A number of measures to help the fifth form students of dong tien b primary school confidently practise english through songs and chants

I - INTRODUCTION The reasons of choosing topic The goal of education is to train people develop a comprehensive and humane response to meet the technical requirements of the country today In which language is considered to be a powerful and effective tool in the process of integration and development with other countries in the world English is an international language , so the Party and State are particularly interested in the national foreign language project of the government until 2020 with the common goal: " Comprehensive renovation of the teaching and learning of foreign languages in the national education system " In which elementary students have to listen, understand, speak, read and write simple instructions on topics that are related to themselves and their school Primary English now also attaches great importance and interest Teaching English from small steps will help the children have a good start for the long journey later However, the children's language learning is completely different from adults, they are very playful, not respected to academic tasks To help students acquire good basic knowledge of elementary English program, toward active learning activities, against passive learning habits, creating a solid foundation of knowledge for children The teacher has to know how to inspire them learning by "Helping children confidently practice English through songs and chants" 2.The purpose of study: As a teacher of English at primary school, I myself constantly research and innovate teaching methods Hopefully this topic will contribute to reduce the difficulties and obstacles, as well as be small contribution to improving the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning English in primary schools The object of study:The fifth form students of Dong Tien B Primary School The methods of study: To research a topic, people often choose many different methods With this topic, I use the following methods: / Theoretical research method : I read the conducting material issues related to my research needs 2/ Learning experience from my colleagues :Attend the colleagues’ lessons to follow their good method 3/ Experimental matching method 4/ Observation method II - THE CONTENT Theoretical basic: The views of the Party is to improve foreign language skills for the majority of the young generation of the country, and propose innovative solutions to address the pressing issues faced in the rapidly improving language resources for students So far English is considered as a subject to be focused and get a lot of attention at the primary level To meet the requirements of national renewal, each teacher must have completed myself teaching career To well the teaching and learning of foreign languages in elementary school , the teachers must understand clearly the children’s psychology in elementary school as well as their characteristics and abilities when learning language: + Children are very active so that they can not afford to sit obediently and listen to the teacher's lecture + In addition, children not have the ability to concentrate for a long time about 5-10 minutes to think and acquire knowledge So in the foreign language classroom, children have been involved in many different learning activities + Children need the repetitive elements I know that children absorb and imitate very fast but forget very quick, too Therefore, materials must be practised as much as possible In English classes, the teacher should create opportunities for the children to further practice through physical exercise (listen and repeat), replaced exercise To meet the specific characteristics of children in the process of learning a foreign language, we have used the techniques and forms of communicative exercises to facilitate formation of a language learning environment Also in these environments where students are exposed more Using visual items for children to be exposed to English native speakers through audio / DVD Students become active elements of lectures + Children learn through listening, watching, imitating Children acquire knowledge in a completely different way from adults Adults acquire knowledge in a sense, analysis, young acquire naturally through intuition So what exercises to strengthen the observation of children through the audio-visual and mechanical imitation as well as modeling activities of teachers to introduce the new materials must ensure the accuracy of the language, especially pronunciation + The ability of children are curious, energetic and creative in a very natural way Children always need to explore their surroundings and interact with people, so that children establish an understanding of the world children live + Children would love to communicate When we monitor children talk, we'll all enjoy the talk, though not as something important When we meet the children who we not know, through the first minute they might be shy, but after a few questions of our encouragement, they will tell us about their selves, their parents, interests, including saying bad things that their friends do, and would love to ask questions back With the above characteristics, we can see that, in order to help them get a better ability to