THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES NGUYỄN HỒNG THẮM USING COMMUNICATIVE GAMES TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN ORAL ACTIVITIES AT HOANH BO HIGH SCHOOL, QUANG NINH PROVINCE SỬ DỤNG CÁC TRÒ CHƠI GIAO TIẾP ĐỂ TĂNG CƯỜNG SỰ THAM GIA CỦA HỌC SINH TRONG CÁC GIỜ HỌC KỸ NĂNG NĨI TẠI TRƯỜNG THPT HỒNH BỒ, QUẢNG NINH M.A THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 THAI NGUYEN – 2019 THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES NGUYỄN HỒNG THẮM USING COMMUNICATIVE GAMES TO ENHANCE STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN ORAL ACTIVITIES AT HOANH BO HIGH SCHOOL, QUANG NINH PROVINCE Sử dụng trò chơi giao tiếp để tăng cường tham gia học sinh học kỹ nói trường THPT Hoành Bồ, QuảngNinh M.A THESIS Field: English Linguistics Code: 8220201 Supervisor 1: Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Mai Huong Supervisor 2: Prof Dr Nguyen Thi Que THAI NGUYEN – 2019 CERTIFICATE OF ORIGINALITY I hereby declare that this submission of the minor thesis entitled “Using Communicative Games to enhance Students’ Participation in Oral Activities at Hoanh Bo High School, QuangNinh Province” is my own work To the best of my knowledge, it contains no materials previously published or written by another person, or substantial of material which have been accepted for the award of any other degree or diploma at SFL or any other educational institutions The thesis has not been submitted to any other examining body and has not been published Any contribution made to research by others is explicily acknowledged in the thesis Thai Nguyen, July 2019 Nguyen Hong Tham Approved by SUPERVISOR Supervisor 1: Dr Nguyen Thi Mai Huong Supervisor 2: Dr Nguyen Thi Que Date: July, 2019 i DEDICATION To my parents who taught me to be more patient, My siblings, My husband, Nguyen Ngoc Binh My two sons, Nguyen Duy Phuong, Nguyen Hai Nam And my friends For their endless support And being my constant sources of inspiration ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT The researcher has succeeded in finishing this study, which has been greatly improved by comments, corrections, guidance and ideas of many people It is hard to even begin to acknowledge personally all those who have had an impact on her life and study during that making of this study First and foremost, I would like to express my deepest thanks to Dr.Nguyen Thi Mai Huong and Dr Nguyen Thi Que, advisers, for their invaluable assistance, encouragement as well as her guidance they gave me while I was doing my research and for their constructive comments and suggestions in perfecting this thesis; I am indebted to all the teachers at School of Foreign Languages, Thai Nguyen University for their invaluable lessons, suggestions, moral support and prayers for the completion of this study; I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to Mrs Dang Thi Hien, the Headmaster of Hoanh Bo High School for her permission to conduct the study Thanks are due to all the teachers of English at Hoanh Bo High School for their suggestions and validation of the test items and questionnaires Last but not least, I would like to send my sincere thanks to all the students in 10A5 class at Hoanh Bo High School, the respondents of the study, for their willingness in joining the experimental learning period and answering follow-up questionnaires ABSTRACT The goal of this study was to evaluate the impacts of communicative games and activities on students’ participation in oral lessons as validated through teachers’ classroom observations and perceived by students participating in the program The respondents of the study include 30 grade 10A5 students and two teacher observers at Hoanh Bo High School in Quang Ninh province during their second semester of the school year 2018-2019 The study was conducted during weeks in which different communicative games and activities were introduced to teach speaking skill Students’ participation was evaluated through classroom observation sheets marked by two teacher observers during class visits In addition, a set of questionnaire was delivered to students upon the accomplishment of the experimental teaching period regarding their perception on level of participation in speaking as well as their evaluation of the whole learning period after being exposed to communicative activities and games The result of the study has shown that Communicative Games used in the pilot teaching enhanced students’ participation in oral activities and students’ attitudes towards Communicative Games used in the