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TABLE OF CONTENT I INTRODUCTION .1 II CONTENT Theoretical background .3 The practical background 3 The solutions of implementation 3.1 Solution 1- Improve the sudents’ awareness about learning how to communicate in English 3.2 Solution 2- Teacher should communicate in English much more than in Vietnamese in the English classes 3.3 Solution 3- Create a friendly learning environment between the teacher and students 3.4 Solution 4- Use pictures 3.5 Solution 5- Practise activities in pair and groups 10 3.6 Solution 6- Play games 14 3.7 Solution 7- Write the English songs based on Vietnamese songs’ melodies close to Vietnamese children 17 The effect of the experienced initiative .19 The learned lessons 20 III CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 22 Conclusion 22 Suggestions 22 REFERENCES 24 “Some solutions to improve English- speaking skill for students in grade 5” I INTRODUCTION In the modern life, the trend of international integration in many areas including the field of education has brought English up a very important position English as a means of communication is the key to the treasure of humanity On the other hand, the wide application of information technology has made learning English become urgent and indispensable, so learning English of Elementary School students is particularly concerned by students, parents, all the teachers of education in our country English has become one of the main subjects in the curriculum of students Learning and using of English require a diligent process of creative practice of both learners and teachers Especially in the situation of education reform as currently, teaching English in view of communication methods is widely supported According to this method, students have many opportunities to communicate, to practise language and to participate in practical situations “Learning coupled with practice” Primaries level English program has been implemented in all regions across the country Innovation prominent feature of the content of this program is to provide maximum opportunities for students to practice four skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing on the topics and situations, communication contents related to environments living at home and abroad The change in facilitating the teaching and learning of English in secondary schools becomes teaching living language instead of teaching words as many years ago However, in practical English skills forged for students, teachers confronted with many difficulties, especially listening, speaking skills When students started to learn foreign languages, most of them were very interested in English, but eventually they fell tired of it Most of them are very bad at speaking skill It’s difficult for them to understand the content of an essay or dialogue they hear In my opinion, the purpose of learning English is to communicate it with the speakers Speaking is the most difficult skill of all, especially for students living in the countryside or in the remote region Through the years of teaching English in elementary school, I found that English communication skills of the students are still limited To overcome this situation, I have researched some experiences to improve the speaking skill of primary students The primary environment is the fundamental place forming habits and communication capacities Frequent communication results in braveries for students without fears of making mistakes in public speaking As for students lacking proficiency in the mother tongue language, they had a lot of difficulties in getting access to a foreign language Their timidity makes oral communication limited greatly.This is why I choose the theme of experience initiative: “Some solutions to improve English- speaking skill for students in grade 5” I hope I will get more and more my colleague’s ideas which I can complete my knowledge and my subject It can help my students improve the communication II CONTENT Theoretical background Speaking skill is one of four key skills in teaching English to students with the ability to communicate quickly and practice achieving the highest efficiency Elementary students, who have just entered the first grade, find it very difficult to learn how to speak and write Vietnamese well They face many difficulties at school and most of them are weak at four skills listening, speaking, reading, and writing Especially they are afraid of speaking English at school due to many causes such as being psychological shy, cautious, afraid of being laughed when they are wrong There are too many students in the class, teachers not have enough time to help students develop their speaking skills for each student It is said good training will help to overcome the limitations on less Developing speaking skill helps students with more practice conditions in the class, a foreign language class It is necessary to review old and then introduce new lesson Much new knowledge is suggested gradually from the basic knowledge they have learned in the previous lessons Therefore, students aren’t afraid of making new posts Through