Train the students’ life skills through a number of english lessons in 9th grade

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO YÊN ĐỊNH PHÒNGTRƯỜNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO YÊN ĐỊNH THCS YÊNTẠO TRƯỜNG TRƯỜNG THCS YÊN TRƯỜNG SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM TÊN ĐỀ TÀI TÊN ĐỀ TÀI Train the students’ life skills through a number of English Train the students’ life skills lessons in 9ththrough grade a number of English lessons in 9th grade Người thực hiện: Hoàng Thị Xuân Chức viên Ngườivụ: thựcGiáo hiện: Hoàng Thị Xuân Đơn công tác:viên Trường THCS Yên Trường Chứcvịvụ: Giáo SKKN lĩnh Trường vực môn: Tiếng Anh Đơn vị thuộc công tác: THCS Yên Trường SKKN thuộc lĩnh vực môn: Tiếng Anh YÊN ĐỊNH NĂM 2016 - 2017 YÊN ĐỊNH NĂM 2016 - 2017 TABLE OF CONTENT PART I INTRODUCTION 1.1 The reasons for choosing topics 1.2 The purpose of research 1.3 Study subject 1.4 Research Methodology PART II: CONTENT EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE 2.1 Basis of the initiative argued experience 2.2 Status of the problem 2.3 New Solution 2.4 Effectiveness of experence initative PART : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS: * Conclution * Suggestions PART I INTRODUCTION 1.1 The reasons for choosing topics In today’s life, humanity is facing risks and challenges of such natural disasters, epidemics as well as population boom led to a series of problems with housing needs, food, energy … This brings about some negatives that affect on the environment, human health and impact on our planet “Let’s save our planet” – this mission is not individual, but in fact there is still a significant number of people indifferent to this young generation is especially high school students Because every family only has from to children , taking care of children is more enjoyable, Parents always tell them so carefully wrapped, everything for the child even little things that they can themselves The problem is that most children are not able to adapt to the social environment when unforeseen circumstances occur, there is no proper awareness about their work or donot have the standards words when communicating with others of othrewise their life skills are limited To help students overcome these limitations may also become more flexible in dealing with real- life, so right from the start with a fact of life, so at the beginning of the 2016 – 2017 school year, when assigned to teach English , I need to think about training them some life skills and experiences with the tittle “ Train the students’ life skills through a number of English lessons in 9th grade ” 1.2 The purpose of research The topic focuses on education, training four basic life skills groups following: - Communication skills - Adjusted cognitive skill, behavior - Skills to improve health and ahealth protection - Skills disaster or epidemic 1.3 Study subject Although the mass media propaganda always contains a lot of content about life skills education, but most of them are still not aware : such as , fans in classooms still run or light still bright , lights in hours the exercise yard or after school, litter in the classroom , school yard or on the go, in public places although the trash bin is placed next to it Do not turn off the water after you’ve been using All of these rules are explained and reminded regularly by the teacher and the monitor Besidesdealing with the change of the weather as floods, effects Fon … limited There are still many chhildren dress style braking in cold weather, amphibious outing when floods, walking in the street when the thunderstorm Right from the time to begin their school , they were speaking the words or with the right behaviors But in fact they have not used them well in commuication, especially the isolated students, the education and traing need to be communicating more frequently 1.4 Research Methodology I have explored research documents and Secondary English program, combined projected time colleague, experiment, examine and compare the academic performance of students, I have learned the best methods for teaching children PART II: CONTENT EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE 2.1 Basis of the initiative argued experience Derived from the goals of education is to train Vietnamese people to develop comprehensively, have goodness, knowledge, health, asthetics and profession , loyalty to the ideals of national independence and socialism; form and nurture the personality, qualities and competencies of citizen; satisfy requirements of the construction and defense of the country The goal of teaching is not only to give students some basic knowledhe and practical activities swirling around the topic of life but also initially and train them some life experiences Moreover, education is not just as the process of conveying the life itself; schools not separate from society; and the student is the center of life andsociety So education for life skills students is a very important thing, is a necessary requirement in order to meet this goal 2.2 Status of the problem Life – skills traing for students is one of the content of the movement “building friendly school , active students” by Deputy Prime Minister of Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan launched It is requirement , the trend of modern society in the flat world, globaliration Through the grasp of students at the beginning of the first hour weekly flag – raising, base on the monitoring of the red flag and assessment of the general in charge of competition as well as the exchange with my homeroom teacher noticed that although grade students are seniors in the scholl sector , but the level of hygiene violations, environment, facilitied, being addictive of viedeo games are very great, the