Skills training experience for grade 6 students to ask and answer the question wh question

In the framework of the 6th grade, they just remember a certain number of questions, if we change a little in question, the students will not know when to use the verb "be", when to use

I INTRODUCTION

1.The reason of choosing the topic

English is a very important tool in modern society Moreover it also is atool to facilitate integration with the international community and the region Ithelps us to access information on international science and technology,education, culture, health, industry, agriculture that is changing every hour andevery day In addition, English also helps us access advanced cultures as well asimportant international events

For the reasons above, being as an English teacher in a secondary school,

I am always concerned about and wondered how to help my students reachEnglish easily and apply it in the most flexible in the communication scenarios

As we know, in English there are many types of questions, of which questions toask from the " WH - question " is kind of frequently asked questions Although

it is the common question types, it is confusing for many students This type ofquestion is often not correctly answered by many students, especially newstudents who are learning English as 6th graders Through exams, semester tests,regular inspection, as well as in the teaching process, I discovered this problemand it is my concern as well as colleagues After the period of researchingsolutions for this problem, I would like to present some ideas and littleexperience of teaching and practicing the question "Wh-question" for student of6th grade

2.The aim of studying the topic

As we know, students of grade 6 often find it hard to learn a foreignlanguage, to create the interest and inspiration from students is a must thatteachers should find the effective way In fact, traditional method is not suitableany more at current time, students tend to sit and listen to the teachers withoutgiving their own ideas, which leads to slow results.The class seems to be noisy

as students don’t understand the lessons or find no interest in it

Teachers should find a suitable method to make the lesson intersting and new tostudents, which can let them curiously discover the language

The topic helps students to memorize the way to use Wh- questions properly.Students can practice a lot with various kinds of exercises Some techniques areused to check how students understand the lesson

3.The objects of studying

Students in grade 6 at Do Nguyen Van Troi secondary school

(Throughout teaching and working with students of grade 6)

4.The method of studying

These experiences have been studied on the following methods:

- Studying of material

- Giving outlined mirror

- Operating and using method

- Checking, connecting projected classed

- Studying from experienced colleagues

II CONTENT

1.The theoric installation of the problems

What are the causes of the wrong answers to the questions related to questions? Apart from reasons of teaching and learning as mentioned above, theanalysis of the following grammar will show us "Wh-question" is the kind ofquestion that is not easy to students of grade 6

Wh-Firstly, students do not understand about the auxiliary verbs In the framework

of the 6th grade, they just remember a certain number of questions, if we change

a little in question, the students will not know when to use the verb "be", when

to use ordinary verb in the present tense and how to divide verbs in the 3rdperson singular pronoun

Secondly, "Wh-question" is a question with one subject in which the subject isoften a personal pronoun (except idioms) Thus the answer requires conversion

of the noun being a subject (of a sentence) in question into the personalpronouns in the answer, or

the personal pronouns to the different personal pronouns for suitable context (eg:

“You” in question but “I” in answer’ or your school can use It to replace, etc.).

It is also very difficult for students if they do not get much exercise

Thirdly, There is a type of the question to find out information, students arerequired to find the exact information needed to answer, but they sometime areconfused, for example putting excess or lack of information, or making acompletely false information, such as "a man ask about chicken, a womananswer about duck", for example, "How old are you? " - "I am fine, thanks." Or

"What does your father do?”-" He reads

These three issues are crucial and the most difficult for students Besidesdetermination of the structure or the tense in question is the problems that 6thgraders students do not usually think about

2 Practical background

In general, teachers described the structure of each question for students

to grasp this question but basically conveying methods are also quite

embarrassing, Response of student to these questions seems to be machinelike,less accurate and meet much trouble

For the students, they had access to English at the primary school,however they only learn English language in a modeled and machinelike way,they do not think much about grammar, spelling When answering the questions,especially the question "Wh-question", the answer seems to be inertial,according to the pronunciation way that teachers often train their students Forexample, students always answer, "I am a student" to the question "what doesshe do?” They are not noticed the differences, the auxiliary verb and the subject

in the question Considering that this is a way of learning like a machine andlack of thinking Through a survey for students of grade 6, I offer 10 questions

