Use of modern teaching techniques to improve the quality of teaching reading lesson in class 8 in Trung Thanh secondary school

1. THE RENERAL POINTS.
1.1 The reasons of choosing the topic.	
	As we all know our country is in the process of integration and development, together with the international community in many areas such as: economy, tourism, culture, including the education sector. So English has had a very important position to communicate, and is key to helping us inspired and can go anywhere in the world, reaching every area of your life. 
	Along with the trend of globalization, English is increasingly playing an extremely important role in all areas, therefore, the teaching and learning of English in this context and should be interested in investing in both internal content and methods. Requirements of teaching and learning in schools today for this language does not just stop at one single skill that is developed in parallel 4 skills: Listening -Say - Reading - Writing. There are many methods of teaching and learning of English language skills in schools has been adopted, however, Read - out remains a difficult skill to students communicate effectively because it is difficult to maintain the student interest during a long lecture, especially when they are in the habit to stop at understanding the meaning of words rather than go deeper to understand the message or knowledge is transmitted through each content poison.
	I am teaching English at Trung Thanh secondary School in Quan Hoa – a mountainous district of Thanh Hoa for many years. I have always been aware and wondered how to help these children can grow in 4 skills: listen-speak-read-write. To English became my inspiration for these children and to defuse problems, during the Ethnic schools sell stay high school Trung Thanh in the past year as well as in the academic year 2017-2018. I have studied the relevant documents, as well as discussions with colleagues in the journal batch Manager to find the direction to fix problems. Aware of the importance of receiving information, additional knowledge through reading culture so I decided to research and development of specialized skills taught Reading as a way of sharing skills and methods to the same direction students to enhance their knowledge through their own skills through topics "Use of modern teaching techniques to improve the quality of teaching reading lesson in class 8 in Trung Thanh secondary school" to contribute to improving the quality of the subject, as well as innovative methods of teaching and learning.
1.2 Research objects
The students are in grade 8 at Trung Thanh Secondary School.
1.3. Research time
 	From 08/2017 to 04/2018.
+ From 08/2017 - 10/2017: the time of research topic
+ From 11/2017 - 01/2018: applying research topic for all grades.
+ From 02/2018 - 03/2018: evaluating the effectiveness in using the research topic.
+ 04/2018: completing research topic.
2. THEORETICAL BASIS AND PRACTICAL BASIS
2.1.1 Theoretical basis
 	In recent years, foreign language learning in schools Thanh Hoa is applied widely and gradually is considered academic courses with a maximum of 4 more details on the week. When English has confirmed the role and importance of it in the schools and all educational levels, improving the quality of teaching and learning is very important. So how to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning is a necessity not only for students, but especially for people who are directly teaches English. We all know that learning English is merely a language school. Want to become proficient in that language, the school must practice four basic skills: Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing. If they learn well the four skills, it will be easy access to information technology, science and technology and is very convenient in communication. Especially comprehension skills is one of the basic skills to be focused in the process of teaching and learning foreign languages. It deciding whether learners have understood the content of the post or not. So if students have the ability to read or understand English well, you can read books, newspapers and documents are written in English with content appropriate to the level and age of the students, help school conditional students improve their English. In a reading teacher more than just help students understand the corpus of each paragraph, but also to know how to use a flexible procedures to match the specific content of each article to inspire interesting for students and creating training activities to help students better practices. But most students are afraid to exercise. The reason is that English is completely different from the mother tongue, difficult to learn, difficult to remember. Moreover, they are lazy should learn from their vocabulary too little, poorly prepared new post, learn coping weak especially children. They are always afraid of saying the wrong speech led to concern considerable affect learning outcomes of the subject. 
The requirements of the course and the difficulties of the student, as a teacher is to teach subjects I myself have always concern is how to achieve the highest efficiency in their teaching methods. Therefore, I have found out a number of measures to help students learn more effectively than reading. Because of the above reasons I chose strong as comprehension skills to do a workshop on "Use of modern teaching techniques to improve the quality of teaching reading lesson in class 8 at Trung Thanh secondary school ".