practicing speaking, teachers help students acquire knowledge in an active way, overcome the inhibition of only certain classes of gifted students participate in speech, so it will attract all students in participating classes’ activities including moderate or week children Enhancing the ability of students to behave in different situations, so students are interested and boldly confident when they practice communicating in English School will become fun, funky and highly efficient The practical background Currently, using English communication is very important and necessary Just as children learn to read and write, they must speak first "Speaking" is one of the fours important skills to teach English for students to have ability to communicate quickly and most effectively 2.1 Advantages Elementary students with innocent nature are willing to participate in the activities of the class when having been drawn into the activity Teachers have learnt from exchange of experiences between colleagues through faculty conferences, exchange of experiences, topics Some students get acquainted with information technology, so they can connect to the computers, the Internet sooner and received more information from here Administrators of our school always care about and create favorable facilities and professional documents serving as teaching subjects: smart interactive screen, 2.2 Disadvantages Our school is located in the mountainous area, almost the students’parents are farmers Thus, they are lack of investment for their children’s study sufficiently The total number of students are overcrowded.(3 A, B : 42 students: A, B: 32 students) Therefore, It is really difficult to control students’ attention To the parents, they are also difficult to check or guide children to learn a foreign language at home by subjects, which parents not know They have limited to communicate in English outside school hours In addition, English is a difficult subject, the knowledge is difficult but takes less study time, and in the listening process they not control what they will be listened Words in tape are too fast, not familiar A lot of new words, word stress, sentence stress, intonation are very different and difficult for students to understand the content The questions are how we overcome these weaknesses in order to contribute to improve the learning quality of speaking skill, help students communicate more confidently in using English as a second language, be proficient in words, sentences, especially for students in grade at Nghia Thinh Primary School In order to solve this problem, the first semester of school year 2018 2019, I had a small survey with two classes of grade as follows: Result: Well- done (%) Completed (%) Uncompleted (%) Total % Total % Total % 32 15,6 22 68,8 15,6 5B 32 18, 21 65,6 15,6 Sum 64 11 17, 43 67,2 10 15,6 Class Total 5A With this result we can see the results of students in inadequate The number of good students is low, while that one of weak students is high, so this fact requires teachers to find remedies, to help them improve their learning outcomes The solutions of implementation Introducing the purpose of practice speaking English skill There are many ways to practice speaking English such as, speaking in individually, in pairs or in groups If students practice in pairs or in groups, teachers will have to divide into pairs, speak in group prior to his students to practice with each other Teachers also have the discipline required to practice Practice speaking has to be systematic, on going and trould be followed the guideline from easy to difficult Depending on the situations teachers should prepare the appropriate form of exercise for many pupils to practice speaking in each part of the lessons such as Speaking of freedom: Teachers creat contexts, themes for students to practice speaking in pairs or groups In this section teachers can use pictures, photos in and out of textbook or close topics to them and teachers should ask students to speak in real situations Speaking is creating opportunities for students to communicate closely to real life Teachers should encourage students to follow the guiderline test, accept mistakes They should not make pressure, they will bring severe fear of making mistakes Teachers should make maximum use of classroom time, create opportunities for students to be able to use the learning means efficiently Selecting a theme to develop, consistent with psychology, age and nature of such period of daily life, or the people on movies watched on television, on the favorite sport or someone they really love Teachers can question the nature of evil to students argue for exciting part 3.1 Solution 1- Improve the sudents’ awareness about learning how to communicate in English Propaganda is the first method chosen to raise awareness for students As you know, some primary students don’t pay more attention to learn and communicate English because it is only an optional subject in primary schools It is also a difficult subject at school Therefore, I always persuade my students about the importance of communicate English If the students are good at speaking