Improving grade 6 students

NONG CONG EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIVISIONTHE STUDY OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE SUBJECT: IMPROVING GRADE 6 STUDENTS’ DIPTHONGS OF ENGLISH PILOT PROGRAM AT TRAN PHU SECONDARY SCHOOL The writer

NONG CONG EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIVISION

THE STUDY OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

SUBJECT:

IMPROVING GRADE 6 STUDENTS’ DIPTHONGS OF ENGLISH PILOT

PROGRAM

AT TRAN PHU SECONDARY SCHOOL

The writer: Le Thi Phuong Cuong Position: Teacher- Tran Phu Secondary school

II AIMS AND REQUIREMENT OF THE STUDY

1 Aims

2 Requirement

Page 2

PART II CONTENTS

4 The result after applying the study in teaching Page 20

PART I INTRODUCTION

I REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC.

Education and training play an important role in the development process ofthe country In the current period, the country is on the path of reform, opening-uppolicy relations with the countries of the world increased significantly Extensivecommunication with the countries in the world in English , the internationallanguage , has become more more and common and attention

In teaching English I have noticed that practicing English pronunciation isthe misery of our students, especially students in grade 6 whether they have been

studying for 3 years at the elementary level, and in the end they still do not get thestandard English pronunciation Is learning to pronounce so difficult that can not belearned? or inappropriate teaching methods? Is textbook structure irrational? orDon’t they know how to learn?

According to the old textbook program, the students did not learn aboutpronunciation so their spelling good or bad depends on the teachers.They leantEnlish pronounciation without rules and methods That is why after 7 or 10 yearslearning English, they still find difficulties in speaking and communicating eventhey can speak fluently, Others can’t understand what they are expressing beacause

of the mistakes Besides, the pilot program presents the vocabulary, the grammaritems tobe leaned and practised through the skills and activities of the unit, it alsofocuses on pronunciation Two or three sounds,which frequently appear in the unitare targeted and practised in isolation and in context of “ A closer look 1”

To help students participate in the English pilot program and overcome this

obstacle, I choose content " Improving grade 6 students’ combination vowel sounds

of English pilot program at Tran Phu Secondary School"

II AIMS AND REQUIREMENTS OF THE STUDY.

1 Aims.

In order to help students in grade 6 of pilot program at Tran Phu SecondarySchool, Nong Cong District, Thanh Hoa Province understand the sound system inEnglish, especially combination vowel sounds ( diphthongs) are enrolled at thesecond semester in the textbook 6 Thereby, the students have aware of theimportance of phonetics in learning English in general and in particular tocommunicate in English so they can understand what other people say and whatthey say that others can understand

2 Requirements.

To success in the study, the requirement for the topic is that the teacher has to

help students know how to pronounce dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /; /ɔi/ and

do exercises correctly Teacher provides them with the best way to assist them how

to pronounce these dipthongs correctly through the illusions and examples Studentshave to attend regularly and obey their teacher's requirements

III SCOPES AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY.

1 Scopes

As far as we know, teaching how to pronounce and how to do phoneticsexercises is a complicating and difficulf area specially 6 dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /; /ɔi/ with students in grade 6 There are a lot of things to mention but in thisstudy I only focus on the following fields:

- Giving definition and how to pronounce these dipthongs

- Collect exercises containing these dipthongs to help students practise listening andspeaking at home

- How to do exercises relating to these dipthongs

- Students in class 6B : 27 Studensts, and 6C: 25 students Total: 52 students

School: Tran Phu secondary school

- The combination vowel sounds system in the lessons of the second semestertextbook 6 of the pilot program, including sounds:

Sounds Belong to Units

- Some exercises

IV METHODS OF THE STUDY.