experimental teaching period were positive Therefore, Communicative Games are recommended in classroom teaching to enhance students’ participation in oral activities TABLE OF CONTENTS S T C E D E A C A B T A L I L I L I C H 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 C H A 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 P A ii ii v v ii v i x 1 1 1 v 3 3 3 4 C H 2 8 9 9 2 2 4 4 4 C H C H A 2 4 3 3 vi 5 5 5 5 6 R E A P A P A P A P A P A P A P P A P 3 5 I I I I I I I V V I I X X I vii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS A B B C ive C m ative Classro m Res viii Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 62 UNIT 10: CONSERVATION Lesson 3: Speaking Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Students can talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the new kind of zoo b Language: - The passive voice 1.2 Skills: - Asking and answering about the new kind of zoo - Showing agreement or disagreement about the new kind of zoo - Reporting on discussion results 1.3 Academic attitude: - Students know about the new kind of zoo Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, handouts, posters 2.2 Students: textbooks, notebooks Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) CT l o T i 4’ A s k P DA e atbs 4.2 Warm-up: Ss’a ctivi St s an s w s er t : s Y e 55 4.3 New lesson: Ti TeaS m activ ent e ac 8’ W + T Ta sk 2: R St pa 1: be an tt d St ch 2: ar be zo tt o S t Li : st Ib et W te or r k in f di o vi du o all d, y LVI Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 63 UNIT 10: CONSERVATION Lesson 3: Listening Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: - Sts know how a forest fire starts and what campers have to remember to to protect the forests - Some set expressions - Vocabulary on forest 1.2 Skills: - Listening: order events ,mark True/False, detect sentences - Speaking: - Discuss how a forest fire may start and what every camper ought to remember 1.3 Academic attitude: - understand the causes of a forest fire and how to prevent it Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, handouts, posters 2.2 Students: textbooks, notebooks Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) C T l o A P Date A e ofbs 4.2 Revision: T T’sSs’acti i viti - Ot ’ O he ne r st st te s ll lis th te LVII 4.3 New lesson: Ti m e A - T St activiti ud ac ti 8’ A Work following questions: s in -HOne/ W re m e m b er n ot to c LVIII Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 67 UNIT 11: NATIONAL PARKS Lesson 2: Speaking Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Students can talk about an excursion and express their regrets b Language: - Conditional sentences types - Vocabulary on an excursion 1.2 Skills: - Matching sentences in column A with the coresponding consequences in column B - Talking about an excursion - Expressing the regrets 1.3 Academic attitude: - Students improve their knowledge about national parks Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, posters, handouts 2.2 Students: textbooks, notebooks Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) C T P Da A l o e tebs A 4.2 Revision: Ti m 4’ ca ll o n a st to Ss’acti viti to th e bo ar d LIX 4.3 New lesson: T i B + T 8’ as to H ex c ur re q th in gs h Teacher’s Stu activiti de Li st R so m e ex cu LX Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 73 UNIT 12: MUSIC B SPEAKING Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Students can talk about their favourite kinds of music b Language: - The simple present tense - Vocabulary about music 1.2 Skills: - Asking and answering questions about music - Talking about favourite kinds of music 1.3 Academic attitude: - Students know more about the role of music in our life Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, handouts 2.2 Students: textbooks, notebooks Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) C T l o a t A T i 4’ ca ll o n a St to P Dat A e e bs r tea en 4.2 Revision: Ss’act iviti go to th e bo ar d LXI 4.3 New lesson: T i Teacher Stu ’s den 2.While you 0’ speak: Li + Task 2: Asking and answering L about music taste is - Tell sts that they te are going to ask n your partners to th questions Questions to P get Pa + ar rt W + W + What Cl P m kind of as op us + music l W you like? so n + Why … … + you like …W he it? Li +is you 3’ r f singer a / m u s i+ is you r f a s o o f m u s i+ d o yo u listen to music? LXII - Ask sts to look at the first column of the table which includes items they should ask their friend about - Ask sts what questions they can ask if they want to