English, they can communicate English with the speakers, they can travel over the world, they can be easy to make friends with the foreigners, they can chat with the foreigners on Facebook or Zalo, they can be easy to find a good job or read newspapers, stories or watch films in English Thank to my persuasion, my students can understand why they should communicate in English When they understand the important role of speaking, they will be hard- working to take part in communicating English effectively 3.2 Solution 2- Teacher should communicate in English much more than in Vietnamese in the English classes To help students speak English well, teacher should encourage students to use English as much as possible Classes should provide opportunities for students to communicate in a variety of forms: Teacher - Whole class, TeacherStudent, Student-Student The teacher is the person who guides the children to make simple situations and subject – based conversations Beginning of lesson: - Good morning How are you? - Did you have a nice weekend? - Have you done your homework? - Let’s play a game now, shall we? - Are you ready? Ask for repetition: - Would you mind repeating your question? - Could you say it again? - Pardon? Ending of lesson: - Goodbye See you later - It’s time to finish - Let’s stop now - Stop now - Any questions? - Pack up your books During English lessons, Teacher should speak English much more than Vietnamese and use a mixture of the two languages English Vietnamese Both Introducing the lesson V Checking attendance V Organizing V Classroom control/ discipline V Giving praise V Presenting new language V Introducing a new text V Asking questions on the text V Correcting errors Setting homework V V 3.3 Solution 3- Create a friendly learning environment between the teacher and students The learning environment influences directly on students'learning, including their engagement in what is being taught, their motivation to learn, and their sense of well-being Therefore, a friendly learning environment is not only a completeness of facilities but also a good relationship between teachers and students A close relationship between teachers and students will help teachers and students interact, understand each other better and from that, create the motivation and the comfort for them to share in the learning process Because English is a difficult subject, students are always shy and afraid to communicate The teacher’s friendly and caring will help learners be braver and more confident in communication in English and create a good teacher-student interaction 3.4 Solution 4- Use pictures Nowadays, modern teaching methodology encourages the use of as many media, especially pictures as possible in a classroom At the same time, the innovation in English teaching at general education level demands that the schools should provide students with a good communicative skill in English However, nowadays teaching English- speaking at many primary schools as well as the using of pictures in English- speaking classrooms to motivate learners haven’t been paid attention to Therefore, these aims at researching the use of pictures in English speaking classes at primary schools and put forward some practical suggestions to improve the quality of English speaking teaching and learning I usually use the pictures to help my students practice communicating in all of the lessons Nowadays, modern teaching methodology encourages the use of as many media, especially pictures as possible in a classroom At the same time, the innovation in English teaching at general education level demands that the schools should provide students with a good communicative skill in English However, nowadays teaching English- speaking at many primary schools as well as the using of pictures in English- speaking classrooms to motivate learners haven’t been paid attention to Therefore, these aims at researching the use of pictures in English- speaking classes at primary schools and put forward some practical suggestions to improve the quality of English speaking teaching and learning I usually use the pictures to help my students practice communicating in all of the lessons My students are very practical when I use the pictures, my students can be easy to talk and understand My students are very practical when I use the pictures, my students can be easy to talk and understand * Lesson plan and illustrative example Unit 9: What did you see at the zoo? Lesson 1- part 3- Let’s talk I Activity objectives By the end of this activity, Students will be able to:  Ask and answer about the animals in the zoo  Improve speaking skill II Language focus: Vocabularies: Python, peacock, gorrila, roar, crocodile Sentence patterns: What did you see at the zoo? – I saw…………… III Resources: Student’s book, the picture of animals in the zoo IV Procedure: Step 1: Pre- speaking - Tell the class that they are going to look at the picture, list the names of animals in the picture and then practise further by asking and answering the questions about the animals in the zoo Step 2: While- speaking - Ask students work in pair to the task - Set a time limit for them