Improving grade 6 students dipthongs of english pilot program at thuong xuan town secondary school

THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT THUONG XUAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIVISION INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE IMPROVING THE WAY TO PRONUNCE ENGLISH THE DIPTHONGS SOUNDS OF GRADE STUDENTS AT THI TRAN SECONDARY SCHOOL THUONG XUAN DISTRICT Impementer: Hoàng Thị Nga Position: Teacher Place of work: Thi Tran secondary school Initiative of experience in the field: English THANH HOA, 2020 INDEX CONTENTS INDEX INTRODUCTION 1.1 Reasons for choosing the theme 1.2 The purpose of research Aims Requirement 1.3 Sore and objects of the study Scopes Objectives 1.4 Research methodology 1.5 Innivation points CONTENTS 2.1 Theoretical background Bases Background information The theory of the dipthongs 2.2 The status of the problem 2.3 Solutions Steps of teaching these sounds Application 2.4 The result after applying the study in teaching CONCLUSION Conclusion Recommendations REFERENCE BOOKS PAGE 2 3 4 4 8 20 20 20 21 22 INTRODUCTION 1.1 Reasons for choosing the theme Education and training play a significant role in the development process of the country In the current period, the country is on the path of reform, opening-up policy relations with the countries of the world increased significantly Extensive communication with the countries in the world in English, the international language, has become more more and common and attention In the process of teaching English I have noticed that practicing English pronunciation is the misery of our students, especially students in grade whether they have been studying for years at the elementary level and in the end they still not get the standard English pronunciation Is learning how to pronounce so difficult that can not be learned? Or inappropriate teaching methods? Is textbook structure irrational? Or Don’t they know how to learn? According to the old textbook program, the students did not learn about pronunciation so their spelling good or bad depends on the teachers They leant English pronounciation without rules and methods That is why after or 10 years learning English, they still find difficulties in speaking and communicating even they can speak fluently, others can’t understand what they are expressing 3opying of the mistakes Besides, the pilot program presents the vocabulary, the grammar items tobe leaned and 3opying3e through the skills and activities of the unit, it also focuses on pronunciation Two or three sounds, which frequently appear in the unit are targeted and 3opying3e in isolation and in context of “A closer look 1” To help students participate in the English pilot program and overcome this obstacle, I choose the content “Improving the way to pronounce English dipthongs sounds of grade students at Thi Tran Secondary School, Thuong Xuan district’’ 1.2 The purpose of research Aims In order to help students in grade of pilot program at Thi Tran Secondary School, Thuong Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province understand the sound system in English, especially combination vowel sounds (diphthongs) are enrolled at the second semester in the textbook Thereby, the students have aware of the importance of phonetics in learning English in general and in particular to communicate in English so they can understand what other people say and what they say that others can understand Requirements To success in the study, the requirement for the topic is that the teacher has to help students know how to pronounce dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /; /ɔi/ and exercises correctly Teacher provides them with the best way to assist them how to pronounce these dipthongs correctly through the illusions and examples Students have to attend regularly and obey their teacher’s requirements 1.3 Sores and objects of