Using some active games to improve the quality of teaching and learning English for students in grade 3 at Vinh Thanh primary school

PART 1. INTRODUCTION
 1.1. The reasons for choosing the theme:
 In the trend of integration of our country and primary education today, English subject along with other subjects in primary schools have an important role to contribute to the training of comprehensive development people, meet the requirements of the country in the new period.
 We want the primary students to be good at English, each teacher not only impart, explained according to the documents available in textbooks, in the manual and the design of a lecture, we make students learn passively. With such teaching, the learning of students will take place very monotonous, boring and the learning results will be limited. It is one of the causes obstructing their training into the dynamic, confident, creative people which willing to adapt to the new change on a daily occurrence.
 In recent years, the requirements of today's education requires to change the teaching methods at all levels of education, to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Therefore, in general in English and English in primary school in particular should have a stronger innovation, promote positive, creative initiative of students, student-centered. So the teacher has to make attraction to learning for children by attracting them to participate in learning activities.
 Learning game is an activity that interests children most. The game has the rich content, using interesting and rewarding language suitable with their awareness. Through the game they will comprehend the knowledge and ability to use language to communicate easily, consolidate, deepen knowledge in a firm manner, giving them the passion, excitement in learning as well as in working.
 When we give the game in English class regularly, then surely scientific quality in English teaching will more improve. Because of these reasons that I chose the subject innovative experience “Using some active games to improve the quality of teaching and learning English for students in grade 3 at Vinh Thanh primary school.’’
 	 1.2. The aims of the theme:
 Introduce the role of the game in teaching and learning English. In addition, introduce some basic games to help teachers and students find interest in teaching and learning English. Introduce the method as well as some basic tricks to perform the game in every lesson in a flexible, varied and effective way. Creating a lively atmosphere in every lesson, promoting the positive, proactive and creative nature of students.
 1.3. Objects of the theme:
 Students of grade 3 at Vinh Thanh primary school
 1.4. Study methods:
 For the study achieved good results, I used several research methods, which are mainly the following methods:
1.4.1.Method of observation: The implementation of self-exploration theme study, conducted attend classes visiting hours of your colleagues in the field.
1.4.2.The method of exchange, discussion: After the hour of colleagues, co-workers who take time to implement the project, colleagues and people to implement the project to conduct exchanges.
 1.4.3.Experimental Methods: Teachers conduct teaching purposes expressed in each specific request some lessons.
 1.4.4.Methods of investigation: Teachers ask questions to check understanding of content assessment of student lessons.
PART 2. STUDYING CONTENTS
 2.1. Theoretical basic:
We can say: playing games is a necessity for students in primary school, it is as important as eating, sleeping, studying in their lives. Therefore, they are always find the ways to spend time and in any condition playing. When they join the games they will try the best voluntarily and proactively. At that time they express their feelings very clear, They feel happy with victory and sad with failure. 
Glad to see the team to complete the task, they personally do not feel guilty when good is his duty. Because of a collective they overcome difficulties and try their best to bring victory to the team, including their group. This characteristic is very high emulation of the game. So when joined the game, students often use their best effort, focus attention, intelligence and their creativity.
Learning games is the game that its laws includes rules associated with the knowledge and skills have been in learning activities, close to the lesson content, which helps students to explore their own experience to play. Through playing students are applied the knowledge and learned skills in the situation of the games and therefore students do a practice to consolidate and expand knowledge and skills learned. Thus in the learning games, learning skills of English are included in the games.
Learning game changes forms of children’s activities, help students acquire knowledge in a positive voluntary way. It helps students to practice and consolidate knowledge and develop experience through playing activities.
Learning games train skills, promote intellectual activity, Thank to using learning games the teaching process to become a fun activity and more attractive, 
learning opportunities more varied.
The learning game is not only the means but also the methods of education.
So I have used the method “Using some active games to improve the quality of teaching and learning English for students in grades 3 at Vinh Thanh primary school’’ in the teaching process in the past year.
