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SỞ GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO ĐỒNG NAI
TRƢỜNG THPT NGUYỄN HỮU CẢNH
Mã số: ................................
(Do HĐKH Sở GD&ĐT ghi)

TRAINING SOME LIFE SKILLS FOR
STUDENTS THROUGH ENGLISH
LESSONS AT GRADE 11

Ngƣời thực hiện:

PHẠM NGỌC LAN HƢƠNG

Lĩnh vực nghiên cứu:
- Quản lý giáo dục



- Phƣơng pháp dạy học bộ môn: ........English........ 
- Lĩnh vực khác: ....................................................... 
Có đính kèm: Các sản phẩm không thề hiện trong bản in SKKN
 Mô hình
 Phần mềm
 Phim ảnh
 Hiện vật khác

Năm học: 2011-2012

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Nguyen Huu Canh High School


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SƠ LƢỢC LÝ LỊCH KHOA HỌC
I. THÔNG TIN CHUNG VỀ CÁ NHÂN
1. Họ và tên: PHẠM NGỌC LAN HƢƠNG
2. Ngày tháng năm sinh: 29-11-1977
3. Nam, nữ: Nữ
4. Địa chỉ:11/51, Khu phố 3, phƣờng Tân Mai, thành phố Biên Hoà, tỉnh Đồng
Nai.
5. Điện thoại: 061.3834289(CQ)/ 061.3812704(NR); ĐTDĐ: 0983.097736
6. Fax:

E-mail:

7. Chức vụ: giáo viên
8. Đơn vị công tác: Trƣờng THPT Nguyễn Hữu Cảnh
II. TRÌNH ĐỘ ĐÀO TẠO
- Học vị (hoặc trình độ chuyên môn, nghiệp vụ) cao nhất: Cử nhân
- Năm nhận bằng: 1999
- Chuyên ngành đào tạo: Sƣ phạm Anh văn

III. KINH NGHIỆM KHOA HỌC
- Lĩnh vực chuyên môn có kinh nghiệm: Giảng dạy bộ môn Tiếng Anh.
Số năm có kinh nghiệm: 12
- Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm đã có trong 5 năm gần đây:
* VẬN DỤNG PHƢƠNG PHÁP DẠY HỌC HỢP TÁC THEO NHÓM NHỎ
TRONG TIẾT DẠY READING 12

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TOPIC: TRAINING SOME LIFE SKILLS FOR HIGH SCHOOL
STUDENTS THROUGH ENGLISH LESSONS AT GRADE 11
A. RATIONALE OF THE TOPIC
Students are future owners of the country, who will play important roles in the
country‟s development in coming years. Without life skills, students could not
fulfil their duties to not only themselves but their families, their community and
their country also.
In school years, students are forming and developing their own characteristics,
defining their big dreams, are eager to learn - and willing to discover new things.
However, they still lack knowledge about social life, living experience and are
easily affected, incited to bad things… In the current international integration
context, students are usually influenced by both positive and negative factors;
therefore, they always have to fight to choose their own value, to confront
difficulties and challenges. Without being trained in life skills, students may be

embroiled in destructive behaviour, violence, selfish living ways, practical mind
and easy to have a deviation in personality development. We all have seen many
students having negative phenomena such as drug addiction, suicide, violence, car
racing, etc. Many researches have proved that these negative phenomena come
from lack of life skills in student generation such as: emotional control skills,
support seeking skills, communication skills, consistence skills…
As a result, training in life skills for students is very necessary to help them form
suitable behaviour and have responsibility with their own lives. Moreover, being
trained with life skills can help them have the ability to respond positively to
different situations in their social life and know how to create, and maintain good
relationships with others to have better and healthier lives.
There are many different viewpoints about life skills:
* According to World Health Organization (WHO), life skills are defined as “the
ability for positive and adaptive behavior that enables a person to deal effectively
with the demands and challenges of everyday life”.

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* According to United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), life skills are defined
as “a behavior change or behavior development approach designed to address a
balance of three areas: knowledge, attitude and skills”. The UNICEF definition is
based on research evidence that suggests that shifts in risk behavior are unlikely if
knowledge, attitude and skills based competency are not addressed.

