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THE INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE

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Teacher : DUONG LE THANH THUY Research field : Education management : ………

Teaching method : English ………

Methodology : ………

Other fields : ………

Attachments :  Object  Software  Film  Otherthings

School year: 2012 – 2013

CURRICULUM VITAE

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I PERSONAL INFORMATION:

1 Full name: DUONG LE THANH THUY

2 Date of birth: February 20th, 1977

8 Place of work: Nam Ha high school

II TRAINING STANDARD

- Diploma: Bachelor

- Graduation year: 1998

- Major in: Teaching

III SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE

- Major in: teaching

- The length of service: 14 years

- The initiative experience:

1 Combination of various skills in teaching “Word study” (2006 – 2007)

2 Teaching Speaking in a Reading period (2007 -2008)

3 How to check the previous lesson effectively (2008 – 2009)

4 Raising the effect of using English (2009 – 2010)

5 Developing students’ listening skill by varifying exercises (2010 -2011)

6 Applying games to an English class (2011 – 2012)

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I The purpose of the chosen subject

A The purpose of the subject chosen

B The foundation from the fact

II Advantages and Disadvantages

A Advantages

B Disadvantages

C Objects and Researching methods

III The content of the subject

IV The sample of teaching lesson

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To teachers, how to teach effectively, applicably and attractively?

To students, how to learn the lessons by heart fast and easily as well as use them correctly?

This is always a big question for teachers before each teaching period and for students when studying a foreign language (especially English) Basically, there have been many changes in content and the methods of teaching foreign languages (in

general), English (in particular)

To be successful in each period, teachers are always creative to make lessons more perfect and more interesting To help students learn vocabulary effectively and remember them as much as possible is considered not only important but also urgent because vocabulary is known as “a brick” and other language factors “glue” to build “ a language house”

In fact, to find out the best solutions to the problems teachers often meet while teaching and studying foreign languages, all groups and departments related to

education usually carry out the movements, the contests or the discussions which help teachers have opportunities to learn experiences from each other

Realizing the characteristics of the subject, I have always studied and learnt the best teaching methods to help students improve their vocabulary With the 13-year teaching experience, I have had an idea and applied it to the fact That idea is named:

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B The foundation from the fact:

- The role and steps in teaching and studying vocabulary

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- The skills in introducing and reinforcing vocabulary

- The result of using those skills

C Objects and the methods of doing the research:

- Objects: students at Nam Ha high school (class 12C2 – C10 and 11C1 – C2 – C6)

- The methods of doing the research:

+ Read books as well as other documents

+ Learn experience from the colleagues

+ Do some experiments – make statistics – consider the results

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ADVANTAGES

AND DISADVANTAGES

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A Advantages:

- When realizing the importance of studying foreign languages, many parents have paid more attention to their children’s studying

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- More and more students are interested in learning English

- Teachers are always enthusiastic and creative in teaching

- There are various teaching techniques supporting an English class (computer, screen and flash light…)

- The head-staff board always supports and helps teachers during the teaching period

- There are many experienced teachers in the Foreign language group

- Many teachers who are good at the I.T help us design games

B Disadvantages:

- Students’ capacity is much limited and at different levels Some of them are quite deficient in the base of learning English

- Some students pronounce habitually wrongly and the teachers feel in vain in

correction Moreover, they transcribe English into Vietnamese without using the International Phonetic Alphabet This wrong study leads to their lack of English knowledge The teachers must face this problem – A great difficulty in our teaching

- The majority of students have lack of self-confidence in listening to teachers’

explanation in English

- Most students, for the sake of the university entrance examinations, consider some other subjects, such as: maths, physics, chemistry, even biology more important thanEnglish As the result, they learn English with a rather ignorant attitude

- Length of time for a teaching period is relatively short

- In Bien Hoa city, there aren’t many opportunities for students to communicate in English

- Students fail to study properly and do not have enough time to take part in the English speaking clubs

CONTENT

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In order to help students have confidence in communication skills, teachers need to make use of every opportunity to enlarge their vocabulary Length of time for a teaching period is relatively short, so how can a teacher help his/her students “know” new words and use them properly in context?

I think some following ways can help to check how well students master vocabulary they have just learnt

Note: Teachers should choose the suitable games for the different classes with the

different grades as well as encourage students to use dictionaries while studying

Ex :Unit 2- READING (grade 11)

a lot of different situations

b Making you feel ashamed

c Someone you admire a lot

d Do as someone’s actions, words or behavior

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- Each group chooses one member to find out the meaningful words in the given

frame

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-If a group finishes the game within the limited time and has the best result, that

one will be the winner Or if time is over, any group having more right answers

will be the winner

Ex: Unit 3 READING (GRADE 10)

- Students can do this exercise individually, in pairs or in small groups.

- Students have to discover what roles those blanks play and what kinds of words they

can use to fill in the blanks.

- If any group finishes the game within the limited time and has the best result, that one

will be the winner Or if time is over, any group having more right answers will be the

winner

Ex: UNIT 2: READING (GRADE 10)

1 He can calculate very quickly He has an amazing ability to solve problems (maths)

2 She listens to classical music for (relax)

3 English is compulsorily _ at schools in Viet Nam (teach)

4 is a noble job, so I wish to be a _ (teach)

5 The company made hundreds of redundant (employ)

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6 The store was with shoppers at Christmas (crowd)

Answer:

1 mathematical 2 relaxation 3 Taught

4 teaching – teacher 5 Employees 6 crowded

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Ex: UNIT 6: READING (GRADE 11)

Write the correct forms of the given word “compete” to fill in the blanks :

1 There are 20 _ in this game

2 Nowadays, the business market seems to be more _ than it was

3 To win the gold medal is a hard _

4 Last year, these two families _ to buy this piece of land

Answer:

1 Competitors 2 Competitive 3 Competition 4 Competed

4 Rub out and remember

Preparation:

Teacher prepares some sentences with blanks and some given words.

