Some suggested warm - Up activities applied for teaching English 10

 DEPARTMENT OF THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 DINH CHUONG DUONG UPPER SECONDARY SCHOOL
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EXPERIENCE REPORT
THEME:
 SOME SUGGESTED WARM-UP ACTIVITIES APPLIED FOR TEACHING ENGLISH 10
Written by: Hoang Thi Hoa
 Position: Teacher
 Field: English
THANH HOA, 2017
Contents Page I. INTRODUCTION: .2
1.1. Reasons for choosing the research:2
1.2. Aims of the research:..2
1.3. Objects of the research: .2
1.4. Methods of the research:....2
II. CONTENT...3
2.1.Rationale:.3
2.2.Factual basis ................................................................................................4
2.3.Warm-up activities...4 
2.4. Analysis of the results of the survey on the effect of warm-up activites5
2.5.Some warm- up activities that have successfully been applied for teaching English 10 at Dinh Chuong Duong upper secondary school.6
2.6. Results after applying ..........................................................17
III. CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.....18
3.1 Conclusion:. ..18
3.2. Recommendation:.....18
3.2.1. For teachers: ..19
3.2.2. For school management committee:..20
REFERENCES.. 21
 I. INTRODUCTION
1. 1. Reasons for choosing the research
 In the globalization trend nowadays, English has been playing an important role in every aspect. Because of this, the demand for learning English is increasing more and more. Therefore, English is clearly considered to be one of the most important subjects at school. Being a teacher of English, I always raise this question: How to make the students interested in and learn well this subject- a forein language? 
 Throughout 10 years teaching English at the upper secondary school, I have concluded the experience that if students participate excitedly in the warm-up activities before going to the new lesson, the lesson will be considerably successful. So, how can we make it possible to get suitable and effective warm-up activities? This often takes a large amount of time when I plan each lesson. Fully undersanding these difficulties, I choose this writing report “Some suggested warm-up activities applied for teaching English 10” 
 Here I would like to share some experience to help teachers design and plan the lessons more effectively and less hard.
1.2. Aims of the reseach:
 For the reasons given above, this research may give a clue to improve the quality of teaching and learning English, especially English 10. The research aim at:
- Giving a more comprehensive outlook about English 10
- Providing basic knowledge about the role of the warm-up activites.
- Suggesting warm-up activites that can be applied for lessons in English 10.
1.3. Objects of the research
- Lessons in English 10 curriculum and the innovation of warm-up activities at Dinh Chuong Duong upper-secondary school are basic resources of this research.
- The tactics to teach in the Pre-stages
- The types of exercises in each activity
- The number of activites in each warm-up part.
- Students of grade 10 at Dinh Chuong Duong upper secondary school
1.4. Methods of the research
- Reading reference books
- Analyzing and discussing with other teachers
- Applying in teaching, observing and drawing out experiences
II. CONTENT
2.1. Rationale: 
 By far, our communist party and the government have made education reform advocates, focused on teaching and learning English correctly. The goal of our general education is "Helping students develop fully in morality, physical intellectuality, aesthetic and basic skills, personal capabilities, dynamism and creativity, forming the real people of Socialist Vietnam, build personalities and responsibilities as citizens, prepare for students for further education or going into working life, contributing in the development and defense of the homeland".
 Education Law stipulates that "Educational methods have to promote active, self -discipline, initiative and creativity of students in accordance with the characteristics of the subject, the object characteristics of students, each classroom conditions, fostering students self-learning methods, collaborative capabilities, training skills to apply knowledge in practice, emotional impact, bringing joy, excitement and responsibility for students".
 In short, we should educate students fully, applying modern teaching methods, innovate teaching methods and know how to make the lessons be more lively, attract students’ attention and make them voluntarily participate in learning activitites, actively seek out knowledge and use that knowledge effectively.
2.2. Factual situation:
 English 10 was re-introduced from the shool year 2006-2007. Teaching and learning English have to innovate to meet the demand. After many years of applying new textbooks, especially English 10, I have found both advantages and disadvantages or difficulties for teachers and learners. 
 +Advantages: English 10 has 16 units talking about 6 topics (You and me, Education, Community, Nature, Recreation and People and place). These topics are popular and suitable with the students’interest, knowledge and age.These themes not only elicit but also motivate and help students find information and discover more and more new nessessary things in genernal. Moreover, the Language Focus parts are designed suitably with most students’ knowledge level. For example, talking about wh-quetions, the lesson only requires students to recollect structures and how to choose wh-words. It is also undeniable to refer to the effect of the Glossary, from it the students can find out almost enough information about new and difficult words and phrases in each lesson. This helps students a lot to prepare a new lesson. 