* According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), life skills have a strong relationship with four pillars of
learning:
- “Learning to know” skills: critical thinking/ creative thinking/ decision – making
skills…
- “Learning to be” skills: coping with stress and emotions/ self-awareness/ selfconfidence skills,
- “Learning to live together” skills: empathy, effective communication skills,
interpersonal relationship skills,
- “Learning to do” skills: values analysis skills, problem solving skills …
* Based on the empirical analysis of international experience and the reality of
Vietnam education, the content of life skills training consists of the below basic
skills:
1.

Self-recognition skills

2.

Valuation skills

3.

Emotion control skills

4.

Coping with stress skills

5.

Seeking support skills

6.

Showing confidence skills

7.

Communication skills

8.

Active listening skills

9.

Showing empathy skills

10. Negotiation skills
11. Dealing with conflicts skills
12. Cooperation skills
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13. Critical thinking skills
14. Creative thinking skills
15. Decision making skills
16. Problem solving skills
17. Consistency skills
18. Taking responsibility skills
19. Target reaching skills
20. Time management skills
21. Information searching and processing skills
B. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES IN PERFOMING THE TOPIC
1.

Advantages:

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The school has been equipped with good technology equipment (projector,

television, and computer).
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Training environment is very friendly.

-

My colleagues in English faculty and in other faculties (Liturature and

Biology faculties) have given me much support.
-

With student-centered philosophy and ability to inspire the love of learning

from the students, I myself always try to learn, update new knowledge and develop
my professional to devote myself more thoroughly for the education.
2.

Disadvantages:

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The number of student in each class is quite many (43 students/class).

-

Students have quite far difference of knowledge and learning attitude.

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Within limited time, I do not have enough time to extend, explore the lessons

in details and focus more on the topics that students are interested.
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Most of the students are not interested in activities organized by teachers.

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Training life skills at lower grades in schools is not paid much attention.

C. CONTENTS

In order to train life skills for students, I apply a proactive technique and method to
create conditions, opportunities for students to practise, experience life skills in the
learning process. With this training method, students can be happy with learning
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periods, not being overloaded or heavy. Moreover, students can learn many useful
things which are close to their usual lives. Therefore, with this method, I am
always very interested in answering the question “What life skills can I train my
students through the lesson?” when composing the training plan before coming to
class.
In this initiative experience, I would like to mention some activities that I have
applied in order to give my students the opportunity to practice life skills in their
learning process.
UNIT 2 – PERSONAL EXPERIENCE – READING – AFTER YOU READ
AFTER YOU READ (Textbook):
Work in groups. Discuss the question: What do you think the girl had to do after
she discovered that the money she had taken from the boy’s bag was not hers?
I re-design:
Look at the pictures. Discuss the question “What would you do if you were in that
situation?” (Pair-work)
I. Objectives:
My objective is to help the students feel more confident in solving difficulties that
could suddenly happen in their lives: Once struggling with difficulties, they should

always remember that they are not alone but there are always many people around
them willing to help them, give them useful advice and share with them.
II.Basic life skills:
Communication skills / Problem solving skills / Cooperation skills
Support seeking skills / Decision making skills
III. Method:
- discuss, analyze the situation and then practise

police

parents

psychologist

friends

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Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- T presents pictures on the TV (or

- Ss work in groups of 4 to find out as

gives each group a handout.)

many solutions as possible

- T gives suggestions.

S1: If I were in that situation, I would

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+ If I were in that situation, I would ask

get on the same bus the next day and

the police to help me return the money

look for the boy to return the money.

to the boy.

S2: If I were the girl, I would tell my

- T encourages Ss to give as many

father the truth about the embarrassing

solutions as possible.

situation. My father would give me the
best advice.
S3: My father would be angry if he

- (T and Ss correct mistakes.)

knew the truth, so I wouldn‟t tell my
father. I would tell the truth to my
mother and my mother would help me.

-> In short, when we have difficulties

S4: If I were in that situation, I would

we have many solutions. If we can‟t

phone a psychologist (Mrs. Mai) to ask

solve the solutions ourselves, we can

for advice.

ask for help. There are many best

S5: I have a very intelligent close friend.

friends around.

If I were in that situation, I would ask

her for help.