 2.2. Status of the problem:
 2.2.1. Situation:
 2.2.1.1. Advantages:
- There is concern in the sector level, school board, parents and teachers.
- Students are progressively more aggressive look with this subject and most of them very eager to learn.
- The staff of teachers, ensuring the development needs of each school; copper the teachers are trained in the preparation, enthusiasm, energy and accumulation experience.
 2.2.1.2. Difficulty:
- English is a difficult subject for students in grade 3 so to attract students interested in learning this subject is so difficult to teach the children get the skills and coordination skills a mature way even harder for many reasons such as: students do not understand the importance of the subject so they are ignored, and learn coping mood; equipment in service of teaching and learning English in general and in particular to hear more limited, even teachers sometimes have to create teaching aids teachers even longer as the 'Artist' in the lessons due to lack of space intuitive map. Especially teachers have to work as a "speaker" or in other words to do the replacement of tapes of the hearing lesson. In the process of teaching, some teachers teach according sticky reside always important how to complete the lesson, complete all objectives, students master the knowledge without paying much attention to how to acquire knowledge easiest way. Led to some concern and fear children learn English from the results that affect learning English subjects.         
For students, the skills that the difficult and often the children have psychological boredom, inattention and almost let go, some other students deal with the teacher in the class by copying the your results or copy available answers.
- And a few students had difficulty in reaching and grasping new language. Since then, there is little impact on the quality of teaching and learning.
- Most students in rural areas, local pronunciation of English should read not ready, tend to pronounce the English way of Vietnam. Specifically, students are often afraid to learn English because the attention of parents is limited. Even many parents work away from you should have to live with the grandparents, the external factors are affecting learning problems lead to low academic performance. On the other hand, the majority of parents do not know English; So just to remind you mostly work hard. 
Although conditions are not guaranteed or has been met no matter what part of the teachers we need to explore, create and overcome difficulties to make every lesson own skills and teaching process say general enjoyable, charismatic passion of student learning. When teaching it myself perform the following steps:
- Lead before (make students understand the requirements of the post).
- Guess the event.
- Out-specific mission requirements of all, determine the focus.
- Conduct training all in 3 steps: before, during and after.
- Use the appropriate procedure in the lesson, the visual aids in the post (if available and necessary)
With the full implementation of such steps have yet lessons effectively.
 2.2.2. As a results, the efficiency of the situation: 
Being a teacher, I love my job, love my children so I always study the psychology of primary school age children (especially pupils in grade 3). They are also at the age of eating, sleeping and the giddy. They remember fast but forget quickly, especially with English subject which is a fascinating subject but different from their mother tongue, so they do not have the help when they do not understand at home. They can only be studied with teachers and friends in class, the fact that I teach in rural schools, many parents do not understand deeply the importance and necessity of the English subject and only focus on cultural subjects like Mathematics, Vietnamese ...
- The majority of students are not paying attention and investing in foreign languages, they prepare the lesson very sparingly, to deal when they learn this subject very bad. Since then, a number of children with psychological bored with learning English. During school hours, the majorities of them are usually passive, lack of flexibility, afraid of reading - saying English and participate in learning lessons very little. 
	Therefore making interest and consolidating students' knowledge is an extremely important and regular work. Because this affects a lot of to the students, a fundamental factor affecting the process of learning a language: 
To having the learning quality of the children achieve the best results, it is not an easy thing. So how do they form and develop learning skills most comprehensive? How do they love, deepen their knowledge of the lesson? By any way to help students understand the lesson but not boring, I think that the lesson must be really charismatic, atmosphere during school hours interesting and relaxing.
Since then I checked the quality survey between the first semester of third graders, and the results showed that:
Class
Students 
Excellent
Good
Average
Weak
No
%
No
%
No
%
No
%
3A
31
6
19,3
5
16.2
12
38,7
8
25.8
3B
27
5
18,5
4
14.8
10
37.1
8
29,6
3C
32
6
18,8
8
25
10
31.2
8
25
After that I conducted the survey to interest in their learning.