In this study I have used the following methods:

- Investigating the reality

- Read documents that related to research

- Using opinion surveys

- Getting to know phonetic English

- Introducing phonetic symbols in the units

- Organizing to practice pronunciation with these audio visual media

- Doing exercises to check Students’ understanding

- Summarizing, comparing, drawing lessons

PART II CONTENTS

I THEORETICAL BASES OF THE STUDY.

1.Bases :

- Basing an the international transcription

- Basing on theory of vowels and consonants

2.2 Dipthongs

2.2.1 Whats are dipthongs?

They are sounds consisting of a movement or gride from one vowel to another Interms of length, dipthongs are like long vowels

2.2.2 How are dipthongs classed?

- "ea" + "+ "r" is pronounced as /eә/

Ex: bear / /beә(r) /

- "ei" may be pronounced as /eә/

3.3.3 Spelling.

Identify the vowels which are pronounced /əʊ/

- "o " in stressed syllable with consonant or at the end of the word is pronouced as /

- "ui" + consonant + " e" is pronounced as /ai/

Ex: guide/ gaid/

- "y" in one sullable word is pronounced as /aɪ/

Ex: by/ bai/

3.5.3 Spelling

- "ou" with a consonant is pronounced as / aʊ/

Ex: found /faʊnd/

- "ow" at the end of the word or with a consonant is pronounced as /aʊ/

Ex: tower /taʊә(r)/

3.6 /ɔi/

3.6.1.Description:

/ɔi/ fronting dipthong The tongue moves from //ɔ/ to the front vowel / i/

3.6.2 How to make the sound

3.6.3 Spelling

- " oi" and " oy" is pronounced as /ɔɪ/

Ex: coin / kɔɪn/

II PRACTICAL BASES OF THE STUDY.

1 Real states of the problem.

For students in grade 6 at Tran Phu Secondary School, Nong Cong district,they have learned English pilot program for 3 years but their pronunciation still hasmany difficulties The pronunciation of the children are forced, many students arenot willing to speak for fear of making errors that always leads to false in reading,speaking and recognizing the sound of the words when making phonetic exercises

Through the survey to identify exercises sound /əi/ and /aʊ/ ( English 6, page 60)

Exercise: Listen and put the word in the correct column.

voice down around house boy toy noisy flower shout boil

Key:

voiceboytoynoisyboil

downaroundhouseflowershout

Correct

5-6 words

Correct 4words

Correct 1-3words

Num % Num % Num % Num %

The above results inspired me to do something to help them improve this difficulty,

or at least help them not to feel afraid, find it less difficult to learn pronounciation

2 Solutions

Through many years of teaching I see that:

Most of the students pronounced these sounds in the words inaccurately Theyalso confuses with monopthongs They didn’t also do the phonetics exercisesrelating to these sounds effectively Why?

The reasons are that these sounds are difficult sounds They are similar toeach other

The students didn’t give their whole mind to learn these sounds The time andthe exercises for the students to practise are limited

Besides that many of us – the teachers of English didn’t attach specialimportance to teaching phonetics in general and these consonant sounds inparticular We didn’t also have a suitable method to teach these sounds Some of usonly read and asked their students to repeat when teaching these sounds so we didn’tachieve the good result as we expected

My solution to these is " Improving grade 6 students’ combination vowel sounds of English pilot program at Tran Phu Secondary School"

2.1.The steps of teaching these sounds.

These six dipthongs are taught in pairs in three unit 8,9 and 13 in English 6

To teach these pairs of dipthongs I often follow the foolowing steps:

- First, I divide board into 2 parts,I write two dipthongs on the board and pronouncethem clearly twice.Ask students to listen and observe

- Second, I show the mouth diagram of the sounds and explain how to make thesesounds

- Third, I pronounce these sounds again and sak students to repeat

- Next,I have students distinguish the sounds with the other dipthong ormonopthong Students listen and compare the differences between two dipthongs

Example : Distinguish sound / i:/ and / iə/

- Then, I read the couples of words and ask students to repeat.