 + Disadvantages: There are some structures or idiom phrases that are fairely difficult for students. For example, in Unit 8: Make ends meet, meet one's wish ...
In addition, in some periods of speaking and writing skill, lessons are boringly designed, not suitable with the whole topics. This causes difficulties for teachers in planning lessons. Some of the inconsiderable grammar points aslo make it hard for the teachers to plan the lessons in general.
 Realizing all of the advantages and disadvantages of the textbook English10, I together with many English teachers at Dinh Chuong Duong upper secondary school have to take it into considaration before planning each teaching lesson. And this research aslo aims at promoting advantages and reducing disadvantages in teaching English in general and English10 in particular.
2.3. Warm-up activities
 a. What are warm-up activities?
 Warm-up activities are short-term working activities (about 3 to 5 minutes) which are used to “break the iceberg” and "warm" the learning atmostphere up right from the beginning of the lesson. These activities are often simple but interesting enough to catch students’ attention and motivate them to learn the forein language effectively during the lesson.
 b. The purpose of warm-up activites in schools:
 Instead of starting the lesson usually by checking up the old lesson, teachers can use a variety of warm-up activites for different purposes. There are three main purposes when using these activities:
* Warm up to start the lesson: to do this, the teacher can use the following activities:
- Talk to and pick up some information from them. Take health, weather as examples
- Ask students whether they remember the previous lesson: Where did we stop last time?
- Give an idea or a comment on a specific student. (Oh, you look very beautiful today, Huong.)
- Telling something about ourselves (Yesterday, my family had a good time together at Sam Son beach.)
- Ect ....
* Warm up to encourage and motivate the students to speak right from the beginning of the lesson.
Here are some tips and suggested questions to help teachers get started:
- What were you talking about when I came into the room?
- What did you do last night?
- What are your plans for this evening / the weekend ..?
- What is in the news today?
- What is new at home / at school / at work ...?
- I think my watch is wrong. What is the exact time now?
- What would you like to do today?
- Ect ...................
* Warm up to lead in:
By applying the following activities, the teachers can both "warm" the classroom up and guide the students to the main content of the new lesson.
- Use pictures
- Tell a story
- Play the record of a song or sing a song
- Draw something not clear on board and get the students to guess
- Have the students to think words or definitions related to the new lesson
- Get the students to guess the content or topic of the lesson based on sugestions
- Use realia
- Hold a game for students to play
- Ect ............
 c. Rules when using warm-up activities:
- The teachers have to prepare carefully before the teaching period. This means the teachers must know the aims and the procedure clearly.
- Activities must be short, simple
- Activities should be interesting, exciting
- Activities should be based on student's ability
- Activities should be various in order not to make the students bored
2.4. Analysis of the results of the survey on the effect of warm-up activites with students in grade 10 at Dinh Chuong Duong upper secondary school:
   To find out how effective the warm-up activities are for learning and learning, I conducted a small survey from students in class 10A1 and 10A2. Basing on the results, I have more encouragement to write this report.
 According to the results of the survey, 90% of students support the warm-up activities and more than 80% realize that these activities bring them the excitement and good mood before learning the new lesson. Approximately 5% left are in favour of checking old lesson as tradition or like other activities.
 Thus, it is clear that warm-up activities have brought remarkable effects to learners. The students feel the lesson more meaningful and interesting. They find English more interesting than other subjects which get started by checking up the previous lesson.
 Table of results of the survey:
Q1
Q2
Q3
Q4
Q5
Q6
A
10,3%
0%
14,6%
8,5%
46%
60%
B
87,7%
0%
30%
69,5%
52%
20,7%
C
0%
0%
40%
20%
2%
15%
D
0%
100%
15,4%
2%
0%
4,3%
2.5. Some warm- up activities that have successfully been applied for teaching English 10 at Dinh Chuong Duong secondary school
 Here I present some suggested warm-up activities that I have applied in the pre-stages and and got relatively satisfied results from my students.