practice languages well, we need to have a reasonable solution We can not teach children like to teach an adult This shows that the teacher must have a high technical level to enter the world of young children to eventually lead to new concepts, to a deeper understanding of concepts that children initially approached Children learn language depends heavily on incentives This totally depends on the style of the teacher If teachers encourage young children to create a good learning environment, children will learn a lot faster In many teaching methods to promote positive child, there are two methods which are consistent and favorite for all ages are songs and chants There are many English songs for children but there are not many chants Consequently, the teacher must know how to combine the use of all available ones and promote their abilities in self-composing songs and chants so that all class hours achieve the highest efficiency The current situation: Through practical teaching in Dong Tien B primary school I see, there are some advantages following: Administrators are very interested in foreign language teaching The school has two good teachers of English who always try to self-learn, self- upgrade their skills, create and know how to apply the information technology in teaching, innovate teaching methods appropriate for each kind of students in order to help them quickly understand the lesson Those are teachers who love the teaching job, the kids and who are enthusiastic and responsible in the work, ready to complete all assigned tasks During the past school years, English teachers’ group ensures the quality of teaching and learning, ends the situation of letting students be in the class which is not appropriate with their language ability There are no longer students dropping out and especially, the school has gifted students who have achieved the high ranks in the exams for excellent students in Dong Son district On the other hand, it also has a certain number of difficulties: + There is a number of hard students who are the children of the poor families or the families in which the parents are divorced Therefore, the education of the children in these families are little cared for, which affects the children’s learning outcomes + A lot of parents not know English, therefore, it is impossible for them to help their children to learn English + Some children have psychology of being shy when speaking in the public + Because of circumstances, many children not focus on learning foreign language, they learn how to cope and some are bored with studying English + They don’t speak English fluently because of no regular use *The survey results in early school year of class 5B Dong Tien B Primary school Class 5B Total 30 Excellent Percent 13% Quality Good Percent 30% Average 15 Percent 50% Weak Percent 7% So how to help the teaching and learning English achieve high efficiency? Through teaching and research so I boldly launched "A number of measures to help the fifth form students confidently practise English through songs and chants." Solutions and implementation: Through practical teaching in Dong Tien B primary schools I have researched and used the following measures to help students improve their language learning in primary schools better: 3.1 Studying the textbooks: The purpose of this method is to help the teachers master the English program of grade 3,4,5 to find the most appropriate method for each particular lesson Currently the school is using the book Let's go of Oxford publisher for grades Through the book I find that the form of this book is suitable for primary school age: pictures are colorful and vivid, the characters are fun and accompany them from the first lesson for the rest of the books, give them the curiosity through each lesson, help them see the characters as their friends In terms of the content of this book revolves around the topic, the topic is very friendly, close to the lives of the children Each topic focuses on phonics, vocabulary and grammar with very short sentence patterns consistent with age The structure of all these books meets the aesthetic and content for elementary school children As we know, to study well, students need to have a good set of books and teachers have to know how to use the method correctly and flexibly to transmit knowledge to the children On the other hand, due to the requirements of society and the demands of educational strategies, each teacher must improve teaching skills that are suitable with school age It means that when teaching in the classroom we must take into account that: + Children not have the ability to understand the rules of grammar, not understand the explanation of rules of language Such rules on the use of the verbs [1] If we explain that: the present simple used to express repeated daily action, habits it is too abstract, children not have the ability to imagine the content of rules to understand, as well as remember sample sentences and grammatical rules, so they just learn the prefabricated phrases without being analyzed how to form these sentences + Children have the ability to imitate very quickly what adults so when learning new things they will absorb very fast but also be easy to forget + Children enjoyed singing and dancing as they enjoyed participating in activities not like to sit silently