Improving gade 7 students’ pronunciation of english pilot program at thuong xuan town secondary school

THANH HOA EDUCATION AND TRAINING DEPARTMENT

THUONG XUAN EDUCATION AND TRAINING DIVISION

EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE

IMPROVING GADE 7 STUDENTS’ PRONOUNCIATION
OF ENGLISH PILOT PROGRAM
AT THUONG XUAN TOWN SECONDARY SCHOOL

The writer: Hoang Thi Nga
Position: Teacher- Thuong Xuan Town Secondary school
Experience initiative: Enghlish

THANH HOA, 2017


INDEX
CONTENTS
Index
1. Introduction.
1.1. Reasons for choosing the theme.
1.2. The purpose of research
1.3. Object of research
1.4. Research methodology
2. Contents
2.1. Theoretical background
2.2. The status of the problem
2.3. The solutions and implementation.
2.3.1. Learning about phonetic English
2.3.2. Learning the phonetic symbols

2.3.3. Organization of implementation
2.4. The effects of experience initiative
3. Conclusions and recommendations
3.1. Conclusions
3.2. recommendations
LIST OF REFERENCES
LISTS OF TEACHING EXPERIENCE

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1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Reasons for choosing the theme.
Education and training play an important role in the development
process of the country. In the current period, the country is on the path of

reform, opening-up policy relations with the countries of the world increased
significantly. Extensive communication with the countries in the world in
English , the international language , has become more more and common and
attention.
In teaching English I have noticed that practicing English
pronunciation is the misery of our students, especially students

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in grade 6 and grade 7 whether they have been studying for 3
years at the elementary level, ... and in the end they still do not
get the standard English pronunciation. Is learning to pronounce
so difficult that can not be learned? or inappropriate teaching
methods? Is textbook structure irrational? or Don’t they know
how to learn?
According to the old textbook program, the students did not learn about
pronunciation so their spelling good or bad depends on the teachers.They leant
Enlish pronounciation without rules and methods. That is why after 7 or 10
years learning English, they still find difficulties in speaking and communicating
even they can speak fluently, Others can’t understand what they are expressing
beacause of the mistakes. Besides, the pilot program presents the vocabulary, the
grammar items tobe leaned and practised through the skills and activities of the
unit, it also focuses on pronunciation. Two or three sounds,which frequently
appear in the unit are targeted and practised in isolation and in context of “ A
closer look 1”.
To help students participate in the English pilot program and overcome
this obstacle, I choose content " Improving gade 7 students’
pronunciation of English pilot program at Thuong Xuan
Town Secondary School".

1.2 The purpose of research.
In order to help students in grade 7 of pilot program at Town Secondary
School, Thuong Xuan District, Thanh Hoa Province understand the sound
system in English, especially those sounds are enrolled at the first semester in
the textbook 7. Thereby, the students have aware of the importance of phonetics
in learning English in general and in particular to communicate in English so
they can understand what other people say and what they say that others can
understand.
1.3 Object of research.
Students in class 7A: 35 students
School: Thuong Xuan Town secondary school.
The sound system in the lessons of the first semester textbook 7 of the pilot
program, including sounds:
Sounds
ə/; /ɜ:/
/f/; /v/
/k/; /g/
/ʃ/; /ʒ/
/ɒ/; /ɔ:/
/ʧ/; /ʤ /

Belong to Units
Unit 1
Unit 2
Unit 3
Unit 4
Unit 5
Unit 6

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1.4 Research methodology.
To complete this experience initiative, I have thought and practiced and
have chosen several methods:
- Investigating the reality.
- Read documents that related to research.
- Using opinion surveys.
- Getting to know phonetic English.
- Introducing phonetic symbols in the units.
- Organizing to practice pronunciation with these audio visual media.
- Summarizing, comparing, drawing lessons.
2. CONTENTS
2.1 Theoretical background.
English is an important subject in the general education program in
schools in Vietnam. Basically, students start learning from grade 3, but the
reading and speaking English standard has also been faced many difficulties. To
improve this requires a huge effort by a team of teachers and students.
10-year language program is a breakthrough in the implementation of the
Scheme language 2020. Structure of book focus part of pronouncing on teaching
and learning English more comprehensively.
2.2 The status of the problem before applying teaching experience
For students in grade 7 at Thuong XuanTown Secondary School, Thuong
Xuan district, they have learned English pilot program for 3 years but their
pronunciation still has many difficulties. The pronunciation of the children are
forced, many students are not willing to speak for fear of making errors that
always leads to false in reading, speaking and recognizing the sound of the
words when making phonetic exercises.
Through the survey to identify exercises sound / ə / and / ɜ: / ( English 7,
page 9)