the study Scores As far as we know, teaching how to pronounce and how to phonetics exercises is a complicating and 4opying4e area specially dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /; /ɔi/ with students in grade There are a lot of things to mention but in this study I only focus on the following fields: - Giving definition and how to pronounce these dipthongs - Collect exercises containing these dipthongs to help students 4opying4 listening and speaking at home - How to exercises relating to these dipthongs Objectives As I have said my study is aimed at improving my students’ pronounciation of dipthongs and help them to solve some difficulties in doing phonetics exercises so my objectives if the study is: - Students in class 6A: 26 Studensts, and 6B: 32 students Total: 58 students - School: Thi Tran secondary school, Thuong Xuan district - The combination vowel sounds system in the lessons of the second semester textbook of the pilot program, including sounds: Sounds /eә /; /iә / / әu/; /ai/ /aʊ /; /ɔi/ Belong to Units Unit Unit Unit 12 - Some exercises 1.4 Research methodology In this study I have used the following methods: - Investigating the reality - Read documents that related to research - Using opinion surveys - Getting to know phonetic English - Introducing phonetic symbols in the units - Organizing to practice pronunciation with these audio visual media - Doing exercises to check Students’ understanding - Summarizing, comparing, drawing lesson 1.5 Innivation points In 2017, I completed the initiative experience “Improving gade students’ pronunciation of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School” which refered how to pronounce the vowels and consonants The the initiative experience was admitted level C by the council of experience innovators In the system of pronunciation, there are 12 vowels, 24 consonants and dipthongs And I hope to continue focusing on the pronunciation with the improving and applying theory in the real studying 5 CONTENTS 2.1 Theoretical background Bases - Basing an the international transcription - Basing on theory of vowels and consonants Background information - Vowels What are vowels? A vowel is a speech sound in which airstream from the lungs is not blocked in any way in the mouth or throat and which is usually pronounced with vibration of the vocal cords - Dipthongs Whats are dipthongs? They are sounds consisting of a movement or gride from one vowel to another In terms of length, dipthongs are like long vowels How are dipthongs classed? - Centering dipthongs: i -> ә / iә / e-> ә / e ә / u-> ә / u ә / - Fronting dipthongs: e -> i / ei / a-> i / / ɔ-> i /ɔi / - Retracting dipthongs: ә-> ʊ /ә ʊ / a-> ʊ / a ʊ / Theory of dipthongs /eә/ Description: /eә/ is centering dipthongs The tongue moves from /e/ to the central vowels /ә/ How to make the sound Spelling - “are” is often pronounced as / eə/ Ex: bare / beəI / - “ai” + “r” is pronounced as /eə/ Ex: Air /eəI/ - “ea” + “+ “r” is pronounced as /eə/ Ex: bear /beəI/ - “ei” may be pronounced as /eə/ Ex: heir /eəI/ /iә / Description: /iә/ is centering dipthongs The tongue moves from /i/ to the central vowels /ә/ How to make the sound? Spelling - “ea” is pronounced as /ɪə/ Ex: tear /tɪəI / - “ee” + “ r” is 6opying6ed as /ɪə/ Ex: beer /bɪəI / / әu/ Description: /ә / is retracting dipthongs The tongue moves from /ә / to the central vowels /u / How to make the sound? Spelling Identify the vowels which are pronounced /əʊ/ - “o” in stressed syllable with consonant or at the end of the word is 6opying6ed as /əʊ/ Ex: go /gəʊ / - “oa” with one or two consonants at the end of the word is 6opying6ed as /əʊ/ Ex : road /rəʊd/ - “oul” at the end of the word or with a consonant is also pronounced as /əʊ/ Ex: soul /səʊl/ - “ow” is pronounced as /əʊ/ when it’s at the end of the word Ex : Know / nəʊ/ /ai/ Description: fronting dipthongs The tongue moves from / a/ to the front vowel/ i/ How to make the sound? Spelling - “i” the letter in one syllable word ending with a consonant is pronounced as /aɪ/ Ex: bike/ baik/ - “ui” + consonant + “e” is pronounced as /ai/ Ex: guide/ gaid/ - “y” in one sullable word is pronounced as /aɪ/ Ex: by/ bai/ /aʊ / Description: /aʊ / retracting dipthong The tongue moves from /a/ to the back vowel /ʊ / How to make the sound? Spelling - “ou” with a consonant is pronounced as / aʊ/ Ex: found /faʊnd/ - “ow” at the end of the word or with a consonant is pronounced as /aʊ/ Ex: tower /taʊəI/ /ɔi/ Description: /ɔi/ fronting dipthong The tongue moves from //ɔ/ to the front vowel / i/ How to make the sound 8 Spelling - “oi” and “oy” is pronounced as /ɔɪ/ Ex: coin /kɔɪn/ 2.2 The status of the problem For students in grade at Thi Tran Secondary School, Thuong Xuan district, they have just learned English pilot program for months so their pronunciation still has many difficulties The pronunciation of the children are forced, many students are not willing to speak for fear of making errors that always leads to false in reading, speaking and recognizing the sound of the words when making phonetic exercises Through the survey to identify exercises sound /əi/ and /aʊ/ (English 6, page 60) Exercise: Listen and put the word in the correct column Voice down around house boy toy noisy flower shout boil Key: / əi / /aʊ/ voice down boy around toy house noisy flower boil shout * The results (The first semester- school year: 2017-2018) Correct 9- Correct 7-8 Correct 5Correct Correct 1-3 10 words words words words words Num % Num % Num % Num % Num % 6A 17, 25, 58 10 15 25,9 15 15,5 15,5 6B The surveys of students’feelings when they have learned phonetics I obtained the following results: Very Difficult Easy Very easy Note difficult Class Num Num % Num % Num % Num % 6A,6B 58 20 34,5 27 46,5 11 19 0 Cl Num ass The above results inspired me to something to help them improve this difficulty, or at least help them not to feel afraid, find it less difficult to learn pronounciation 2.3 Solutions Through many years of teaching I see that: Most of the students pronounced these sounds in the words inaccurately They also confuses with monopthongs They didn’t also the phonetics exercises relating to these sounds effectively Why? The reasons are that these sounds are difficult sounds They are similar to each other The students didn’t give their whole mind to learn these sounds The time and the exercises for the students to practise are limited Besides that many of us – the teachers of English didn’t attach special importance to teaching phonetics in general and these consonant sounds in particular We didn’t also have a suitable method to teach these sounds Some of us only read and asked their students to repeat when teaching these sounds so we didn’t achieve the good result as we expected My solution to these is “Improving the way to pronounce English dipthongs sounds of grade students at Thi Tran Secondary School, Thuong Xuan district’’ The steps of teaching these sounds These dipthongs are taught in pairs in three unit 8, and 12 in English To teach these pairs of dipthongs I often follow the following steps: - First, I divide board into parts, I write two dipthongs on the board and pronounce them clearly twice Ask students to listen and observe - Second, I show the mouth diagram of the sounds and explain how to make these sounds - Third, I pronounce these sounds again and ask students to repeat - Next, I have students distinguish the sounds with the other dipthong or monopthong Students listen and compare the differences between two dipthongs Example: Distinguish sound / i:/ and / iә/ /i: / / iә / e /i:/ ear / iә/ pea /pi:/ pier/ piә/ tea /ti:/ tear / tiә/ bead /bi:d/ beard/ biәd/ Distinguish / eə/ and / iə/ sound /eə/ / iə/ 10 air ear bear beer pair Pier chair cheer - Then, I read the couples of words and ask