long So the teacher in the classroom is only the instructor, the students’ role as a positive factor, they voluntarily participate in activities that teacher provides in a natural way, these activities are songs and chants In the program Let's go, the songs also appear in units of lessons with a less frequency, because each unit of the Let's go is very long so each semester students only learn two units so there are not many chants and songs However, in order to make students love songs and chants in English lessons, the teacher has to master how to teach songs and chants, help students learn in the most effective way and create excitement for the English language So I boldly launch "A number of measures to help the fifth form students confidently practise English through songs and chants" to help children practice well the skills as well as use new words and modal sentences exactly and smoothly 3.2/ Methods of teaching songs and chants for primary students [3] The purpose of these methods is to create excitement for students, create a change in class activities, review the vocabulary and sentences, help students practice the pronunciation, intonation, stress…Besides, they are used to switch to a new or familiar topic, Specifically as follows: a Songs:[2] Most of children, especially the primary students like singing very much Through the study of teaching songs as a kind of lively and attractive exercises in order to teach children how to learn foreign languages I can give the benefits of teaching songs in a foreign language class + Help students improve memory , concentration, association + Help bring motivation for them + Help students relax after the stressful study + Help the children get along with other students in the class + Change the status of a classroom effectively, help the English lessons more interesting, balance energy level in the class + Especially, help students review as well as practice the materials such as vocabularies, modal sentences, pronunciation and intonation effectively Sometimes songs are used to teach new materials.They are really sticky, make children remember material very well However, in order to teach a song successfully, the teacher has to master the basic steps to teach it: * The process of teaching a song:[3] + Review or introduce the main structure in the song using pictures/ objects when possible + Play the recording, let children hear the whole song once This step helps them have a chance to access the melody of songs , create emotion and curiosity for this tune This is also a step which creates excitement for the children so that they are ready to take part in + Let children read the lyrics line by line At this time, children have to pronounce exactly the lyrics They have to particularly pay attention to the sound of wind because Vietnamese also have negative wind but its position is not the same in English For example, the sound of wind in English appear a lot at the end of many words such as : Piece / pi : s / , wish / wi∫ / and wind sounds in English is difficult to pronounce, especially when they stand at the end such as: “chair / t∫eə /, watch / w ‫ ס‬t∫ / , village / vilid / Students often miss the sound when singing This makes our Vietnamese be turned , lack of tonal English + When reading vocabulary, we need drill the children to read the stress properly ('apple, 'every, 'beautiful) because in English songs, the word stress is very important However, the sentence stress doesn’t take any important roles because it is dominated by songs When training them to read the lyrics we should pay attention to interrupt as the way the song breaks, not interrupt as the grammartical request In this way, the children will be able to acsess the rythym easily For example: In the song “ Where’s Melisa? ” the following sentence is interrupted as the rythym below: Where’s Melisa? I want to see Melissa every day So when practising the children to read, the teacher should teach them to interrupt in this way so that they can sing the song in the correct rythym In the process of teaching children to read, the teacher should explain to children the meaning, content of the song However the teacher only explains the common sense without teaching each sample sentences appearing in the song We still provide for them corpus in principle as they are prefabricated units For example: When teaching the song “The little purple sneakers” we only teach them know the numbers from to 10 and know how to use them to count the sneakers but we not teach “little” as an adjective to describe small sneakers: little, little, little sneakers little, little, little sneakers little, little, little sneakers 10 ittle purple neakers (trích The Purple Sneaker Songs) + Let children sing each verse, teacher composes the movements fit the lyrics This step children often imitate fast melody and lyrics Teachers can use CD or DVD,get the children repeat each sentence The reason for this requirement is that the songs in the disk are sung by British, American children The intervention of the teacher's voice isn’t often as positively effective as the young native voices + Open tapes for children to sing along and make movements When children have grasped the whole ways to sing each verse, children need to be connected to sing the complete song Again CD / DVD gives opportunities for