Some warm up activities to motivate grade 10 students in listening lessons

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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO THANH HÓA

TRƯỜNG THPT NGA SƠN

SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM

TÊN ĐỀ TÀI SOME WARM UP ACTIVITIES TO MOTIVATE GRADE 10

STUDENTS IN LISTENING LESSONS

Người thực hiện: Bùi Thị Lĩnh

Chức vụ: Giáo viên

SKKN thuộc môn: Tiếng Anh

THANH HÓA, NĂM 2021

TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I: INTRODUCTION

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We all know that warm up activities are used to make our classes more fun and exciting, warm up strategies for our classroom are an excellent teaching tool, starting the lesson with a good hook activity sets us up for a better chance of success It captivates the students and draws them into the lesson - giving us the opportunity to "do our thing" In my opinion, warm-up activities in listening lessons has significant effects on the students’ motivation during the lesson because listening is vital not only in language learning but also in daily communication We cannot develop speaking skill unless we also develop listening skill To have a successful conservation,students must understand what is said to them later,the ability to understand spoken English may become very important To develop this ability,students need plenty of practice in listening to English spoken at nomal speed In fact, listening skill seems to be ignored by most students,It is also harder to concentrate on listening if students have little interest in a topic or situation.Our students have to deal with unfamiliar sounds, new vocabulary, and complex sentences.Moreover, listening activities often create high levels of anxiety and stress among learners that can interfere with comprehension.Therefore, with designing the right warm up activities in listening lessons, teachers put their students into “English mode”; attentive, interested, ready

to participate,produce relaxed and less inhibited students They also create a positive

atmosphere to practice and experiment with the new language

Being a teacher,through the years of teaching in the new method, I have learned from myself; Designing warm up activities in the beginning of a new lesson is one

of the most important steps in a focused session and it could make students' learning more stimulating This will achieve good result in listening lessons.Moreover, from the very beginning students understand a lot about the new lesson they are about to learn Starting from the theoretical and practical premise, I decided to choose the

topic: “Some warm up activities to motivate grade 10 students in listening

lessons ”

Hopefully, with a range of suggestions of how to make warm up activitieseffectively in listening lessons introduced in this research, it will be more motivating for the teachers to teach and make progress in teaching listening.Therefore, students will be interested in listening lessons

PART II CONTENT

1.Teachers’ teaching methods

Now the requirement of innovation teaching method is to promote the positive

of students, students must know self-initiative and creative, occupy the master of knowledge To fulfill this requirement, the teacher must be the person who has the role of guiding, directing and organizing the activity of the student Therefore, the exploration and use of new methods always requires each teacher to have

In warm up stage, teachers’ teaching methods are focused on the ways teacher design appropriate activities to motivate students to listen as well as the ways that the teacher elicits pre – lesson activities In order to have a suitable method, the teacher should briefly design types of warm up activities for a limited period,

related to the topic, useful to continue later activities, interesting and enjoyable Moreover,teachers take some of the factors into consideration including learners, teaching purposes, other available classroom conditions and students work in pairs

or groups Choosing an inappropriate or not being flexible in applying methods to a certain class may have negative effects on students’ participation Therefore, the warm-up design part is based on the following activities

2 The types of warm up activities

2.1 Using pictures

“A picture is worth a thousand words", the picture will stimulate their interest.So with this strategy teachers ask the students to draw a diagram of what they currently understand about the subject or concept

Examples:

Example 1 Part C-Listening English 10: Unit 3 People’s background

Aim: Helping students to listen for specific information about an Olympic champion

- Teachers can show students a poster of Nellie Kim

- Teachers let students observe the poster, then work in pairs and ask and answer the questions:

1 Who is in the poster ?

2.When was she born ?

3 Where does she come from?

4.What does she like to do in her free time ?

5 Which sports does she play?

6 How many time Olympic Champions did she win?

- After looking at the poster , students give the answers

-Teachers gather the answers that students discuss and lead in the new lesson:

Example 2 Part C-Listening English 10: Unit 10 – Conservation

and ways to prevent them

-With the pictures are forest fires ,teachers let students observe and give the following questions :

1.What do you see in the pictures ?