know about their friend’s favourite kind of music , reasons for listening to music, favourite band…… - T may introduce some adj and expressions to talk about music: + make sb excited/relaxed + help sb forget troubles and worries + relaxing/ peaceful - Ask sts to form groups of One of them will be a journalist who will interview their friends about their music taste The 15’ journalist has to ask two sts some questions and complete the table Sts can change their roles if time permits - Go around to help sts and collect the mistakes 63 Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 87 UNT 14: THE WORLD CUP Lesson 2: Speaking Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: a General knowledge: - Students can talk about the World Cup winners b Language: - The simple present tense - Vocabulary about football 1.2 Skills: - Asking and answering questions about the World Cup - Talking about the World Cup winners Academic attitude: - Students know more about the World Cup Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, pictures, posters 2.2 Students: textbooks, notebooks Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) C T l o P Date A e ofbs 4.2 Warm-up: Ti Ss’ac m tiviti 5* ’ J Li u st m en bl to e th w e or T ds D W - Introduce the new lesson: Today we will talk about the World Cups 4.3 New lesson: T i Teacher’s St activiti u B + T as nà o, ch iế A sk 2’ S to na m e th e te a m in th e p h ot os o n A ns 1E 2F G er L i s t e n a n d w r i Q - football team in World Cup 2006? L i W s Q5 Who was the head coach of the German team in World Cup 2006? Q6 What nationality was the top scorer in World Cup 2006? Q7 Who was the captain of the English national football team in World Cup 2006? Q8 Who beat England in the World Cup 2006 quarter final? - Ask sts to work in groups to answer the questions - Go around to check that S work and speak English - Ask some Ss to answer the questions Date of preparation: …./ … / …… Period: 94 UNIT 16: HISTORICAL PLACES Lesson 2: Speaking Objectives: 1.1 Knowledge: By the end of the lesson, Ss will be able to - ask and answer questions about information relating to historical places - talk about historical places using the given information 1.2 Skills: Speaking 1.3 Academic attitude: - Sts know about the historical places Teaching aids: 2.1 Teacher: textbook, lesson plan 2.2 Students: - blackboard, chalk, pictures about some historical places in VN Methods: pairwork, individual work, groupwork Procedure: 4.1 Organization (1’) C T l o P Date A e ofbs 4.2 Revision: - T calls on student to summarise the passage about Van Mieu QTG - summarise the passage about Van Mieu - T calls another student and interviews QTG him/her some questions - answer the teacher’s questions - T gives marks and comments - listen 4.3 New lesson Warm- up - T asks sts to discuss and give some basic information about President HCM’s mausoleum LXVII - discuss and give some basic in fo r m ati on - (S ts cl T os e th a ei Tre a ad s th ke re qu - ir e m T en t an a d s ex pl k s n lis te Tare s ad kth 2e re - qu ir LXVIII act as a tourist guide to give a short introduction to short introduction to either of the either of the places places - T lets sts the task - the task - T goes around, controls, and helps - ask for help if necessary - T calls on some sts to read the passage aloud in - read aloud front of the class Task - T asks student to read out the requirement of - read the requirement and explain the task and explain it - listen - T explains more about the requirement to make it clearer - ask their partners about one of the - T asks sts to ask their partners about one of the historical places they know and historical places they know and take note the main take note the main information - interview each other information - T lets sts interview each other to find the information - T goes around, helps if necessary - T calls on some sts to report the information to the class - T gives comments LXIX ... ACTIVITIES AT HOANH BO HIGH SCHOOL, QUANG NINH PROVINCE Sử dụng trò chơi giao tiếp để tăng cường tham gia học sinh học kỹ nói trường THPT Hồnh Bồ, QuảngNinh M.A THESIS Field: English Linguistics... Communicative Games to enhance Students’ Participation in Oral Activities at Hoanh Bo High School, QuangNinh Province” is my own work To the best of my knowledge, it contains no materials previously published... to research by others is explicily acknowledged in the thesis Thai Nguyen, July 2019 Nguyen Hong Tham Approved by SUPERVISOR Supervisor 1: Dr Nguyen Thi Mai Huong Supervisor 2: Dr Nguyen Thi Que