2.1.2 Practical basis
	In the process of teaching and learning foreign languages, reading is one of the very basic skills are emphasized. Reading is an effective means and necessary for students to be able to master and consolidate the knowledge of language, expand vocabulary and understand more deeply the style, using the language they are learning. The readings play a crucial role in the development of reading comprehension skills of students. 
	In fact, on reading skills and do the exercises after reading, students often make some common mistakes such as: mispronounced, often pronounce wind indiscriminately, the student's vocabulary too meager or forgotten much, do not know how to read a comprehension exercise, do not remember the information in the reading, do not grasp the grammatical structure basically, the majority of students do not know how to ask questions and answer texts. To overcome this situation, first of all, the teacher must do so that students have proper awareness about the importance of language learning in general and in particular the English in particular, is to make learning favorite student, interested in learning a first reading more effectively. The lectures of the teachers in the classroom must be appropriate for all audiences of students, must have appropriate methods, inspire student learning. So through the actual experience of teaching and learning in the past year I have decided to choose this topic for study in the academic year 2017-2018.
* The advantages and disadvantages when say for students
Convenience: 
	- Students with nature is willing to participate in the activities of school hours when was fascinated in the activities.
	- Students are parents and teachers concerned, help in the learning process. 
	-Teachers are learning, exchange of experiences from colleagues across the training, exchange of experiences, topical. 
	-The interest, support of the Rectorate, the expertise and colleagues. 
Trouble:
	Is a school located in Thanh Hoa province's western brandishing annually were difficult, local infrastructure is creaky. The vast majority of people here live by farming, forestry and cultural levels are limited, access difficulties for students in the rainy season. Despite such difficulties, but the unfortunate here is that most of the children still lack the interest and encouragement of his family, some parents also underestimated their child's learning. From there you easily cause there are irresponsible attitudes in learning and also affect the formation of personality, moral qualities of the children later on. More parents also lack of interest in the inspection work and manage their study time, particularly this will easily make you depressed. On the other hand, due to the school located in poor, English learning conditions are limited. The school has no reference books and equipment to cater to this subject. Issues raised is how we overcome these weaknesses on to contribute to improving the quality of work out the skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing to students, help students become more confident in communication. In addition, English is a difficult subject, volume much knowledge, classroom time is less, especially for grade 8 English, reading only 45 minutes to work out successfully this skill for the students in a class is very difficult thing. The difficulty is that but want to learn this subject is a very intractable thing, requiring the responsible teacher must have the passion a career, have high enthusiasm, combine perseverance, enthusiasm, new help students themselves more and more advances.  
2.2 The states of the research topic the results 
Class
Total number of students
Reading skill
Grasp the knowledge, apply quite well
Never grasp the knowledge, using weak
Qt
%
Qt
%
8A
30
10
33
20
67
8B
30
8
26,6
22
73,4
Through results on I noticed the children's reading skills are also more limited prepared. They have not understood the lesson, not to apply the knowledge you've taught. 
English is a very difficult subject for SECONDARY school students, especially for students in grade 8.Moreover for all-mountainous students contact and intimacy surrounding reality are limited. 
The majority of the students have yet to focus on and invest in foreign language courses, preparing an article for granted. In the school, the majority of these children are often passive, lack of flexibility, the less English and join statements to learn lessons.
2.3 Implement solutions
	By studying the reality problem, I boldly suggest some positive methods to help grade 8 students to learn reading skill well.
	Apply some positive methods on reading lesson:
2.3.1 Methods of teaching groups 
Teaching groups are also known by different names such as: Teaching collaboration, teaching in small groups, in which students of a class is divided into small groups, within a time limit each self-help group completed the task of learning on the basis of division of work and cooperation. Results of the group work were then presented and evaluated before the whole class. 
Teach if well-organized groups will promote positive, accountability; capacity development partnership working and communication capabilities of the students. 
The process of implementing the teaching process can be divided into groups of three basic stages: 
a. Working full class: Introduction and assignment 
- Introduce theme 
- Defining task groups 
- Established groups 
b. Teamwork 
- Prepare workplace 
- Planning work 
- working rule agreement 
- Conduct solving tasks 
- Prepare reports on the results. 
c. Working full class: Presented results, evaluation 
- The group presented the results 
- Assessment of the results.
