music festival this year is as good it was last year

2 The concert will be broadcast ‘live’: that means it comes on TV at the same time it is perform

3 This camera is not as expensive I thought at first

4 Your taste in art is quite different mine

5 Some people say that Spiderman 2 is as boring Spiderman 1

6 My mother is always as busy a bee

- Teacher slaps the board and one student from two teams goes to write a word

in the correct sentences, others continue when one completes.Team finishes first that is winner

Students write words in turns

- Teacher gives feedback & marks for teams and asks students to check their answers:

1- as 2- as 3- from 4- as 5- as 6- as

- Students check the answers and write down.

2- Put one of these phrases in each gap in the passage

the same as (2) as narrow as as quiet as

- Have students compare two pictures

* Teacher gets students to work in table groups

- Students sits into groups 4.

* Teacher asks students to write the responses on the paper.

- Students work in group and write down

Students exchange their responses

* Teacher gives students a chance to fix each others’errors

- Students look at the key given to correct

* Teacher chooses the best group

* Students write down in their notebook

3 - Work in pairs Compare the two music clubs in the town: Young talent and Nightingale.

* Teacher organises a game : Who is better? for students to play

- Teacher guides students how to play

* Teacher calls 2 students to play one two three to choose the beginner

- Students in two big groups

* Teacher shows out 6 questions, students of each group have 3 turns to choose

- Each right answer is 10 points

- Teacher gives points to the correct responses and find the better group

* TOO AND EITHER

- Teacher uses the example to present too and either

too : used to express agreement with a positive statement.

either : used to express agreement with a negative statement.

4 – Complete the following sentences with “too” or “either”

* Teacher divides students into groups

- Students work in table groups to write down the answers on the paper

Students work in groups

* Teacher collects students’s paper to give the marks

- Give the feedback on the screen, students check and write down in the notebook.

5 - What music and arts are you interested, or not interested in? Make a list by completing the sentences below (you can use the words given or your own ideas)

pop music dance play the guitar drawing rock and roll painting going to the art gallery acting

* Teacher shows the slide on the screen, students look at the pictures to find suitable words to fill

1 I’m very interested in

3 What I like to do most in my spare time is

4 In my spare time, I often