Performance:

will be the winner Or if time is over, any group having more right answers will be the

winner

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Ex: UNIT 3: READING (GRADE 11)

1 The 50th wedding anniversary is called the “ anniversary”

2 The 25th wedding anniversary is called the “ anniversary”

3 She _out the candles on the birthday cake

4 Some people _about their age every year

5 Laura is 15 years old today, and her family and friends are at her party

6 The noun of “ Celebrate” is _

7 People remember their wedding day at their wedding party

8 People can celebrate their wedding anniversary at a _

Answer:

1 golden 2 silver 3 blows 4 joke

5 birthday 6 celebration 7 anniversary 8 restaurant

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- When time is over, the group representative writes the answers on the board If anygroup has more right answers, that one will be the winner Teacher should prepare somepresents for the winners to stimulate students’ studying spirit

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Ex: Unit 4 Reading (Grade 12)

1 Who’s responsible for doing the chores?

2 He wants to attend the of Training and Education after graduatingfrom high school

3 Nowadays children need better from both parents and schools

4 Americans and Asians have many different _ about love and marriage

5 John is going to get to Mary at the beginning of next month

6 The antonym of “polite” is _

7 The antonym of “easy” is _

8 What will you have to say when you bother someone or make someone sad/angry……

9 The antonym of “married” is _

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-Students list all the information related to the topic which the teacher provides.

Ex: Unit 2 Reading (Grade 12)

Qualities for

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In Japan (bending back)

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In France (kissing one’s cheeks)

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In Viet nam (shaking hands)

- Teacher gives students some key words

of the lesson and asks them to look up

their meanings, kinds of words as well as

their synonym if possible.(students can do

(n/v) huýt sáo

(n) sự giúp đỡ = help, support

 (v) assist(v) vỗ tay = beat two hands together to make sound

(n/v) gật đầu(v) chỉ trỏ19

While you read

Reading comprehension

- Teacher asks students to

read-comprehend the passage individually or in

groups

- Teacher observes students and answers

their questions

- Teacher asks students to do all tasks in

the book or gives them some other

equivalent exercises

Task 1: Answer the questions:

1.What signals in this passage can we use

when we want to attract someone’s

- Students to read-comprehend the passage individually or in groups

- Students can ask teacher all what they

do not understand

- Students do all the exercises teacher gives

 Waving

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2 When might we raise our hand and use

waving as a signal?

3 In what case might we use big and

obvious nonverbal signals?

4 What can we do to attract the waiter’s

attention?

5 How about attracting a teacher’s

attention in the school yard?

6 What should we do when we want

someone to look at another person or

something?

7 What is pointing someone or something

considered?

Task 2: Sumarize the passage

Teacher gives some requirement

 At a noisy party

 When we meet someone at the airport

 Wait until he passes near us, catch his eye and nod slightly to let him know we would like him to come to our table

Or raise our hand lightly to show that

Students lists what teacher asks

After you read

Verbal (using words)

Non – verbal (using signals)

Forms of communication

5 Whistle

6 Nod

7 Clap one’s hands

Cúi đầuTiến tới gầnHuýt sáo

make soundSpokenHelp come near

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Task 1: Discuss the meaning of whistling and hand-clapping in Vietnamese

culture.

Teacher can give some questions as cues:

1 In what cases can we whistle or hand-clap?

2 What do those signals mean?

3 ………

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Suggestions

Because of the characteristics of the subject, we need the help of the moderntechniques, some specialized knowledge in computer as well as the informationtechnology and the infrastructure So, through my writing, I hope that the head-staffboard of Nam Ha high school as well as Dong Nai Education and Training Departmentwill supply us with some things below:

- More labs for teachers to apply the new teaching methods to an English periodeffectively

- Improving the internet system and the programs related to the informationtechnology in teaching

- More I.T courses for teachers at every level

- Popularizing the most creative teaching experiences with all other teachers to raisetheir profession That’s also the way to learn, exchange as well as apply the newmethods to teaching with each other

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Conclusion

- Improving teaching and studying methods is a very important step in the reformingstrategy of the Education & Training Department Especially in studying and inteaching English, this idea helps students study more effectively as well as morecreatively In addition, students themselves can study the lessons more logically

- Being a teacher, I always try my best to have more and more interesting lectures andhelp students study better and better I think that this is the best way to improve thequality of the subject more

- In my opinion, in order to make full use of it, teachers must make some efforts forthe following reasons:

+ Firstly, the allotted time for a teaching period is relatively short

+ Secondly, it can take teachers a lot of time to design a lesson solution for eachlesson Besides, choosing what words to teach, the way to distribute timereasonably is also very essential With this method, teachers play the role ofactivators

- All above are about my thoughts as well as my activities during the 13-year teachingexperience I know that my initiative experience still has many weak points, so Ibelieve that all contributions from my colleagues will make it more perfect

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1. Broughton Get all- teaching English as a foreign language

2. Documents of ELTTP methodology course skills

3. English online

4. Guidelines June 1984 David Crable

5. Hutchinson J (1994) hotlineseries, OXFORD :OUP

6. Language teaching issues in Mutilingual environment in South East Asia

7. Teaching methodolagy - Nguyen Hanh Dung

8. Textbook: English 10,11 and 12

9. Teacher’s books English 10,11 and 12

10. Web: violet.com.vn