ability to communicate more limited Here are some specific survey data: Survey about cognitive life skills of students in grade Clas Studen Communication Adjust Training to Disaster s ts awareness skills protect the prevention amount health amo % disease skills amou % unt nt skills amount % % 9A 9B 26 26 34,61 30,76 12 46,15 12 46,15 10 38,4 14 53,3 10 38,4 12 46,1 Behavioral survey carried out by the students life skills Clas Studen Communication Adjust Training s ts 9A 9B 26 26 skills awareness protect amount % skills amou % health amou 38,46 nt 34,6 10 38,4 10 30,76 to Disastrous the prevention % disease skills amo % nt 10 38,4 unt 30,76 12 46,1 10 38,46 Note : - Communicative skills - Ability to adjust focus awareness on Internet use reasonable and proper purposes - Skills training and protection of health is aware of environmental protection, energy saving, water and protection of physical facilities - Skills disastrous prevention of disease to know how to behave and be prepared to deal with the disasters, said remedial after flooding in their homes and schools 2.3 New Solution From this situation I have studied and performed the topic “ Train the living skills for students through a number of English lessons in th grade ” The topic was developed by the following methods: a) Method 1: Institution for educating and practising the communication skills Communication is the needs of the people, by communicating they can understand each other If there is no communication, there is no society But how to communicate effectively, this is not a simple matter If we don’t know the rules, There are five principles: + In terms of content: say enough content + On substance: say what is true and has good grounds for the believing + Relationships: strictly speaking topics, avoiding digresions + Manner: speak plainly and obviously + Courtesy : This motto is always present in types of activities Moreover, communication skills are typical views of a foreign language in schools Foreign language teaching methods ( according to teaching new perspective communication ) is selected as broad guidelines, communicative competence is the basic teaching, considering both the purposes of communiction and a means of teaching Therefore, students need to be equiped on how to learn English and sense of self-learning and self- trainging So the students will learn self-discipline Raising capital has accumulated experience ( vocabulary, grammar, …………) to imitation, reproduction, behavior reseach and innovative behavior in social situations They said revealing the awareness and understanding of their outward verblly, through foreign language articles Thus,, foreign language teaching is essentially operational skills traing in the forms of commnication: listening, speaking, reading , and writing trough the environment with diverse situations of life This environment is mainly due to lower teachers create communication situations and students to find appropriate behavior At the lower grade students are practicing delve into communication activities in their daily lives, they closely contact daily routine For the grade 9th students , They focus more on natural activities and larger In speaking skill lesson of Unit “ A visit from a penpal” They are training communication skills with a new friend abroad, from the greetings and introduction themslves politely, “ Please to meet you Let me introduce myself.” O the introduction of the country and the people of Viet Nam and learn about the land and people of Malysia Once more they are practices communication skills, at the end of the lesson , students act as Maryam and other students create the dialouges freely with the theme “ Making friends”, has created the habit of using English to communicate They have both the opportuniy to deepenunderstanding of places and nice tradition of the two countries Viet Nam and Malaysia After the lesson , it is the writing lesson They can conclude the knowledge from the speaking lesson to express in words Unit 2: “Clothing” equips the children vocabulary of clothing they wear in different places , different time In speaking skill lesson, the students can express their opinions and answer the questions related to the topic that they are studying This topic will attract more students, especially younger students tend to fashion: + What you ususally wear on the weekends ? + Why you usually wear these / those clothes? + What are your favourite types of clothing? Why? + What color suits you? Why ? + Do you like to wear uniforms ? Why ? + What you usually wear on Tet holiday? / on your birthday?/ on your sister’s or your brother’s wedding day ? + Do you want to be a fashion designer in the future? If yes, say why? So on …… In Unit : “ Learing a foreign language” , they ask and answer about the information in the contest “Oral” or persuade others to participate in activities with them Communication skills are always trained regularly in lessons of the units b) Method 2: Organise education, skills training Cognitive behavioral adjustment Secondary students are at the age of puberty, so the psychological and physical developments have several complications They want to express themselves as adults but the behavior , the gestures so much of a child is very superficial and elated, sometimes without understanding the consequences that they themselves cause So if adults donot timely orientation, shape it may lead to unnecessary mistakes As the teacher, the concern , anxiety,especially with the current situation with the social and economic development of society has changed people’s lives , besides the positive expression also entails social ills are bad every hour, every minute affecting students Especially the development of information technology to the black sites are everywhere