Exercise: Listen and put the words in the correct column /ə/ or /ɜ:/
answer - burn - birth - away - hurt - common - neighbour - heard
* The correct answer:
/ə/
/ɜ:/
answer
burn
away
birth
common
hurt
neighbour
heard
* The results
Class

Num Correct 8 Correct 7 Correct 6 Correct 5 Correct 4 Correct
words
words
words
words
words
from 1 to
3 words

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7A

35

Num %

Num %

Num %

Num %

Num %

Num %

4

5

4

7

9

6

11,4

14,3

11,4

20

25,7

17,2

The surveys of students’feelings when they have learned phonetics I
obtained the following results:
Class

Num

7A

35

Very
difficult
Num %
17
48,6

Difficult
Num %
15
42,8

Easy

Num %
3
8,6

Very easy

Note

Num %
0
0

The above results inspired me to do something to help them improve
this difficulty, or at least help them not to feel afraid, find it less difficult to learn
pronounciation.
2.3 The solutions and implementation.
2.3.1 Learning about phonetic English
So what is phonetic? It is intonation and sound. Any language has its
own intonation and sound. In Vietnam, in particular, and many countries in the
world people find it difficult to learn English pronunciation like a native
standard for sound and intonation .The main factors cause this problem may be
mentioned.
Firstly, new sounds appear in English that do not appear in Vietnamese ,
and they make the students feel hard to be accurate pronunciation. Take for
example: with audio /ʤ /. When listening through the spelling of this consonant,
the student think that it is simple, but the reality is quite different. Many students
can not pronounce properly and easily frustrate with the way of pronoucing, not
to mention the other sounds.
Secondly, The students have already been accustomed to the sounds in
Vietnamese, the parts make up the sound, especially as the tongue, lips, teeth

are very difficult to adjust to the correct pronunciation in English. Students find
themselves powerless to control them according to his will. When you want to
put a tip of the tongue between the teeth to pronounce sound / ð /, the teeth
firmly are bited and the tongue dropped behind.
Thirdly, the word stress in English. The words that have two syllables or
more are received the accent. Word stress will fall into one of certain syllables,
and syllables that will be stressed more than the rest while Vietnamese has one
syllable, no word stress. This is further difficulty with the students.
Finally, the intonation of sentences in English varied and plentiful.
Maybe the same sentence, but we can raise our voice, or down at the end of a
sentence to convey different information to the listeners,Vietnamese too. But the
similarity makes the students feel confused. They were familiar with the up and
down of the sentence in Vietnamese, so the switch to English, more or less, the

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intonation of sentences in Vietnamese into English will be affected, or if not, it
will take a lot of time to study and modify.
In general, when learning phonetic of a foreign language, students see
eye to eye with difficulties of intonation and sounds.So the important thing is
how to overcome them and achieve the ultimate goal to use that language as a
second language. Effortly, perseverance and impatience have helped many
people succeed in learning foreign languages.
2.3.2 Learning the phonetic symbols used in the lessons of practising phonetic
in English 7.
Everyone who starts learning a foreign language must learn the rules of
pronunciation because it is very important to correctly pronounce. The main
purpose of language learning is to be able to communicate with people, but bad
pronunciation can cause unnecessary misunderstandings. Therefore, the rules of

pronounciation is important for foreign language learners. From the first period
of the program in English 7 (an introduction), I spent a lot of time to introduce
the students to pass on the international phonetic symbols that they will have to
get used to in the process of studying English. At first, they might not
understand and know nothing about it. But that does not mean that later they
will not understand anything about it. In introducing the symbols table, there is
the International Phonetic symbols and its corresponding sounds in Vietnamese
to make students easy to imagine. Even though, getting to know deeply about
International Phonetic symbols helps the students pronoun correctly every word
they meet in the dictionary. Here is the table of the international phonetic
symbols at the first semester of English 7 .
A. Vowels.
Sounds

