MỤC LỤCOF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
THANH HOA DEPARTMENT

THANH HOA DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF
EDUCATION AND TRAINING
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INITIATIVES

SOME EXPERIENCES IN TEACHING SKILLS OF
SPEAKING ENGLISH FOR PRIMARY STUDENTS

Implementer: Nguyen Thi Thom
Position: A teacher of English
Work unit: Tao Xuyen Primary & Secondary School
Subject: English

THANH HOA 2019


INDEX
Content

Page

I. INTRODUCTION

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1. Rationale


3. Solutions

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3.1. Types of practising are used for developing speaking skills

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3.2. Give students a quick way to reflect in English

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3.3. Train pronounciation for students

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3.4. Teach students to use stress and intonation when speaking

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4. Achieved results

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4.1. Assess the implementation process

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4.2. Research results


programs and methods to improve the quality of teaching and learning.
Previously, Vietnam did not integrate with other countries in the world, so the
investment for students to improve English was still limited. But today with the
general momentum of human development, learning foreign languages is
essential. Seeing this importance, the Education and Training sector has taken
English teaching and learning right at the primary level. Currently all primary
schools across the country have taught English programs starting at the 3 rd grade
and many schools have taught English programs from the 1st grade. The majority
achieves a level of international language.
Most children in the country from urban to rural areas are familiar with
English early through teaching in schools. Four skills: listening, speaking,
reading and writing are taking place simultaneously in the process of teaching
and learning foreign languages. For primary students, they initially get
acquainted with English program so they are limited in how to communicate
whether they still understand lessons, understand sentences, structures but they
are shy, nervous to talk. To meet this requirement, students must use the corpus
that has been learned to communicate activities effectively.
Speaking English is a prerequisite for learning languages, in order to give
them confidence in communicating in English. So how to help them
communicate in English in a natural way? How to pass English to help them
develop the communication skills of the children? After studying textbooks,
reference materials thematic learning for English teachers and teaching practices
in the past few years, I chose the "Some experiences in teaching skills of
speaking English for primary students” initiative as the subject for my
experience. This is the premise for the direction of the quality of teaching and
learning, attracting students passionate about this subject and to devise effective
instructional experiences that I have applied in the past time activities.
2. Aims of the study
As a teacher of English, I must impart knowledge to my students in a
positive way and have the highest efficiency. "Some experiences in teaching

- Train pronunciation for students.
- Teach students to use stress and intonation when speaking.
- In addition, I have corrected my initiatives to match the current textbook
program of the Ministry of Education and Training.

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II. CONTENT
1. Theoretical background
Primary level of education is a solid foundation for the development of
knowledge and skills for higher education. For elementary age children to
school as they reach out to a new knowledge - rich and diverse, teaching English
in is to teach students how to use good English, to be effective. The school's goal
of teaching English for Primary children is teach a basic understanding of
English and using English skills to communicate. Now teaching English is
enabling students to develop their thinking, forming ideas, healthy emotions,
clarity, with the good qualities.
Teaching English language as well as teaching other languages, teaching
process is a combination of the 4 skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing
and focus on teaching listening and speaking skills to achieve the purpose of the
communication. From many years of teaching English programs for primary
students, from the reference program of teaching advanced English online, I
found to help primary students communicate in English quickly and effectively,
the teaching speaking skills to students is very important, it helps them feel more
confident when communicating in English.
2. The reality of the issue
* Advantages
In recent year, the teaching and learning of English by the method of
innovation is concerned by Thanh Hoa Education and Traning Department and

subjects to tutor and help children.
Difficulties with teachers in the teaching process, which is mostly in the
rural school facilities conditions are scarce. Teaching aids of English are limited
with less visual aids, facilities using for teaching and learning. The school lacks
of function classrooms, sound, pictures. English classes do not meet the
requirements for all students to learn English.
English in primary school holds a significant role in the learning process
of the children. It equips them minimal vocabulary, basic grammar and sentence
patterns, simple theme about friends, family, school, the world around them.
Therefore, to inspire and reinforce students' knowledge is an extremely
important and often work. Because this affects very much motivated by the
children, a basic factor affecting the process of learning a foreign language: No
children will not learn the engine and the consolidation of knowledge, also
inculcate more the corpus of the lessons learned in a systematic way, as a solid
foundation to help them learn better, more confident in the learning process later.
For the quality of their courses to achieve the best results the school had truly
charismatic, playful comfortable atmosphere, inspire students to absorb foreign
culture that they themselves have not been known.
So how to make effective teaching methods, given the actual lectures and lively
and charismatic student is not an easy question to answer to each of our teachers.
Based on actual situation of learning in grades 3, 4, 5; the levels of all
students acquire after a few weeks of the school year with conventional teaching
methods. I tested students by interviewing and classify objects of students,
comparing the initial results of teaching, as a basis for comparison of
experimental with results after teaching by this methods.
THE TABLE OF SURVEY RESULS (September 2018)
Grad
e