children to adjust the sound and rythym + Have children sing in groups, combining both singing and making movements + Call on some students to perform before the class After finishing teaching a song, the children will be very excited and the lessons also become more interesting By the way teaching English through songs will be easier for the teacher to teach as well as for children to study These songs are often used in less controlled practice / Production, warm up or checking the previous lessons Along with songs, chants also play an important role in practising children new words, modal sentences, intonation and stress B Chants:[5] A chant is simply vocabulary spoken over a background of music or rhythm They are useful because something about the music energizes the students, and they have to pronounce the word in a rhythm I found that a chant is a lot easier to teach than a song However, I also use chants often in my regular weekly classes Also, if you are not comfortable with singing in front of your students, chants are useful In the process of learning a foreign language, we have used the nature of this type of chant to train the students ability to speak English correctly with the sentence stress and sentence rhythm as well as remind students the grammar that they were learned as sample sentences, vocabulary Teach students the language functions such as explanation, asking for information, developing listening and speaking skills, creating a fun atmosphere in the classroom appealing to help students learn to speak a foreign language easier The chants are all constructed on the basis of common everyday words, not poetry Rhythm, stress and intonation of the chant is a version of a natural language, a word of those who have studied in For example, when we read “Hi, how are you? Fine, How are you? (chant) our reading must be the same as the words saying in the society, although it echoes the rhythm of poetry Chant for foreign language classes often serve the purpose of teaching, grammar (sample sentence), pronunciation (stress, rhythm sentence, consonant - vowel sounds) We call these kinds of chants asVocabulary, Grammar chants or Phonics chants.To help the students study well, the teachers must master the process of teaching a chant: * The process of teaching a chant:[5] - Have students listen to the teacher read the form once, the teacher says while clapping to the beat all Have students read new words Teachers explain the meaning of new words using pictures and illustrative movements without translation into Vietnamese Speaking content chant, teachers just explain to children of all common sense chant, through images, gestures, situations Not taught phrases appear in all chants We offer corpus for children in principle as they are prefabricated units - Teaching reading the post chants Teachers copied chants on the board then marked * or underlined sentence stress for students to read properly Read each statement of post chant and clap in accordance with the accent and rhythm of each sentence Note repeatedly until drill their students to memorize Teach student the movement in post chant - Divide the class into two groups A group repeats each sentence of the chant while other claps their hands in the correct rythym of the chant then switch roles to the steps above - Call a student reread chants - The class read the chant again to review the entire phonics of the chant * For example : Teaching a chant to practice the phrases and words in the Let's learn - let's go unit 2A (Grade 5) + Teacher shows someLook pictures and posts or writes the chant on the board: at him He can swim Look at Nick He can use chopsticks Look at me I can climb a tree + Listen though: Let students listen to the teacher reading the chant a few times to create the impression of rhythm + Teaching the meaning: Explain the main ideal of the whole chant, not translate each sentence For example: This chant tells us what Nam can He can swim; and what you Nick? He can use chopsticks And what about you? A friend said that he could climb a tree + Read and beat: Let students read each sentence in the rythym, read while clapping or tapping beat by beating hands down on the table : - Look (clap) at him (clap) - He (clap) can swim (clap) - Look (clap) at Nick (clap) - He (clap) can use (clap) chopsticks (clap) - Look (clap) at me (clap) - I (clap) can climb (clap) a tree (clap) The rhythm falls on the accented syllable, bold letters Teacher helps students read and reread many times until memorized + Drama: Call a group of students to the board: S1 takes the role of the boy; S2 takes the role of Nick; S3 plays the role "Me" The whole class read the chant while clapping their hands Three Ss in turn movements - The whole class clap their hands and point to the boy: Look (clap) at him (clap) He (clap) can swim (clap)  The boy makes the gestures of swimming - The whole class clap their hands and point to Nick: - Look (clap) at Nick (clap) He (clap) can use (clap) chopsticks (clap)  Nick makes the gestures of using the chopsticks - The class sit silently The student who plays "Me" reads while making gestures: “Look at me”then points at his chest and reads “ I can climb a tree” at the same time making gestures to climb a tree - These are steps of teaching a chant to change the class atmosphere effectively.They are very