on the Internet, books, rampant pornography, high degree of resonance in the student environment has brought serious consequences for the society To train students self- training skills to adjust perceptions, their behavior through access to Information Technology, I have carried out the following steps: + When teaching reading information “Read” in Unit I used the pictures to introduce the Internet as follow: - Can you use computers? - What subjects help you to use computers? - Have you ever used the Internet? - Do you find the Internet useful? - What you use the Internet for? - What are the advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet? - Do you think the Internet cost you much? - Do you think the Internet takes you much time? - ……… By answering these questions , the students can understand the positives and negatives of the Internet and from that I trained my students for skills the self- adjust their perceptions about the Internet, how to use the Internet to promote the efficiency of the internet in learning and in life After this class, students are etched deeper knowledge, apply the vocabulary, sentence patterns learned in reading, They listed words and phrases to the topics said benefits and harms of the Internet to train traffic next Through practice speaking part ( pre- writing) is that they can be aware of what is detrimental to avoid ourselves, or minimize it to the maximum These tips are taught in an appropriate use according to the students’ level The time of these activities and changes are in a flexible manner in order not to cause boring lesson : Brainstorming or networks using … The advantages of the Internet The disadvantages of the Internet 10 Through this writing lesson I’ ve also trained for the skills , students can express their opinions about the specific issues In the end of the writing, I ask students to apply skills to work in groups to discuss the disadvantages of the internet, thereby we can determine the use of the Internet effectively and also instruct them to use games of all kinds to use English while playing , learning and to ensure a reaonable time After school , I pick out afew good students to write on the subject and block up the forum by the host of gifted students under the guidance of teacher From these activities, I help the students practice the skill cognitive self regulation, their behavior through access to Information Technology ( the English Olympic competitions and Math through Internet for grade 9) c Method 3: Organize education, skill training exercise and health protection Everyone knows that health is an invaluable asset, health is everything So having a good health and protecting it are not easy at all Our health depends on very simple things It is educating a scientific lifestyle , knowing how to protect the environment and preseving facilities, energy saving Today this problem becomes even more urgent than ever Human life is now changing rapidly in each moment one Without a good education and traning, the current generation, the next generation will be hard to adapt to life, facing many problems: * The problem of waste and insatiable: 11 Human mercilessly exploit resources such as land , minerals, rivers, mountains, gray matter and labor Daily and hourly,people are also using them indiscriminately, without much thought and without caution Since then, the consequences of which man has and will suffer enormous A price that noone else is paying the progency of us In the role of teacher, I become a conservationist who indicate what people are doing today and lead them to the idea of saving through Unit “ Saving energy” From the first lesson thanks to the available paintings in the ( Getting started) , I introduce them to observe the pictures, ask questions , students respond and clarify the situations the pictures contain the waste resources - What happen to the faucets ? - Is the TV on ? Who is watching TV? - Is the radio on / Who is listening to the radio? - Is the light still burning ? The following suggested questions are used to talk about how to handle the above situations: + What should we to save electricity / water? + Should we turn on the TV / radio / lights/ faucets if we don’t use them ? + Do you think energy is never exhausted? From the answers to handle the situations of students, naturally they take part in the protection and saving natural resources as well as national energy resources in which they usually it at home These ideas will also wake children who never or no sense of protection and saving energy resources To attract those who are not interested in this issue, I continue to give out real questions about their school and class: + Should we turn off the lights , the fans at recess ? 12 + What should we with the lights, the fans when they are dirty? + Should we turn the lights in the classroom when the sun is shining brightly ? + Should we turn the lights and the fans before leaving the classroom? + We should turn the faucets after using, should we? + Why should we those above things ? When they answer these questions perfectly, they are trained the problemsolving skills Moreover, It also reminds and educates them to know how to save energy not only at school but also at home After completing the “listen and read”, I give out the subject that requires the to discuss in groups in order to help them grasp how to save energy at home and at school What we have to to save energy at home? What we have to to save energy at school? With the answers they , express their opinions before class has proved that they know how to save energy , protect the environment as well as protect their own health + Take a shower instead of bath + Turn off the faucets after using +Make sure there are no cracks in the water pipes + Turn off the