THANH HOA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
THACH THANH EDUCATION AND TRAINING

EXPERIENCE IDEA

SOME EFFECTIVE MEASURES TO HELP 4TH AND 5TH
GRADES STUDENTS AT THACH QUANG PRIMARY
SCHOOL FOR GAINING GOOD KNOWLEDGE TO
ACHIEVE SUCCESS IN TAKING PART IN ENGLISH CLUB

Presenter: Hà Thị Diễm
Position: Teacher
School: Thach Quang primary school
Subject: English

THACH THANH, YEAR 2018
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CATEGORY
Content

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1. Introduction

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1.1. Reason for choosing topic.

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3. Conclusions, recommendations

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3.1. Conclusions 8.

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3.2. recommendations 9.

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1. Introduction
1.1. Reason for choosing topic.

*Advantages:With the condition of the center of the six communes in the
West, Thach Quang primary school has succeded in teaching and learning
movement. So, when I proposed to establish the team to join in English club, I
was supported by both the headmaster and students’s parents who always
motivate and encourage their children to learn English. Besides, the teachers of
other subjects are aggressive, enthusiastic and dedicated to the profession.
Moreover, students themselves are so eager and love English that make the
study session become effective.
*Disadvantages:Thach Quang Primary school is located in a remote and
mountainous area which is very far from the center of the district. Besides, lack
of facilities served for learning such as projectors, multi-purpose room also
prevents both English teacher and students from practising English more often.
What is more, most students are from ethnic groups (for example, Muong ethnic
group) and many of them still speak Kinh language unclearly, which is uneasy
for them to communicate with others as well as with native speakers. Finally, the
low income of students’parents also stops them from buying tapes, reference
books for their children to improve knowledge. For the reasons above, the result
of study among students is not in the same level. So, how to train for attaining
good results is an unsolvable problem.
In addition, the superficial awareness of some teachers in the school and
students in English subjects sometimes lead to English teaching and learning
activities uneffective.
2.3. Measures
From the above situation, in order to improve English students in the next
school year, I would like to present some basic solutions that have been applied
and got results.
Measure 1: Good communication, awareness raising for managers,
teachers, parents, students about the importance of English in the school.
In any areas, for successful implementation, the awareness of the role and
position of the task is the first and the key step. The right understanding help to

Mark

Teacher's remarks

Question 1: Odd one out
1.A.Vietnamese B. Chinese

C. America

D. Japanese

2.A. English

B. Maths

C. Ruler

D. Art

3.A. Summer

B. Autumn

C. Spring

D. September

4.A. Schoolbag

B. Classroom


3. A. subject

B. music

C. student

D.during

4. A. door

B. football

C. school

D. noon
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Question 3: Choose the best answer
1. Where are you from?
A. I’m from China

B. I’m Chinese

C. I speak Chinese

2. Are you Chinese ? No, I’m …………….
A. Vietnam


7. Is she from Vietnam or………..?
A. Italy

B. Singaporean

C. English

8. I………..Italian and……….
A. speak/China

B. speak/Chinese C. from/Chinese

Question 4: Complete the sentences.
1. ………….are you from?
2. It is…………..in autumn.
3. Elizabeth isn’t …………….. She is Italian.
4. I’m ………….. Let’s eat.
5. I haven’t ……….. two goldfish.
6. What is the…………like?
7. How …..you? I am very………., thanks.
Queston 5: Read and choose T/F
Hello, my name is Akio. I am from Japan. I’m Japanese. I speak Japanese
and English. My school is an international school. It is Rose International
School. I have got a lot of friends. There are twenty students in my class. They
are from different countries. Linda is from England. She is English. Jack and Jill
are from the USA. They are American. Meimei is from China. She is Chinese.
Alex is from France, but her mom is from Australia. He is French. We play
badminton, play hide-and-seek together. It is a lot of fun.
1. She is Akio.
2. She is Chinese.