This activity can not only help students to practise their English but also help
them to develop their life skills to solve their difficulties.
UNIT 4 –VOLUNTEER WORK – READING – AFTER YOU READ
AFTER YOU READ A:
Look at the pictures and use suggested words to summarize what students often do
as volunteers (pair-work):
I. Objective:
I design an activity to review the content of Unit 4 – Textbook.
II. Basic life skills:
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Decision making skills / Showing empathy skills / Time management skills
III. Methods
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting
a. - hospitals/ orphanages/ homes for the
aged/ volunteers/ reading books to the
people there/ play games with them/ listen
to their problems.

b. Volunteers/ give care and
comfort / help disadvantaged and

handicapped children/ overcome/
difficulties

c. Summer vacations/ students/ work/
remote or mountainous areas/ provide
education for children.

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Students’ activities

- T asks Ss to look at the pictures to

- Ss look at the pictures and use

summarize what students often do as

suggested words to summarize what

volunteers.

students often do as volunteers
- They usually visit these places. They
read books to people there, play games
with them or listen to their problems.
- They give care and comfort to them

-T asks students a short question

and help them to overcome their

containing many meanings in order to

difficulties.

train life skills to them.

- They volunteer to work in remote or

-> How do you feel when you can

mountainous areas to provide education

bring happiness to others?

for children.
-> I feel very happy when I can bring
happiness to others.

- T and Ss correct mistakes.

-> I think/ believe that I am the happiest
people in the world.

Through these, students can have happy feelings once helping others.
AFTER YOU READ B:
What voluntary work do you intend to do after this class?
I. Objective:
I design an activity to review the vocabulary of Unit 4 – Textbook.
II. Basic life skills:
Decision making skills / Showing empathy skills / Time management skills
III. Methods:
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting

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Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- T presents pictures on the TV screen

- Ss work in pairs to talk about

or gives handouts.

volunteer work they intend to do this

- T encourages Ss to do volunteer work

afternoon after school.

to help people around them.

S1: I will spend 30 minutes talking

(parents/ neighbors/ the lonely aged/

with the old living next to my house.

the disadvantaged/ the handicapped…)

S3: I will tell my grandmother a funny

-> Just small gestures can bring

story everyday so that my grandmother

happiness to people living around us.

doesn‟t feel lonely.

- We should care and comfort people

S3: I will visit the old man who I

around us, especially the lonely old

haven‟t visited for a long time. He

man (woman)/ the disadvantaged/ the

lives alone next to my house.

handicapped/ our neighbors….)

S4: I will smile and stop to talk to the
handicapped who is always sitting
alone in his armchair on the way I go
home.
(- Ss correct mistakes.)

- Students will see their lives more meaningful once they can bring happiness
to others.

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UNIT 6 - COMPETITIONS – READING – AFTER YOU READ
Discuss the reasons why Nga said: “For me the most important thing was our
participation in the competition and the enjoyment we had from it.” (Individualwork)
Taking advantage of the last five minutes in the training period, I help my students
to present their thoughts and feeling about Nga's statement.
I. Objectives:
The objective of this activity is to help my students to recover from their failure
and then try much more for next challenges (ex: examinations, contests…).
Besides, this will help students know how to have empathy share with the losers.
II. Basic life skills:
Showing sympathy skills/ Effective communication skills/ Cooperation skills/
Dealing conflict skills/ Valuation skills
III. Methods:
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

T asks Ss to read (P3) in textbook.

- Ss read the last paragraph.(P3)

T leads Ss to this activity by asking Ss

- Ss answer the questions.

some questions:

 Hung, Thu and Nga

1. Name members of group A?

 Because her group was not the

2. Why did Thu feel disappointed?

winner.
 Because Hung had difficulty

3. Why did Thu‟s group lose the
game?
4. What did Nga say?

reciting the poem.
 “For me the most important
thing was our participation in the
competition and the enjoyment

-T encourages Ss to give their opinion

we had from it.”

to Nga's statement “For me the most

S1: The purpose of the saying is to

important thing was our participation

comfort Hung and Thu

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in the competition and the enjoyment

S2: I am really appreciated Nga‟s

we had from it.”

saying. In that situation, Hung needed

- T and Ss correct mistakes.