lights after leaving the room + Turn of the TV, radio when they aren’t used + ……… 13 In Speaking skill lesson, Students are trained to make suggestions on saving energy using the drawings: + I think we should fix the faucets + I think we should turn off the faucet + Why don’t we turn off the fan? + Shall we turn off the gas fire? + Let’s turn down the gas + How about turning off the air conditioner? + What about turning off the lights and the television when we don’t use? + We should go to school, to work on foot or by bike instead of by motorbikes, cars, … +I suggest taking a bus instead of a car Applying the knowledge they have learned from the “read” lesson, I ask students to discuss in groups with the topics “ The ways to spend less on lighting” They also have learnt; The ways to spend less on lighting - Using energy saving bulbs instead of ordinary 100 watt light bulbs - Turning off the lights before leaving the room - Using household appliances properly following the instructions - Keep the refrigerator door closed - Using household saving appliances Writing lesson is the one that students gather al the knowledge in the extensive training prior to compelete an article revolves around the issue of energy savings Obviously, the students are learned about the dangers of wasteful use of energy and consciousness change lives for the better * The problem of environmental pollution 14 Environment includenatural factors and material factors related closely surrounds people and seriously affect life, production, exstence and development of man and nature Therefore, environmental protection is to protect yourself The paintings of Unit 6: The environment remind them the spectacle really urgent that human environmental triggers I use tricks “name the pictures” so that students can focus on the topic “ environmental problems” such as air polution / water polution/ rubbish ( garbage) … I give out the phrase : garbage dump, air pollution, water pollution, deforestation, dynamite fishing, spraying pesticides to the children communicate with online In order to think about the issues, I pose the questions related to the environmental clean up activities in local schools or in accordance with the age of the children daily small, on the occasions of the holidays or the environmental months + What you everyday to keep your school clean? + Why you have to that? + How often you take part in the activities for environment in your local? + Do you encourage your friends to with you? The answers have proven they have a sense, good attitude when participating in activities + Cleaning the school before and after the classes with my classmates everyday + Cleaning the streets/ roads / our living area with my relatives and the neighbours every weekend + Planting trees / flowers in the school garden or in the schoolyard with my classmates and the teachers in the spring or in the autumn +Collecting trash and putting it into the garbage bin + Making our school and our local clean and beautiful 15 + Taking part in the activities for environment in our local in the environmental month Through the “listen and read” I have also illustrated them clearly see the environmental protection is the task of the whole society with paintings clean local environment In speaking lessons, based on the phrases that I guide them skills to persuade others or friends to some environmental protection as save paper , reduce the pollution of water, but the lake , sea, air, prevent littering in schools and public places, which reduces the amount of waste out… as follows: + I think you should recycle used paper, newspapers to reduce the amount of garbage we produce + I think it would be better if we use banana leaves in stead of paper or plastic bags to wrap food because plastic bags are very hard to dissolve They will cause pollution And if we use less paper we can save trees in the forests That’s how we can save our environment + It would be better if we don’t throw all garbage in the class and around the schoolyard We should put it in the waste bins Finally , I ask students to discuss in groups with questions : “ What you to protect environment?” for further training for their environmental protection duties In reading lesson, by learning and analyzing poems about the environment, I give some suggested questions to help them understand the meaning of the poem education, see the perspective of the mother is wrong Example: + Do you think the same? +Is the mother right when she thinks so ? + Who you think pollutes our environment everyday? 16 I also clarify for the students the environmental protection are also instances of human culture * The problem of disease: Mankind is facing many dangerous diseases, risk threatening the outbreak of life on earth, such as SAS, HIV, H5N1, H1N1, Hepatitis B … However , this disease can be controlled if we are willing to protect the health Many good evironmental protection activities can be preventive method I have intergrated a lot of questions on the details of the lesson to instill th sense of hygiene and health for themselves and the community + Do you think air pollution / water pollution/ … is harmful to your health? + Why we have to keep our environment clean and fresh? + What happens if we spoil the place where we are living? … d) Method 4: organization education, skills training disaster or epidemic Due to wasteful lifestyle, irresponsibility of many people, today around the globe we are facing with natural dissaters, epidemics that occur in succession as droughts, floods, crop failures, hurricanes, earthquakes , tsunamis , … Many people lost their homes, major economic damage fall In order to educate students to have awareness of prevention and fighting the disasters , I use the pictures Unit : “ Natural disasters lesson 1” , I ask students to observe to determine the topic Then through exercises to identify different natural disasters: snowstorm, earthquakes, volcano, typhoon… In speaking lesson, the questions relating to disaster prevention skills, namely flood are given for the to discuss the class expressed thre opinion: + What does your family often prepare before a typhoon? + What does your family often buy to prepare before a typhoon? 