Helping grade 8 students at ha vinh secondary school remember the way to change an active sentence into a passive sentence in present simple tense and past simple tense

CATEGORY
I. INTRODUCTION
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1. REASON SELECTED THEMES ………………………
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2. THE GOAL OF RESEARCH …………………………
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3. THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY ..…..… Page 2
4. RESEARCH METHODS …… ………………………..
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II. CONTENT OF THE EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE ...…..
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1. THEORETICALBASIC …………………………………
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2. STATE OF THE PROBLEM ………………………….Page 3
3. SOLUTIONS AND ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION
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4. TESTED RESULTS ……………………….…………...
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III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ..........
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1. CONCLUSION :…………………………………………
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2. RECOMMENDATION ………..……………………..…
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I. INTRODUCTION
1. REASON SELECTED THEMES:
In recent years, the teaching and learning of foreign languages in general, in

particular in English secondary schools are now due attention and extensive
development in our country. Moreover, English courses has become one of the
main subjects in graduation exam grade 3 blocks D and implementation
University. Foreign language learning in secondary schools has been considered
as a core subject with a maximum of 3 periods per week. When English has
confirmed its role and importance in schools and at all levels, it is important to
improve the quality of teaching and learning. So how to improve the
effectiveness of teaching and learning is an essential need not only for learners
but especially for those who are directly teaching English. By teaching, as well
as by monitoring the learning process of students, especially the 8th grade
students in Ha Vinh junior high school when beginning to learn about "passive
sentences", the transfer of a sentence from the sentence Active passive sentence
in general is limited, especially the pupils have limited capacity; In addition, the
ability to memorize the practice is not high. Most students are afraid to practice.
The reason is because English completely different from the mother tongue,
difficult to learn, hard to remember. There are now a lot of research papers on
this subject, but when teaching and instructing students, the students find it very
difficult to memorize the practice of changing from active sentences to passive
sentences. If at the beginning of the practice the transition from active sentence
to passive sentence in the present simple and the past simple that students
practice well, they will easily acquire knowledge and use that knowledge to do
active - passive sentence exercises faster in the rest tenses.
.To help students remember the method of changing a sentence from active

into passive in present simple tense and past simple tense easier and to improve
the subject’s quality and to help students gain the basic knowledge to continue
studying English 9 at secondary school, I choose themes: “ Helping grade 8th

students at Ha Vinh secondary school remember the way to change an
active sentence into a passive sentence in present simple tense and past

simple tense”. In this topic, I give a method which I have successfully used
during passive voice teaching periods in English 8 progam for several years.
2. THE GOAL OF RESEARCH:
Changing an active sentence into passive sentence ia a focal and difficult
knowledge part in English 8 program as well as in secondary program.
Therefore, students must master the method to do this format at the beginning of
studying the way to change an active sentence into passive sentence, especially,
at the beginning of studying the way to change an active sentence into passive


sentence in present simple tense and past simple tense. But many students have
lots of pressure at the beginning of studying passive format, even more difficult
for students with weak average academic performance. Sometimes I feel the
anxiety of the students when they make mistaken about the passive sentence.
And I also noticed the indifference, neglect while learning about passive
sentences of some students. Therefore, if they are sure of this method of doing
the exercises in the above two, then it is easier for students to do the exercises in
the other. Students will be more interested in learning passive sentences in
general and English in particular. So I studied the ways to move an active
sentence into a passive sentence to find out how to help students easily
remember the formula that turns an active sentence into a passive sentence in a
memorable, easy way. The students will be in the formula I used to teach from
the beginning when you begin to familiarize with the passive sentence.
3. THE OBJECT AND SCOPE OF THE STUDY:
+ The object of the research subject is the the method of changing an

active sentence into a passive sentence in present simple tense and past
simple tense used for grade 8 students in Ha vinh secondary.
+ The result of students’ study after using this method to change an active
sentence into a passive sentence in the present simple tense and past simple tense.

