Create interest in learning english for primary school students to develop language knowledge through organizing games

QUANG XUONG EDUCATION & TRAINING OFFICE QUANG TRACH PRIMARY SCHOOL INITIATIVE CREATE INTEREST IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ORGANIZING GA

QUANG XUONG EDUCATION & TRAINING OFFICE

QUANG TRACH PRIMARY SCHOOL

INITIATIVE

CREATE INTEREST IN LEARNING ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS TO DEVELOP LANGUAGE KNOWLEDGE THROUGH ORGANIZING GAMES

The implementer: Le Thi Thao

Position: Teacher

Work unit: Quang Trach Primary School

Initiative experienced subject: English

QUANG XUONG 2021

2 CONTENT

2.3.1.Create interest in learning English through

organizing games when teaching and reviewing vocabulary

5

2.3.2 Create interest in learning English through

organizing games when teaching and acting phonetic

8

2.3.3 Create interest in learning English through organizing

games when teaching and reinforcing sentence patterns

10

3 CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

REFERENCES

1 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Reason to choose the topic

We all know excitement is an attribute of human psychology -personality.Excitement plays a very important role in learning and working

M.Gorki once said: "Genius is born of a love for work" Along with

self-awareness, excitement makes cognitive positivity, helping students learn to achieve high results, capable of arousing the source of creativity

English has become a necessity in daily communication, at work and in the process of scientific research English is used as a common language in the world Through this common language that people all over the planet mutual understanding , mutual exchange of scientific achievements, culture, sport, art and civilization of human progress Our country is on track to integration and development, therefore English is the key to open the door between our country's integration with the countries of the world Because English has such importance in recent years, the Party, State, Government and the Ministry of Education and Training has been always interested and focused on innovative teaching methods, innovative books faculty for English teaching and learning most effectively

Therefore, English in general and English at primary level in particular also need to have stronger innovations, promoting students' activeness, creative initiative, and student-centered teaching methods The teacher should excite the children by engaging them in learning activities It is these things that raised my concerns: How to improve the quality of the subject? How can help students be interested, passionate about learning, excited when learning lessons? Is there any way to create excitement about creative exploration, deep memory and apply language knowledge learned into communication practice?

From the fact that I was directly teaching 5th grade English at Quang Trach Primary School, I found that the application of games to teaching will stimulate students to get more excited and deepen their knowledge, gradually will form good English communicative skills and reflexes Since then, I decided

to test the application of measures to " Create interest in learning English for primary school students to develop language knowledge through organizing games" for students in class 5A, 5B at Quang Trach Primary School in the

2020-2021 school year and has initially brought positive results

1.2 Aims of the research :

To contribute to renovating teaching methods for primary English in the direction of promoting students' activeness, initiative and creativity, enhancing individual activities in coordination with exchange learning Form and practice skills to apply knowledge in communication process

Create interest in learning English for students, offer a communicative games to apply English words learned in the game, in order for them not to be discouraged from the subject, have a sense of learning to play, play to learn

Games in english class not only help children acquire knowledge and words, but also help them consolidate and deepen their knowledge further

1.3 Scope and object of the research

Being a teacher directly teaching at Quang Trach Primary School - Quang Xuong District - Thanh Hoa Province From the school's teaching and learning, I personally feel the need to create for children a passion for learning, love the subject

Own language differences with other subjects It not only teaches language knowledge but also including a deep knowledge society, customs, traditions, culture and lifestyle of the human being through language.From the actual situation of teaching and learning in our school,I do research to find out

how to create interest in learning English for primary school students to develop language knowledge for pupils in grade 5 in the 2020-2021 school year

at Quang Trach primary school

1.4 Method of the research:

To conduct this topic I used the following research methods:

Method of observation: I have observed class time Thereby to grasp

students' expressions of interest

Method of dialogue,interview: I have learned from my colleagues

'experiences over the years about learning about students' interest in learning their aspirations in learning

Material reseach method: I have studied textbooks and homework to see

how they absorb and apply theory into practice Thereby grasping the general level of the class is also individual

Method of survey and statistics: In order to collect widely the data from

which to discover problems that need to be solved

In addition, I also use a number of other methods

2 CONTENT

2.1 Theoretical background:

2.1.1 Practical background

According to the general education program of the Ministry of Education and Training, the content of the English general education program is to take the

communication direction as the main direction At primary level, teaching English helps students initially form and develop their communication skills through the four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing, focusing more on listening and speaking skills

Through the actual teaching process, I find that in order to meet the educational objectives in the new situation requires teachers to change the way

of organizing teaching - learning activities, teachers not only firmly grasp their subject's knowledge They also need to know how to diversify activities that attract students' attention and interest in learning, thereby helping them memorize and reflect language faster and more effectively In which, using games to organize teaching activities to improve the effectiveness of English teaching period is very necessary

2.1.2 Scientific background:

*) Psychological characteristics of primary school students:

+ Inability to focus for a long time

+ Children are active, eager to know new things, then they become bored quickly

+ They learn quickly, imitate quickly and forget quickly

+ Children love to learn through listening, watching, imitating and doing activities

+ Children are very active, creative and especially interested in communicating

In order to have a good quality English class, giving students an inspiration when learning lessons, the teacher must really have unique and attractive methods Especially for primary school students Therefore, in teaching, teachers have to use a lot of teaching aids, increase practice, organize games alternately to reinforce knowledge

2.2 The reality of the issue :

English at primary school is a unique subject, unlike other subjects that are outside class time, children rarely practice or receive help from their families My school is in a rural area, the socio-economic conditions are still difficult Besides studying in books, they have little access to electronic materials such as software, books, etc English stories, newspapers Infrastructure, equipment for teaching - learning is not fully equipped