to practise Monitor the activity and help, if necessary - Call on some pairs to act out the exchanges in front of the class Others pay attention and give comments What did you see at the zoo? I saw a peacock, two pandas Students in class 5A are practising Step 3: Post- speaking - Teacher gives feedback and correct the pronunciaion mistakes - Ask students what animals they saw at the zoo or park in their last visiting - Review the activity and encourage them to draw a zoo at home 3.5 Solution 5- Practise activities in pair and groups With this method, it is necessary for students to develop their ability to learn in a positive, active and creative way They have to show themselves, find out and conquer the self And in my opinion, through group work in some activities, when students have learned how to work in groups, they have the conditions to cooperate, learn from each other and take responsibility Give responsibilities for specially group members who self-dominate knowledge if the teacher organizes and guides well Team teaching is an active method in which, the number of students is divided into groups in certain ways In each group, students have chances to boots listening and speaking skill and learn from one another They will be more confident in communicating in a foreign language 10 I always try to use not only the pictures to teach my students how to communicate in the part speaking but also in the “pre and post” for reading, listening and writing skills This helps my students speak English everywhere and every time * Lesson plan and illustrative example for working in pair Unit 16: Where’s the post office? Lesson 1- part Look, read and complete by using : between, on the corner, opposite, next to I Activity objectives By the end of this activity, Students will be able to:  Choose the correct words and write in the blanks about directions  Improve speaking, reading and writing skills II Language focus: Vocabularies: Review: bus stop, pharmacy, theatre, museum, next to, opposite, between, on the corner of the street Sentence patterns: Review Excuse me, where’s the+ place?- It’s next to/between,…+ place III Resources: Student’ book, a map of the places in the city IV Procedue: Step 1: Pre- reading - Tell the class that they are going to look at the map and the gapped sentences with “between, on the corner, opposite, next to” and predict the correct answers - Ask students to discuss, review with their partners about location of the places by using Where’s the+ place?- It’s next to/between,…+ place - Ask several pairs to go to the board and ask and answer about directions - Check student’s comprehension what they are going to have to 11 It’s on the corner of the street Where’s the stadium? Students in class 5B are performing in pair Step 2: While- reading Between on the corner opposite next to The theatre is……… the stadium The cinema is……… the theatre and the supermarket The stadium is…… …of the street Bus stop is……… Bus stop The post ofice is…….Bus stop - Give students a few seconds to read again the sentences Remind them to focus on the context to select the appropriate words from the box - Set a time limit for Ss to the task independently Monitor the activity and offer help, if necessary - Get them to compare their answers in pairs before checking as a class 12 Step 3: Post-reading - Correct and give the true answers Key: 1.opposite Between On the corner Opposite Next to - Ask students the question” Where’s your house/ school? - Ask students to draw a map how to get their house at home * Lesson plan and illustrative example for working in groups Unit 15: What would you like to be in the future? Lesson 1- part 3- Let’s talk I Activity objectives By the end of this activity, Students will be able to:  Ask and answer questions about what someone would like to be in the future  Develop team working skill  Improve speaking and writing skills II Language focus: Vocabularies: Pilot, doctor, architect, writer Sentence patterns: What would you like to be in the future? - I’d like to be a/an III Resources: Student’ book, flashcards of the job IV Procedue: Step 1: Pre- talking - Tell Students that they are going to practise more the questions about what someone would like to be in the future - Ask students to discuss in group of four or five, ask and answer about their jobs or their family members’ jobs that they would like to be in the future by using What would you like to be in the future?