- After that I ask students to look at the sounds in some words and read them loudlyExample: Look at the /iә/ sound in some words

ɔi/ So in this study I also give out some of my experiences when doing phonetics

exercises – find out the word that has the underlined part pronounced differentlyfrom the others- relating to the sounds I often teach this part in revisions or inextra-lessons because the time in class is not enough In this part, I often give outsome signals to help students do this kind of exercises better

3 Application

Unit 8: SPORTS AND GAMES

In this unit the students are gained 2 diphthongs / iә/ and / eә/

a Diphthong / iə/

* How to make the sound?

ɪә/ is a long vowel sound.

It starts with /ɪ/ and moves to /ә/

* Exercise: Listen and under line the words which pronounce /ɪә/

Meterial here idea appear near parent yeah

b Diphthong / eə/

* How to make the sound.

/eә/ is a long vowel sound

It starts with /e/ and moves to /ә/ It’s pronounced /eә/ /eә/

2 Look at the /eə/ sound in some words.

share /tʃeәr/

wear /weәr/

air airport / ˈeәpɔːt/

3 Listen /eə/ sound in some sentences.

Look at that airplane

/lʊk әt ðæt ˈeәpleɪn/

Up there, in the air, of course

/ʌp ðeәr ɪn ði eәr әv kɔːrs/

The fair hair man ran in the sand

/ðә feәr heәr mæn ræn ɪn ðә sænd/

Where are the spare pairs Stan and Dan wear?

/weәr әr ðә speәr peәrz stæn әn dæn weәr/

They're cramming for their exam over there

/ðeәr 'kræmɪŋ fәr ðeәr ɪɡˈzæm ˈәʊvәr ðeәr/

*Identify the vowels which are pronounced /eə/

1 "ear " is often pronounced as / eә/

Harem /ˈhɑːriːm/ hậu cung

2 "ai" + "r" is pronounced as /eә/

Hair /heә(r)/ tóc

Chair /tʃeә(r)/ cái ghế

3 "ea" + "+ "r" is pronounced as /eә/

4 "ei" may be pronounced as /eә/

Their /ðeә(r)/ của họ (từ sở hữu)

* Exercise:

1 Listen and underline the words have the / eә/ sound

2 Listen the dialogue and find out the words have / eə/ sound.

A: Let go there

B: No, I don't want to go there

A: Why not?

B: I'm afraid of the bears on the stairs

A: They're practice bears made of air

UNIT 9: CITIES OF THE WORLD

In this unit the students are gained 2 diphthongs / ai/ and /әʊ/

a Diphthong / əʊ/.

* How to make the sound.

- /әʊ/ is a long vowel sound

It begins with /ә/ and move to /ʊ/.It's pronounced /әʊ/ /әʊ/

* Practice

1 Distinguish / ɔ:/ and /әʊ/ sound

*Identify the vowels which are pronounced /əʊ/

1 "o " in stressed syllable with consonant or at the end of the word is pronouced

2 "oa" with one or two consonants at the end of the word is pronouced as /әʊ/

Poultry /ˈpәʊltri/ gia cầm

4 "ow" is pronounced as /әʊ/ when it's at the end of the word

B: Oh, no What's the matter Amit?

A: Come, look at the window

B: No, my eyes are closed and I'm going back to sleep

A: Oh, no Hugo Don't go to sleep Come look at the snow

B: Snow? But it's only october I know there's no snow

A: Come over there the window

2 Listen and fill in the missing words

- Our children are up and have children of their ( grown/ own)

- Old people prefer to stay in their homes.?( own)

- How long did you buy it? ( ago)

- We are the people there ( only)

- me please I'll you the way.?( follow/ show)

b Diphthong / ai/

* How to make sound.

aɪ/ is a long vowel sound

It starts with /ɑː/ and moves to /ɪ/ It’s pronounced /aɪ/ /aɪ/

tour guide /tʊәr ɡaɪd/

2 Distinguish two sounds / a:/ and /ai/

3 Look at the sound /ai/ in some sentences.

Drive on the right

/draɪv ɒn ðә raɪt/

Why don't you try?

