Train the students’ life skills through a number of english lessons in 9th grade

PHÒNG GIÁO DỤC VÀ ĐÀO TẠO YÊN ĐỊNH
PHÒNGTRƯỜNG
GIÁO DỤC
VÀ ĐÀO
YÊN ĐỊNH
THCS
YÊNTẠO
TRƯỜNG

TRƯỜNG THCS YÊN TRƯỜNG

SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM
SÁNG KIẾN KINH NGHIỆM

TÊN ĐỀ TÀI
TÊN ĐỀ TÀI

Train the students’ life skills through a number of English
Train the students’
life skills
lessons
in 9ththrough
grade a number of
English lessons in 9th grade

Người thực hiện: Hoàng Thị Xuân
Chức
viên
Ngườivụ:
thựcGiáo
hiện:

Hoàng Thị Xuân
Đơn
công
tác:viên
Trường THCS Yên Trường
Chứcvịvụ:
Giáo
SKKN
lĩnh Trường
vực môn:
Tiếng
Anh
Đơn vị thuộc
công tác:
THCS
Yên
Trường
SKKN thuộc lĩnh vực môn: Tiếng Anh

YÊN ĐỊNH NĂM 2016 - 2017
YÊN ĐỊNH NĂM 2016 - 2017

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TABLE OF CONTENT
PART I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The reasons for choosing topics.
1.2 The purpose of research.
1.3. Study subject .

1.4. Research Methodology

PART II: CONTENT EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE
2.1 Basis of the initiative argued experience
2.2 Status of the problem
2.3 New Solution
2.4. Effectiveness of experence initative.
PART 3 : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS:
* Conclution
* Suggestions

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PART I INTRODUCTION
1.1 The reasons for choosing topics.
In today’s life, humanity is facing risks and challenges of such natural
disasters, epidemics as well as population boom led to a series of problems
with housing needs, food, energy ….. This brings about some negatives that
affect on the environment, human health and impact on our planet. “Let’s
save our planet” – this mission is not individual, but in fact there is still a
significant number of people indifferent to this young generation is
especially high school students . Because every family only has from 1 to 2
children , taking care of children is more enjoyable, Parents always tell
them so carefully wrapped, do everything for the child even little things that
they can do themselves. The problem is that most children are not able to
adapt to the social environment when unforeseen circumstances occur, there
is no proper awareness about their work or donot have the standards words
when communicating with others of othrewise their life skills are limited. To
help students overcome these limitations may also become more flexible in

dealing with real- life, so right from the start with a fact of life, so at the
beginning of the 2016 – 2017 school year, when assigned to teach English
9 , I need to think about training them some life skills and experiences with
the tittle “ Train the students’ life skills through a number of English
lessons in 9th grade ”
1.2 The purpose of research.
The topic focuses on education, training four basic life skills groups
following:
- Communication skills
- Adjusted cognitive skill, behavior.
- Skills to improve health and ahealth protection.
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- Skills disaster or epidemic.
1.3. Study subject .
Although the mass media propaganda always contains a lot of content about
life skills education, but most of them are still not aware : such as , fans in
classooms still run or light still bright , lights in hours the exercise yard or
after school, litter in the classroom , school yard or on the go, in public
places although the trash bin is placed next to it . Do not turn off the water
after you’ve been using . All of these rules are explained and reminded
regularly by the teacher and the monitor . Besidesdealing with the change of
the weather as floods, effects Fon

….. limited. There are still many

chhildren dress style braking in cold weather, amphibious outing when
floods, walking in the street when the thunderstorm. Right from the time to
begin their school , they were speaking the words or

with the right

behaviors. But in fact they have not used them well in commuication,
especially the isolated students, the education and traing need to be
communicating more frequently.
1.4. Research Methodology
I have explored research documents and Secondary English program,
combined projected time colleague, experiment, examine and compare the
academic performance of students, I have learned the best methods for
teaching children.