*Answer the following questions:

1 How old is your mother?

2 Where does she live?

3 How do you spell your name?

4 What is your father’s name?

5 What is his address?

6 What is his job?

7 What is there near your house?

8 Which school does your sister go to?

9 How often does she go to school?

10 How far is it from your house to your school?

(Each correct answer is given 1 point)

The results were very low in quality; summary of results is presented as bellows:

The above figure shows that the level of understanding of the question

"Wh-question" of students is very weak Besides, the majorities of students notonly answer wrong, but also only use one type of personal pronouns such as "I

am " or "I live " in response to the third person singular pronoun They donot figure out how to use “to be”, verb or "there is / there are" to answerquestion correctly The results not only showed quality of students, but alsostrongly affirm the problem that we must pay attention

There is a reality to the students we often find, it is that lets students toread a passage and then use "WH-question" to test their understanding Theproblem is that students often rewrite all the answers in the text rather than the

correct answer For example, in the passage, it is: " My school has 4 floors with

20 classrooms, and my class in on the second floor ”," students often write down

the whole sentence while the question is: "How many classrooms are there in

- Other words can also be used to ask for specific information

2 Types of “Who – question” in English book for students of grade 6

- Who teaches English?

2.2 Sentences have modal verbs (ought to )

Wh + Modal verbs + S + main Verb ?

Example:

- Why must you go?

- When may you come?

- What can I do for you?

Person(Objective formal)Price, amount( non- count)Quantity (count)

DurationFrequencyDistanceDescription

Who + V + Complement/ O ?

Wh + do/does + S + main Verb ?

Example:

-When do you go to the library?

-Where do you live?

-How does he go to school?

2.4 Answer for Wh – question.

- Wh - questions is answered by details, Yes/No is not applied in this case

3.The way to form Wh-questions

In addition to mastering Wh-question" to always provide accuratestructures and examples for students, teachers also need to be learned sometricks such as:

1 Before students answer "Wh-questions", teachers should ask theirstudents “do you know what kind of this question is?" This approach helpsstudents shape the question, clearly understand that the question to ask forspecific information before answering

2 In terms of grammar, the teacher should make the students understandthat "Wh-question" is used depending on the asked information is "subject" or

"predicate" of a question

- Type of information needed is the information about the subject of thequestion, students need to simply replace the person or object into the position

of word to ask -Wh-question:

Lan has a nice house Who has a nice house?

A tall tree is behind Lan’s house What is behind Lan’s house ?

- Type of information needed locates in the predicate of the sentence,forming question with words to ask depending on whether “auxiliary verb”exists in the original sentence or not An auxiliary verb is the verbs standingbefore the main verb The auxiliary verbs are italicized and bolded below:

( He is doing something) à Is he doing à what is he doing? (They have been somewhere) à Have they been à where have they been?

If the sentence has no auxiliary verb and the main verb is the verb "to be", in order to make a question, we just swap location between the subject of the sentence and the verb “to be”, then add words to match in question

shifted, then add words to ask (in this case, we add Who at the beginning of the

sentence) Similar to the following question:

(The meeting is sometime) à Is the meeting à When is the meeting?

If in the narrative sentences (affirmations), the main verb of the sentence

is ordinary verb, we add auxiliary verb before the subject of the sentence Then

we add suitable Wh-question at the beginning of the sentence to form a question.Remember that adding auxiliary verb must match with its subject For example,

in the present tense, the subject is I /We/You/They, plural nouns, we use auxiliary verb "do", the third singular person is He / She / It, or singular nouns,

we have to use auxiliary verb"does".

Affirmations

(You want something

Shifting into the form of Yes / No question

Do you want

Wh-question

What do you want?

In the above sentence, we do not see auxiliary verb in affirmations "you want

something" so when switching to the question, we need to add auxiliary verb

“do” before the subject "you" of the sentence Then we ask for information

about the object "Something" by adding words to ask "What" at the beginning

of the sentence As a result, we have a question "What do you want?”