…………………………………………….…………………………………
……………………………………………………….………………………
………………………………………………………………………………
………………………………………………………………………………
After gathering the results of the best students in grade 4, I selected 7
students to join the English Club.
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List of excellent students in grade 4
Numer

Name

Class

1

Phạm Trịnh Trà My

4A

2

Quách Anh Thư

4A

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* English proficiency test for grade 5 students
Full name: ………………….……

Class: ..........................

Time: 60’
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Teacher's remarks

Question 1: Circle the letters before different word:
1. A.on

B. cartoon

C. between

D. from

2. A. Was

B. Were

C. Did

D. is

3. A. What

B. Future


2. A. map

B. bag

C. monday

D. have

3. A. Find

B. miss

C. live

D. think

4. A. TwentyB. early
5. A cook

B. cinema

C. pretty
C. candy

D. fly
D.cake
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D. readed
4. They are going to Ho Chi Minh city...........plane.
A. on
B. in
C. at
D. by
5. - .....................was your sister born?
- In Ha Noi.
A. When
B. What
C. Where D. How
Question 6: Reorder the sentences to make a dialogue
What did you do there?
Yes. We sang the song Happy Birthday.
Where were you last Sunday?
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We had a lot of fun. We ate cakes and drank Coke.
Did you sing any English songs?
We were at Linda's birthday party.
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Question 7: Read the passage, fill in each blank one suitable
This is my new friend, Laura. She was born on the twenty- sixth (1).........
February, 1996. She (2)....................... English at Oxford Primary School. She
(3)......... to be a good English teacher. She listens to the English news every
morning. Next month she is going to visit Tuan Chau. She likes the
(4)................... in summer in Viet Nam because it's hot and sunny
After students gave the answers, I also collected the papers, checked and


Hoàng Lê Hà

5B

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Nguyễn Thị Thanh Tâm

5B

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Nguyễn Thị Mai Anh

5B

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Nguyễn Đăng Tuấn

5B

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Đỗ Hà Vy

5B

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* I would like to present an illustrated lecture part from the English
textbook 4
Unit 2: I’m from Japan ( Lesson 2: Part 2: Point and Say – page 14 English
textbook 4, Espisode 1)
For this section is the pattern sentence.
Model sentences:
What nationality are you ?
I’m + quốc tịch
Ex: + What nationality are you ?
I’m Japanese.
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Based on the above examples, students can practice the same sentence form.
Ex : + What nationality are you ?
I’m Malaysian.
+ What nationality are you ?
I’m Autralian.
Note: In addition to asking “What nationality are you?”, students can
ask this structure in other ways such as “What is your nationality?”. As
excellent students can easily pratise the model sentence, I provide them more
knowledge by expanding another ways of asking. For example, if you want to
know a girl or a woman’s citizenship, you ask “ What’s her nationality?”
→She’s Japanese. Notice that if you see “her” in the question, certainly the
answer starts with “she”. And if you want to ask a boy or a man’s nationality,
you may say: “ What is his nationlity?”-> He is Malaysian . Be careful if “his”
appears in the question, the answer must begin with “He”.
To help students practise the knowledge, I prepared an exercise which is
good for them to remember and do the task exactly.
Exercise: Reoder the words to make sentences

by another such as an earache, a sorethroat, a cold, a backache, a toothache,
a stomachache, etc.
Thus, excelllent students find no difficulty to do further exercises by
giving the same sentences based on the model one.
Ex 1: What’s the matter with me ? -> you have got a backache. With
questions ending with “me”, the answer must begin with “you”
Ex 2: What’s the matter with her ? -> She has got toothache. With
questions ending with “her”, the answer certainly begins with “She”
Ex 3: What’s the matter with him ? -> He has got cold. With questions
ending with “him”, the answer of course begins with “He”
Note: When the subjects are “I, You”, go with “have” ;otherwise,“He,
She” followed by “has”.
To check students’s understanding, I also gave the following exercise.
Exercise: Circle the correct answer
1. I ……. got a toothache.
A. is
B. have
C. has
2. She ……. got …… earache.
A. have / a
B. are / a
C. has / an
3. What’s ….. matter with you ?
A. the
B.this
C. that
4. …… has got a backache.
A. they
B. I
C. he