everyone‟s comfort.
S3: …

- We have to learn from our mistakes so that we can do it better in future and
become the winner someday.
- And we should learn how to have empathy and share with the losers.
UNIT 8 - CELEBRATIONS – READING –BEFORE YOU READ
Match the activities to their pictures (Pair-work):
I. Objectives:
This activity is to review vocabularies for students in order to help them easy to
present their usual activity on Tet holidays by English and make the learning

period more actively. Besides, the students can know more about Vietnamese
cultures on such holidays.
II. Basic life skills:
Self recognition skills / Decision making skills/ Time management skills
III. Methods:
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting
Activities:
1. Cleaning up the house
2. Going shopping
3. Decorating the dining room with apricot blossom in the South and peach
blossom in the North
4. Decorating houses with kumquat tree with its ripe deep orange fruits.
5. Cooking traditional foods (Making banh chung)
6. Watching fireworks
7. Visiting relatives and exchanging New Year wishes
8. Receiving lucky money

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E

B

C

F

H

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G

I

Teacher’s activities

J

Students’ activities

- T asks Ss to match the activities to

- Ss match the activities to their pictures.

their pictures.

1. J – 2 A – 3. F, G – 4. B – 5.C – 6. E – 7.

- T helps Ss train life skills by asking H – 8. I
some questions.

S1: I often help my mother clean windows

- What do you often do to help your

and tidy up the house. The atmosphere in

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mother to prepare for Tet holidays?

my family is very warm.

And How do you feel?

S2: I often help my mother make “banh
chung”.
I enjoy Tet holidays very much.
S3: On Tet holidays, I don‟t have to go
school. Therefore, I always help my mother
do everything I can to prepare for Tet

- T and Ss correct mistakes.

holidays. I am really happy.

I love Tet holidays very much.

The time you help your parents to prepare for Tet holidays is also the time you
have the opportunity to enjoy the family happiness and emotion.
UNIT 8 - CELEBRATIONS – READING – AFTER YOU READ
I design an activity AFTER YOU READ as below:
Tell your friends about your plan. (Group-work)
On Tet holidays, you have some days off. Therefore, you should plan what to do
on your Tet holidays so that you can have meaningful and happy holidays together
with your family, your relatives, your friends …
I. Objectives
- T helps Ss know the meaning of Tet holidays.
- Ss know how to plan what to do on these days.
II. Basic life skills
- Time management skills/ Decision making skills/ Target reaching skills
III. Methods
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- T encourages Ss to plan what they

- Ss work in groups of eight to plan what

do on Tet holidays.

they do on Tet holidays.

- T asks two groups to present their

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GROUP 1:
On December 29th of the lunar year:
- My family will buy many things for

-T

corrects

mistakes

and

comments

give

Tet holidays. (clothes, flowers, meat,
fruits,

candies,

cookies,

lemon

seeds….)
- We will gather to make “banh chung”
On December 30th of the lunar year:
- We will help my parents clean the
windows to welcome the new year.
- We will decorate our house (flowers,
apricot blossom, kumquat tree…)
- We will sit around and watch TV to
wait for The New Year coming.
On Jan 1st of lunar year:
- In the morning we will go to church
to pray for a happy new year.
- After that I will visit our grand
grandparents‟ tombs.
- We will wish best wishes to our
parents.
On Jan 2nd of lunar year:
- We will visit our neighbors, talk to
them and eat traditional foods.
On Jan 3rd of lunar year
- We will visit our teachers and wish
good things to them.
- We will visit our friends‟ families

and give them best wishes.
-> We love TET very much.
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GROUP 2:
On The last day (December 30th) of the
previous lunar year:
- All members of the family will gather
together to clean our house.
- We will prepare food for celebrating
the first three days of lunar New
Year.
- We always buy new clothes to wear
to welcome lucky things for the next
coming lunar year.
On Jan 1st of lunar year:
- We will visit our grandparents and
wish them all the best things in the
next coming year.
- We will receive lucky money from
our parents, our grandparents which
present that this lucky money will
bring luckiness to us.

On Jan 2nd of lunar year:
- We will visit our teachers and usually
have a party and wish good things to
our teacher and all members of the
class.
- (T and Ss correct mistakes.)
* Why should we plan what we do

On Jan 3rd of lunar year:
- We will travel to some traditional

on Tet holidays?

places as pagodas, our ancestor‟s

- We have only some important days

tombs…

to do many meaningful things.

- We will meet and talk to our family

Unless we plan everything carefully,

members, friends after a year of hard

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we may waste our time playing
games which are useless.

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studying.
-> We really love Tet because we have
opportunities to enjoy the family‟s warm
atmosphere through these holidays.