17 + When typhoon comes, what you usually do? + What you and your family after typhoon to protect our environment and our health ? …… After the students express their opinions, I assigned each groups of students to make a list of suggestions on what to before , during and after the storm comes They conduct the coversation after they agree together what to I call some students from each group and make new groups again They can discuss on how to prevent disasters in the locality The children are excited about the oulined work done by the school, family and themselves I think it is good for the different subjects at school integrating to teach students about life skills They will know how to protect themselves , to be aware of their work to protect the environment, to convince the peers to a good job Therefore, inaddition to delve into the education and skills training in groups I don’t also forget to teach them about other skills training as ( self- consciousness to participate in activities, spitit team, spirit to help their friends when they are in troubles …… ) persuading skills, presenting skills a specific problem … 2.4 Effectiveness of experence initative After one year of implementation of this topic, I found that students have changed obviously Since then they have done the works well and had very positive signs Specifically, they join more information tectnology but with the purpose of studying: join english and math contests on the Internet, get necessary informantion for studying in exams: Literature, History , Geography, Maths …… They have adjusted their awareness, behavior in the access to the information technology Most of the children have done 18 good discipline as : turn off the fans electric lights when not using, donot litter, garbage of the class, the school, home and the street Many of them are aware that health protection is important … This is the survey of data after the English class of the topic: * Students’ awareness about the life skills: Clas Studen Communication Adjust Training to Disastrous s ts awareness skills protect the prevention amount % health amo % disease skills amou % 76,92 unt 23 88,4 nt 20 76,9 22 84,6 19 73,0 skills amount 9A 9B 26 26 22 21 % 84,61 80,79 20 19 73,07 Behavioral survey carried out by the students life skills Clas Studen Communication Adjust Training s ts 9A 9B 26 26 skills awareness protect amount % skills amou % health amou 76,92 nt 19 73,0 18 69,2 20 20 76,92 to Disaster the prevention % disease skills amo % nt 23 88,4 unt 18 69,23 21 80,7 19 73,07 PART : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS: * Conclution 19 In conclusion, in the process of globalization, countries in the world are becoming more and more closely linked and increasing cultural and economic exchanges The competitions in the fields is increasing Therefore, equipping and training life skills is a pressing issue for everyone, especially for students, the future owner of the country It is the general goal of the education , the subjects in the school, the teachers themselves are the trend of world education The topic: "Train the students’ life skills throught a number of English lessons in th grade " that I presented above is not beyond that purpose English is a subject that has many advantages in this field, the initial implementation has been certain results But this is not an early, one-sided work that must be continuous, with the support of the school principals, the youth team leader as well as the teachers and tutors, I believe future generations will be good and confident in life * Suggestions The education, training of survival skills must continue long, hard I hope that my topic is supplemented and applied successfully, I have the following suggestions: +For teachers: Subject knowledge is the basis of life skills, so it must be taught correctly, sufficiently and accurately Pay attention to the linkage between subject knowledge in the comprehensive knowledge system - Teachers themselves must have a certain living capital, experience and accumulate experience through real life, have the ability to learn high - Need to see this is a regular job - The integration of education and training of life skills must be flexible, natural, avoid force, impose 20 - Teaching is integrated in each lesson, each lesson and each type of unit - Teaching is linked to reality to create the opportunity to apply subject knowledge Take advantage of every opportunity to integrate, spend more time for students to experience + For the school - Create conditions for the mass organizations in the school to participate in education for students XÁC NHẬN CỦA HIỆU TRƯỞNG Yên Định, ngày tháng năm 2017 Tôi xin cam đoan SKKN viết, không chép nội dung người khác Hoàng Thị Xuân 21 ... teach English , I need to think about training them some life skills and experiences with the tittle “ Train the students’ life skills through a number of English lessons in 9th grade ” 1.2 The. .. country and the people of Viet Nam and learn about the land and people of Malysia Once more they are practices communication skills, at the end of the lesson , students act as Maryam and other students... contest “Oral” or persuade others to participate in activities with them Communication skills are always trained regularly in lessons of the units b) Method 2: Organise education, skills training Cognitive