/waɪ dәʊnt juː traɪ/

Do you like dry wine?

/du ju laɪk draɪ waɪn/

I'm twice your size, Lisa

/aɪm twaɪs jʊr saɪz 'lɪzә/

That guy might buy my cycle

/ ðæt ɡaɪ maɪt baɪ maɪ 'saɪkl/

* Identify the vowels which are pronounced /aɪ/

1 "i" the letter in one syllable word ending with a consonant is pronounced as /aɪ/

2 "ei" is pronounced as/aɪ/ in some case

Height /haɪt/ chiều cao

Sleight /slaɪt/ sự khôn khéo

Seismic /ˈsaɪzmɪk/ (thuộc) động đất

3 "ie" at the end of the word is pronouced as /aɪ/

Die /daɪ/ chết

4 "ui" + consonant + " e" is pronounced as /ai/

Guide /gaɪd/ hướng dẫn

Quite /kwaɪt/ Khá, tương đối

Require /rɪˈkwaɪә(r)/ đòi hỏi, yêu cầu

5 "y" in one sullable word is pronounced as /aɪ/

* Exercise: Listen and fill in the blank.

1 Is this the way to the ? ( station)

2 It's a ( night/ fight)

3 It;s the best drink with fish ( white/ wine)

4 It was a day ( dry)

5 We've had a great , thanks ( time)

Unit 12: ROBOTS

In this unit students are gained two diphthongs /ɔi/ and /aʊ/

a Diphthong / ɔi/

* How to make the sound.

/ɔɪ/ is a long vowel sound

It starts with /ɒ/ and moves to /ɪ/.It's pronounced /ɔɪ/ /ɔɪ/

3 Look at the / ɔi/ sound in some sentences.

Boy's toys are noisy

* Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɔɪ/.

- " oi" and " oy" is pronounced as /ɔɪ/

Voice /vɔɪs/ giọng nói

Enjoy /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ thích thú, hưởng thụ

Destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ phá hủy

* Exercise: Listen the dialogue and find out the / ɔɪ/ sound.

1.A: Boy, stop making so much noise Keep your voice down

B: Why are you so annoyed? They're supposed to make noise They are just a littleboys and they are enjoying themselves

A: But they are very annoying

2.A: What a terrible noise That's the noisest motorbike I've heard

B: It's out of oil

A: Out of oil? Madam, a motorbike isn't a toy.

You could spoilt the engine or even destroy it

B: How annoying While you're changing the oil , I'm going to visit my boyfriend

b Diphthong /aʊ/

* How to make the sound.

/aʊ/ is a long vowel sound

It starts with /ɑː/ and moves to /ʊ/

It's pronounced /aʊ/ /aʊ/

2 Look at the sound /aʊ/ in some sentences

Our townhouse has a brown mouse

/ˈaʊәr ˈtaʊnhaʊs hæz ә braʊn maʊs/

Are we allowed to speak aloud?

/ɑːr wi әˈlaʊd tә spiːk әˈlaʊd/

We found our gowns downtown

/wi faʊnd ˈaʊәr gaʊnz 'daʊntaʊn/

Shower the flower for an hour

/ˈʃaʊәr ðә ˈflaʊәr fɔːr әn ˈaʊәr/

* Identify the vowels which are pronounced /aʊ/

1 "ou" with a consonant is pronounced as / aʊ/

Found /faʊnd/ tìm thấy (quá khứ của find)

Doubt /daʊt/ sự nghi ngờ, ngờ vực

2 "ow" at the end of the word or with a consonant is pronounced as /aʊ/

Tower /taʊә(r)/ Tháp

Power /paʊә(r)/ sức mạnh, quyền lực

Powder /ˈpaʊdә(r)/ bột, thuốc bột