4. RESEARCH METHODS:
During the study process. I myself used some following methods:
+ Survey method of collecting information
+ Documentary study methods
+ Evaluation test method
+ comparative method.
.
II. CONTENT OF THE EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE
1. THEORETICAL BASIS:
Learning English is a language study, learning a difficult subject in
junior high school. In the last few years, English has been raised to the same
level of importance as Literature and Mathematics as many high schools choose
it as the third test to take into high school. The knowledge of passive sentences
is one of the knowledge of certainty in the structure of the test in the English
Upper School. Therefore, students must have a definitely knowledge of this
part. However, when beginning to learn passive sentences, most students find it


very confusing because most sentence components change and change positions.
Although in the process of teaching I have instructed the students to study in the
form of diagram but they still find it difficult to remember. To help students no
longer feel anxious about this problem, forged the students skills to do passive
sentence exercises effectively, I have studied how to change an active sentence
into a passive sentence in the present simple and the past simple and easy to
remember and understand. This makes it easier for students to learn English,
especially passive part.
2. STATE OF THE PROBLEM:
+ As far as the district is distant, access to the new has many limitations,
nearly 80% of parents of students working in agriculture, hard life, low
educational level, awareness of the importance of the subject is not high ... .. It

creates a difficult pressure on the teacher during the instruction.
+ Some teachers have limited ability, do not have much experience in
teaching, do not really trying to explore, study, donot really invest in teaching,
especially not creative in teaching, do not find new methods to help students
master the knowledge that teachers teach.
+ Teachers have not yet grasped the psychology of each student.
+ Teachers have not created the excitement for the students in order to love
the teacher and the subject.
+ Grade 8 - Knowledge of the 8th grade English program - which will be the
basis for the next 9th grade student good or not? For eighth-graders, the fact of
student achievement in the same class, grade level is uneven: most students are
weak.
+ Most students feel a lot of pressure when they learn passive sentences.
Because if they practice fluently in a passive sentence conversion, then when
they learn more passive sentences, they get confused. For students with good
academic performance, they only need to explain how they can practice well,
but students who are weak, they receive new knowledge and forget their old
knowledge so they are passive and lose confidence in the lesson.
In the process of teaching, I also noticed the embarrassment of some
weak students.
This leads to the fact that they are afraid to study English and fear even more if
they lack the will and determination to lead to lazy, lose basic, do not like
subject, do not like teacher, ...


+ The ability of the students to learn, to transfer information, knowledge is
limited, not to know and solve the problem in a scientific, logical and effective
way. Therefore, they are difficult to absorb and remember information and
knowledge in a sustainable way.
+ The lack of knowledge so students have not been able to absorb knowledge

to gain knowledge, training to turn the knowledge teachers teach into their
knowledge.
Therefore, it is necessary to build a positive spirit for students to participate
in activities during the lesson. So, I have tried to build a friendly lesson, giving
each student confidence in himself with a thorough, practical and effective
guide. Prior to the study, I conducted a survey on the quality of 8A students in
the school year 2015-2016 in Ha Vinh junior high school when I was a teacher
teaching passive sentences according to the old method I previously applied in
the previous school year to compare with the quality of 8C students in the school
year 2015-2016 Ha Vinh junior secondary school when I applied his new
experience initiative.
3. SOLUTIONS AND ORGANIZATION OF IMPLEMENTATION:
3.1. Here, I present the old method I applied when teaching passive
sentences in the present simple and the past simple tense.
- Before teaching the children how to change an active sentence into a
passive sentence, I teach basic knowledge that students need to remember.
* Verbs in English come in two forms:
+ Active: The subject performs the action
They wash the car.
+ Passive: Subject is affected by action.
The car is washed (by them).
The verb form of the passive sentence has the form:
Be + Past participle
+ Some general rules when changing an active sentence to passive.
- Active object -> Passive subject.


- Active verb -> be (depends on tense) + P2.
- Active subject -> By + passive object
A.

S

V

P.

S

BE + P2

O
by + agent

+ If the subject in the active sentence is:
I / he / she / it / people / somebody / everyone / everybody ..... do not need
to use (By + O) in the passive sentence if you do not want to indicate the actor.
+ If the active sentence has an adverb / adverb indicating time, place it
after the "by + passive object.
+ If the object is in a passive sentence indicating things, then we use the
preposition "with" replace for "by” before object.
Example:

Smoke filled the room. -> The room was filled with smoke.

+ If the active verb has two objects, one of the two objects can be used as
the subject in the passive sentence. However, direct object-oriented language is
more commonly used. Indirect Object, there must be prepositions followed by
the verb.
Example:

I am writing her a letter.