- In order to have meaningful holidays, we have to plan carefully what to do.
- After the period, students will have more life skills (Time management skills)
for themselves.
UNIT 9 - THE POST OFFICE – READING – AFTER YOU READ
Imagine you are a post office director. Introduce the services of your post office
to your friends (Presentation: 2 minutes).
I. Objectives
- T helps Ss talk about services their post office has.
- Ss try to please the customers by giving good services.
II. Basic life skills
- Time management skills/ Decision making skills/ Creative thinking skills/
Communication skills
III. Methods
Discussing / Content briefing/ Presenting
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- T encourages Ss to discuss services

- Ss work in groups of eight to design

that their post office should have.

services that their post office should have.

- T chooses three good groups to
present their post office in front of

-> To please the customers

the whole class.

-> To have more customers to our post

* Why should we provide customers

office, we must fulfill our customers‟

with good services?

desire.

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* These are students’ post offices that they have imagined
New Decade Post Office has a well-equipped
and has a spacious and pleasant front
office. We offer the best services with a
well-trained staff.

Welcome you to our
New Decade Post
Office!

Open daily from 7am to 9pm

The
seven
telephone
boxes

The
fax
machine

Mail and parcel service

Money transfer

EMS

Press distribution
It’s convenient , modern and
professional

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Group 2

Group 2

Happy Post Office is equipped
with advanced technology, a
spacious and pleasant front
office and a well-trained staff.

( Open daily from 6.30 a.m to 9 p.m )

Group 2

Group 2

“Come with us, come
with the best
services”

We are proud of offering the best
services to you and a well-trained
staff, who are always polite and
thoughtful to customers.

Group 2

Group 2

Mail and Parcel service

Happy Post Office’s Services

• Send letter by air or surface mail

•
•
•
•
•

Mail and Parcel service
Data post service

Money transfer service
Press distribution
Phone calls, faxes, internet
services
• Flower telegram service

• Express Mail Service.
• Your letter or parcel will be
delivered in the shortest possible
time. The prices of service are
reasonable.

Money transfer service

Group 2

Group 2

Phone calls, faxes, Internet services
• We provide you with the ordinary
Telephone call services, Messenger call
service.
• Fax transmission has now become a
cheap and convenient way to transmit
texts and graphics over distances.
• Nowadays, Internet is necessary for
people’s life. Happy Post Office will
install Internet for you with well-trained
staff and the prices of the service are
reasonable.

• We sell phone cards and internet cards.

Your money will be sent
to your relatives in less than
15 hours.

Press distribution
Just subscribe to your
favorite newspapers and
magazines and we will
bring them to your
houses early in the
morning.
Group 2

Flower telegram service

Our motto is:
“Our happiness is provide for
you the best services”

We will send flowers for
your woman on the day that
you want. If you use this
service more than 10
times/year, you will receive
a Sale off’s Card. With this
card you will be sold off
10% for the next time.

Any questions or comments please contact:
Tel: 0123456789
Mail:

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Open daily from 7 a.m to 9 p.m

THE
THE
POST OFFICE
OFFICE
POST

Group 5 „s Post Office is equipped with advanced
technology. We offer the best services with a welltrained staff, who are always thoughtful and
courteous to customers.

Mail and Parcel Service

Express Money Transfer

You can choose to send your
letters by air or surface mail. We
also have the Express Mail
Service.

Just imagine your relatives are living
over one thousand kilometers away from
you and you want to send them some
money quickly. The money will be sent
to your relatives in less then 3 hours.

RETAIL SERVICES
Selling services for online gift
www.postalgroụp5.com.vn and delivery
at the customer’s address in the postal
system.
please contact telephone numbers :
01647401495

GROUP 5
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- T and Ss correct mistakes.
-> Through this activity, I can see clearly that …
- Students are proud of their work and eager to present their post office in
front of the class.
- They try their best to please their customers and to provide their customers
with best services.
- They are more active and creative.
UNIT 10 - NATURE IN DANGER– READING – AFTER YOU READ
AFTER YOU READ (Textbook):
Work in groups. Find out why some animals have become extinct.
(Since we have discussed the question 2 in Before you read –Textbook “Can you
explain why the numbers of these animals have become smaller?”. The two
activities are nearly the same.
I re-design:
“What should we do to protect our environment?” (Individual-work)
I. Objectives:
My objective is to help the students have responsibility to the environment. They
encourage each other to join hands to make the environment clean and fresh. Once
being able to do something to protect the environment, they will feel happy.
II.Basic life skills:
Communication skills / Problem solving skills / Taking responsibility skills
Consistency skills
III. Method:
- Analyze the situation and then present their ideas.
Teacher’s activities
- T encourages Ss to discuss and
suggest activities that they are
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Students’ activities

