Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm Tiếng Anh - Inspire and reinforce knowledge of English lessons by short songs - Pham Thi Thúy

I. INTRODUCTION
 In the industrialization and modernization of the country , our country is increasingly integrated into the international economy , the frequent contact with foreigners more and more . English is the international language used widely around the world to help the nations to understand each other better . Because of that reason , English has been taught in schools across the country . Thankfully, rather than primary school English teaching is included with many textbooks mass by the Ministry of Education and Training expertise has helped elementary students acquainted with the English language . 
 Although English is the primary electives . It has important properties beginning in the next school year in Secondary school . So it holds a significant role in the learning process of the children . It equips them vocabulary , grammar and simple basic close sentence patterns about the topics that are their favorite, is the point of introducing all relatives , friends school topics , family topics , and other topics (the world around us). Therefore, to inspire and reinforce students’ knowledge is an extremely important work. Because this affects a lot more motivated students , a basic factor to impact the process of learning a language : Children will not learn without motivation - and the consolidation of knowledge also inculcate over 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 .
 It is not easy for students to get best result. So how do they form and develop learning skills most comprehensive ? How to make students love and engrave foreign cultures? In any way to help students understand that not all solid boring , to truly charismatic , playful atmosphere in class comfort , inspire students to absorb foreign culture that they themselves not know anything .
 Today on the mass media appears a lot of games to attract television audiences , especially young audiences , such as pupils, students .
 All games , music and television programs , if asked : " Tell me the name of the game , the television music show that you know ? " They will answer rim wall as Music for kids , DOREMI , Golden dragon , Garden music , how to sing, and recently the program The Voice Kids...So here we are the most loyal audience .
 With so many reasons , efforts by many teachers and students . I tried to compose a short song tone fun easy to imitate and then incorporated into a number of questions , some of which they have learned to teach the children had fun learning to sing . Unexpectedly, the children enjoyed singing and sang so boldly , more open , not shy anymore , they also actively participate in lessons more , in recent years much progress students in language courses brother . But the results are not really high , but the first step to help me progress more excitement in their work. After class , a very interesting thing is I 've caught them singing short songs clam clams that were new words into my cage . Indeed , it was a success .
  So this year , I decided on the topic " Inspire and reinforce knowledge of English lessons by short songs " and please note that these are my little experience , it can not new but I 've done and have some relative results . We hope that these experiences contribute to complement and enrich the teaching method of his colleagues .
II . SOLVING PROBLEM
1 . Theoretical basis :
 The views of the Party and the State have determined goals of education is to train people to meet the comprehensive requirements of the country - industrialization and modernization. In particular , foreign language - English is one language serves as a means of actively supporting the most efficient process of deeper integration of the country . So improving the quality of education in general and the quality of English in particular is one of the top concerns of today's education . And it is more strongly impressed the audience were students at the primary level - beginner's approach to foreign language .
 - To carry out this objective should be supported by the Party , the government, the education sector ,especially the team of teachers, parents and students to contribute. 
 - Currently the distraction condition , students learned to cope without self rote learning , many poor students . How to overcome this ? How to attract students to focus on learning as the problem requires educators , and passionate teachers , school pedagogical council primary concern , always working hard to plan , programs , forms , methods to improve teaching and learning better , improve the quality and efficiency of education .
2 . The actual situation :
 - The majority of students are not paying attention and investment in foreign languages ​​, prepare a sketchy way , to deal in very weak when they learn this subject . Since then , they have some sick psychological study of English . During school hours , the majority of them are usually passive , lack of flexibility , problems reading - English-speaking and participating at speaking lesson to learn .
 - Elementary school students are the children , the level of their awareness is low , the quality of academic disciplines asynchronous . In addition , students in rural areas less familiar way old school read age-appropriate books to fascinate additional accommodation , improve their knowledge . At the same time this is the first year to become familiar with a foreign language , while still having a significant number of students have not learned your mother tongue well .
 - Moreover, English is the only primary electives , so students themselves and even parents are not interested in this subject , they only invest in raising their children learn math , English Vietnam ....
 Despite these objective conditions and subjective influences directly in the teaching process but we knew ahead overcome the difficulties ahead , gradually improving the quality of English teaching hours to meet section Textbooks target new programs .
3 . Solutions
a. Objectives:
- Instruct students to share knowledge recall reading practice - said of the lesson learned .
- Strengthen the sense both sides as well as the form of words. Captures the characteristics of each sample questions , first of all to achieve their best performance in the semester , each school year .
- In addition, the small tracks are also used for entertainment in order to create a playful , exciting learning or to teach them the lessons illustrate vocabulary , 
accent , rhythm , and a points of English grammar , help them memorize more easily . Thereby fostering pure soul , love of culture and beauty of foreign languages ​​in general and the beauty of the English subjects in particular , to help them shape and personality development skills and comprehensive better .
b . Preparation:
- Teachers read books and researched the problem I am about to make.
