SKKN some experiences of teaching english vocabulary for 6 grade students through some games at ha binh secondary school

INDEX CONTENTS INTRUDUCTION 1.1 The reason for choosing the topic 1.2.The purpose of the study 1.3.The object of study 1.4.The research methodology 1.5.The new points of the initiative experience CONTENT OF INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE 2.1 Theoretical basis of experience initiative 2.2 Current status of the problem before applying experience initiatives 2.2.1 General situation 2.2.2 Status of students 2.2.3 Status of teachers 2.3 The solutions are used to solve the problem 2.4 Effectiveness of experience initiatives for educational activities, with myself, my colleagues and school CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS 3.1 Conclusion 3.2 Suggestions PAGE 3 3 3 4 4 11 13 13 14 1 INTRODUCTION 1.1.The reasons for choosing the topic In the strong development of information technology today, English has truly become an international language It plays a very important role in the field of social development in general and education in particular Today there are many countries in the world using English in teaching in schools as well as in daily communication English is the most important media in many countries around the world Besides English is the official language of 44 countries For that reason, access to and understanding of English is imperative in society industrialization and modernization of the country [7] English is an important language, commonly used worldwide and is used in different fields In the national construction, development and integration with the world, English has become a vital tool, work tool and communicative tool between all of the modern people, it is an important second language after their mother tongue In our country, English is considered as the language of transaction in economics, politics, culture, and has been teaching at the elementary, secondary, college, university In process of learning English, we know more in another language, a different culture and also more love Vietnamese and Vietnamese culture To use English as a language of communication, we not only need to master the rules of grammar, have good listening skills, have knowledge of the language but also to have a number of diversified, rich lexical In teaching and learning English, vocabulary is one of three elements forming the system of language knowledge, it is the condition of formation and development of communication skills In any languages, the role of vocabulary is also very important It is possible that a language is a subset of the vocabulary Thus, learning and practicing vocabulary is the leading factor in the transmission of a passive and receptive language in general and English in particular Because vocabulary is a language unit so it is expressed in two forms: speech and handwriting If you want to use a foreign language, that means you must master the expressive forms from the verbal and writing But due to the association of words with the other elements of language (grammar, pronunciation, intonation ) or in social situations, many researchers believe that to build a wall language vocabulary is the "bricks" and the grammar and sentence structure as "grout" to mount the brick wall creates language Without a vocabulary necessary, students can not use the sentence structure and the function of language in communication.[3] From the above reasons, I have researched and applied effectively the experience initiatives "Some experiences of teaching English vocabulary for grade students through some games at Ha Binh secondary school" and I am pleased to present it to you Due to the limited time and limited experience, my initiative should not be experienced as unwanted, I am looking forward to your contributions to my ideas more complete 1.2.The purpose of the study In this subject, I don’t have ambition and enough time to give out all the methods of teaching and learning English vocabulary With these methods, I hope they will help the students to learn and improve themselves some vocabulary needed This makes the students easier to learn and practice their English vocabulary 1.3.The object of study Due to the fact of teaching and learning English vocabulary of the teacher and the students at Ha Binh secondary school I only apply for grade students at Ha Binh secondary school so as to stimulate them to learn vocabulary well 1.4.The research methodology In order to implement my measures effectively, I have used the following measures: - Observation method: Teaching vocabulary in the assigned classes , compared with other classes not directly taught through the class time and class visits - Conversation method: Directly communicate with students in class,, outside class to find information - Statistical methods, data processing: through the examination of vocabulary at the end of the semester and the process of double-group work of students in class activities[6] 1.5.The new points of the initiative experience Through this