students to repeat - After that I ask students to look at the sounds in some words and read them loudly Example: Look at the /iә/ sound in some words Ear /ɪər/ hear /hɪər/ really /ˈrɪəli/ cheerful /ˈtʃɪəfl/ career /kəˈrɪər/ - Finally, I give some sentences that contain these sounds, read and ask students to repeat - Some experiences help students phonetics exercises relating to the dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /;/ɔi/ There are some letters transcribed in two different sounds that make students confuse easily For example “hear”/ hiә/ and hair / heә/ Some experiences help students phonetics exercises relating to the dipthongs /eә /; /iә /; / әu/; /ai/; /aʊ /; /ɔi/ So in this study I also give out some of my experiences when doing phonetics exercises – find out the word that has the underlined part pronounced differently from the others- relating to the sounds I often teach this part in revisions or in extra-lessons because the time in class is not enough In this part, I often give out some signals to help students this kind of exercises better Application Unit 8: SPORTS AND GAMES In this unit the students are gained diphthongs / iә/ and / eә/ a Diphthong / iә/ * How to make the sound? ɪə/ is a long vowel sound It starts with /ɪ/ and moves to /ə/ It’s pronounced /ɪə/ /ɪə/ * Practice: 11 Distinguish sound / i:/ and / iә/ /i:/ / iә/ e /i:/ ear / iә/ pea /pi:/ pier/ piә/ tea /ti:/ tear / tiә/ bead /bi:d/ beard/ biәd/ Look at the /iә/ sound in some words Hear /hɪər/ really /ˈrɪəli/ cheerful /ˈtʃɪəfl/ career /kəˈrɪər/ superior /suːˈpɪəriər/ Listen / iә/ sound in some sentences We’re here /wɪər hɪər/ Have a beer, cheer! / hæv ə bɪər tʃɪər/ Is there a bank near here? /ɪz ðeər ə bæŋk nɪər hɪər/ The meaning isn’t really clear /ðə ˈmiːnɪŋ ˈɪznt ˈrɪəli klɪər/ I have these ears a hundred years /aɪ hæv ðiːz ɪərz ə ˈhʌndrəd jɪərz/ * Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɪə/ “ea” is pronounced as /ɪə/ Tear /tɪəI/ nước mắt Clear /klɪəI/ rõ ràng Real /rɪəl/ thực tế Beard /bɪəd/ đương đầu, chống cự “ee” + “ r” is 11opying11ed as /ɪə/ Beer /bɪəI/ Bia Cheer /tʃɪəI/ vui vẻ Deer /dɪəI/ nai, hoẵng Career /kəˈrɪəI/ nghề nghiệp * Exercise: Listen and under line the words which pronounce /ɪə/ Tear erea clear poor care wear air 12 Meterial yeah here idea appear near parent b Diphthong / eә/ * How to make the sound /eə/ is a long vowel sound It starts with /e/ and moves to /ə/ It’s pronounced /eə/ /eə/ * Practice Distinguish / eə/ and / iə/ sound /eə/ / iə/ air ear bear beer pair Pier chair cheer hair here Look at the /eə/ sound in some words Share /tʃeər/ wear /weər/ air airport / ˈeəpɔːt/ upstairs /ʌpˈsteəz/ hair /heər/ Listen /eə/ sound in some sentences Look at that airplane /lʊk ət ðæt ˈeəpleɪn/ Up there, in the air, of course /ʌp ðeər ɪn ði eər əv kɔːrs/ The fair hair man ran in the sand /ðə feər heər mæn ræn ɪn ðə sænd/ Where are the spare pairs Stan and Dan wear? /weər ər ðə speər peərz stæn ən dæn weər/ *Identify the vowels which are pronounced /eə/ “ear “ is often pronounced as / eə/ Bare /beəI/ trần, trần truồng Care /keəI/ chăm sóc Dare /deəI/ Dám 13 Fare /feəI/ tiền vé Rare /reəI/ có, có Are /ɑːI/ (dạng số nhiều to be) Harem /ˈhɑːriːm/ hậu cung * Exceptions: “ai” + “r” is pronounced as /eə/ Air /eəI/ khơng khí Fair /feəI/ cơng Hair /heəI/ tóc Pair /peəI/ cặp, đơi Chair /tʃeəI/ ghế “ea” + “+ “r” is pronounced as /eə/ Bear /beəI/ gấu Pear /peəI/ trái lê bearish /ˈbeərɪʃ/ hay cáu gắt Wear /weəI/ mặc, đội, đeo Swear /sweəI/ thề “ei” may be pronounced as /eə/ Heir /eəI/ người thừa kế Their /ðeəI/ họ (từ sở hữu) * Exercise: Listen and underline the words have the / eə/ sound Ear beer pier pear Hair Tear chairs square 14 Choose the word with underline part pronouced differently from that of the others A air B care C wear D fear A beer B there C near D idea A bare B hair C are D pear A cheer B here C tear D chair UNIT 9: CITIES OF THE WORLD