 	The results showed that:
Class
students
Behavior
Like
Dislike
Hesitating
3A
31
8
16
7
3B
27
6
16
5
3C
32
10
15
7
	Therefore, the role and responsibilities of teachers not only teach English but need to continuously study and apply the methods of innovation and creativity. Teachers should build a learning English environment friendly. Students can participate in meaningful communicating activities through the interesting game activities.
Teaching according to the communicating method encourages students to practice lessons under the situation that learning is playing, playing is learning. This view makes them see learning English as games, they will remember the lesson very quickly.
 2.3. Solve the problem.
 2.3.1. The general solution:
- Observe the actual situation of students. Talk with them to find out the feeling, aspirations, problems ... they meet in the process of learning English.
- Study materials, books, magazines newspapers education ... read textbooks, teacher’s books... and prepare the suitable games.
- Attend and exchange experiences with colleagues.
- Summary and draw experience in the teaching process.
- Interview directly pupils after the lessons they are participated in the games with the lessons which they are not joined the games.
   - Consult closely with the school:
The attention of the school facilities ... to create conditions for teachers and students can participate in the games. 
  - Encourage children to participate in computer games such as crossword in English, work square in Englishor watch cartoons in English on TV to attract them into the process of game organization during class hours in a natural and effective way.
 2.3.2. Design the learning games in English:
 Organize learning games to teach English in general and in English in primary school in particular, we have to rely on lesson content, conditions of time in each specific class put the game accordingly co. Song is also intended to organize games in teaching English to be highly effective, each teacher must have a plan prepared, thoroughly and ensure the following requirements:
+ Games meaningful education.
+ The game aims to strengthen and deepen the lesson content.
+ Games to fit psychology, student performance, consistent with the ability of the guidelines and conditions of the school facilities.
+ Mode to a rich, diverse, and must be prepared carefully, meticulously.
+ Games to be stimulating and passion for student learning.
2.3.3. How to organize games:
Step 1: The teacher introduces the name and purpose of the game, playing time.
Step 2: How to Play. This step includes the following jobs:
- Organization of participants Game: Number of participants, number of participating teams (those teams), management game, the referee.
- The instrument used to play (flipchart, cards, magnetic cards, chess ...)
- How to play: Each job's specific player or team play, play time, the players do not get ...
- How to confirm the results and scoring play, the solution of the game. (If any)
Step 3: Conduct game
Step 4: - End game: Teachers or arbitration commented on the attitude of each participating team game, not good thing of the team to learn from experience.
Encouragements fine quibble, the Rules that accept players relaxed and voluntarily make the game more attractive, stimulating students' learning. Penalize students with the game rules simple but fun form as: Applause, hoop, sing a song, or greet you win.
2.3.4. Introduction of the games in primary school:
I would like to introduce some typical game that I've applied in the teaching process for primary school students.
Game 1: Guess the picture
The purpose of this game helps students practice speaking from a temperate and efficiently. 
- Draw a simple picture illustrates the need to review some of the words on A4 paper and put into a stack. (You can use the stock picture from teaching). 
- For a student to select a picture (not for the other students to see the content of the picture). 
- The other students guess what it is contested by asking questions: 
"Is this a / an ...........?" 
- Students who guess correctly will be encouraged by point or clap cheer. 
For example: on the location of the school. (Unit 7: Places in My School)
S1:
Is this a computer room?
S1:
Is this a classroom?
S2:
No, it isn’t.
S2:
Yes, it is.
S1:
Is this a library?
S2:
Yes, it is.
In fact I always learn, to explore the creation of new visual aids to help teaching job more effectively, and I have achieved much encouraging.
Example: Through photographs ( a dog, a cat, abird, a fish) students can remember right sense of the word.