initiative students can access and easily learn vocabulary, would be very interested in learning English from games and help them remember words more quikly My study subjects are students in grade 6, they are learning English new program; Although there are a lot of new words, they are interested in studying through the games CONTENTS OF INITIATIVE EXPERIENCE 2.1 Theoretical basis of experience initiative Vocabulary is one of the tools that people use to think, express ideas, emotions and learn about the world, is the foundation for all development skills such as reading comprehension, listening comprehension, speaking, writing, It is also the major tool that helps students use English effectively Indeed, when talking to a native English , watching a movie without English subtitles, listening to a favorite song or read English documents, we will always be exposed to from vocabulary [5] A famous linguist once said if we don’t learn grammar well,we can still achieve something, but if we not have the vocabulary, we wouldn’t able to express anything at all Native speakers can understand the article correctly use vocabulary that is not grammatically correct However, they will not understand grammatically correct article, but not use the exact words A reality shows that Vietnam students learning English often encounter obstacles in how to speak English fluently They often find it difficult to participate in activities related to the speaking skill, because they only use a few repetitive structures and vocabulary Thus, their communication was interrupted abruptly early due to lack of vocabulary To sump up, if the students not have the vocabulary skills, their listening, speaking, reading and writing skill will not be developed If you not have enough vocabulary, the people will have problems, even failure in communication Recognizing the importance of this, today all applicable methods in teaching are focused to teach vocabulary And start learning English is always associated with learning vocabulary Therefore, in the teaching process I thought about how students acquire vocabulary best to help students create the atmosphere lively language learning, help them remember the lessons from the right in , from which they can more easily use the word in the communication process 2.2 Current status of the problem before applying experience initiatives 2.2.1 General situation English vocabulary as a tool, the most important means of using and learning English At any one skill of learning a foreign language must be used vocabulary So English is the capital, is an invaluable product, is the main tool for the users of English words For a lesson in English, yet most lessons also introduce the vocabulary section To achieve good results lesson, students must know how to pronounce as well as usage of the word Want that teachers need to choose the appropriate skills to each post so that students understand, easy to remember and easy to use Foreign language is a subject requires students must be hardworking, diligent and interested As we have clearly seen, their native language not really mastered, sometimes depressed, neglected foreign language much more In these lessons are presented with descriptions vocabulary, previously, according to the old method teachers often introduce vocabulary by introducing from later explained the meaning of the word, in this way does not stimulate excitement to learn vocabulary for students, even students afraid, afraid to learn vocabulary, and does not promote students' positive Thus, by the method of teaching vocabulary through games help students to remember words and interested to learn vocabulary in the best way 2.2.2 Status of students The majority of students at Ha Binh Secondary School are poor children so their conditions of study are not good, the time and the English communication environment are limited.There is less opportunity for them to communicate In addition, they have not really studied hard, have not memorized the words English is a difficult subject with a lot of knowledge and a lot of vocabulary in each lesson so students can not digest the words after each lesson 2.2.3 Status of teachers For the teacher, the teaching equipment has many limitations on the visual aids for teaching and learning The school has no audio-visual classrooms dedicated to learning English It is difficult to buy equipment for self-study English at home.Books and reference materials for teachers are also very limited Moreover, the motivation and the learning’s awareness of students are not good The students read and write very slowly, their memory capacity is not durable and not deep, learning the next lesson, they forget the previous lesson, most of them are not active I studied the method of teaching vocabulary for grade students at Ha Binh Secondary School At first, I realized that the students were afraid to learn English vocabulary, they were very worried when I checked the vocabulary of the previous lessons At the end of the first semester (mid-December)of Academic Year 2019- 2020, I had