In this unit the students are gained diphthongs / ai/ and /әʊ/ a Diphthong / әʊ/ * How to make the sound - /əʊ/ is a long vowel sound It begins with /ə/ and move to /ʊ/ It’s pronounced /əʊ/ /əʊ/ * Practice Distinguish /ɔ: / and /әʊ/ sound /ɔ: / /әʊ / caught / k ɔ:t / coat /kәʊt/ nought / nɔ:t / note /nәʊt/ bought / bɔ: t/ boat /bәʊt/ jaw / dʒ ɔ:/ Joe /dʒәʊ/ ball / bɔ:l / bowl /bәʊl/ Look at the sounds Go /ɡəʊ/ Joking /dʒəʊkɪŋ/ Road /rəʊd/ Shoulder /ˈʃəʊldər/ Old /əʊld/ October /ɒkˈtəʊbər/ Boat /bəʊt/ Potato /pəˈteɪtəʊ/ Phone /fəʊn/ Tomorrow /təˈmɔːroʊ/ Look at the /әʊ/ sound in some sentences I don’t know /aɪ dəʊnt nəʊ/ My toes are cold /maɪ təʊz ər kəʊld/ Is the window open? /ɪz ðə ˈwɪndəʊ ˈəʊpən/ She phoned me in October /ʃi fəʊnd mi ɪn ɒkˈtəʊbər/ They showed us their home /ðeɪ ʃəʊd əs ðer həʊm/ *Identify the vowels which are pronounced /əʊ/ “o “ in stressed syllable with consonant or at the end of the word is 14opying14ed as /əʊ/ e Go /gəʊ/ 15 No /nəʊ/ không Ago /əˈgəʊ/ trước tomato /təˈmɑːtəʊ/ cà chua Toe /təʊ/ ngón chân “oa” with one or two consonants at the end of the word is 15opying15ed as /əʊ/ Road /rəʊd/ đường Coal /kəʊl/ than đá Goat /gəʊt/ dê Soap /səʊp/ xà phòng Coast /kəʊst/ bờ biển “oul” at the end of the word or with a consonant is also pronounced as /əʊ/ Soul /səʊl/ tâm hồn Dough /dəʊ/ bột nhão Mould /məʊld/ khuôn shoulder /ˈʃəʊldəI/ vai Poultry /ˈpəʊltri/ gia cầm “ow” is pronounced as /əʊ/ when it’s at the end of the word Know /nəʊ/ biết Slow /sləʊ/ chậm window /ˈwɪndəʊ/ cửa sổ Bowl /bəʊl/ bát 16 tomorrow /təˈmɒrəʊ/ ngày mai * Exercises: Listen the dialogue and find out the /əʊ/ sound A: Hugo B: Oh, no What’s the matter Amit? A: Come, look at the window B: No, my eyes are closed and I’m going back to sleep A: Oh, no Hugo Don’t go to sleep Come look at the snow B: Snow? But it’s only 16opying I know there’s no snow A: Come over there the window b Diphthong /ai/ * How to make sound aɪ/ is a long vowel sound It starts with /ɑː/ and moves to /ɪ/ It’s pronounced /aɪ/ /aɪ/ *Practice: Look at the sounds die /daɪ/ fighting /ˈfaɪtɪŋ/ like /laɪk/ surprise /sərˈpraɪz/ why /waɪ/ childhood /ˈtʃaɪldhʊd/ high /haɪ/ tour guide /tʊər ɡaɪd/ Distinguish two sounds / a:/ and /ai/ /a:/ /ai/ bar /ba:/ buy /bai/ star /sta:/ sty /stai/ darn /da:n/ dine /dain/ lark / la:k/ like /laik/ cart /ka:t/ kite/kait/ Look at the sound /ai/ in some sentences Drive on the right /draɪv ɒn ðə raɪt/ Why don’t you try? /waɪ dəʊnt juː traɪ/ Do you like dry wine? /du ju laɪk draɪ waɪn/ I’m twice your size, Lisa /aɪm twaɪs jʊr saɪz ‘lɪzə/ That guy might buy my cycle./ ðæt ɡaɪ maɪt baɪ maɪ ‘saɪkl/ * Identify the vowels which are pronounced /aɪ/ “i” the letter in one syllable word ending with a consonant is pronounced as /aɪ/ Bike /baɪk/ xe đạp 17 Site /saɪt/ nơi chỗ, vị trí Kite /kaɪt/ diều Like /laɪk/ ưa thích, giống Mine /maɪn/ (từ sở hữu) “ei” is pronounced as/aɪ/ in some case Either /ˈaɪðəI/ hai, hai Neither /ˈnaɪðəI/ không Height /haɪt/ chiều cao Sleight /slaɪt/ khôn khéo Seismic /ˈsaɪzmɪk/ (thuộc) động đất “ie” at the end of the word is 17opying17ed as /aɪ/ Die /daɪ/ chết Lie /laɪ/ nằm, nói dối Pie /paɪ/ bánh nhân Tie /taɪ/ thắt, buộc “ui” + consonant + “ e” is pronounced as /ai/ Guide /gaɪd/ hướng dẫn Guise /gaɪz/ chiêu bài, lốt, vỏ Quite /kwaɪt/ Khá, tương đối Require /rɪˈkwaɪəI/ đòi hỏi, yêu cầu Squire /skwaɪəI/ người cận vệ “y “ in one sullable word is pronounced as /aɪ/ By /baɪ/ Mua 18 My /maɪ/ chàng trai Sky /skai/ Bầu trời * Exercise: Listen and write the words you hear in appropriate column /aɪ/ /əʊ/ New York is an exiting city with many skycrspers It’s very cold in Sweden in the winter with a lot of snow I like looking at tall buildings at night You can go boating on the West Lake It’s nice Write and tell me how to cook Thai curry Unit 12: ROBOTS In this unit students are gained two diphthongs /ɔi/ and /aʊ/ a Diphthong /ɔi/ * How to make the sound /ɔɪ/ is a