Example: 
Period 64:	 Unit 10: RECYCLING
Lesson 4: Read
I.OBJECTIVES
Teaching points: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to form the passive in the present simple. They will also be able to know what they should do to protect the environment and save natural resources.
1. Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Sts will be able to form the Passive in the Present Simple.
a. Grammar: 
 	- Passive forms: future and present
	 - Adjectives followed by an infinitive and a noun clause
b. Vocabulary: pipe, milkman, refill, industry, melt, deposit, .....
2. Skills:	Reading, Speaking, listening and writing.
3. Attitude: 
Sts will know how to take advantages of daily things in order to reuse and recycle them to protect the environment.
I. METHOD AND TEACING AIDS:
1. Methods: Communicative approach	
2. Teaching aids: 	Teacher: pictures, laptop, megaphone, projector.
	Students: textbook, notebook.
III.TEACHING PROCEDURE
1. Check the previous lesson: (5’)
- T asks Sts to change sentences into passive voice.
2. New lesson: (40’) 
T’S AND SS ACTIVITIVES
CONTENTS
Warm up
T gives some pictures then asks Ss question:
- What do people make from car tire?
- What do people do with bottles?
- What do people do with old glass?
- What do people do with drink cans?
- What types of garbage can we put in compost?
SS:Group work
-Follow T's guiding.
Possible answers:
- Make toys: cars, vase of flowers, pen bottles
Pre-teach vocabulary 
*Present new words in the lesson.
-T introduce the new vocabulary by showing pictures.
-SS look at the pictures and remember
- Get Ss to copy in their notebooks . 
- Ss copy in their notebooks . 
* Checking vocabulary : Slap the board
- Have Ss to relax with games in oder to remember new words; It is an interesting game for you called slap the board.
- Ss are divided into two groups and then play the game.
- The teacher says the English word and the students race to slap the correct word first in VN.
- The team slap more correct words is winner.
*Open prediction:
- Tell Ss, they are going to read a page in a newspaper giving some recycling facts to protect the environment .
- Ss listen
- Ask ss to look at the board and guess what they are going to read 
+ What do people do with used things ? 
+ What can they make from them ? 
- Ss guess.
- Call on some Ss to read their guesses on the board 
Car ties -> ..
Milk bottles ->
Glass -> ..
Drink cans -> ..
Household and garden waste ->  .
1.Vocabulary : 
- tire (n) : lốp xe
- pipe (n) : ống dẫn nước
- to refill (v) : làm đâỳ lại
- to melt (v): làm tan chảy
- glassware (n): thủy tinh
- deposit (n) : khoản tiền đặt cọc
- Compost (n): phân hữu cơ
- fertilizer (n): phân vô cơ
-to recycle (v): tái chế
Car ties -> ..
Milk bottles ->
Glass -> ..
Drink cans -> ..
Household and garden waste -> 
3.While – reading : 
1. Grid 
- Draw the grid on the board and have Ss copy it 
- Ask Ss to open their books and read the text.
- Ss to open their books and read the text.
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to make a list of recycling facts mentioned in the text. - Ss to write the information in the grid on the board
- Call on some Ss to write the information in the grid on the board. 
* Comprehension questions 
- Ask Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions . 
- Ss to work in pairs to answer the questions .
- Get them to compare their answers with their friends.
- Ss compare their answers with their friends.
- Call on some pairs to practice asking and answering the questions . 
- Some pairs to practice asking and answering the questions. 
Gives answer keys if necess.
Used things 
Recycling Facts 
Car tires 
Milk bottles 
Glass
Drink cans 
Household and garden waste 
are recycled to make pipes and floor recoverings
are cleaned and refilled (with milk ) 
is broken up , melted and made into new glassware 
are brought back for recycling 
is made into compost .
2.Answer the questions
a. People cleaned and refilled empty milk bottles. 
b. The glass is broken up, melted and made into new glassware. 
c. The Oregon government made a new law that there must be a deposit on all drink cans. The deposit is returned when people bring the cans back for recycling.
d. Compost is made from household and garden waste
e. If we have a recycling story to share, we can call or fax the magazine at 5 265 456. 