confident to read chants and chants help them read better in English intonation *Here are pictures of the students who are reading chants: By teaching the songs and chants, the teacher helps students really enjoy participating in performances, reading-speaking English However, in the book Let’s go there are not many songs because each unit has only one song while there are units in each book it means that Ss only study songs per semester (for the fifth form) and there is no chant Therefore, we should have the best solution that is improving the ability of composing songs and chants by ourselves 3.3/ Composing and guiding students to compose songs and chants: A Songs:[6] In the book Let's go there is only one song per each unit and there are not any chants so the teachers always have to look for songs and chants matching the theme of the lesson But there are too many English songs so sometimes it seems difficult for the teachers to find a suitable song for their class The appropriate requires here involve many aspects: suitable for ages, suitable for the topics that they learning, suitable for to the ability to acquire, and suitable for children’s understanding Sometimes we find a good song which is suitable with the theme but its rythym is very difficult for the children to imitate *For example : The song “Rock my soul” I’m in the bosom of Abraham Oh, rock my soul I’m safe in the shadow of the towering man Oh, rock my soul His bosom is dark and deep and wide Oh, rock my soul And I can feel the light shining from inside Oh, rock my soul 10 Or the song below is not suitable for Vietnamese culture, so it’s difficult for the children to understand its content Little Jack Horner Sat in a corner, Eating his Christmas pie: He put his thumb, And pulled our a plum, And said: “What a good boy am I?” Sometimes finding the song but its content is too familiar so it does not inspire the children For example: The ABC song ABCDEFG HIJKLMNOP QRSTUVW XYZ oh well you see! Now I know the ABC To solve the above proble, the teacher must know how to compose a song at the request of her However, it’s impossible for teachers to compose the rythym of the songs because they are not musicians and not understand the basic music So teachers can use the melody of the songs that are familiar with the children, or the songs are taken from English books for primary students or the songs in the course of their own and then compose the new lysics However, to these the songwriting, the teacher needs to master the following steps:[3] + Step1: Select the sample songs (with interesting melody but also easy to remember) + Step 2: Select the topic, theme matching the content that the teachers are teaching or teachers need to review + Step 3: Find words related to the topic chosen for replacement (to this step students have to find the words that are suitable for both content and number of syllables + Step 4: Merge the selected words in the lyrics to make a new song as the topics that teachers select * For example: To practice Ss the modal sentence: “What’s the matter?” and the vocabularies about the topic “ Physical states” in Unit Let’s go 2A (for grade 5) I have done the following: + Step1: Choose the song “Brother John” for model This is an interesting song with familiar melody 11 (Teachers presents the song -> Let the Ss listen carefully to recognize the melody of the song) + Step 2: Provide training requirements for students is learning phrases "What's the matter?" And the topic of vocabulary is "Physical states" + Step 3: Find the related topic to replace such as "sick, OK, hot, tired " + Step 4: Merge the selected word into the lyrics of a song to create new song 12 What’s the matter ? What’s I What’s the I’m the mat - am sick mat – ter O - with K ter ? What’s the I mat - am sick you ? What’s the mat – ter I’m O ter ? - with you ? K For the teacher’s composing gets good effectiveness, the teacher also guides students how to compose songs in order to promote the knowledge they have learned Teacher brings the topics for the students to discuss and they compose the songs for themselves That's the next extremely important step for them to practice language effectively * Drill: Basing on the steps of composing a song and the sample song above Teacher gives a topic,some modal sentences and vocabularies, then asks Ss to make new lyrics with this melody * Here are some students’new lyrics : + 1st song : Topic “ Family” He’s my daddy He’s my daddy His name’s Trung His name’s Trung He’s forty years old He’s forty years old I love him I love him (brother/fifteen, sister/ten ) + 2nd song: Topis “The weather” 13 Windy, rainy Cloudy, sunny Wind and rain, Cloud and sun Wind strong, rain heavy Cloud thick, sun burning Wind and rain, Cloud and sun * Here is a picture of Ss who are singing and dancing the song “The weather” Example 2: To train the students some phrases describing daily activities in Unit let's go 2B the teacher guides students to use the melody of the song "This is the way I go to school" and replace these phrases into it to make new lyrics +Teacher presents the song “This is the way I go to school": *This is the way I go to school Go to school, go to school This is the way I go to school So early in the morning *This is the way I go to school Go to school, go to school This is the way I go to school So