In words

Transcription

Illustration

/ə/

about

/ ə’baʊt /

today, connect, elephant

Unit 1

/ɜ:/

fur

/ fɜ:(r) /

stir, nurse, shirt, skirt

Unit 1

/ɒ/

got

/ gɒt /

hot, cod, spot, cock, slot

Unit 5

/ɔ:/

saw

/ sɔ: /

more, course, store

Unit 5

Unit

B. Consonants
Sounds

In
words

Transcription

/f/

fall

/ fɔ:l /

Illustration
photo, finish, fat, cough

Unit
Unit 2

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/v/

van

/ væn /

voice, very, violent, move

Unit 2

/k/

cat

/ kæt /

cow, copy, skull, thank

Unit 3

/g/
/ʃ/

get

game, bag, gather, guide, gun

Unit 3

shoe

/ get /
/ ʃu: /

show, sheep, wash, sheet

Unit 4

/ʒ/

vision

/ ‘viʒn/

measure, decision, usually

Unit 4

/ʧ/

chain

/ ʧein /

chip, choice, teach, cheers

Unit 6

/ʤ/

jam

/ ʤæm /

bridge, village, join, jam

Unit 6

Once the students have transliteration table, with the help of the teachers,
they are guided to pronounce the words that they often mispronounce.
Encouraging them to memorize each day at least 2-3 words with symbols of
pronunciation .
2.3.3 Organization of implementation
To help the students excting and not feel stressed during school hours ,I
personally have taken advantages of the infrastructure of the university such as
radio, interactive panel power mail, Internet connection service of teaching and
learning.By collecting English pages about teaching pronounciation to illustrate
such as: />In addition, organizing for the students and training with the visual
media to know the extent of their progress, so that teachers and students have
the correction.The training mainly focuses on reinforcement learning lessons.
The solution that I have personally applied to my students may be also
used in other schools. However, this is the first time I have applied and initially
brought excitement for students.The sounds in the English textbook 7 of the
pilot program will be introduce the students in each unit of study with the
process: the students observe image export, find out how it formed, understand
single words containing sounds, learn the sentences with examples and finally
apply.
UNIT 1: MY HOBBIES
In this unit, the students are gained two vowels /ə/ and /ɜ:/
a) Short vowel /ə/

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- /ə/ is a short vowel sound.

- Open your mouth very slightly and simply.
- The lips and tongue are relaxed.
- It's pronounced /ə/...../ə/

ago/əˈɡəʊ/
mother/ˈmʌðər/
open /ˈəʊpən/
picture /ˈpɪktʃər/
I suppose it's possible.
/aɪ səˈpəʊz ɪts ˈpɒsəbl/
That's an excellent question.
/ðæts ən ˈeksələnt ˈkwestʃən/
1. "a" is pronounced as / ə /
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
banana
/bəˈnænə/
quả chuối
national
/ˈnæʃnəl/
Có tính quốc gia
2. "e" is pronounced as / ə /
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
answer
/ˈænsər/
trả lời
silent

/ˈsailənt/
Im lặng
3. "o" is pronounced as / ə /
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
compare
/kəmˈpeə(r)/
so sánh
control
/kənˈtrəʊl/
kiểm soát
4. "u" is pronounced as / ə /
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
survey
/səˈvei/
khảo sát
suggest
/səˈdʒest/
gợi ý
5. "ou" is pronounced as / ə /
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
famous
/ˈfeɪməs/
nổi tiếng
dangerous

/ˈdeɪndʒərəs/
nguy hiểm
b) Long vowel /ɜ:/
- /ɜː/ is a long vowel sound.
- Your mouth and tongue should be relaxed.
- It’s pronounced /ɜː/.... /ɜː/.
bird /bɜːrd/
turn /tɜːrn/
The girl saw the circus first.