Numbe

14 Ss (25,9%)

24 Ss (44,4%)

5 Ss (9,3%)

48

9 Ss (18,7%)

12 Ss (25,0%)

21 Ss (43,8%)

6 Ss (12,5%)

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3. Solutions
3.1. Types of practising are used for developing speaking skills
To learn more gently, and effectively attract the attention of young
English language learners, teachers require to invest in furniture and teaching
methods to indoctrinate students. Pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar
relationships form close together to practise the speaking skills for students.
Description
Talk is the kind of exercise undertaken after catching target language
(topics, vocabulary and sentence patterns), so it is the part to practice language
in different situations. There are many types of talk and here are all commonly

- Steps:
+ Study the situation
Students open the textbook, research contents of pictures. They can do the
task independently or work in pairs or groups to describe the picture in
Vietnamese.
+ Picture description
While identifying situations in Vietnamese, all the words are said in
English. In grades 4 and 5, teacher can guide students to describe the picture in
English. Teacher notices to fix pronunciation (word stress, sentence stress and
intonation).
Important notice: do not interrupt students talking to correct errors but
correct when they finish speaking, if any.
+ Role-play
Example: Circumstance: Asking the way.

Unit 16 - Lesson 1 - Grade 5
Guide all students to act as a asker and a director. Then call two students
to act out:
Student 1: Where’s the.......?
Student 2 (Open the map): It’s on.......
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Depend on the situation that the picture given, teacher takes students on
the role-play.
+ Chaining:
In the chain exercises, we use an object or picture elements to make
suggestions. Show pictures or things for the first student to ask questions
involved. Students answer. Turn to the second student, ask this question but
replace elements. Just like that continue until everyone is asked and answered.

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c

d

(Picture 1) Unit 18 - Lesson 2 - Grade 4

(Picture 2) Unit 18 - Lesson 1 - Grade 4
This exercise has a similar format: Ask and answer questions about what
is happening in each picture.
* Look at the photo. Tell the story.....
- Aims:
This exercise requires higher. Students create their own speech, using new
sentence patterns of the lesson in form of narrative or conversation to
communicate in groups on this topic.
- Steps:
For picture description, according to following steps:
+ Use flash cards, remind students of some words and sentences using to
describe.
+ Ask students to look at pictures as a hint. Depend on levels of students
to give requests (general, more detailed, description and comment, description
and opinions, description and comparison).
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+ Students work in groups to describe pictures.
+ Call some groups to describe. Other students listen and make questions.
For conversation, according to following steps:
+ Vocabulary: Use flash cards to memorize students words, phrases. Teach

Student 1: What’s Phong doing?
Student 2: He’s watching TV.

Unit 7 - Lesson 1 - Grade 3
Ask students to use all kinds of questions they have known to ask and answer.
* Talk. (with guiding questions)
- Aims:
This is a kind of practicing with topic. This exercise is usually used in
grade 5. Guiding questions are suggested questions about content of a specific
topic, example: subjects, jobs, sports and games, traffic rules... There are two
ways of practicing: Narrative and conversation.
Narative: Base on guiding questions with understanding of topic to build a
monologue, tell what they know about the topic.
Example:
With the guiding questions and pictures about books, students have to talk
about observing traffic rules.
Conversation: Base on guiding questions with understanding of topic,
students ask and answer about that topic.

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Unit 19- Grade 5
- Steps:
Elicitation (Class work): Students talk in English about what they know
about traffic rules.
Example:
- Must not go on the left side.
- Use the zebra crossing.
- Must not walk on the grass.

two activities that young learners enjoy.
- Steps:
Materials: Papers and pencils (coloured pencils).
+ Draw (colour) a picture: Teacher gives students a assignment to draw
(colour).
Example: Colour the rainbow. Talk about it with your classmate.
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Unit 9 - Lesson 3 - Grade 3
Students do the task independently to complete the colouring. Teacher
goes around and monitors the activity and offers help when necessary.
In case, students have difficulties in drawing or colouring, teacher should
photocopy some pictures. Students must complete the pictures if they are a part
of object/animal, or connect the dots/numbers/letters. After completing the
drawing, students have to colour the picture.
+ Description: Call each student to introduce his/her pet. For grade 1
students, just name the pet in English. For grades 3 students, use the phrases
which have learnt to introduce. If they know animals’ sounds, they can imitate
the sounds after naming.
- Cat. Miaow! Miaow!
- This is my cat. Miaow! Miaow!
- This is my dog. Woof! Woof!
- This is my blue bird! Chirp! Chirp! It’s small.
Important note: Correct mistakes for students when they complete their
introductions.
- Drama:
Drama 1: Guessing
Call a student to the board bring his/her pet but hid behind, do not let
class know. The student introduce what his/her pet is.