2 What can cause a forest fire?

3 How destructive can a forest fire be?

4 Do you know any famous forest fire?

5 Are there any forest fires in Vietnam?

6 Which forests have many forest fires every year?

- Finally, the teacher will lead to the new lesson

Example 3 Part C-Listening English 10: Unit 14 The World Cup

Aim : Helps Ss to develop such listening micro-skills as intensive listening specific

information and taking notes while listening

- Teachers can show students some posters of the World's most famous footballers

-Teachers asks students observe the poster, then work in groups and give answer the questions:

"What do you know about them?"

"Which one do you like best? Why?"

Teacher introduces and lead to the new lesson

2.2.Telling a short story

Short stories are an ideal tool in teaching language.Good stories can attract

students’ attention, because they provide topics based on their everyday interests.So teacher should tell a short story slowly and the content of the story is simple and easy for students to understand,especially it has to be related to the new

lesson.Teachers give the students some questions to answer after they have finished telling the story or teachers only tell a part of the story,then they ask students to discuss and predict what might happen after the story ends.This way will make students motivate because they are given their own ideas

Example Part C- Listening English 10: Unit 14 – The World Cup

Aim:- Students know some information about Pele, the most famous footballer in

the world

In order to lead in the new leson,teachers can tell a fun and short story :

The young wife moved by her football player husband, said:Last night you held my head in your hands and fondled me I didn't know that you were so much

in love with me that you think of me even while you sleep.

The player was surprised.

Oh, was that your head? I was dreaming and was surprised that my ball had suddenly grown such long hair.

2.3.Jumbled words

The purpose is to improve vocabulary There can be two or more than two meaningful words of one jumbled word We have included only one word

Example Part C- Listening English 10: Unit 1 – A day in the life of

Teachers write some words on the board and ask students to rearrange them to make

meaningful words

- CCLOY  CYCLO

- RIEDV  DRIVE

- NSSEGERPA  PASSENGERS

- DOFO SALLT  FOOD STALL

- After completing those words ,teachers will check and introduce the game :

“ Who is he ?”

-He gets up very early

*Answer: HE IS A CYCLO DRIVER

=>Lead in the new lesson : If we want to know more details about daily

activities of a cyclo driver, we will go to Unit 1- part C- Listening

2.4.Word formation

The aim of this word formation game is for students to play in pairs and form nouns /verbs /adjectives /adverbs It is perfect for students to learn vocabulary

Example Part C- Listening English 10: Unit 4 – Special education

Aim : Teachers help students listen for specific information about a special class for

disabled children

Teachers ask students to work in groups and find which words can be derived from the word photo ? Example : photograph

Suggested answers:

1 photographic (a)

2 photography(n)

3 photographer(n)

4 photograph (n)

5 photogenic (a)

-After that teachers can help students explain the meaning of the words

-Teachers lead to the new lesson

2.5.Guess the missing letters

Guess the missing letters helps students learn to use meaning, word length, onsets and word chunks to help them decode words while listening This activity helps them to consolidate their vocabulary

Example 1 Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 6 –An excursion

- Teachers write a word with six letters on the board , teachers only write the first and the last letter

- Ask students to guess the missing letters and fill them in the blanks to have a meaningful word

P_ _ _ _C

*Answer: PICNIC

- When finding the keyword teacher introduces the topic of the new lesson by giving some questions:

1.Where do you often go for a picnic?

2.When do you often have a picnic?

3.What do you often do at a picnic?