occur /əˈkɜːr/
early /ˈɜːrli/
/ðə ɡɜːrl sɔː ðə ˈsɜːrkəs fɜːrst/

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That is the worst journey in the world. /ðæt ɪz ðə wɜːrst ˈdʒɜːrni ɪn ðə wɜːrld/
Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɜː/
1. "o" is pronounced as /ɜː/
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
worse
/wɜːs/
xấu hơn
world
/wɜːld/
thế giới

hurt
fur

2. "u" is pronounced as /ɜː/
Examples
Transcription
/hɜːt/
/fɜː/

Meaning
làm đau
bộ lông da thú

3. "i", "e", "ea" and "ou" are sometimes pronounced as /ɜː/ when stress
is on these.
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
bird
/bɜːd/
con chim
girl
/gɜːl/
cô gái
UNIT 2: HEALTH
In this unit, the students are gained two consonants /f/ and /v/
a) Consonant /f/
- /f/ is the voiceless consonant sound.
- To make this sound, touch your top teeth with the
bottom lip.

- Blow out air between your lip and teeth and don't use
your voice.
- It's pronounced /f/...../f/.

five /faɪv/
half /hæf/
This is my family photo.
Ralph’s life is tough, but he laughs.

fan
feel

coffee /ˈkɔːfi/
photo /ˈfəʊtəʊ/
/ðɪs ɪz maɪ ˈfæməli ˈfəʊtəʊ/
/rɑːfs laɪf ɪz tʌf bʌt hi læfs/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /f/
1. "f" is pronounced as /f/
Examples
Transcription
/fæn/
/fiːl/

Meaning
cái quạt
cảm thấy

2. "ph" và "gh" is pronounced as /f/ in every siuation.

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Examples

Transcription
/ˈfəʊtəʊ/
/rʌf/

photo
rough

Meaning
bức ảnh
nhám

b) Consonant /v/
- /v/ is the voiced consonant sound.
- To make this sound, practise this sound /f/ first,
then use your voice to say /v/......./v/.
live/lɪv/
have /hæv/
Steven lives in a village.
We’re leaving at five past seven.

very/ˈveri/
Invite /ɪnˈvaɪt/
/stivn lɪvz ɪn əˈvɪlɪdʒ/
/wɪr liːvɪŋ ət faiv paːst 'sevən/

Identify: Only "v" is pronounced as /v/
Examples

Transcription

view
heavy

/vjuː/
/ˈhevi/

Meaning
nhìn, quan sát
nặng

UNIT 3: COMMUNITY SERVICE
In this unit, the students are gained two consonants /k/ and /g/
a) Consonant /k/
- /k/ is a voiceless consonant sound.
-To make this sound:
- Stop the air with the back of your tongue.
- Then move your tongue to release the air and
don’t use your voice.
- It’s pronounced /k/…/k/
car/kɑːr/
key /kiː/
I’ll make a cake for Mike.
Pick the music up tomorrow.

kitchen/ˈkɪtʃɪn/

karefully /ˈkerfəli/
/aɪl meɪk ə keɪk fər maɪk/
/pɪk ðə ˈmjuːzɪk ʌp təˈmɔːrəʊ/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /k/
1. "k" is pronounced as /k/
Examples
Transcription
look
/lʊk/
milk
/mɪlk/

Meaning
Nhìn
sữa

2. "c" is pronounced as /k/ when it is in front of “ a, u, o, r và l”

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Examples
can
carrot

Transcription
/kæn/
/ˈkærət/

Meaning
có thể
cà rốt

3. "qu" is pronounced as /k/
Examples
Transcription
quay
/kiː/
quarel
/ˈkwɔrəl/

Meaning
bến cảng
cãi nhau

Note: "qu" is pronounced as /kw/
Examples
Transcription
quality
/ˈkwɒlɪti/
quiet
/ˈkwaiət/

Meaning
chất lượng
yên tĩnh

4. "x" is pronounced as /ks/ and /kʃ/
Examples

Transcription
mix
/mɪks/
luxury
/ˈlʌkʃəri/

pha trộn
sự xa hoa

5. "ch" is pronounced as /k/
Examples
Transcription
scheme
/skiːm/
chemistry
/ˈkemɪstri/