long vowel sound It starts with /ɒ/ and moves to /ɪ/ It’s pronounced /ɔɪ/ /ɔɪ/ * Practice: Distinguish /ɔ: / and /ɔi / sound /ɔ: / / ɔi/ all/ɔ:l/ oil/ɔil/ ball /bɔ:l/ boil/ bɔil/ corn/kɔ:n/ coin/ kɔin/ tore/tɔ:/ toy/ tɔi/ jaw/dʒɔ:/ joy/dʒɔi/ Look at the /ɔi/ sound in some words Toy /tɔɪ/ Noisy /’nɔɪzi/ Boy /bɔɪ/ Enjoy /ɪn’dʒɔɪ/ Coin /kɔɪn/p Destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/ Voice /vɔɪs/ Employee /ɪm’plɔɪiː/ Choice /tʃɔɪs/ Appointment /ə’pɔɪntmənt/ Look at the /ɔi/ sound in some sentences Boy’s toys are noisy /bɔɪz tɔɪz ər ‘nɔɪzi/ Troy’s ploy was foiled /tʃɔɪz plɔɪ wəz fɔɪld/ Those are coins, not toys /ðəʊz ər kɔɪz nɒt tɔɪz/ The boy pointed to the poison /ðə bɔɪ pɔɪntd tə ðə ‘pɔɪzn/ The spoiled boys destroy Floyd’s joy /ðə spɔɪld bɔɪz dɪˈstrɔɪ flɔɪdz dʒɔɪ/ * Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɔɪ/ 19 - “oi” and “ oy” is pronounced as /ɔɪ/ Coin /kɔɪn/ đồng tiền Toil /tɔɪl/ cơng việc khó nhọc Voice /vɔɪs/ giọng nói Enjoy /ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/ thích thú, hưởng thụ Toy /tɔɪ/ đồ chơi Joy /dʒɔɪ/ vui mừng, hân hoan * Exercise: Listen the dialogue and find out the / ɔɪ/ sound A: Boy, stop making so much noise Keep your voice down B: Why are you so annoyed? They’re supposed to make noise They are just a little boys and they are enjoying themselves A: But they are very annoying b Diphthong /aʊ/ * How to make the sound /aʊ/ is a long vowel sound It starts with /ɑː/ and moves to /ʊ/ It’s pronounced /aʊ/ /aʊ/ * Practice Look at the sound /aʊ/ in some words How /haʊ/ About /əˈbaʊt/ Now /naʊ/ Aloud /əˈlaʊd/ Loud /laʊd/ Counting /ˈkaʊtɪŋ/ Mouse /maʊs/ mountain /ˈmaʊtn/ Sound /saʊnd/ Council /ˈkaʊnsl/ Look at the sound /aʊ/ in some sentences Our townhouse has a brown mouse /ˈaʊər ˈtaʊnhaʊs hæz ə braʊn maʊs/ Are we allowed to speak aloud? /ɑːr wi əˈlaʊd tə spiːk əˈlaʊd/ We found our gowns downtown /wi faʊnd ˈaʊər gaʊnz ‘daʊntaʊn/ Shower the flower for an hour /ˈʃaʊər ðə ˈflaʊər fɔːr ən ˈaʊər/ How’s the loud vowel sound? /haʊz ðə laʊd ˈvaʊəl saʊnd/ * Identify the vowels which are pronounced /aʊ/ “ou” with a consonant is pronounced as / aʊ/ 20 Found /faʊnd/ tìm thấy (quá khứ find) Cloud /klaʊd/ đám mây Bound /baʊnd/ biên giới, giới hạn Doubt /daʊt/ nghi ngờ, ngờ vực Loud /laʊd/ (âm thanh) ầm ĩ, to “ow” at the end of the word or with a consonant is pronounced as /aʊ/ Tower /taʊəI/ tháp Power /paʊəI/ sức mạnh, quyền lực Powder /ˈpaʊdəI/ bột, thuốc bột from that of the others A how B sound C loud D snow A all B oil C toy D noise A nose B hold C noisy D so A snow B slow C low D.now 2.4 The result after applying the study in teaching: I got positive results than before applying the new methods After one semester to organize, the results initially obtained as follows: Results of tests through the phonetics that students have already studied Applying for 58 students in class 6A and 6B, the second semester, shool year: 2017- 2018 Class Total Excellent Good Fair Poor Fail (8 -10) (6,5 -7,5) (5- 6) (3,5- 4,5) (0-3) num % num % num % num % num % 6A 58 28 48,3 20 34,5 10 17,2 0 0 6B After the second semester, I issued polls about students’opinion of learning pronunciation and got the results Very Difficult Easy Very easy Note difficult Class Total Num % Num % Num % Num % 6A 58 20 34, 27 26,5 11 19 Before 6B 6A 58 10 17, 10 17,2 32 55,2 10,4 After 6B 21 This initiative experience has been put into practice in my second semester of the school year 2017-2018 for students in grade of pilot program The colleagues visited and expressed their sympathy with this approach and have introduced for grades CONCLUSIONS 3.1 Conclusions Through teaching practice, I personally discovered the problems that students have been having difficulty in learning a forein language, especially the phonetics even though some teachers find it embarrassed during teaching After applying these methods into teaching phonetics, the results are