- Professor armor refer to the way organizations can sing songs or the nature of the game has a lot of experience in union activities . ( Personally, I myself 
served as officers work effectively Youth for 6 years when I was a student - student . Thus I have the opportunity to accumulate a lot of experience . )
- The reference is friends and help music teachers , especially fellow music teacher at school .
- Teaching aids that teachers must be prepared and the contents thoroughly self- composed songs , so the teacher should summarize some vocabulary and basic structure of lessons for each topic to incorporated into the song , along with research organizations choose appropriate forms .
c . Implementation measures :
After preparation , I proceed as follows :
 1 . With songs available in textbooks I have extensive research on music so joyful music , vivid and consistent with the words available .
 2 . For all topics not available in textbooks I compose short songs playful tone , busy , according to the familiar melody , easy to imitate to teach the children .
 3 . To more effectively , I bravely held many diversified singing ( when they were under the clever songs and ) increases the efficiency of their songs. Students or teachers can explain briefly discuss the content of the song and the students read the words fluently once before singing . Sing the song and understand the content students will enjoy singing and easier to remember . Through that language be inserted will be used many times and greater flexibility , engraved from new and more structured . Here are some of the forms I have used very effectively as follows :
* Always give them the habit of singing an English song at the beginning of each class period . Sometimes in the middle of the lesson they are stressed , tired due to the weather last school , teachers should also give them a tune or two songs short , gentle tone fun - together with the known sometimes clapping rhythm , and beat one, beat faster and faster then ended, in order to pay back the cheerful , busy , playful , lively classroom . Through singing English class , 
students will learn the intonation of the faster songs , from which they will boldly , confidently communicate in English.
* Combine several movements or gestures during the singing match . Singing combination play as " singing contest " ( not the one from the song 's theme song has been following the rule of teachers ) .
* Forms pursue singing singing is fun and educational is significant , it caused Appetite students . Singing chase ( with 2 or 4 groups ) gives the theater , groups, friends and listeners a sense of confusion initially when the group sang various (different words but the music still follow a similar pattern ) , and finally the same - to sing a verse . If the song is right , we have helped create self-confidence , independence for the children , not listen , do not follow the other vocals . Then , make sure they will be happy and proud even more ... Also at the end of the school year , the introduction of one or two songs in English class 4 programs can not only help them but also entertain cause excitement , curiosity enjoy learning in their courses .
Thus, we know that the way to support not only English lessons through games , storytelling , drama , camping ... but also through small tracks , more fun then to encourage the use of English in a creative way practical . Use as many English, learn English as much as possible to communicate in everyday life and in today's modern society .
Here are some songs content for elementary students that I compose and apply in my teaching process . 
* The focus of communication include :
Lesson 1 : HELLO
Students through this song will be a number of greeting each other and when they finally meet goodbye . Besides, they also recalled visiting health questions as well as how others answered politely through sample questions : " How are you ? " - I am fine . Thank you .
Students infatuated with songs
Lesson 2 : OUR NAMES
The song helps students consolidate their name with the introduction of two ways : " I am + name " and " My name is name + " . At the same time they are prompted to name your questions through structured : " What is your name ? "
* The focus schools include :
Lesson 3 : MY FRIENDS
The song reminds students to recall the personal pronouns is third person singular " he, she " and forms of the verb "to be " , respectively .
Lesson 4 : MY SCHOOL
Students introduced to the location, and the characteristics of his class used to say " This is /That is ......... and ......... " . Songs help students memorize easily , quickly , and remember lessons for longer.
Lesson 5 : SCHOOL OBJECTS
Through this song , students will get a lot of school supplies at the ease and fun as : book , ruler , eraser , pen , bag , pencil ...
* The focus family :
Lesson 6 : FAMILY MEMBERS
Songs from the cage to the only family members and introduce their careers .
Lesson 7 : AGES
This is the song tunes cute they are familiar and loved to sing . Thereby , consolidate your children to ask and answer questions about the old form : " How old are you? " And " I am + years . "
Lesson 8 : MY HOUSE
The song educate students with emotional attachment to their homes and strengthen their knowledge for the introduction of the homes, and their characteristics .
* The world around 
Lesson 9 : THE WEATHER
The purpose of this song is to help students review words and sentence structures learned about weather in UNIT 16 – Grade 3: .
Structure: What’s the weather like ? – It’s + weather.
“What’s the weather like ?
It’s sunny today
What’s the weather like ?
It’s rainy today
What’s the weather like ?