- Teacher divides the class into 3 groups

1 Park

Sunday

Play games

=>Lead in the new lesson

Example 2 Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 16 -Historical places

-Teachers can let students guess the word with the following suggests :

+ This word has 11 letters

+ It begins with D

+ It ends woth the suffix ION

+ some words are given in the table

*Answer: DESTINATION

- After that teacher gives some questions:

1 Do you know about the world cultural heritage sites in Vietnam?

2 Can you name the one in Middle Vietnam its name begins with an H and ends with an N ? ( Hoi An)

=>Lead in the new lesson

2.6 Asking and anwering

Ask some questions about a particular subject through specific pictures or objects, asking the students to give their personal opinion The questions are simple, easy to understand to avoid the psychology "see fear of false" Encourage students to raise questions regarding the topic raise

Example Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 5 - Technology and you

Teachers can give some questions to ask students with the topic : "talking about

your experience of learning how to use a computer"

1- Can you use a computer?

2- Who teaches you how to use a computer ?

3- Is this difficult to learn how to use it?

4- What will you do if you can’t understand the computer ?

-Now, we are going to listen to a passage, which tells us about an old company director talking about his experience of learning how to use a computer

2.7 True - False statement prediction

-Teachers give some sentences related to the topic of the lesson,students guess if

they are true or false based on their knowledge or their own experieces

- Teachers asks students to work in pairs to exchange answers before teachers check their answers

Example Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 14- The World Cup

-Teachers can give some suggested sentences :

1.Pele was born in America

2.He was good at kicking and controlling the ball

3.He was an ambassador for the sport

4.He scored 1300 goals and he become a national hero

1.F (Brazil)

2 T

3.T

4.F (1200)

When discussing those statements ,students will pay attention to the contents of the next lesson and they also want to know their prediction is true or false Teachers make them more interested as soon as the lesson begins

2.8 Open prediction or Brainstorming

Give students a keyword, asking students to work out as many relevant words as possible within a certain time limit This activity helps them to revise their

vocabulary

Example Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 9 - Undersea world

Teachers write the word Whale on the board and asks students to make a list of

words related to the “Whale”.

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WHALE

migrate mammal

krill

conservationn

- Lead in the new lesson : Today we will listen to get specific information about the whales: how large they are, what they eat, where they live, and if they are in danger

- When discussing those statements ,students will pay attention to the contents of the next lesson and they also want to know their prediction is true or false Teachers make them more interested as soon as the lesson begins

2.9 Eliciting

Eliciting is a basic technique and should be used regularly, not only at the beginning

of a lesson but whenever it is necessary and appropriate This is a simple and

effective way of getting good results in listening lesson.Therefore, before starting a new lesson teachers can ask and students answer some questions related to the topic

of the lesson

Students answers base on their knowledge or teachers use the pictures and can aslo directly ask students questions to lead in the new lesson

Example Part C- Listening English 10 Unit 12- Music

- In order to help students listen for more information about Van Cao and his music.Teachers can apply warming up by asking questions like :

1.What song do all students always sing on every Monday morning? Tien Quan Ca 2.Do you know who the composer was? Van Cao

3.When and where was he born? 1923- Nam Ha

5.When did he die? 1995

6.What was his first song? Suoi mo

7.What were some of his other songs that you know?

Truong ca song Lo, Lang toi, Truong Chi, Ngay mua

=>Lead in the new lesson

2.10 Matching

- Teachers can lead students to the new leson: Part C- Listening English 10

Unit 11- National Parks

them to match the name of each National Park with their suitable description

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whaling

2

3

*Answwer

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1 Cat Ba National Park

2 Cat Tien National Park

3 Cuc Phuong National Park

- After that teachers ask some questions about those National Parks like:

1- Have you ever visited these places?

2- Which place would you like to visit? Why?

=>Lead in the new lesson

PART III : CONCLUSION

Through the process of applying the above method I realize that students are more

eager, more flexible in practice, mastered the way of studying and doing effectively; Students are more excited with school hours, more active hours, and the quality of listening lessons has increased Real numbers are shown by the two following tables

Acadamic year 2019 - 2020

Acadamic year 2020 - 2021

As can be seen from the tables, the number of students achieving excellent and good grade increases considerably while the ones having below average grade decrease dramatically It means that these warm up activities are very helpful to the teacher as well as students in a listening lesson

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