2.5.1. Unit1: A day in the life of.
a. Lesson A: Reading
- Hang on some pictures in turn and ask students to say out what they can see
- Ask students to guess the content of the lesson
b. Lesson B: Speaking
Name: matching words
Type: group work
Materials: poster, large papers, board pens 
Time: 5 mins
Procedure: 
Devide the class into 2 groups
Provide each group with 1 large and 1 board pen
Give instruction and time allotted
Check groups’ work and declare the winner
Subjects in English
Subjects in Vietnamese
Civic Education
Technology
Maths
Phyics 
Geography
History
Chemisrty
Physical Education
English
Biology
Literature
Infomatics
Văn 
Toán
Địa lý
Hoá học
Tiếng Anh
Công dân
Lịch sử
Thể dục
Công nghệ
Vật lý
Tin học 
Sinh học
Lesson C: Listening
Name: Network
Type: class work
Material: board, chalk
Time: 3 mins 
Procedure:
Write the key word on the board
Means of transport
Ask sts to think of the related words and say in English
Lead in the lesson by some guiding questions:
 + Do you like travel by cyclo?
 + Do you think cyclo-driver is easy work?...
d.Lesson D: writing: Writing a narrative
Name: Telling a story
Type: Individual work
Materials: Nothing
Time: 3- 5 mins
Procedure:
Ask sudents to think of the most impressed story that they witnessed or heard
Call on 1 advanced to tell in front of the class (Encourage him/ her to use English)
Give some other guiding questions:
+ What items are mentioned in his/ her story (Time, event, place)
+ Which tense is used in the story?
 + “ Bạn vừa dùng hình thức viết văn nào để kể lại câu chuyện đó?”
e.Lesson E: Language Focus:
Name: Describing pictures
Type: Class work
Materials: Pictures, chalk
Time: 2-3 mins
Procedure:
Hang the 2 pictures on the board and ask sts to speak out what they can see in these pictures.
Write the 2 key words on the board
Call on some students to read the words
Write the phonetic forms of them and read the words aloud several times
2.5.2: Unit 2: School talks
Lesson A: Reading:
Name: Slap the board
Type: Group work
Materials: stick cards
Time: 3- 5 mins
Procedure:
Divide the class into 2 groups
Ask each group to send 5 presentatives and set in a queue
Provide each group of students 7 stick cards and give instruction
Read aloud sentence by sentence
Give feedback
Declare the winner
7 Suggested sentences:
+ I often play online when I have free time
+ After the school year, I’ll go on a summer.
+ Soccer and badminton are my favourite.
+ Do you usually watch.at 6p.m everyday?
+ What is the .like today?
+ Students have tohard for the exam.
+ My .is collecting stamps.
Keys : games/ holiday/ sports/ film/ weather/ study/ hobby
Lesson B: Speaking
Name: Jumbled words
Type: class work
Materials: Poster
Time: 5 mins
Procedure:
Hang on the poster
Give instruction and time allotted
Check with the whole class
Jumbled words:
+ nice/ been/ has/ it/ meeting/ you
+ later/ you/ see/. Goodbye.
+ Hello. Are/ you/ how
+ Sorry, go/ to/ have/ got/ I. you/ catch/ later
Keys:
+ It has nice been meeting you
+ Goodbye. See you later
+ Hello. How are you?
+ Sorry, I have got to go. Catch you later.
Lesson C: Listening
Name: Missing words
Type: group work
Materials: Poster, chalk
Time: 5 mins
Procedure:
Divide the class into 2 teams
Give instruction 
Hang on the poster
Call on 2 representatives of the 2 groups to come to the board and write down the key words
Poster:
+ The duty of students is to S_ _ _ _
+ In summer, my family often go to the B_ _ _ _.
+ 30th April is Hoa’s birthdayP_ _ _ _.
+ My hobby is T_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ around the world.
+ He invites me to go out for a D_ _ _ _.
Suggested answers: STUDY/ BEACH/ PARTY/ TRAVELLING/ DRINK
Lesson D: Writing: Writing a form
Name: Brainstorming
Type: class work
Materials: Chalk
Time: 3 mins
Procedure:
Write the key word in a circle on the board
Ask sts to list as many things relating to this word as possible
Write on board what the students say out
Lead in the lesson by using some more questions:
+ Where do you often see these information?
+ Have you ever used these informaion? When
Private information
Lesson E: Language Focus
Name: Describing pictures
Type: class work
Materials: Pictures, chalk
Time: 3- 5 mins
Procedure:
Hang on the 2 pictures and give the questions:
 + What is the boy doing?
 + What is the girl doing?
Write down the 2 keys word on board 
Call some sudents to read aloud
Read as model 3 times
Write the phonetic forms of them
2.5.3: Unit 3: People’s background
Lesson A: Reading
Name: Game: Who am I (3 persons)
Type: Group work
Materials: pictures, some pieces of paper
Time: 5 mins
Procedure:
Divide the class into 2 teams
Give instruction
Read aloud the 3 clues for 1 person in turn
Declare the winner
Who am I? 