Meaning
kế hoạch
hóa học

Meaning

b) Consonant /g/
- /g/ is a voiced consonant sound.
- To make this sound:
- Practice the sound /k/ first, then use the
voice to say /g/ ....../g/
girl/ɡɜːrl/
big /bɪɡ/

Go get your mother’s glasses.
Peggy begged to go to the art gallery.

begin/bɪˈɡɪn/
again /əˈɡen/
/ɡəʊ get jər ˈmʌðər ɡlæsɪz/
/'pegi begd tə ɡəʊ tə ði ɑːrt ˈɡæləri/

Identify: Only "g" is pronounced as /g/
Examples
Transcription
guess
/ges/
game
/geim/

Meaning
đoán
trò chơi

UNIT 4: MUSIC AND ARTS
In this unit, the students are gained two consonants /ʃ/ and /ʒ/
a) Consonant /ʃ/

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- /ʃ/ is a voiceless consonant sound.
- To make this sound:
- Put your tongue up and back a little.

- Push your lip forward into a circle.
- It’s pronounced /ʃ/..../ʃ/

she/ʃi/
sure /ʃʊər/

ocean/ˈəʊʃn/
nation /ˈneɪʃn/

Share the sugar with Charlotte.

/ʃeər ðə ˈʃʊɡər wɪð ˈʃɑːrlət/

She wished she had gone shopping.

/ ʃi wɪʃt ʃi həd ɡɔːn ˈʃɑːpɪŋ/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /ʃ/
1. "c" is pronounced as /ʃ/ when it is in front of “ ia, ie, io, iu, ea”.
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
social
/ˈsouʃl/
mang tính xã hội
musician
/mjuːˈzɪʃən/
nhạc sĩ
2. "s" is pronounced as /ʃ/
Examples

Transcription
Meaning
pressure
/ˈpreʃə/
sức ép
insure
/ɪnˈʃɔː(r)/
bảo hiểm
3. "t" is pronounced as /ʃ/ when it is inside a word and before “ ia, io”.
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
ambitious
/æmˈbiʃəs/
tham vọng
intention
/ɪnˈtenʃn/
ý định
4. Note: "x" is pronounced as /kʃ/
Examples
Transcription
anxious
/ˈæŋkʃəs/
luxury
/ˈlʌkʃəri/

lo âu
sự xa xỉ

5. "ch" is pronounced as /ʃ/

Examples
Transcription
machine
/mə'ʃɪːn/
chassis
/ˈʃæsi/

Meaning
máy móc
khung xe

6. "sh" is pronounced as /ʃ/
Examples
Transcription
shall
/ʃæl/
sheet
/ʃiːt/

Meaning

Meaning
sẽ, phải
lá, tờ

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b) Consonant /ʒ/
- /ʒ/ is a voiced consonant sound.

- To make this sound:
- Practice the sound /ʃ/ first
-then use the voice to say /ʒ/ ....../ʒ/
Asia /ˈeɪʒə/
Usual /ˈjuːʒuəl/
Take the usual measurements.
They found the treasure in Asia.

Measure /ˈmeʒər/
Television /ˈtelɪvɪʒn/
/teɪk ðə ˈjuːʒuəl ˈmeʒərmənts/
/ðeɪ faʊnd ðə ˈtreʒər ɪn ˈeɪʒə/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /ʒ/
1. "g" is pronounced as /ʒ/
Examples
Transcription
massage
/məˈsɑːʒ/
mirage
/məˈrɑːʒ/

xoa bóp
ảo tưởng

2. "s" is pronounced as /ʒ/
Examples
Transcription
division
/diˈviʒn/

measure
/ˈmeʒə/

Meaning
sự phân chia
sự đo lường

3. "t" is pronounced as /ʒ/
Examples
Transcription
equation
/ɪˈkweɪʒən/

Meaning
phương trình

Meaning

UNIT 5: VIETNAMESE FOOD AND DRINK
In this unit, the students are gained two vowels /ɒ/ and /ɔː/
a) Short vowel /ɒ/
- /ɒ/ is a short vowel sound.
- To make this sound, round your lips a little.
- The front of your tongue is low and
towards the back of your mouth.
- It's pronounced /ɒ/.../ɒ/.
Dog/dɒg/
Box /bɒks/
John’s gone to the shops
Have you got a lot of shopping?