-> She is being written a letter
-> A letter is being written to her.
- Then I teach in detail how to change from active to passive sentences
one by one.
3.1.1. Passive in simple present:
a. Affirmative:
A. Hoa does her homework every day.
P. Hoa’s homework is done by Hoa every day.
Form: A. S + V(s/es) + O + ....... + (adv of time).
P. S + am/is/are + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time).


b. Negative:
A. Hoa doesn’t do her homework every day.
P. Hoa’s homework is not done by Hoa every day.
Form: A. S + don’t/doesn’t + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time).

P. S + am/is/are not + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time).
c. Interogative:
- A. Does Hoa do her homework every day?
P. Is Hoa’s homework done by Hoa every day?
Form: A. Do/Does + S + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time) ?.

P. Am/Is/Are + S + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time) ?
d. Wh-questions:
- A. When does Hoa do her homework?
P. When is Hoa’s homework done by Hoa?

Form: A. When Do/Does + S + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time) ?.

P. When Am/Is/Are + S + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time) ?
- When giving each affirmative, negative, Interogative, Wh-questions structure, I
give them exercises that apply that structure to their homework. Each structure
requires the students to do 5 sentences in 10 minutes.
Exercise 1: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply negative
sentence structure)
1. My grandmother keeps old photographs in these boxes.
2. She pays a lot of money each day.
3. People speak English over the world.


4. People grow rice in tropical countries.
5. English people like football.
Exercise 2: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply negative
sentence structure)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

We don’t play soccer at school.
He doesn’t listen to music in his free time.
They don’t watch TV in the afternoon.
Mai and Lan don’t clean the house in the morning.
Linh’s father doesn’t drive the red car to work.

Exercise 3: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply

interogative sentence structure)
1. Does Nga play voleyball?
2. Do you like pop music?
3. Does she read books every evening?
4. Does Minh play tennis on Sunday morning?
5. Does she love her house?
Exercise 4: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply wh
-question sentence structure)
1. When do you play badminton?
2. What time does she do her homework exercises?
3. How do they teach English here?
4. Why do you buy fish every day?
5. How often do they fly their kites?
Similarly, I teach how to change an active sentence to a passive sentence
in a simple past.
3.1.2. Passive in simple past:
a. Affirmative:
A. Hoa did her homework last night.
P. Hoa’s homework was done by Hoa last night.

Form: A. S + V-ed + O + ....... + (adv of time).


P. S + was/were + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time).
b. Negative:
A. Hoa didn’t do her homework last night.
P. Hoa’s homework was not done by Hoa last night.
Form: A. S + didn’t + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time).

P. S + was/were not + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time).

c. Interogative:
- A. Did Hoa do her homework last night?
P. Was Hoa’s homework done by Hoa last night?
Form: A. Did + S + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time) ?.

P. Was/Were + S + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time) ?
d. Wh-questions:
- A. When did Hoa do her homework?
P. When was Hoa’s homework done by Hoa?
Form: A. When Do/Does + S + V(inf.) + O + ....... +(adv of time) ?.

P. When was/were + S + P2 + ...... + by O + ( adv of time) ?
- When giving each affirmative, negative, Interogative, Wh-questions structure, I
give them exercises that apply that structure to their homework. Each structure
requires the students to do 5 sentences in 10 minutes.
Exercise 1: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply negative
sentence structure)


6. I took my younger sister to the park last Sunday.
7. My teachertold us to be here at 6 o’clock.
8. A violent storm destroyed the fishing village.
9. They invited a lot of people to their party last night.
10.A policeman took him to the police station.
Exercise 2: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply negative
sentence structure)
1.
2.
3.
4.

5.

Her husband didn’t love her.
Last night, our grandmother didn’t tell us a very interesting story.
They didn't help me.
They didn’t give me the information I needed.
Quang didn’t break the window.

Exercise 3: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply
interogative sentence structure)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Did your mother make a big cake for your birthday?
Did they plant those flowers two days ago?
Did he meet Lan’s father in the park last weekend?
Did they invite their friends to their party last night?
Did a policeman take him to the police station?

Exercise 4: Change the following sentences in to passive: (apply wh
-question sentence structure)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

When did Christopher discover America?
What time did the violent storm destroy the fishing village ?
When did they last paint the house?
When did Alexander Graham Bell invent the telephone?
How did they build the pyramids in Egypt?