It’s cloudy in my hometown
What’s the weather like ?
It’s windy in my hometown”.
This is the song I written base on Music of ‘ Gui anh mot khuc dan ca” ( Dan ca Nam bo) in Music book 3 students have learned before.
And there are many more songs that I have used in the program but I can not all be mentioned here, as the article: Numbers song (Unit 12: How old are you? - Grade 3 that music is based song Di cay – Dan ca Thanh Hoa, the song "Days of the week" - Grade 8 Unit 4, all "Month songs" - Unit 3. My birthday- Grade 4, or "School subjects" - Grade 7 Unit 4, or, "This is the way We Do things" (Unit4 - Grade 5) - about the verb daily activities of individuals as brush teeth, wash the face, eat breakfast
4 . Achievements
 Academic year 2013 - 2014 when there is no initiative put songs into English in the teaching hours , I found myself not very quiet atmosphere of the classroom , the children are not interested in the subject , the new words and 
structures her teaches children not engraved . The lesson is very monotonous . The result is so low , specifically as follows :
Class
Total
Excellent
Good
Average
Weak
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
3A
29
6
20,7
7
24,1
15
51,8
1
3,4
 3B
28
6
21,4
7
25
13
46,5
2
7,1
 3C
29
5
17,2
8
27,6
14
48,3
2
6,9
Through this situation , the academic year 2014 -2015, I boldly sing English teaching methods in English lessons and results achieved as follows :
- Lively lessons , students learn exciting competition .
- Students capture the tone and say a mature way .
- Students from memory and on the class structure .
- Moreover, the long underachieving students in English , shy diffidence does not even have the aptitude to learn a foreign language . But when they heard the tone of her movements and you do form they were excited to participate actively and enthusiastically . And the lyrics seem simple and not difficult for them to fear .
- You can practice songs learned at any time, any place , such as 15 minutes of activity time , the repertoire of the art ... From there , the children excited to learn English , there is hope with English charm .
 Thankfully, rather than completely overcome their difficulties in reading - English-speaking and from which they actively participate in the activities in the lesson . Students eager , excited , excitement in learning more , all prepared at home more thoughtful . Therefore, results tracking quality English courses to 
students' mid-term and at the end of the second year ( to April 10th 2015) was also markedly enhanced . Specifically as follows :
Class
Total
Excellent
Good
Average
Weak
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
Quantity
%
3A
29
9
31
11
37,9
9
31,1
0
0
3B
28
10
35,8
10
35,8
8
28,4
0
0
3C
29
8
27,6
11
37,9
10
34,5
0
0
 Through research and application topics " inspire and reinforce of English lessons by short songs ," I have learned some experience :
- To improve the quality of teaching , teachers must be passionate , be responsible with your lessons , subjects of interest to students and teaching quality , the new flexible method of choice in the direction innovation suit their students .
- Prepare thoughtful lesson plans , detailed meticulous . Increased use of available teaching aids or self- enrichment , practical and effective .
- Use short tracks or compose your collectibles , or organize games enhance vocabulary and sentence structure practice to provide students with course affinity . System for students adequate knowledge focus simple , easy to remember , easy to use .
- Encourage students to change into English what they say in Vietnamese and English used more often in class , or group learning at home .
- Awards honored those who are gifted , progress and participation statements . Also, need regular help motivate them weak and timely correction of the language you gently , so that they are not guilty , ashamed , afraid of saying the wrong lead to problems or lazy school .
III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
1 . Conclusion
With much effort and effort , with plate enthusiasm for the job , and I always strive to find new ways to teach students to engage more days a love of English , learning English is good . Above are some small experience that I have done and achieved good results in the past time teaching . Still not good , but also partly to help my students learn more favorite and close to the subject. I sincerely look forward presentation and your contribution teachers and colleagues to my topic is more complete supplement for teaching English lessons to achieve higher quality .
Towards myself , I promise to continue to inherit and promote the results achieved by the implementation of the subject , and never stop learning experiences were overcome difficulties in teaching to meet innovation program requirements , methods of teaching English Ministry of Education and training .
2 - The recommendations and suggestions :
Starting from the basis of theory , practice and teaching purposes as well as the successes and constraints in the implementation of the subject , to contribute to the teaching of English in general and teaching in particular from the increasing quality I have improved myself practical recommendations as follows :
 The environment is so foreign language skills must be practiced according to the characteristics of teaching methods , so the department should have room to avoid the noise for the beside class and not affected by noise from the outside . 
 Sincely thank you ! 
 Quang Yen , April 16th , 2015
                       I undertake that this initiative is mine. 
 I don't copy other's work.
 I will be responsible for my commitment.
The headmaster of Primary School Written by
     Nguyen Thi Sau Pham Thi Thuy