Hobby/'hɒbi/
Coffee /'kɒfi/
/dʒɒnz gɒn tə ðə ʃɒps/
/hæv ju gɒt ə lɒt əvˈʃɒpɪŋ/

Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɒ/

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dog
stop

"o" is pronounced as /ɒ/
Examples
Transcription
/dɒg/
/stɒp/

Meaning
con chó
dừng lại

b) Long vowel /ɔː/
- /ɔː/ is a long vowel sound.
- Put the front of your tongue down
- Round your lips.
- It’s pronounced /ɔː/ .... /ɔː/
ball /bɔːl/

saw /sɔː/
It's all wrong.
How much does coffee cost?

water /ˈwɔːtər/
daughter /ˈdɔːtər/
/ɪts ɔːl rɔːŋ/
/haʊ mʌtʃ dəz ˈkɔːfi kɔːst/

Identify the vowels which are pronounced /ɔː/
1. "a" is pronounced as /ɔː/ in one syllable words that end in "ll"
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
tall
/tɔːl/
cao
call
/kɔːl/
cuộc gọi
Exception: shall /ʃæl/
2. "o" is pronounced as /ɔː/ in groups of words: “ or+consonant”
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
pork
/pɔːk/
thịt lợn
corn
/kɔːn/

hạt ngũ cốc
3. "au" is pronounced as /ɔː/
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
fault
/fɔːlt/
lỗi lầm
audience
/'ɔːdiəns/
thính giả
4. "aw" is pronounced as /ɔː/ when in a word ending with aw or aw+
consonant
Examples
draw
awful

Transcription
/drɔː/
/ˈɔːfl/

Meaning
kéo, lôi
khủng khiếp, hãi hùng

5. "oa" is pronounced as /ɔː/ khi đứng trước "r"
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
board

/bɔːd/
tấm ván

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oar

/ɔː/

mái chèo

UNIT 6: THE FIRST UNIVERSITY IN VIET NAM
In this unit, the students are gained two consonants /tʃ/ and /dʒ/
a) Consonant /tʃ/
- /tʃ/ is the voiceless consonant sound.
- To make this sound, begin to make /t/, then
move your tongue back and away from the
roof of the mouth as you say /ʃ/.
- Don't use your voice to say /tʃ/......./tʃ/.
child/tʃaɪld/
chips /tʃɪps/
Why don't you sit the chair?
I’ll have a cheese sandwich.

chicken/ˈtʃɪkɪn/
question/ˈkwestʃən/
/waɪ dəʊnt juː sɪt ɪn ðə tʃer/
/aɪl həv ə tʃiːz ˈsænwɪtʃ/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /tʃ/
1. "c" is pronounced as /tʃ/
Examples
Transcription
cello
/ˈtʃeləʊ/
concerto
/kənˈtʃɜːtəʊ/

Meaning
đàn viôlông
bản hòa tấu

2. "t" is pronounced as /tʃ/
Examples
Transcription
century
/ˈsentʃəri/
natural
/ˈnætʃərəl/

thế kỷ
thuộc tự nhiên

3. "ch" is pronounced as /tʃ/
Examples
Transcription
chat
/tʃæt/
channel

/ˈtʃænl/

Meaning
nói chuyện phiếm
eo biển

Meaning

b) Consonant /dʒ/
- /dʒ/ is a voiced consonant sound.
- To make this sound:
- Practice the sound /tʃ/ first
- then use the voice to say /dʒ/ ....../dʒ/
age/eɪdʒ/
joke /dʒəʊk/

enjoy/ɪnˈdʒɔɪ/
college /ˈkɑːlɪdʒ/

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What did you major in?
Would you arrange travel?