much higher than when I didn’t improve teaching methods, it has motivated me to constantly strive to achieve results further in teaching.With the adoption of initiatives to teach,the first step has been achieved certain successes A number of students pronunced incorecctly during class hours have dropped a lot, and especially the children no longer feel afraid, bored with phonetic learning, communicating their English was upwards confident than before Therefore, the English classes are now more exciting I have had my small contribution to the achievements of my school, put my school gets the targets that we had set I will try to maintain the aforementioned methods and constantly learn and exchange with colleagues to take time to teach more effectively In this project I tried to exploit and explore methods of teaching a part of pronunciation in secondary school and go on analyzing the causes, factors affecting the method to find out specific measures, so that given the specific methods to students However, the restriction is inevitable 3.2 Recommendations The education and training office should establish forums for teachers to share their initiative experience in order to improve the quality of teaching English at schools Thuong Xuan eduacation and training division should organize English Speaking clubs by school groups so as to create a useful language playground for students Above is a subjective opinion of my own on improving pronunciation in English for Town Secondary school’s students With my limited knowledge, I am surely have a flaw in my experience initiative I sincerely hope the leaders, the experts of division and colleagues comment on my observation to achieve better efficiency in teaching THE CONFIRMATION OF THE PRINCIPAL Thanh Hoa, May 14th, 2020 I assure this is my initiative experience, 22 not copying the contents of other people The writer Hoàng Thị Nga LIST OF REFERENCES Lê Văn Sự - English linguistics- Dong Nai Publishing House 2000 Mark han Cook – English pronunciation in use Peter Roach-English phonetics and phonology-Young Publishing House 1998 The Student’s Book English 6(pilot program) and the CD Website: http://www.tienganh123.com/phat-am-tieng-anh-co-ban Website: http://langsmater Basic pronounciation 23 DANH MỤC CÁC ĐỀ TÀI, SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM ĐÃ ĐƯỢC HỘI ĐỒNG ĐÁNH GIÁ, XẾP LOẠI CẤP PHÒNG GD&ĐT, CẤP SỞ GD&ĐT VÀ CÁC CẤP CAO HƠN XẾP LOẠI TỪ C TRỞ LÊN Tên đề tài SKKN Cấp đánh giá Kết Năm học đánh xếp loại đánh giá giá xếp loại ( Phòng, xếp loại sở…) (A, B C) Some experience in training to Phòng GD& QĐ số 139/ set and answer “Yes- No” ĐT Thường A ngày 26/4/2010 question for students in grade Xuân Some experience in training communication skills for students in gade Methods to improve English pronunciation for grade 7( 10-year programe) Improving gade Phòng GD& ĐT Thường Xuân Phòng GD& ĐT Thường Xuân B QĐ số 52/QĐPGDĐT ngày 5/7/2015 B QĐ số79/QĐPGDĐT ngày 16/5/2017 24 students’ pronunciation of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School Improving gade students’ dipthongs of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School Sở GD&ĐT Thanh Hóa C UBND Huyện Thường Xuân B QĐ số 1112/QĐSGD&ĐT ngày 5/11/2017 QĐ số: 02/ QĐHĐSK ngày 18/6/2020 ... 16/ 5/2017 24 students? ?? pronunciation of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School Improving gade students? ?? dipthongs of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School. .. experience ? ?Improving gade students? ?? pronunciation of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan Town Secondary School? ?? which refered how to pronounce the vowels and consonants The the initiative experience... participate in the English pilot program and overcome this obstacle, I choose the content ? ?Improving the way to pronounce English dipthongs sounds of grade students at Thi Tran Secondary School, Thuong