made a small test vocabulary for two classes Class 6A: ( Unit 4: Looking back.) [1] And I obtained the following results: Table 1: Survey Results of the Classes 6A, 6B Academic Year 2019-2020(September 2019) Class Good Total Fair Medium Weak Number % Number % Number % Number % 6A 29 10.3 20.7 13 44.9 24.1 6B 28 10.7 17.9 14 50 21.4 Total 57 10.5 11 19.3 27 47.4 13 22.8 Through this survey, I found that the quality of their learning is not satisfactory, the number of students achieving good results is low, the number of students with weak results is even higher From that result, I presume to give you some tips to teach English vocabulary and to improve students’ learning And I want to introduce with you "Some experiences of teaching vocabulary for grade students through some games at Ha Binh secondary school" to consult with colleagues 2.3 The solutions are used to solve the problem From practical teaching, I myself thought how we can make students be interested in learning , how can make them realize that learning English is not heavy pressure, so they learn better and especially they can remember new words faster, easier, longer , I gave some games to teach vocabulary and check it for grade students at Ha Binh secondary school In the process of teaching, I found that stimulating interest of students’ learning is not difficult, but how make them inculcated knowledge is not simple at all At this age, children are eager to explore, to discover, but very soon forget Therefore, I am always aware how to the class are always fresh and vivid, th classroom atmosphere is always fun In my opinion, the classes take place gently in order to create comfortable psychologie for children, from there, they will memorize easily vocabulary and knowledge I regularly change the activities in class by organizing games for the children These activities are integrated into the process of transmitting knowledge that they are not getting cornered knowledge, passively from the teacher, they will always feel the real lesson funky, lively, attractive and always look forward to English periods Depending on the characteristics of each class, each object, content and knowledge capacity of each post, we can practice vocabulary at different times, at different stages of each post, the formal teaching hours or extracurricular, organized manner Here are some tricks I use the games summed up in my process of teaching with the aim of helping students increase and memorize English vocabulary in the most natural way I often have students play games in the Warm-up, Free-Practice, after finishing teaching new words or end of the lesson 2.3.1 Letter connecting - The teacher gives any vocabulary - Students write other words so that the first letter of the next word must begin with the last letter of the previous word Likewise, until the time specified (Note: Not including those from the previous iteration)[4] + EX : be engineer read decorate end 2.3.2 Make other words - The teacher gives any vocabulary - Students write other words so that the first letter of the word must begin with the letters in the phrase that [10] + EX: parade peace answer read apple dance eat 2.3.3 Slap the board - The purpose of this game is to help students remember the words and the pronunciation of words and demonstrate their agility and dynamic - Select the groups of players, each of children Students arrange in two rows - Give each group a plastic toy hammer [9] - Paste the picture cards (depending on the number of lesson units) on the board - Read aloud a word from the card of stickers Students listen to the word the teacher reads, the two first students run up the board to touch the painting's meaning of the card they have heard, and then they go back to their place, put the hammer to the next person, the touching word right before will be a point For example: English6: Unit - Lesson - Getting started [1] Review the words: - local television - national television - comedy - animal programme - Game shows - News programme 2.3.4.Find the key word - Teacher makes suggestions related to the keyword - Students think and find keywords + Example: volleyball soccer ? swimming * Key: sports 2.3.5 Matching tennis - The purpose of this game is to help students review vocabulary by matching words to pictures when connected, words to words Example 1: Match the appropriate words to pictures: Unit 5- Lesson - English [1] a mountain b.waterfall c.beach d.lake e.forest f.island g.valley h.river i.cave j.desert Answers: 1.h 2.c 2.3.6 Jumbled words b 4.a 5.e 6.d 7.f 10 8.j 9.i 10.g - The purpose of this game is to help students remember words and spelling words - Offer some words with the letters disturbed - Ask students to rearrange to form meaningful words - Students can the task in groups, in pairs or individuals 2.3.7 Chain game - The purpose of this game is to train the students' memory, the concentration and the quick reflexes When participating in this game, they have to really focus on memorizing the words In addition to that, they have the opportunity to practice