In addition to pictures, objects real or miniature model prepared in a number of lessons, we can also draw on the board the simple style image that I think everyone is done easily, following is a some examples:
* The images depict the nouns:
 a boy a girl a child a baby
 an apple bananas a carrot an onion
Game 2: Lucky number
- Purpose: Create exciting atmosphere lively, highly concentrated in school.
- Preparation: Teachers prepare some questions, answers sticking lesson content. No need to prepare any utensil.
- How to play: Teachers who a board of 15 squares and write to them any natural number 15, which corresponds to the number that is 12 questions that students must answer 3 questions lucky number.
- Rules of the game: The teacher divided the class into 2 teams and name, each team leader sent a friend to see who is an officer and group options before deciding discuss how to choose the leader said, if selected believe the question, the teacher read the questions and discussion group to find answers to the leader read if the other side is wrong reply. Count 2 to the other side the box, if the box is lucky not to answer questions and congratulatory applause.
Note: You can change to improve competitiveness, create exciting atmosphere heated by specified point: In 15 cells, the cell 12 has 5 points, 2 points and 1 box with 10 special cell for 20 points.
- End Game: Points team that won the team points, or team selected the box number will be given a Lucky guy applause.
Game 3: Jumbled Word
- The purpose of this game to help students practice vocabulary and spelling of words.
 - Write some words on the blackboard or on A4 paper with the letters arranged in random order together.
 - Ask students to rearrange the letters to form meaningful words. 
 - Students can make competition between groups, couples or individuals.
 - Let the children read the words just arranged.
Example 1: Rearrange the following letters into meaningful words.
(Unit 7: Places in My School)
 umics à music
 blirary à library
 lcssarmoo à classroom
 pucotrem à computer
 chsloo à school.
Example 2: Order from under the picture: (Unit 13: My House).
 1. sehuo 2. vliignromo 3. debmoor 
 4.chkitne 5. thabmroo 6. garned garned 
Game 4: Chain game
- This game for memory training for students. Student participating in this game to really focus which helps students remember long over. In addition, students have the opportunity to speak, articulation, vocabulary.
- Divide the class into small groups to sit facing each other.
 - Students in the first group of teachers repeating.
 - Students 2nd of students repeating the first and added another word.
 - Student 3 students repeating the first, 2nd and add a new word to follow, so keep coming back to the first student in the group .
For example: (Unit 14: Our Room.)
- Teacher: In my house, there is a bed.
- Student 1: In my house, there is a bed and a chair.
- Student 2: In my house, there is a bed, a chair and a lamp.
- Student 3: In my house, there is a bed, a chair, a lamp and a picture.
- Student 4: In my house, there is a bed, a chair, a lamp, a picture and a desk.
- Student 5: In my house, there is a bed, a chair, a lamp, a picture, a desk and
a computer ....
Game 5: Bee find word
- Use this game for Unit four- How old are you? - Lesson 2 -English 3
- Purpose: To consolidate knowledge, memory and application of skills in using the 
form.
-Preparation: + 5 off two flowers, each flower color, flower petals on each of the following record, magnets mounted on the back.
5
3
9
6
8
10
7
2
4
1
+ 10 bees can write letters on his back, the back has a magnet attached.
one
two
ten
four
seven
six
five
eight
nine
three
+ Coloured chalk.
+ How to play: Choose 2 teams of 5 students. Teachers divided into two tables, each table inside a flower and bee 5 below in no particular order, and introduce the name of the game.
He has two flowers, petals on the numbers, and bees carry on the corresponding letters, their mission is guided put bees in terms of fit.
The two teams lined up, to hear command 'start' then you should put one by bees on the appropriate number. But first you continue your second and until the end. Finally done fast and right team is the team that wins.
Game 6: Networks
Before teaching Lesson 2 (Unit 16:Do you have any pets?- English 3) I checked the old lesson by getting the students play the game "networks" with the topic "Pets"
- Purpose: Check the vocabulary knowledge of students acording to the topic, creating exciting atmosphere for learning.
- Preparation: No need