early in the morning + Students make new lyrics *This is the way I brush my teeth Brush my teeth, brush my teeth This is the way I brush my teeth So early in the morning *This is the way I brush my teeth Brush my teeth, brush my teeth This is the way I brush my teeth So early in the morning + And other similar phrases can be replaced such as: “wash my face; comb my hair…” 14 Example 3: Teachers can take any songs in the textbooks and asks them to compose new lyrics as the topic that the teacher requires For example, basing on the song "I like yellow" in the unit of let's go 1B students write more new lyrics about animals, colors, school supplies, food drink *Here is the students’lyrics that is composed basing on the sample song “I like yellow”: I like hot dog Yes I I like hot dog Yes I I like hot dog, I too I like hot dog , too Similarly, Ss can sing a lot of songs by replacing suitable words in above sample Through this part of composing songs I realize that students are really proactive and creative in the use of vocabulary, they can improve their vocabulary significantly, and especially remember phrases well One little more methods that students need to similarly is Chants B Chants I know children would love to read poetry and singing So that teachers can avoid boring atmosphere when teaching children to learn words, phrases and pronunciations by using the above chants However, sometimes it is not easy for the teacher to find out the suitable chants with the requirement that the teacher is teaching For example, there are words that we need to teach for Vietnamese children such as “Chopsticks”, or difficult English sounds that Vietnamese Ss often make mistakes such as / s /, / ∫ /, / t∫ /, / δ /,/θ/ are difficult to find in the chants used to teach for the Western children So the challenge for teacher is to build himself/herself an ability of making chants Besides, an other reason is that we could not find many but could find only some chants with a theme, a sample sentence Capacity of making chants helps teachers enhance the number of chants in a topic, for a purpose The method is mainly based on an available chant and change its elements according to their own But the most important thing while composing chants is to keep the beat of the original chant To ensure this we need to note about the number of sounds ( not words because in English, there may be one or more sounds in each word) ->There is no chant in the book Let’s go so the teacher herself/himself has to make chants for the Ss to practice For example: The teachers can change its elements according to their own 15 Original sentences Meet my friends Peter and Mary Meet my friends Tom and Tony Play with my friends Yeah! Yeah! Yeah! Compositions There’s a dog I like dogs There’s a frog I like frogs What you like? Dogs and frogs So from an original chants teachers themselves can compose a similar chants with slowly and humming rythym of reading that makes students very easy to remember For the teacher’s composing gets good effectiveness, the teacher also guides students how to compose chants in order to improve the knowledge they have learned Teacher brings the topics for the students to discuss and they compose the chants for themselves That's the next extremely important step for them to practice language effectively.[5] *Here are some chants that the students compose basing on the teacher’s “original sentences” + 1st chant: Topic “ Happening activities”: What are they doing? She is skipping in the garden He is skating in the garden They’re playing in the garden They’re very happy and fun + 2nd chant: Topic: “Household objects” This is my room It’s large This is my bed It’s small This is my chair Near the bed Next to the table It’s brown What about your room? What about your room? + 3rd chant: Topic: “ The weather” The weather is fine today The weather is fine today It’s sunny It’s sunny Let’s go fishing Let’s go swimming Oh we have a lot of fun 16 There are many chants that the students compose are very funny However they have known how to compose chants by themselves, this helps them develop language as well as be interested in the subject alot * Here are the pictures of the students practising chants under the teacher’s guide * The students practice composing the chants in groups * Each group perform before the class *Students perform individually Students perform before the class individually Through the application and composing chants and songs in the lesson in English classes I see a lot more efficient than the conventional practice, the 17 children participate actively and lively in lessons, they self-promote the independence of their creativity in composing songs, chants and express themselves through their work The songs, chants are searched online and composed thematic requirements in accordance with their young age This measure helps them not boring in English classes This initiative also requires the flexibility of teachers in the use of teaching methods The results: Thanks to the combination of teaching methods and the organizational form of teaching, especially the type of teaching that students are center maximizes the capacity of each student So their ability to learn English is very good The children learn English with a passion, excitement * In the class, the majority of students participate in