During my own teaching hours as well as my colleagues' time, I noticed one thing: most of them did not pay attention and invest time in foreign language subjects The preparation of the post is still sketchy and coping According to the degree of gradual increase of difficulty, if they do not have a firm grasp of knowledge, they will not be able to do the homework From that, there will be psychology of learning English During class hours, most of them are passive, lack of flexibility, are afraid of reading - speaking English, not actively participating in learning activities such as speaking, or expressing personal feelings, opinions, sometimes, the state of relying on only receiving available knowledge

Facing such a situation, I have conducted a survey on the learning quality and interest of students in grades 5A and 5B at Quang Trach primary school in the 2020-2021 school year and the results are as follows

- The level of student's interest in learning

Number

of

students

Interest in learning

Before applying initiative

88

Number of students actively participating in learning

activities

Number of students inactively participating in learning

activities

- The completion level of the students

Number

of

students

Surveying the quality

Before applying initiative (survey at the beginning of the

year)

88

Table 1: Results before conducting research

ANALYSIS RESULTS

After the survey, I was really worried to see that their results were not high The number of students who do well is very small and especially they are not actively participating in learning activities than they actively participate in learning activities I find that the reason is that they do not remember the word, the pronunciation of the word and the pattern of the sentence they have learned

So I realized that I had to change the way of organizing teaching - learning activities, to diversify activities that attracted attention and interest in learning, thereby helping them memorize and reflect language language faster and more efficiently So the use of games to organize teaching activities to improve the effectiveness of teaching period is very necessary As a direct teacher in the classroom, I realize the importance and effectiveness of this activity, so I look forward to sharing my experiences of organizing games in class

2.3 Solutions :

On that basis, by understanding and learning through a lot of information,

in the process of teaching English to primary school students, I have integrated

activities and games to create excitement for learning children For example, applying the games to the course of the lesson is as follows

2.3.1 Create interest in learning English through organizing games when teaching and reviewing vocabulary

In order to help students memorize, practice and reinforce learned vocabulary, we can use simple repetition with fun games, creating a happy learning environment that increases student excitement in terms of learning, they are always ready to attend class

Here are games to reinforce and increase students' vocabulary:

- Slap the board

- Rub out and remember

- Networks

- Matching

- Gesture/Mime/TPR

- Missing flashcard game

- Jumbled words

- Hangman

- Bingo

- Word building

- Crossword

- Missing letters ……

* Some examples of the organization of games when teaching and reviewing vocabulary

a) Slap the board

Ex: In English 5- unit 15 - Lesson 1 - part 1-2-3

- Purpose:

+ Practice reading and strengthening skills to listen to learned words and recognize word faces

+ Practice quick reflexes in children

- Preparation: I introduce the game name and draw some different shapes

on the board: circle, triangle, square, rectangle, diamond, ellipse Then write down some of the new words they've learned in the pictures above

- The rules of the game: I divide the class into two teams and name each team, each team appointed 3 member to play with the other team 6 friends of the two

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teams into 2 rows that stand in front of the table at a certain distance I read a big word among the words on the board, the two of them surrender to the team quickly beat the letters that I just read on the table, who smashed quickly and right would bring it to the team 1 point Continue with other pairs, ending is enough words that I have raised before reading

- At the end of the game: Plus a team of many points, the team wins, which team

will win a sticker / copy for each member

NOTE: This game can also append a good friend to read the words that are just

recorded on the board for the two you heard and smashed into the image

b) Networks

In English 5- Unit 6 - Lesson 1- part 1-2-3

English

Vietnamese PE

- Purpose: Checking the student's vocabulary knowledge, creating an exciting

air in the first study, the end of the lesson

- Preparing: I drew 2 suns with sunbeams and divided into 2 teams (each team

appointed 3 to 5 friends) simultaneously for every single chalk team

- How to play: When listening to the start of the start, the children in each team quickly on the board writing one from any of the weather topics learned, only one word is only one word for each time (can be up several times) Then pass the chalk to another The game ends within 3-5 minutes

- Ending the game: Praise and reward a congratulatory applast for the team to

write right and more words than that team wins

Subject

NOTE: writing the same word can only get one point

Students participate in group games

c)Rub out and remember

- Purpose: Test and practice word memory skills for students

Example: in English 5 - Unit 11 - Lesson 1- part 1-2-3

- matter

- a toothache

- an earache

- a sore throat

- a stomach ache

- Preparation: After the vocabulary lesson, I took turns delete the words on the

board but not in order After removing English, I point to Vietnamese words and students read English words in unison Continue until all the words on the board have been erased and the students have memorized the new words

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Đau tai Đau họng Đau bụng

- How to play: I divide the class into two teams and name each team, each team

in turn sends 3 friends to play with friends of the other team 6 friends of two bosses in 2 rows stand in front of the board at a certain distance I had the class shout "one, two, three, go!" - When listening to the start signal, the children in each team quickly go up to the board to write any word, write only one word at a time (can be multiplied) and then pass the chalk to another friend, so on

continue until the teams complete the words on the board The game ends within 3-5 minutes

- End of game: Group that writes many words will be rewarded with sticker /

star

Students are always excited about participating in games

In addition to the game on I also organized other games in the lesson

process and saw effectively like: Matching; Jumbled Words; Bingo;

Hangman

2.3.2 Create interest in learning English through organizing games when teaching and acting phonetic

To remember the pronunciation, the negative sound from here is a effective game:

- Syllabic clap

- Simon say

- Listen and mime/ find/ draw/ colour

- Slap the board

- Make a chant

- Phonic sound

……

* Some examples of organizing games when teaching and strengthening phonetic

a) Syllabic clap

- Purpose: Help students identify the sound of words