modern and comfortable house. There will be ten rooms in the house: three
bedrooms, two livingrooms, one study, three bathrooms and one kitchen.
I will have a computer in my study. I will also have a hi-fi stereo in my
bedroom. My dream house will be an ideal one.
After students did the tasks, I collected the papers, pointed out the
mistakes carefully and guide them how to write the same essays.
Beside those articles on the students also write many other ones with
different topics. These are topics that I have covered through the process of
revision.

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Photos of students practicing writing
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* After stressful lessons, I often let the children sing English songs to help
them develop their listening skills and to create a confident, natural and relaxed
learning environment. They are all nimble intelligent and more effective.
The songs that I usually give the children to sing are : Wake up, What
make you beautiful, Let it go, Hand in hand, Proud of you, Bingo, Clap your
hand, The finger family, Five little mokeys, Baby shark, Head shoulder knee and
toes.
* In order to make the leson more exciting I let students participate in
speaking activities with give free speeches to correct pronunciation, sentence
patterns, intonation, expressions, voice, and auxiliary movements which have
the most fun, nature and confident. Here are some examples that they have been
practicing.
- Speaking activity of grade 4 students

I like a doll and a plane.

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A: I am Vy. How old are you ?
B: I am ten years old. How many people are there in your family ?
A: There are five people in my family.
Ex4 : Dialogue 4
Teacher
Student
Hello
Hi
What’s your name ?
I am Mai Anh. And you?
My name is Thanh Tam. What do
I’m a student. What about you ?
you do ?
I’m a student too. What nationality I’m Vietnamese.
are you ?
Can you play the piano ?

Yes, I can

Photos of students practicing speaking
* Three basic signs for elementary school students: present simple, Past
Simple, Present Continuous.
For elementary students to remember the nature of the three tenses is
basically difficult because they always feel vague. When I separated them from
each other they do well but the combination of the three are very embarrassing.

school. Where media is not available. So I think the way to teach listeing skill as
follows: most parents have phones with wifi connection or 3G. I ask the students
to listen to the textbook, listening sections in the beginning of the lesson so that
they can listen to the text and explain the answers and give tips on different
types of listening. For example, “listen and write” students are the hardest part.
If they are not able to write in English, they can write the words in Vietnamese
then translate them into English and then write the results in the right place.
* In short, to have good students, the teachers themselves and students
need to work hard and contribute highly that I believe both the teacher and the
students will be successful.
2.4. Result
After studying this method, students have equiped themselves with a
fairly well-financed knowledge, skilled in taking exams, joining the English club
with high efficiency. Below is a table showing the results obtained over the
school year.

Number of students taking 10 exams
(School year: 2015-2016)
Grade

1st prize

2nd prize

3rd prize

Consolation

Total
18

Grade 4
(7 Students)
Grade 5
(8 Students)

1st prize

2nd prize

3rd prize

Consolation

Total

1

1

4

1

7

3

4

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Due to time constraints, research scope and personal capacity, the
experience initiative may have some inevitably inevitable points. We would like
to receive feedback from our colleagues to improve the research more
effectively.
Approved by

I sincerely confirm this is the initiative I
have done myself, not coppying from others.
Thach Quang, April 20th 2018
Written by

Nguyen Thi Mau

Ha Thi Diem

(Headmaster of Thach Quang
Primary School)

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REFERENCES
1. Textbooks and English workbooks 4, textbooks and English workbooks 5
- Vietnamese education publishers.
2. Official Letter No. 2041 / SGD & ĐT-GDTH dated 01 September 2017 of
the Director of Thanh Hoa Department of Education and Training on guiding the
implementation of the school year 2017-2018 tasks;Department of Education
and Training instructs elementary schools in the district to organize Cluster
Exchange Activities outside the teaching hours of the 2017-2018 school year.
3. Network source (Intrenet).