Similarly, we have:

Affirmations- Shifting into the form of Yes / No question - Wh-question

(She likes something)à Does she like (third person-s) à what does she like?

- Teachers need provide instructions to students on how to shift nouns intopronouns to avoid repetition or a pronoun in question to a pronoun in thatanswer with suitable context (when turning into pronouns, singular nouns for

animals/plans/things are converted into “it", the plural nouns are transformed into "they"; the singular noun indicated for person is changed to "he, she" (depending on the noun), plural nouns is changed to "they".

For example: Nam  He I and my sister  They Your school  It Her books  They

S1: Where is your father ?

S2 : He is in the garden S1 : Whose books are these ?

S2 : They are mine

Particular case:

You  I ; You  We

For example: S1: Where do you live ?

S2 :- I live in Thanh hoa ( a person ) -We live in Hanoi ( 2 people or more )

Or the case do not have to convert but remain subject to answer:

S1: What subject does he like ?

S2 : He likes Math

And idioms: Is there  There is/There isn’t

Are there  There are/There aren’t S1: How many people are there in your family ?

S2 : There are three

4 The types of exercises:

*Type 1: Convert following nouns to pronouns:

Your father  He The weather 

Class  The teacher 

The purpose of exercise is to help students become familiar with the conversion

of nouns to pronouns when they answer questions

Example: S1: Where are the boys?

S2: They are in the house

*Type 2 : Add suitable ( Wh- question) into blank to form a question

1………day is it?

2……….do you like cats?

3………can I buy some milk? At the supermarket

4……….much beef do you want?

5……….hat is this? It is my brother’s

6……… can I park my car? Over there

7……….tall are you?

8……….do you want to buy?

9……… do you like with tea? I like it with cream and sugar

10……… picture do you want to buy, this one or that one?

*Type 3: Choose an appropriate answer to fill in blank:

1 ………is the name of the President of the United Stages of America?

*Type 4: Switch following sentences into questions (using words in

parentheses to ask information)

Example:

She often goes to work at 6 o’clock (What time)

->What time does she often go to work?

1 He usually does his homework at night ( When )

2 The cats are in the house ( Where )

3 I like the red house, not the blue one ( Which )

4 This is an eraser ( What )

5 She studies piano at the university ( what )

6 My house has five rooms ( How many )

7 They are going to Ha Noi tomorrow (Where )

8 The woman over there is my mother ( Who )

9 She doesn’t get up early because she is tired ( Why )

10 We have English class three times a week ( How often )

*Type 5: Correction form

Find errors in the following questions: Example:

S1: How is favorite food? ( How -> what )

S2: I like Fish

1 What is your birthday? It is in May

2 What time does she often get up ? She get up at 7 o’clock

3 How often are you brush your teeth? Twice a day

4 Who house is this ? It is my house

5 How many rice do you want ? Two kilos , please

6 Why do she like milk ? Because it is delicious

7 Who does often go to school with you ? Lan and Hoa

8 How long is it from your house to shool ? About one kilometer

9 Where does your father work ? I work in a factory

10 How many desks are there ? They are two

*Type 6: Make “Wh- question” with suggestive words:

1 How / tall/ you ?

2 What time /you/do /homework/night?

3 How often/your mother/go/market?

4 What /she /want/do/now ?

5 what /your /favorite/food ?

*Type 7: Make a question by underlined words

According to my experience, firstly a multiple choice exercise in a form ofconnecting information with Wh-question is applied before doing the exercise offorming a question by underlined words, the goal is to help students proficientlydetermine Wh-question when replacing it for underlined words, avoid mistakes

*Example:

Matching:

a Ha Noi A How may

b Next week B.Where

c My mother C How much

The train leave at 8 o’clock tonight

->What time does the train leave tonight ?

1 Her telephone number is 8 202053

2 It is about 3 kilometers from my house to school

3 I will go fishing this afternoon

4 Her date of birth is on August 21th

5 She can swim

*Type 8: Read the following passage, and then answer questions