- I’d like to be a/an…… Step 2: While- talking 13 Students in class 5B are working in group - Set a time limit for them to practise Monitor the activity and help, if necessary - Each group can discuss and copy down the jobs to remember more - Invite some groups to perform in front of the class Others pay attention and give comments Step 3: Post-Talking - Teacher gives feedbacks and corrects the pronunciation mistakes - Ask students to practise more the new sentence patterns at home with their family and relatives 3.6 Solution 6- Play games Learning games are a special kind of game, not only help the students to entertain, but also to help them acquire knowledge through the game or reinforce what they have learned A new teaching method could create an amount of inspiration and creativity for teachers Each teacher has his own unique creativity during teaching process If teachers repeat the same method in every lesson, students will get bored and even feel that lessons come as normally without inspiration and expectation Games are also considered to be an important entertainment form In fact, they could be used to consolidate material languages as shown above by the method of attracting students In all every 14 form, games could perform functions of exercises of practicing skill because we can review and introduce material languages in funny and well- organized ways through games The method takes effects when students learn new words and sentence structures On the contrary, games are often open-ended and studentcentered There are various types of games Several ones focus on vocabularies or sentence structures And there are games promoting both vocabularies and sentence structures With the development of the smart equipment, besides the familiar games I spend my free time on designing the games to give students a chance to approach to the smart interactive screen because children always like the new experience * Lesson plan and illustrative game Unit 13: What you in your free time? (Review the unit 13) I Activity objectives By the end of this game, Students will be able to:  Answer questions about what someone often in his/her free time  Remember the content of unit 13 better  Improve speaking and reading skills II Language focus: Vocabularies: Review: Surf the Internet, go to the cinema, clean the house, karate, draw pictures Sentence patterns: Review: + What you in your free time?- I ………… + What does he/she in his/her free time?- He/She ………… III Resources: - Power Point slides IV Procedue: Step 1: Pre- playing - Teacher tells students that they are going to play the game “Lucky stars” and presents the rules of the game: + Divide students into two group of four 15 + Each member in each group selects the stars that they like in turn If they choose the lucky star, they don’t have to answer the question but get points (2 points for one) If it is an unlucky star, the team must answer correctly to score point for each question If the team chooses not to answer, the chances of scoring for the opposing team (If both teams not have the right answer, the chance will be for the audience) The winner is the team with more points (If two teams score the same points, the winner will be the one with more lucky stars) Step 2: While- playing - Each group plays in turn, choose and say aloud the answer Student is choosing the star 16 Student is choosing and saying aloud the answer Step 3: Post- playing - Teacher gives feedbacks and corrects the pronunciation mistakes - Teacher summaries points and declares the winners team 3.7 Solution 7- Write the English songs based on Vietnamese songs’ melodies close to Vietnamese children As you know, the students want to learn English well, the first thing we have to for children to love it Music is the communication that will help them get closer to this subject When they sing or read chants, they will feel more comfortable They are easy to remember the structures and improve pronunciation and speed of speaking English Primary students are very active and enjoy singing, fun songs and that make them interested Through this, students will study English more Teachers needs to explain the meaning and content of the song so students understand, appreciate the song Since then, they are more interested in singing better Students sing in groups and groups and can let them choose their own songs When teaching new songs, I integrate into the class assignments to both reduce stress and provide more songs for students This also helps students remember 17 structures quickly Because some songs on the program are difficult for children to sing, I wrote some songs based on some Vietnamese songs’melodies close to Vietnamese children to teach them * Lesson plan and illustrative song Unit 8: What are you reading? (Review the unit 8) I Activity objectives By the end of this song, Students will be able to:  Sing by heart the song  Remember questions about what story/book someone is reading and what the character in a story is like  Improve listening , reading, speaking skills II Language focus: Vocabularies: Review: fairy tale, generous, kind, gentle Sentence patterns: Review: + What are you reading?- I’m reading… + What ‘s the… like?