Some methods to consolidate vocabulary for grade 10 students at ba thuoc secondary high school

Expanding vocabulary for students like guiding them how to learn themselves, to widen more words, it is also a success in teaching English.. Gradually apply advanced methods and modern m

Table of Contents

PART I - INTRODUCTION

I- The reasons for topic :

II- Research purpopes:

III- Research objects:

IV- Research methods:

PART II: PROBLEM SOLVING

I- Rationale:

II- The reality of problem:

III- Solutions and implements:

1 Implementing solution:

2 How to organize:

3 Gather collection and draw illustrations for each

word:

4 Perform speaking product and play games relate to

words:

5 Practice Speaking:

IV- The results achievements after application of

themes:

PART III: CONCLUSIONS AND

RECOMMENDATIONS

I Conclusions:

II - Recommendations.

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PART I: INTRODUCTION

I.The reasons for topic:

Nowadays, English is very popular all over the world It is considered as the second language of many countries As a result, English becomes a compulsory subject in most of secondary and upper secondary schools in Vietnam

English is an important key for young generation to open the future, the needed site to step out into the world and serve their future career It is also a mean for today young generation to exchange, learn with young people all over the world, study about the customs, traditions, cultures as well as the progress of science and technology of many countries

According to the innovative method, English is no longer taught grammar but concerned more about the communication which is the main purpose in learning English Learn English in order to communicate with foreigners Therefore, the teachers must equip their students with a rich source of vocabulary

so they can exactly express their thoughts, feelings, desires by their words

Building a house, we must have the bricks, and so to say, to write or speak a sentence, we must have vocabulary Expanding vocabulary for students like guiding them how to learn themselves, to widen more words, it is also a success in teaching English

As a English teacher, exposed to many students in many different locations, I

am really worried about the quality of learning English of the students In general, how students learn English vocabulary in particular So with the passion for my job, desire to learn, I'm researching solutions to improve the quality of learning English, especially the method of enriching vocabulary for students

For these reasons above, as an English teacher at Ba Thuoc Secondary & High School and I always wonder how to help my students in reaching English easily through four basic skills: Listening - Speaking - Reading - Writing However, They are not really good at vocabulary They are interested in the levels

of secondary students, but over time they feel more afraid, have decreased interest

to learn and lead them to the quality department increasingly decline in the grade

on, especially in grade 10 when they reach the first level of high school students Through practical research and teaching to remedy this situation, I boldly launched

an innovative experience "Some methods to consolidate vocabulary for grade 10 students at Ba Thuoc Secondary & High School” in order to get remarks and

suggestions from colleagues, with the aim of finding solutions to improve the quality of English for students in schools

II Research purpopes:

For above mentioned reasons, the main aims of the study are as the

following: to give measures of reviewing vocabulary creatively, innovatively and effectively, it integrates with Art – keep up with the innovation, overcome the way

to convey the passive and boring old method Moreover, guiding students to

expand vocabulary and structures is a part of the initiation to promote innovation and foster students’ self-study, self-discipline

III Research objects:

Students in grade 10 at Ba Thuoc Secondary & High School

IV Research methods:

Reading reference books, discussing with other teachers, applying in teaching, analyzing the data, observing and drawing out experiences

PART II: PROBLEM SOLVING

I Rationale:

According to the National Resolution II period 8 "Renewing a educational method of education, overcoming the way to convey passively, practicing a creative mindset for learners Gradually apply advanced methods and modern methods in the teaching process, to ensure conditions and duration of study, self-study for students"

The orientation above was legalized in the Education Law, Article 24, 2nd paragraph as follows: "Method of general education has to promote activity, creativity for students, consistent with the characteristics of each class, foster methods for self-learning support, train skills to apply knowledge to practical life, impact emotion, bring joy, excitement for student in learning"

In fact, there are many forms of learning: study in classroom, at home, self -study, study under the guide of teachers, study in groups The important thing is that teachers must understand students, have to think about exploring, to find out the most appropriate and effective teaching method

Base on the core innovation of teaching methods that attract students’ attitude toward active learning, against passive study habits Especially, foster self

-learning method for the students The topic "Some methods to consolidate vocabulary for grade 10 students at Ba Thuoc Secondary & High School”, with

measures of reviewing vocabulary creatively, innovatively and effectively, it integrates with Art – keep up with the innovation, overcome the way to convey the passive and boring old method Moreover, guiding students to expand vocabulary and structures is a part of the initiation to promote innovation and foster students’ self-study, self-discipline

II The reality of problem:

1 The reality of the number of English class in grade 10:

According to the current distribution programs, English 10 has 03 periods per week, almost periods have new words in lessons and even in exercise book But

in order to teach vocabulary well, make lessons more vivid, teachers must draw pictures, make teaching aids to illustrate, enable them to remember words easily and attract the attention of the children on the theme or focus lessons

Regarding the distribution of periods within a week, sometimes two adjacent days, children have to learn English, to download a large number of vocabularies This will inevitably cause psychological overload for some students, affect a lot to the next class