3.2. And this is a new method that after years of passive teaching I have
learned the experience. I would like to present my method as follows:
- Before teaching the children how to change an active sentence into a passive
sentence, I also teach basic knowledge that students need to remember.
* Verbs in English come in two forms:
+ Active: The subject performs the action
They wash the car.


+ Passive: Subject is affected by action.
The car is washed (by them).
The verb form of the passive sentence has the form:
Be + Past participle
+ Some general rules when changing an active sentence to passive.
- Active object -> Passive subject.
- Active verb -> be (depends on tense) + P2.
- Active subject -> By + passive object
A.

S

V

P.

S

BE + P2

O

by + agent

+ If the subject in the active sentence is:
I / he / she / it / people / somebody / everyone / everybody ..... do not need
to use (By + O) in the passive sentence if you do not want to indicate the actor.
+ If the active sentence has an adverb / adverb indicating time, place it
after the "by + passive object.
+ If the object is in a passive sentence indicating things, then we use the
preposition "with" replace for "by” before object.
Example:

Smoke filled the room. -> The room was filled with smoke.

+ If the active verb has two objects, one of the two objects can be used as
the subject in the passive sentence. However, direct object-oriented language is
more commonly used. Indirect Object, there must be prepositions followed by
the verb.
Example:

I am writing her a letter.

-> She is being written a letter
-> A letter is being written to her.

- But in my new method, I symbolize the sentence components with
natural numbers in mathematics:
+ Subject in active sentence: 1
+ Verbs in active sentences: 2
+ Object in the active sentence: 3
Then an active sentence is transformed into a passive sentence in the
present simple tense would have the form of the formula as follows:
3.2.1. Passive in simple present:
a. Affirmative:
1
->

+

2

+

3 + (adv of time).

3 + is/am/are + 2 + by + 1 + (adv of time).

Attention: 1 must be converted into an object if 1 is the
personal pronoun ( she, he, they, I, we -> her, him, them, me, us)
2 must be converted into P2.
3 must be converted into a personal pronoun if 3 is an object
( her, him, them, me, us -> she, he, they, I, we )
Example: A:

I watch TV
1 + 2

P:

+

TV is

everyday.

3 + ( adv of time).

watched by

3 + is +

2

me

everyday.

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

b. Negative:

->

1 + don’t/doesn’t

+ 2

+

3 + is/am/are not

+

+ by + 1 + (adv of time).

Example: A:

I don’t watch TV
1

P:

2

3 + (adv of time).

+

TV isn’t

2

+

everyday.

3 + ( adv of time).

watched by

me

everyday.


3 + is +

2

+

by + 1 + ( adv of time).

c. Interrogative:
Do/Does + 1 + 2 + 3 + ( adv of time)?
->

Is/Am/ Are + 3 + 2 + by + 1 + ( adv of time)?

Example: A:

Do you watch TV
1 +

P:

2

everyday?

+ 3 + ( adv of time)?

Is + TV watched
3 +

2

by

me

everyday?

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

d. Wh-questions:
When + Do/Does + 1 + 2 + 3 + ( adv of time)?
-> When + Is/Am/ Are + 3 + 2 + by + 1 + ( adv of time)?
Example: A:

When do you watch
1 +

P:

2

When is + TV

TV

everyday?

+ 3 + ( adv of time)?

watched by

3 +

2

me

everyday?

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

- When giving each affirmative, negative, Interogative, Wh-questions structure, I
give them exercises that apply that structure to their homework. Each structure
requires the students to do 5 sentences in 10 minutes. Exercises that apply this
method are also exercises that I apply when taught by the old method.
Similarly, I teach how to pass an active sentence to a passive sentence
in a simple past.

3.2.2. Passive in past simple tense:
a. Affirmative:
1
->

+

2

+

3 + (adv of time).

3 + was/were + 2 + by + 1 + (adv of time).


Attention: 1 must be converted into an object if 1 is the
personal pronoun ( she, he, they, I, we -> her, him, them, me, us)
2 must be converted into P2.
3 must be converted into a personal pronoun if 3 is an object
( her, him, them, me, us -> she, he, they, I, we )
Example: A:

I watched TV
1 + 2

P:

+

TV was

last night.

3 + ( adv of time).
watched by

3 + was +

2

me

last night.

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

b. Negative:
1 + didn’t
->

2

+

3 + was/were not

+

Example: A:

P:

+

3 + (adv of time).
2

+ by + 1 + (adv of time).