Look at your book / the picture on page ...
Listen and repeat.
Come on.
Go to the board.
Raise your hands.
Let’s do it again.
Sing and do.
Make a circle.
Move around, etc...
In general, at first the students are bewildered but gradually, they understand
and follow the teacher's orders.
After the children have learned a new sentence pattern, teachers should
use it regularly in the classroom so that they have good reflexes.
Practicing for students should not understand Vietnamese underground
and then translate it into English. Teachers need to make them love and enjoy
learning English.
Specifically, through beautiful textbooks, animated films, games,
advertisements, common items ... make children interested in the words, sounds
different from Vietnamese; play games and practice singing along to the film,
follow the disc, follow the singer, follow the English songs.
Thus, their language ability will grow. We are creating stimulating
surroundings where we find that learning English is essential.
During school hours teachers should use drawings, gestures, etc. other
non-verbal actions to express a word. When speaking in English, try to express it
in any way possible, including using gestures.
Example:
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+ When putting the word "a dog", the teacher can draw a quick sketch of

what they say. Students need to pronounce words and sentences clearly.
So when introducing the language, teachers need to read the standard of
both phonetic and accentual intonation so that they can imitate because this is
the basic element in teaching and speaking.
Of course, it is impossible to standardize as native English speakers but in
order to have the most accurate pronunciation results we should listen hard to
native speakers.
Teachers should persist in pronouncing pronunciation for students to
make them have a habit of correctly pronouncing and having to pronounce
correctly. Because if you first learn English and your pronunciation is not
correct, it will become a habit of bad influence in the process of learning and
communication later.
Pronunciation forms: Listen and repeat, Point and say, Let’s chant.....
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Example:
+ Stand at the beginning of the word: Tony, yes
+ Stand in the middle of the word: kitchen, bathroom
+ Stand at the end of the word: played, painted
3.4. Teach students to use stress and intonation when speaking
Intonation is simply understood as the rise and fall of the voice. The
listener may misunderstand the meaning of the speaker completely if the speaker
uses the wrong language, because the intonation is compared with the soul of the
sentence. Actually intonation has a small effect on acquiring and understanding
information in communication. Especially with English, intonation not only
helps listeners understand what we are saying, but also shows the attitude, the
profound meaning of the words. If you understand correctly, practice good
accent and standard intonation, you will both speak English well, listen well and
understand all of the deep meaning of the speaker in communication. Therefore,

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measures which I have presented in this initiative. Thereby the quality of
teaching and learning is increasing, language learning skills of students is
growing.
THE TABLE OF SURVEY RESULTS (March 2019)
Grad
e

Number
of
students

Excellent

Good

Average

Weak

5

60

18 Ss (30,0%)

25 Ss (41,6%)


achieved remarkable results and have valuable experiences for myself as follow:
- Encouraging and motivating students is also a very important factor to
make children focus on practising speaking English.
- Teachers need to choose appropriate teaching methods for each student,
flexibly coordinate methods, teaching techniques and key knowledge in the
process of teaching hours.
- Teachers need to be engaged, attract students to the content of the lesson
and encourage them to apply creatively during the practice.
- Teachers must always create an English language environment during
class hours depending on their grades and students so that they will become
familiar with the learning language environment.
- Teachers should instruct them to practice in groups, instructing them to
build learning partners to have the opportunity to practice regularly.

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III. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Conclusion
To get good results, each teacher always explores, harness creativity and
relentless efforts, to combine harmonious, ingenious between the layers to step
up to the amount of knowledge in textbooks, know intergrade transplantation
procedures for teaching each lesson and the teacher is important to understand
each student to make appropriate amount of knowledge that they understand that
not all subjects are boring.
Teaching methods are abundant, knowledge is extremely vast immensity.
In fact, I have used these measures and integrated with the games to teach
students at Tao Xuyen Primary School recently learned that they play, play
school which makes learning English is no longer tedious air and the result is
quite satisfactory. They were from the feeling of afraid to speak, the enthusiasm

I assure, this is my initiative, do
not copy from any other’s.

Nguyen Thi Thom

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REFERENCES
1- English Students’ book - Grade 5 - Viet Nam Educational Publisher.
2- English Students’ book - Grade 4 - Viet Nam Educational Publisher.
3- English Students’ book - Grade 3 - Viet Nam Educational Publisher.
4- Teach Children English - Cambrige University Press.
5- Drama with Children - Oxford University Press.


THE LIST OF INITIATIVES WAS ASSESSED BY THE COUNCIL OF
DISTRICT DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & TRAINING,
PROVINCIAL DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION & TRAINING
No
1

2

3

4

Name of initiatives
Some solutions to

Experiences in teaching - District Department of
skills of speaking
Education and Traning
English for primary
- Provincial Department
students.
of Education and
Training

School year
2004-2005

2007-2008

A
C

2010-2011

A
B

2015-2016