+ I was born in Nghệ An
+ I am the greatest leader of Vietnam 
+ My birthday is May 19th 1890 
à UNCLE HO 
Who am I?
+ I live in America
+ My name begins with letter B
+ I am the boss of the company Microft
à BILL GATES 
Who am I?
+ I am a famous female scientist.
+ I was born in Germany
+ My name begins with letter M
à MARIE CURIE
Lesson B: Speaking:
Name: Listing words beginning with the letter I
Type: Group work
Materials: Large papers, boardpens
Time: 3-5 mins
Procedure:
Divide the class into 2 teams
Deliver each group with 1 large paper and 1 boardpen
Ask students to write down the words beginning with I in 3 minutes 
Check with the whole class and declare the winner
Lesson C: Listening
Name: Name some Olympic champions 
Type: class work
Material: none
Time: 2-3 mins
Procedure:
Give the question: “Can you name some famous Olympic champions in the world?”
 Suggested names: Michael Phelps (swimming – 2008), Nastia Liukin (Athletes- 2008)
Lesson D: Writing: Filling in a form
Name: Matching
Type: Group work
Materials: posters, board pens
Time: 3-5 mins
Procedure: 
Divide the class into 2 teams
Provide each group with 1 poster containing the matching task
Ask students to match in 3 minutes
Hang groups’ work on and check with the whole class
Declare the winner
 A
 B
name
date of birth
place of birth
school attended
exams passed
previous job
interests
Lien Truong village
Hau Loc I
22/ 01/ 1985
Music and dancing
Private tutor
English
Hoang Thi Hoa
Lesson E: Language Focus
Name: Drawing pictures
Type: Classwork
Materials: Chalk, board
Time: 3 mins
Procedure:
Draw some unclear things on the board and ask sts to guess what the teacher is going to draw next
Complete the pics of 3 faces with sadness on them
Ask students these questions:
+ Who are they? Men or Women?--> Men
+ Are they sad or happy? --> Sad
Write the 2 words on board and read them aloud 3 times
Write the phonetic forms of them and ask students to read
2.5.4.Unit 4: Special Education
Lesson A: Reading
Name: Questionaire
Type: class work
Materials: none
Time: 3 mins
Procedure: 
Give questions and ask sudents to answer:
+ Can all of you hear/ speak/ see?
+ What are people who can’t hear/ speak/ see called? àTHE DISABLED
+ Is it easy or difficult to teach the disabled?
+ May they have normal education?
Lead in the lesson: SPECIAL EDUCATION
b. Lesson B: Speaking
Name: Noughts and crosses
Type: group work
Materials: poster
Time: 5 mins
Procedure: 
Divide the class into 2 teams
Give instruction: each group take 1 turn to choose the number they like, each number carrries 1 word, the group have to make sentence with this word.The group which complete 3 sentences on the same horizontal or vertical line first will be the winner.
Monitor the game
Declare the winner
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 c. Lesson C: Listening
Name: Network
Type: Classwork
Materials: Chalk, board
Time: 2-3 mins
Procedure:
Write the key word on the board 
Ask sts to say the name of the school for the disabled in Vietnam
Schools for the disabled
Lead in the lesson 
d.Lesson D: Writing
Name: Describing pictures and questions
Type: classwork
Materials: pictures
Time: 3-5 mins
Procedure: 
Hang the pictures on and give questions:
+ Who are they in these pictures?
+ How do they feel? Happy or angry?
+ What kind of letter do you write if you feel angry or dissatisfied with something/ someone? A letter of complaint or a thank-you letter?
- Lead in the lesson
e.Lesson E: Language focus
Name: Using realia
Type: Classwork
Materials: A box, some chalk
Time: 2 mins
Procedure:
Take a box and ask sudents what you are holdingà BOX
Take some chalk and ask sudents what is in your handà CHALK
Write the 2 words on board
Ask some students to read aloud the words
Read aloud the words as model
Write the phonetic forms and lead in the lesson
2.5.5.Unit 5: Technology and you	
Lesson A: Reading
Name: Matching words and pics (names of hardware)
Type: Group work
Materials: Pictures, stick cards
Time: 3-5 mins
Procedure:
Devide the class into 2 teams and give instruction
Hang pics on board
Call on the representative of each group to stick cards with the right words on the pics
Declare the winner
Lesson B: Speaking
Name: Network
Type: classwork
Material: none
Time: 3 mins
Procedure:
Write the key word on board
Ask sudents to say out the names of modern inventions that they