2 The reality of learning and expanding vocabulary:

For many learners, not just students, they said that it is difficult to learn English, learned before but forgot later Some words they have learned by heart a few days ago but after a long time they will forget if they don’t see them again

Especially, they are not creative in learning, do not know how to apply the words they have learned to particular sentence (it means we use these words for communication purpose ), moreover when learning words they only learn as under

a "rote", memorize the pronunciation and meaning Therefore they do not remember, engrave and forget words easily

Remember all the words that the children are taught by the teachers very hard, so with the learning method like a machine, students do not collect and study themselves any other new words, so they do not self-expand their vocabulary

3 The reality of teaching and helping students expand vocabulary:

Most of the teachers were trained to apply innovative methods (according to the thematic training courses about replacing textbooks) teachers should have more

or less understanding about the new purpose in educating English in secondary schools But in a 45-minute lesson with the highest duration for teaching vocabulary is only 15 minutes, the teachers also select about 8 new words (secondary students’ level) to teach (being the key word "key words"), do not have time to review, each period only teach words within this lesson, there is no bound together

That is also the reason that the vocabulary of students increasingly eroded and falling off

Following is the result of the test on English vocabulary of class 10A1,10A2, 10A3( 124 students) at the beginning of the second term in the school year 2017-2018 before I applied this research projects My questionnaires have the following contents:

Question 1: You answer the questions by marking (x) in the box.

Are you afraid of learning English vocabulary ? Yes No Yes  No  Yes  No

After the survey, I have the following results:

Class Number NumberYes percent NumberNo Percent 10A1,10A2,

Question 2:

a) Give the meaning of the following words:

+ Natural (word appears more frequently)

+ How often (word appears more frequently)

+ sport (word appears more frequently)

+ Work (word appears quite frequently)

+ Literature (word appears quite frequently)

+ Tired (word appears quite frequently)

+ Experiment (word appears once in the book)

+ Essay (word appears once in the book)

b) Name two subjects you know (but never learned in textbooks)

c) Make sentence with each word

(Time: 15 minutes)

After giving the survey forms and asking them to do in 15 minutes, I collected and synthesized the following results:

- Understand the meaning, know how to use (make

sentence with) 8 words and find out 2 words that never

learned in textbooks (10 points)

- Understand the meaning, know how to use (make

- Understand the meaning, know how to use (make

sentence with ) the words appear frequently, appear

less (6 words = 6 points)

- Understand the meaning but do not know how to use

(to make sentence with ) the words appear frequently

(four words = 4 points)

- Only understand the meaning of the word "her" and

make sentence with this word (1 point) 13 10.3 %

Through the survey we can see many students were afraid of learning vocabulary, the memory of students in remembering words is poor, especially they

do not understand these words deeply in order to make sentences Moreover, no one can find out and collect more words outside the words which they had learned

in the text books It is clear that the students were lack of interest and motivation in learning As a result, teachers of English should pay attention to motivate students

to learn vocabulary

III Solutions to the problems:

1 Implementing solution:

1.1 Forms done:

Today the integration between different subjects are being implemented in most

of schools From this application, I thought of creating excitement for students in learning vocabulary through the combination with Art There are many students love this subject, even for most students painting is their passion So why do not we encourage their passion, which makes them love learning English, especially in studying vocabulary and self-expanding vocabulary

I can also call my solution is "The magic card" I call it the magic card because although it is a simple and small card, containing simple drawings of students and one simple sentence structure, but it contains a passionate love of students’ art And moreover these cards also have a great effect on the children's learning English, they help them reflect on the words they have learned, understand and use words expertly through making questions and specific social situations They also help them expand vocabulary, stimulate self-learning, give the passion to learn new things From these cards they will serve the education of the children, help them practice speaking, help them with the foundation, a certain knowledge to learn English at the higher layers

The form of the card is a rectangular cardboard has dimensions: length -30cm, width - 20cm On the cards is the following information:

- The caption in English

- Related Structure

(This is illustrated examples and explanations for the organization of a card)

I have just got a certificate.

English sentence structure

Captions in English

name

Certificate

I ask them to work in groups, look at the card they have learned and collected carefully (each group has a topic) Then, they have to find related structures to its words and its topic After gathering the collections, illustrating themed words that their group is assigned, they will have a show for their products They will use the structure in each card, practice speaking, review the structure and the words they have found In addition so as to deepen students’ ability in memorizing words and the use more efficiently and make the show not monotonous but vibrant as learning English, I have held some games related to the vocabulary they have learned and collected

(I have attached with the product of the first group on educational topic)

Examples:

:

Each student only collects a few words, a group only collects a few dozen words, with a class (about 6 groups) will be multiplied a lot by the number of words And especially when they are self-study, self-explore, self-review, they will

I like documentary Do you like it?