speaking, practicing the pronunciation - Divide the class into small groups, each groupe join the game in turn - Say the first topic sentence, the first student repeats the topic, then add another word, the 2nd students repeats the first student’s phrase and add a word, the rd student repeat the first student’s phrase and then add a word too , so on until the last student in the group For example: Unit 10 - Lesson - English [1] Teacher: I am going to draw my future house S 1: I am going to draw my future house It will be on the ocean 10 S 2: I am going to draw my future house It will be on the ocean.It will be surrounded by tall trees S 3: I am going to draw my future house It will be on the ocean.It will be surrounded by tall trees There will be a swimming pool in front and a large flower garden behind the house S 4: 2.3.8 Rub out and remember - The purpose of this game is to help students remember vocabulary faster - After writing the words and their meanings on the board, ask students to repeat, give them a little time (depending on the number of words) in order to remember them - Remove Vietnamese or English words - Ask students to speak or rewrite English words which have been removed on the board or vice versa - Give up on the board rewritten from Vietnamese or English were deleted.Student play this game personally - Encourage them by the markr Example: Unit 6- Our Tet Holiday- Leson 2- English [1] - Wish (n): - …………… (n): - Special food(n): - ………………(n): - Relative(n): pháo hoa lịch ……………… 2.3.9 Networds - The purpose of this game is to help students review vocabulary system by topic - I put the topic in the lesson - Students find related words in groups, groups which find many correct word are the winners For example: Unit - My new school - Lesson - English [1] 11 compass school bag eraser School things ruler notebook calculater pencil case pen 2.3.10 Synomym and antonym - Beside the purpose of remembing vocabulary, this activity also helps students expand the number of vocabulary - Give the word, ask students to find synonyms or antonyms of the word given They find words in pairs or in groups assigned by the teacher For example: Unit 4: Lesson - English [2] - Find antonyms: narrow historic convenient boring noisy polluted cheap ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ ≠ wide modern unconvenient exciting quiet peaceful expensive - Find synonyms: small ≡ little beautiful ≡ nice near ≡ next to big ≡ huge 2.3.11 Word Snakes This is a simple game at the beginning or the end of a lesson You can check the vocabulary of a certain subject like: Jobs (Student- teacher - .); Food (apple - egg - garlic - corn - .); 12 2.3.12 Relay Race - The purpose of this game not only help students remember the words of the pronunciation but also about the writing - Select two groups of players, each group of to children - Let the children sit in two rows along - Offer a word or phrase for both groups by whispering in the ear of the first sitting, they will in turn passed on from each other also by whispering Go to the last one, after listening to, he/she stand up, say aloud the word or phrasehe/she has heard and run to the board to write that word or phrase - Group write more correct words and phrases wins [8] 2.3.13 Put in a form - Teacher gives a any word - Students discuss and set it to the correct answers Example: - beautiful -> She is beautiful - play -> I play soccer - meat > I like meat 2.3.14 Write number of letters - The teacher asks students to write these words with 3, or letters in the allotted time (The following words are not identical to the earlier) I write a lot more than they win - Students write in individual or group + Example: Write the 4-letter words lake, like, have, love, live, sing, song 2.3.15 Write the same letter - The teacher asks students to write the words that begin or end with a letter - Students write in the allowed time + Example: Write the words beginning with the letter "s" - sing, song, sink, see, sit……… Write the words ending with the letter "h" - wash, watch, math, mouth,………… Write the words ending with the letter "r" - Read, ring, run, rest, restaurant……… 2.4 The results of research 13 After a period application of this method, in addition to instructions on how to read and learn vocabulary, I always encourage, motivate students to learn English actively They learn English vey hard, their result has significantly increased, most of them were excited about learning vocabulary in the classroom From feeling afraid to speak, afraid to read, afraid to speak, afraid to learn vocabulary, they have been more responsive to the language, love to read, love to speak to the class, most of them are looking forward to giving opinions for the lessons The students always want the teacher to check vocabulay of the previous lesson These are some pictures that I took when the students played the games and worked in groupe 14 At the end of May 2019 -2020 school year, I continued taking the survey posts investigated excercises like the survey article for the beginning of