- He/She’s… III Resources: - Poster of the song IV Procedue: Step 1: Pre- singing - Teacher tells students that they are going to learn how to sing the song” What are you reading?” written base on the melody of the Vietnamse song “ Chú voi Đôn” by teacher - Ask students look at the poster and answer the following questions: + What characters can you see in the poster? + What’s the ……like? 18 WHAT ARE YOU READING? What are you reading now? I’m reading a fairy tale What fairy tale you like the most? I like Alladin and the Magic Lamp And what’s the Alladin like? He’s generous and very kind I like Tam and Snow White too They’re beautiful, gentle and cute Step 2: While- singing -Ask students read aloud the lyric of the song after the teacher - Students listen to the song twice - Ask students to sing line by line after the teacher - Ask students to sing whole the song - Ask students sing whole class and sing in groups - Call on some students perform in front of the class 19 Students are performing the song Step 3: Post- singing - Teacher gives feedbacks and encourage students to should be more confident - Ask students learn by heart the song at home The effect of the experienced initiative The survey was made in April’s end of the school year 2018 – 2019 in class 5A and 5B Result: Well- done (%) Completed (%) Uncompleted (%) Total % Total % Total % 32 11 34,4 19 59,4 6,3 5B 32 10 31,3 21 65,6 3,1 Sum 64 21 32,8 40 62,5 4,7 Class Total 5A 20 Basing on the above result, it is clear to see a better result of the present survey comparison with the result of the past survey: Well- done quality increases from 17,2 % to 32,8% Completed quality reduces from 67,2% to 62,5 % Incompleted quality reduces from 15,6 % to 4, 7% The learned lessons From urgent strategic task of education reform education and careers comprehensive reform program in accordance with the method of teaching innovation and active learning to improve the quality of student learning Especially, training communication skills, confidently in English class to develop the ability of students to practice From the fact that I study and improve English speaking skills for primary school students through some above methods To achieve high results in the teaching process itself has wrung the following experience: Teachers need to discover a fundamental deficiency of students in order to have overcome Teacher need to choose a suitable skill for each student Help students have the best conditions to learn the subject, especially practice speaking skills During the lesson, the teacher should take advantage of time to guide students to practice speaking Need to know disadvantages in teaching time, class size, teaching aids and material factors such as class sizes, teaching aids Teachers should encourage pupils to use English as much as possible 21 III CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS Conclusion In conclusion, learning English is hard long work for students Thus, teacher not only has to find ways to make lessons more effective but also attracts the students’ attention Guiding for children to have good learning methods is very important, especially, it is necessary to encourage them to use English in daily life If we learn a foreign language, but we not practice communicating daily, our knowledge will be faded time by time, so I have made some slight ideas to help myself find a method of teaching a speaking more effectively, help students to achieve high quality learning In my opinion, training speaking skill for primary students is a positive approach, optimal and efficient for students because this method has been verified through actual teaching and members of professional groups who have analysed, evaluated and consented Suggestions In the era of development, it is the young generation who is the pioneers to connect Vietnam with international friends, so they are the ones who need to learn more, devote their best ability to a rich and flourish country, and help their country to be equal with the great powerful countries in the world And so, the way to lead them to success is to learn, to hear, to speak, and to communicate in English very well With that importance, I strongly suggest as follows: 2.1 For teachers In addition to teaching in the classroom, teachers need to visit class, supervise colleagues not only in schools but also take time to visit colleagues in school groups Regularly organize their teaching subjects in accordance with the actual situation of the school and classroom It has to be evaluated, contributed ideas and given honest and accurate comment often each lesson 2.2 For leaders Education Department should train the English specialists to help English teachers share the teaching experiences each other School administrators should encourage, enable teachers to hold English clubs annually It's an interesting, useful playground for students They can communicate with each other, improve some English skills and widen their knowledge 22 Sincerely thanks! Nghia Thinh, March 20th, 2020 Written by Le Thi Minh 23 REFERENCES Vietnamese Educational Publisher – Tiếng Anh (2009) Ministry of Education of Training Listeners Strategies in Collaborative Discourse of AAU th Year Students Unpublished M.A Thesis Cambridge University Press Rixon, S (1986) Developing Speaking skills Cambridge University Press Yagang, F (1993) Speaking: Problems and Solutions In Thomas Kral(ed) Rost, M (1990) Speaking in Language Learning Ur, Penny 1984 Teaching Speaking Comprehension Cambridge University Press English Student’s book- Grade 5- Viet Nam Educational Publisher 24 ... improve some English skills and widen their knowledge 22 Sincerely thanks! Nghia Thinh, March 20th, 2020 Written by Le Thi Minh 23 REFERENCES Vietnamese Educational Publisher – Tiếng Anh (2009) Ministry