My grandmother loves watching Weather Forecast

Weather Forecast Documentar

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Audience

The audience makes the match more attractive

remember longer Moreover, apart from learning from his own group, the children also learn the words from his friends’ groups This is a way that causes excitement, comfort for the students and I am convinced that many children will love this way

in learning vocabulary

1.2 Time applied:

With this study, the children mainly self-study, time collecting the new words is the time the children self-study at home Teachers only guide and give tasks to them at the beginning of the first semester Students do their duties during

a semester, after each lesson, the following themes and topics Therefore, to avoid the distractions of school children, teachers must constantly remind them and check the performance of each group through each lesson in the classroom

2 How to organize:

2.1 Learn about 10th grade textbook:

Understanding 10th grade textbook help teachers and students to have better understanding about the structure and themes in textbooks from that easily gather and collect related vocabulary 10th grade textbook is one of the English system of

7 years of junior high school program and it includes the themes throughout the school program

- Topic 1: Personal information

- Topic 2: Education

- Topic 3: Entertainment

- Topic 4: conservation

- Topic 5: Exploration

- Topic 6: Construction

- Topic 7: Sports

- Topic 8: Historical places

In this step, teacher plays a key role, instruct and explain clearly to the students to understand the mission of his group Teachers must give assignment to the students to make sentences to illustrate the topic in 10th English textbooks Each topic is limited to the lessons in the book and students can find more words on the topic by many different ways

Example: With the theme "Education" students can find the words about the subjects, all kinds of different books, during and after school activities, related verbs and adjectives Furthermore, they can find more related words to their topic

by asking siblings, uncles, relatives of the family Or they can know through books with photographs and illustrations in English

2.2 Group and give assignment:

For class 10A1, 10A2, 10A3( with about forty students each class), I divided into 8 groups Each group is mixed up with good, average and weak students This

is an opportunity for them to exchange learning, help each other to progress

After grouping, the teacher will assign tasks to each group, each group will gather, collect and draw illustrative pictures and find related structures for each word on the subject of his group

- Topic 1: Personal information - Group 1

- Topic 2: Education - Group 2

- Topic 3: Entertainment - Group 3

- Topic 4: conservation - Group 4

- Topic 5: Exploration - Group 5

- Topic 6: Construction - Group 6

- Topic 7: Sports - Group 7

- Topic 8: Historical places - Group 8

Each group will appoint one leader who is responsible for the administration

to take care of his group and make plan, assign specific tasks for each member

3 Gather collection and draw illustrations for each word:

In this activity, students will play a major role The teacher only guides and helps them when needed Therefore, they will be the most active and it is also the time for them to learn most

Firstly, the time they perform this activity is not in the class but is the time they self-study at home From each theme is the words that the children have in 10th English textbooks However it may appear in one unit or appear scattered in the posts in the textbooks

So the first thing students should do is finding and gathering them together (words that can be nouns, verbs, adjectives as long as related to the theme that the children are looking for) This collecting step is the time students can be reviewed the words again (they may be appear regularly, or are the words only appear one time in the book) So this is the first review

Not only has the task of gathering vocabulary, they also have the task of finding new words in addition to textbooks related to their topic This is an opportunity for students to expand their vocabulary, promote curiosity, self-understand and self-study Students can find the new word from different sources such as: ask their siblings, relatives, find in other books, in dictionaries, or it could

be anywhere

After gathering words and looking for more new words from his own group, the owner of the team leaders assign task to each member of his team to draw illustrative pictures for each word and find out related structures (or making illustrative sentences for each word) This is the stage that students love the most and is also the stage they inculcate, memorize words and word usages which are located in every sentence structure

And this is also the 2nd opportunity to reflect on the vocabulary Moreover, this is not a passive remember but the more difficult and interesting point is that

words are applied to a specific question, it helps students understand the meaning

as well as the usage of the words deeper and it is the time the purpose of teaching English communication become successfully

4 Perform speaking product and play games relate to words:

This was probably the time that all students look forward to most, love the most because it was an opportunity for children to show off their achievements within 1 month This is also an opportunity for them to show off to his friends about their painting skills as well as the abundant amount of words they have collected (Sometimes those accomplishments make teachers be surprised because there are many words teachers have never met)

The space organizing the show is a class has been stowed furniture away They will stick all the paintings on the walls of their group around the classroom Members of different groups will go around the class to admire the paintings of the members of their group, the members of other groups Looking at the paintings students will remember the words, learn a lot from your friends (this is like an art exhibition)

Methods display: leader of each group will introduce the duties of his group, and the results of each group as well as what each in his group has done (to avoid one member do task for a whole group), and then display the card - the result of his team on the classroom wall

5 Practice Speaking:

As the structure of a card, below the picture are sentence structures involving vocabulary, themes The teacher can divide the class into pairs They will go around and look at these cards together and then practice speaking with each structure below each picture

Example: The topic of personal information

On the subject of personal information, I will give an example of a card of a student draws a doctor With this card he annotates his image as "doctor" and find 3 related structures Thus the pairs after observing the painting can practice with sample questions below as follows:

- What does he do?

- How old is he?

- Which soccer team does he play for?

- …

Soccer player