group activities, and build up the lessons excitedly * They read and speak English more naturally, they know how to use rising and falling intonation as well as to interrupt and break better than they used to before * Through songs and chants,they are practised four basic skills: listening, speaking, reading, writing effectively * They are more fearless and self-confident in communication, dare to show their opinions before the crowd * Through the application songs and chants as well as teaching them how to compose songs in the process of teaching English for the students at Dong Tien B primary school, I see a visible change in learning attitude of students in English classes Students are eager to prepare the lessons before class so that the quality of English has improved markedly The result of survey by the end of the first term Class Total 5B 30 Excellent 10 Percent 33% Quality Good Percent 12 40% Average Percent 27% Weak Percent Looking at the statistics as a teacher I believe that: Measures to help students improve their ability to practice English through songs and chants, will help students develop the best language learning ability of themselves as well as raising the level of teachers who always try their best to find the best methods for teaching their students III - CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 18 1.Conclusion: Through research and application topics: “Several measures to help the fifth form students confidently practise English through songs and chants” I've learned some lessons To improve the quality of teaching, the teacher must be dedicated to her craft, take responsibility for their lessons, take care of all students in the class and the quality of teaching to find flexible approaches towards innovation in line with her students - Prepare lesson plans thoughtfully, meticulously Increase use of available or homemade teaching aids practically and effectively - Using methods of teaching flexiblly in English lessons, especially using songs or chants that are available, composed or collected, combining with organizing games to enhance vocabulary and practice modal sentences in order to give students a keen subject Consolidate for Students simple centre knowledge which is easy to remember, easy to use - Encourage students to speak English more regularly in the class - Reward frequently gifted students who have progress and participation in building lessons In addition, regularly help and encourage the students who are weak and immediately correct their mistakes of the foreign language gently, so they are not guilt, shame, fear of failure leads to afraid to say or lazy learning With much effort, the heart of enthusiasm for the job I'm always striving to find new ways of teaching to engage students and help them love English language, learning English much better Above is amount of little experience that I have done and achieved positive results during the last teaching Suggestions: To improve the quality of teaching and learning of English in primary school I have some suggestions to management: + Request more on providing audiovisual equipment for effective school + Request more information on the subjects of English language for teachers have more conditions to learn from each other + Suggest superior rooms to facilitate the teaching and learning of foreign languages, audiovisual room and multimedia classrooms Above are some of the content and methods that I have drawn from actual teaching of myself in teaching and learning in Dong Tien B primary schools But there are still certain restrictions so I look forward to the comments of colleagues and superiors’comments to the subject for more complete days CONFIRMATION OF THE Dong Son, March 15th 2018 LEADER OF THE GROUP I assure that this is my experience initiative I not copy other people’s content 19 Writer: Le Thi Huong References Sổ tay người dạy tiếng Anh – nhiều tác gia Phương pháp dạy tiếng Anh trường phổ thông – Nguyễn Hạnh Dung Phương pháp dạy tiếng Anh tiểu học – Nguyễn Quốc Hùng Teach English – Cambridge University Press Teach young learners English – Nguyen Quoc Hung, MA 20 Websites: http://www.englishvideolesson.com/arama.php?arama=chants http://luyenanhvan.info/kid-song Bai hat tieng anh http://luyenanhvan.info/kid-songs/ INDEX Page I - INTRODUCTION 1 The reasons of choosing topic The purpose of study The object of study The methods of study 21 II THE CONTENT Theoretical basic 2 The current situation 3 Solutions and implementations 3.1:Studying the textbooks 3.2:Methods of teaching songs and chants for primary students 3.3:Composing and guilding students to compose songs and chants 10 The results 18 III CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 19 Conclusion 19 Suggestions 19 22 ... so there are not many chants and songs However, in order to make students love songs and chants in English lessons, the teacher has to master how to teach songs and chants, help students learn... the most effective way and create excitement for the English language So I boldly launch "A number of measures to help the fifth form students confidently practise English through songs and chants" ... these kinds of chants asVocabulary, Grammar chants or Phonics chants .To help the students study well, the teachers must master the process of teaching a chant: * The process of teaching a chant:[5]