Grammar points
+Present new grammar points:
- Gives example.
- Passive Form in the present Simple .
Asks Ss copy new grammar.
- Ss coppy
- How to change an active sentence to a passive voice : 
Asks Ss to copy.
-Ss copy into notebooks
*Practice: 
- Have Ss make sentences, use the Passive Form in the present Simp l
- Some Ss to read their completed sentences in front of class. 
* Change these sentences into the passive 
1. Lan likes pop music. 
2. They play table tennis every day 
3. We do these exercises in the notebooks. 
4. He feeds five chickens. 
5. She buys a lot of food. 
- Call on some Ss to read their completed sentences in front of class. 
- Ss go to the board and write the sentences.
- Give feedback 
3.Grammar
Example: 
People recycle glass into new glassware.
 S V O
 Glass is recycled into new glassware
 S be Vpast participle
Form:
 S+ tobe +Past participle
Active: S V(s,es) O
Passive: S + tobe + PII + by O 
- Ss copy into notebooks.
Eg1 : They collect the glass
 The glass is collected by them 
Eg 2: 
People send the glass to the factories
The glass is sent to the factories by
Usage:
- It is used when the subject is affected by the action of the verb. 
Meaning: bị, được.
1. Pop music is liked by Lan. 
2. Table tennis is played every day by them.
3. These exercises are done in the notebooks by us. 
4. Five chickens are fed by him 
5. A lot of food is bought by her. 
IV.CONSOLIDATION
- Summarize the main points of the lesson.
- Retell the main points of this lesson.
V.HOMEWORK
- Copy down all the passive sentences in their note books.
- Assign home work.
2.3.2 Methods Case studies 
	Case study method is to use a true story or the story was written based on these cases often occur in practical life to illustrate a problem or some problems. Sometimes typical case studies can be performed on a video or cassette tapes but not in writing. 
* Implementation Process 
Steps typical case study can be: 
- Students read (or watch, or listen to) the typical case. 
- Thinking about it (maybe write a few thoughts before discussing it with others). 
- Discussion of case studies under the guidance of the teacher questions. 
* Note 
	- For a typical case are raised to reflect the diversity of real life, so it should be relatively sophisticated, with complex characters and different situations rather than a question simple story. 
	- A case can be long or short, depending on the content, but the problem must be consistent with the topic, in accordance with the level of Students and duration allowed. 
	- Depending on the situation, there be held to the same class research a typical case or assign each team a different case.
2.3.3. The method to solve the problem 
Based learning to detect and solve problems is set forth students cognitive issues contained contradictions between the known and the unknown, moving students in problematic situations, stimulating their self-reliance and initiative and desire needs to solve the problem. 
* Process implementation 
- Identify, identify problems / situations; 
- Collect relevant information to issues / situations posing; 
- Lists the possible workarounds; 
- Analyze and evaluate the results of each workarounds (positive, limitations, emotions, values); 
- Comparison results of the solution; 
- Selecting optimal resolution; 
- Follow workarounds have chosen; 
- Learning for solving these problems, other situations. 
Example: 
Period 90: UNIT 14: WONDERS OF THE WORLD
LESSON 4 – READ
I.OBJECTIVES
1. Knowleges: 
By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to get some knowledge about wonders of the world. 
2. Skills: Develop listening, speaking, reading, writing skills.
3. Attitude: Students like to learn English and use it correctly, then they can know more about the wonders of the world.
II.METHODS AND TEACHING AIDS
1. Methods: Communicative approach	
2. Teaching aids: 	Teacher: textbook, pictures, laptop, megaphone, projector
	Students: textbook, notebook.
III.PROCEDURE 
1. Class management: 1 minute
2. Revision: (5 minutes) WARM-UP
3. New lesson: 
a. Setting the scene: Included in the WARM-UP
b. Main activities:
T’S AND SS’ ACTIVITIES
CONTENTS
- Ask Ss to work in 2 teams and play the game: go to the board and match the name to correct picture
- Present new wo