Ss think carefully to decide what to do to
protect the environment.
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going to do or are doing to

S1: After class, I and my friends often

protect the environment.

pick rubbish in our class.
S2: I think we should plant a tree in our
school yard.
S3: From now on, instead of small plastic
bags, I use boxes that can use many times
to contain food such as meat, fish,
vegetable, etc.

(- T and Ss correct mistakes.)

S4: I should go to school by bike

-> T reminds them of keeping

S5: To protect our environment, I and my

promise.

parents do not to eat rare animal‟s meat.
S6: I think I must use paper economically.
…

-> Ss feel happy when they know they can do many things to protect the
environment.
UNIT 13 – HOBBIES – READING – AFTER YOU READ
AFTER YOU READ (Textbook): Work in groups. Talk about your hobby.
I re-design:
“What is your hobby? Why do you choose it?” (pair-work)
Taking advantage of the last five minutes in the training period, I help my students
talk about their hobby
I. Objectives:
The objective of this activity is to help my students to realize that we have not only
the pleasure of working but also the pleasure of entertainment. Our life is much
more meaningful when we know how to use our free time properly.
II.Basic life skills:
Communication skills / Time management skills / Active listening skills/ Valuation
skills

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Students’ activities

- T encourages Ss to discuss and Ss work in pairs to talk about reasons they
choose any hobby that they like choose the hobby.
most.

G1: We love to go swimming with our

- T helps Ss tell the reasons why friends.
they choose this hobby.

-> To relax after studying period and have
good time with our friends.
-> To protect ourselves in case we need to
swim to survive.
G2: We love listening to English songs.
->To relax by music.
->To enlarge our English vocabularies
and listening skills.

Our life is much more meaningful when we know how to use our free time
properly.
UNIT 16 –THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD – READING – AFTER YOU
READ
AFTER YOU READ (Textbook):

Discuss the question: which of the wonders

of the world do you like best and why?
I re-design:
Have you ever visited Ha Long Bay? If not, would you like to visit it? Why?
(pair-work)
I. Objectives:
The objective of this activity is to help my students to realize that Ha Long Bay is
our nation‟s pride. It is one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature. Many visitors
come there every day. We are Vietnamese. We must do something to make Ha
Long Bay become more famous.
II.Basic life skills:
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Communication skills / Valuation skills / Self-recognition skills
Teacher’s activities

Students’ activities

- T encourages Ss to talk about Ss work in pairs to talk about reasons why
reasons why they would like to they would like to visit Ha Long Bay.
visit Ha Long Bay.

S1: Ha Long Bay has many beautiful caves
and islands. With special environment and
atmosphere, we can feel a special feeling as
if we were at the paradise.
S2: We need to visit Ha Long Bay in order
to be able to introduce confidently such
wonder to foreign friends to encourage
them to come to our country.

- Through this activity, students will be proud of natural scenery of our
country. Besides, they will feel more patriotic.

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D. SURVEY RESULT
After having applied training life skills to students through English lessons, I have
carried out below survey in order to know clearly about the effect of this teaching
method to the studying of the students.

QUESTIONAIRES
In order to improve the teaching quality through the topic: “TRAINING SOME
LIFE SKILLS FOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS THROUGH ENGLISH
LESSONS AT GRADE 11”, I really hope to get your feedback/ideas for this by

giving your mark to each below items from 1 mark to 5 marks (1 mark means lowest
degree, 5 marks means highest degree).
1

2

3

4

5

Highest Degree

Lowest Degree

No.

Training Life Skills through English
lessons

Mark(s)
1 2 3 4 5

1

- Have the practicality for studets’ lives.

2

- Help students be more interested in the
lessons.

3

- Help students stimulate the proactive
learning attitude.

4

- Help students be easier to understand
the lessons and remember the lesson
longer.

5

6

AVERAGE

- Help diversify the teaching methods.

- Help improve the quality of teaching
and learning.

Teacher : Pham Ngoc Lan Huong

Nguyen Huu Canh High School