/wʌt dɪd juː ˈmeɪdʒər ɪn/
/wʊd juː əˈreɪndʒ ˈtrævl/

Identify the letters which are pronounced /dʒ/
1. "d" is pronounced as /dʒ/

Examples
Transcription
Meaning
soldier
/ˈsəʊldʒə(r)/
binh lính
schedule
/ˈskedʒuːl/
lịch trình
2. "g" is pronounced as /dʒ/ standing before e, i, y, and if a word ending
in the form "ge"
Examples
Transcription
Meaning
cage
/keɪdʒ/
cái lồng
village
/ˈvɪlɪdʒ/
làng
2.4 The effects of my experience initiative.
I got positive results than before applying the new methods. After one
semester to organize, the results initially obtained as follows:
Results of tests through the phonetics that students have already studied
Applying for 35 students in class 7A, the first semester, shool year: 2016-2017
Excellent
Good
Fair
Poor
Fail

Class Total
(8 -10)
(6,5 -7,5)
(5- 6)
(3,5- 4,5)
(0-3)
7A

35

num
20

%
57,1

num
10

%
28,6

num
5

%
14,3

num
0

%
0

num
0

%
0

After the first semester, I issued polls about students’opinion of learning
pronunciation and got the results.

Class
7A
7A

Total
35
35

Very
difficult
Num
%
17
48,6
0
0

Difficult
Num
15
8

%
42,8
22,9

Easy
Num
3
19

%
8,6
54,2

Very easy

Note

Num
%
0
0
8
22,9

Before

After

This experience initiative has been put into practice in my first semester
of the school year 2016-2017 for students in grade 7 of pilot program. The
colleagues visited and expressed their sympathy with this approach and have
introduced for grades 8.
3. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS.
3.1 Conclusions
Through teaching practice, I personally discovered the problems that
students have been having difficulty in learning a forein language, especially the
phonetics even though some teachers find it embarrassed during teaching. After

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applying these methods into teaching phonetics, the results are much higher than
when I didn’t improve teaching methods, it has motivated me to constantly
strive to achieve results further in teaching.With the adoption of initiatives to
teach,the first step has been achieved certain successes. A number of students
pronunced incorecctly during class hours have dropped a lot, and especially the
children no longer feel afraid, bored with phonetic learning, communicating
their English was upwards confident than before. Therefore, the English classes
are now more exciting.
I have had my small contribution to the achievements of my school, put
my school gets the targets that we had set.
I will try to maintain the aforementioned methods and constantly learn
and exchange with colleagues to take time to teach more effectively. In this
project I tried to exploit and explore methods of teaching a part of pronunciation
in secondary school and go on analyzing the causes, factors affecting the method
to find out specific measures, so that given the specific methods to students.

However, the restriction is inevitable.
3.2. Recommendations
The education and training office should establish forums for teachers to
share their experience initiative in order to improve the quality of teaching
English at schools.
Thuong Xuan eduaction and training division should organize English
Speaking clubs by school groups so as to create a useful language playground
for students.
Above is a subjective opinion of my own on improving pronunciation
in English for Thuong Xuan Town Secondary school’s students. With my limited
knowledge, I am surely have a flaw in my experience initiative . I sincerely hope
the leaders, the experts of division and colleagues comment on my observation
to achieve better efficiency in teaching.
THE CONFIRMATION OF
THE PRINCIPAL

Thanh Hoa, March 15, 2017
I assure this is my experience initiative, not
coppying the contents of other people.
The writer

Hoang Thi Nga

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LIST OF REFERENCES
1. Complete pronunciation tress in English (written by Quynh Nhu- The
publisher of Hanoi National University- 2016.)
2. Learn english spelling( written by Nguyen Ngoc Nam- The publisher of

National University- 2015.)
3. The Student’s Book English 7( pilot program ) and the CD .
4. Website: />5. Website: />
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A LIST OF EXPERIENCE INITIATIVES THAT WERE ASSESSED BY
THE SCIENCE COUCIL OFTHUONG XUAN EDUCATION AND
TRAINING DIVISION
NAME
Some experience in training to
set and answer “Yes- No”
question for students in grade 6
Some experience in training
communication skills for
students in gade 7.

LEVEL
A

DATE
26/4/2010

NUMBER
139/SKKN2010

B

5/7/2015

52/QĐ-PGDĐT

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