September 2019-2020 And I received the following result: Table 2: Survey result of classes 6A,6B Academic Year 2019-2020 (May 2020) Good Class Total Numbe r Fair % Numbe r Medium % Numbe r % Weak Numbe r % 15 6A 29 20.7 10 34.5 11 37.9 6.9 6B 28 17.9 10 35.5 11 39.2 7.1 Total 57 11 19.3 20 35.1 22 38.6 +/ - + 8.8% + 15.8% - 8.8% - 15.8% The result of Table and Table is very different I realized that the result has increasingly improved The number of weak students is reduced and the number of good and fair students is increased Learning attitude of the children is very good The English classes are very exciting Many students not only read aloud, clearly but also have very nice reading voice CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS 3.1 Conclusion After applying this method, the results of learning vocabulary at Ha Binh Secondary School gained satisfactory achievements In addition to that, some games make students more diligent, excited, more hard and give the students the positive attitude when learning English.Their results have increased significantly, most of them have been active and enthusiastic They like to read articles, want the teacher to call to speak in front of the class They actively build lessons, even in the class expect the teacher to check the words They are always willing to learn English vocabulary Especially, they would like their teacher to provide more new words 3.2 Suggestions For schools: The school should advise localities to build separate language classrooms for students In addition, it is necessary to buy teaching aids to assist teaching and additional reference books for English subjects For Education and Training Department: It is necessary to organize more training courses to innovate teaching methods, hold seminars for English teachers in the whole province and district We can exchange experiences and learn from each other There are some my personal ideas above I hope that through this article I can contribute a bit of experience in innovating teaching methods and learning English at secondary schools My experience initiative must also many shortcomings, so I’m looking forward to receiving the opinions from the 16 Scientific Council and the collagues From there, I will be adding valuable experieces in teaching process in order to improve the quality of education I sincerely thank you CONFIRMATION OF HEADSMASTER Ha Trung, April 25 th 2021 I assure that this initiative is my writing experience, not copying others’content Written by Bui Thi Hang REFERENCES [1].Textbooks English Grade - Ministry of Education - Training [2] English Workbook Grade – Hoàng Văn Vân (eds) Nguyễn Thị Chi – Lê Kim Dung – Phan Chí Nghĩa – Vũ Mai Trang – Lương Quỳnh Trang – Nguyễn Quốc Tuấn with collaborator David Kaye (Vietnam Educational publishers) 17 [3] Guiding the knowledge standards, skills in English Secondary schoolMinistry of Education and Training [4] Dictionary Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary [5] References to teachers of secondary school in the 03rd cycle of English, vol [6] Methods of teaching English in secondary schools [7].English language Methodology Teaching of Ministry of Education & Training § T 2003 [8].The ELTTP Methodology course [9].Teach English-A training course for teachers-Adrian Doff [10].Teaching guide under new English curriculum (Educational publisher2005) THE EXPERIENCE INITIATIVES WHICH WERE RECOGNIZED AND APPRECIATED BY THE SCIENTIFIC COUNCIL OF DEPARTEMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING Teacher: Bui Thi Hang 18 Job title and unit of work: Teacher at Ha Binh Secondary School N o Name of experience initiatives Some tricks teach reading comprehension skill for secondary students at Ha Ngoc Secondary school Some tricks teach reading comprehension skill for secondary students at Ha Ngoc Secondary school Some tricks teach vocabulary for secondary students Rank of Result of appreciatio appreciation n (A, B, or C) Ha Trung Departement of education A and training Thanh Hoa Departement of education and training Ha Trung Departement of education and training "Some tricks teach Ha Trung speaking skill for 6,7 grade Departement students at Ha Binh of education secondary school" and training "Some experiences of Ha Trung teaching vocabulary for Departement grade students through of education some games at Ha Binh and training secondary school" Academic Year 2006 - 2007 C 2006 - 2007 C 2014 - 2015 C 2016 - 2017 B 2018 - 2019 19 ... skill for secondary students at Ha Ngoc Secondary school Some tricks teach reading comprehension skill for secondary students at Ha Ngoc Secondary school Some tricks teach vocabulary for secondary. .. education and training "Some tricks teach Ha Trung speaking skill for 6, 7 grade Departement students at Ha Binh of education secondary school" and training "Some experiences of Ha Trung teaching. .. vocabulary 1.3.The object of study Due to the fact of teaching and learning English vocabulary of the teacher and the students at Ha Binh secondary school I only apply for grade students at Ha