I didn’t watch

TV

1

3 + ( adv of time).

+

2

TV wasn’t

+

last night.

watched by

3 + was +

2

+

me

last night.

by + 1 + ( adv of time).

c. Interrogative:
Did + 1 + 2 + 3 + ( adv of time)?
->

Was/Were + 3 + 2 + by + 1 + ( adv of time)?

Example: A:

Did you watch
1 +

P:

2

TV

+ 3 + ( adv of time)?

Was + TV watched
3 +

last night?

2

by

me

last night?

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

d. Wh-questions:
When + did + 1 + 2 + 3 + ( adv of time)?


-> When + was/were + 3 + 2 + by + 1 + ( adv of time)?
Example: A:

When did you watch
1 +

P:

2

When was + TV
3

TV

last night?

+ 3 + ( adv of time)?
watched

+

2

by

me

last night?

+ by + 1 + ( adv of time).

- When giving each affirmative, negative, Interogative, Wh-questions structure,
I give them exercises that apply that structure to their homework. Each structure
requires the students to do 5 sentences in 10 minutes. Exercises that apply this
method are also exercises that I apply when taught by the old method.

4. TESTED RESULTS:
After a period of investment in this topic, I realized the difference and
remarkable progress of 8C students in doing the exercises changes from active

sentences to passive sentences in the present simple and past simpl tense
compared with 8A students. Some students have performed very well in the
passive sentence section of the two simple tenses.
Instead of remembering very hard, They can easily memorize the
formula from 1 - 2 - 3 to 3 - tobe - 2 - by - 1 ( change active – passive with
affirmative sentences). Helping them to feel English is not difficult to learn.
And one thing that is commendable to the students is their active participation in
the lesson and their better progress. This is one of the successes of the student
body and the teacher itself.
After allowing students to do hands-on exercises that turn the active
sentence into the passive sentence in two, the present simple and past simple,
are taught using the old method in grade 8A and after applying the new teaching
method in grade 8C, the results are as follows:

Class Tota
l

8A
8C

32
33

Excellent (%) Good
2
8

6,3
24,2

11
15

(%) Fair
34,4
45,5

14
9

(% We
)
ak
43,7 5
27,3 1

(%)
15,6
3


My passion for research, my love of students, and my true career
aspiration has motivated me to do the subject.prompted me to carry the subject.
The grade 8 students love the English language, which is considered a difficult
subject. They concentrate more and learn to raise their own knowledge when
performing passive sentences. Obviously, the positive and active use of precious
experiences in teacher teaching is always very important. It will encourage
students to pay more attention to the subject and try to learn more. I feel my
professional competence is improving, accumulating experiences through
practical touch, facing difficulties, more or less It also gives me a small

achievement that gives me confidence in my chosen career.
III. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
1. Conclusion:
Thus, to teach English subjects need to use a variety of methods, many
tricks to improve the effectiveness of teaching help students develop their
intellectual capacity, enhance the ability to reason, learn, explore.
Through the practice of teaching and learning, students learn faster, more
effectively, and more actively. I myself find that my experience can be applied to
teach passive sentences in two tenses: present simple and past simple for all 8th
and 9th graders in Ha Vinh Secondary School. The use of this procedure in the
passive lessons are needed to help students remember the formula is
capable of doing exercises and immediately applied the first lesson of
passive sentence is one of the important factors contributing to improving the
quality of learning passive sentences of students.
2. Recommendation:
a. For the Department of Education and Training Ha Trung
- Collecting high-quality, highly applicable, and educational experience
initiatives to provide school units with additional reference material.
b. For teachers:
- There must be investment in: contents, preparation of equipment needed
during a lesson, lessons.
- In teaching, attention should be paid to training students to familiarize
themselves with the techniques commonly used by teachers.
- Attention must be paid to all students avoiding attention to a fairly good
student population that ignores weak students. Attention to the weak students are


voiced, but good students only call supplement and improve knowledge when
necessary.
c. For students:

- Must have sufficient means of learning.
- Be proactive in learning.
- Master the knowledge in the English program.
- Cooperation with partners to find new knowledge.
I hope that with the thoughts of myself I will receive the sincere feedback
of my colleagues to improve the quality of teaching in the next school year.
Comments of the head of
Ha Vinh secondary school.

Ha Vinh, 10 .3. 2017.
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