PART II: CONTENT EXPERIENCE INITIATIVE
2.1 Basis of the initiative argued experience
Derived from the goals of education is to train Vietnamese people to develop
comprehensively, have goodness, knowledge, health, asthetics and

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profession , loyalty to the ideals of national independence and socialism;
form and nurture the personality, qualities and competencies of citizen;
satisfy requirements of the construction and defense of the country . The
goal of teaching is not only to give students some basic knowledhe and
practical activities swirling around the topic of life but also initially and train
them some life experiences. Moreover, education is not just as the process of
conveying the life itself; schools do not separate from society; and the
student is the center of life andsociety. So education for life skills students is
a very important thing, is a necessary requirement in order to meet this goal.
2.2 Status of the problem

Life – skills traing for students is one of the content of the movement
“building friendly school , active students” by Deputy Prime Minister of
Education and Training Nguyen Thien Nhan launched . It is requirement ,
the trend of modern society in the flat world, globaliration. Through the
grasp of students at the beginning of the first hour weekly flag – raising,
base on the monitoring of the red flag and assessment of the general in
charge of competition as well as the exchange with my homeroom teacher
noticed that although grade 9 students are seniors in the scholl sector , but
the level of hygiene violations, environment, facilitied, being addictive of
viedeo games are very great, the ability to communicate more limited. Here
are some specific survey data:
Survey about cognitive life skills of students in grade 9.
Clas

Studen Communication Adjust

Training to Disaster

s

ts

awareness skills

protect the prevention

amount

health
amo

%

disease skills
amou %

unt

nt

skills
amount

%

%

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9A
9B

26
26

9
8

34,61
30,76

12

46,15

12

46,15

10

38,4

14

6
53,3

10

38,4

12

6
46,1

8

5

Behavioral survey carried out by the students life skills
Clas

Studen Communication Adjust

Training

s

ts

9A
9B

26
26

skills

awareness

protect

amount

%

skills
amou

%

health
amou

38,46

nt
9

34,6

10

1
38,4

10
8

30,76

6

to Disastrous
the prevention
%

disease skills

amo %

nt
10

38,4

unt
8

30,76

12

6
46,1

10

38,46

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Note :
- Communicative skills.
- Ability to adjust focus awareness on Internet use reasonable and proper
purposes.
- Skills training and protection of health is aware of environmental
protection, energy saving, water and protection of physical facilities.
- Skills disastrous prevention of disease to know how to behave and be

prepared to deal with the disasters, said remedial after flooding in their
homes and schools.
2.3 New Solution
From this situation I have studied and performed the topic “ Train the living
skills for students through a number of English lessons in 9 th grade ” . The
topic was developed by the following methods:
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a)

Method

1:

Institution

for

educating

and

practising

the

communication skills.
Communication is the needs of the people, by communicating they can
understand each other. If there is no communication, there is no society. But

how to communicate effectively, this is not a simple matter.
If we don’t know the rules, There are five principles:
+ In terms of content: say enough content
+ On substance:

say what is true and has good grounds for the

believing.
+ Relationships: strictly speaking topics, avoiding digresions
+ Manner: speak plainly and obviously
+ Courtesy : This motto is always present in types of activities
Moreover, communication skills are typical views of a foreign language in
schools. Foreign language teaching methods ( according to teaching new
perspective communication ) is selected as broad guidelines, communicative
competence is the basic teaching, considering both the purposes of
communiction and a means of teaching. Therefore, students need to be
equiped on how to learn.
English and sense of self-learning and self- trainging. So the students will
learn

self-discipline.

Raising

capital

has

accumulated

experience

( vocabulary, grammar, …………) to imitation, reproduction, behavior
reseach and innovative behavior in social situations. They said revealing the
awareness and understanding of their outward verblly, through foreign
language articles.
Thus,, foreign language teaching is essentially operational skills traing in the
forms of commnication: listening, speaking, reading , and writing trough the
environment with diverse situations of life. This environment is mainly due
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to lower teachers create communication situations and students to find
appropriate behavior.
At the lower grade students are practicing delve into communication
activities in their daily lives, they closely contact daily routine . For the
grade 9th students , They focus more on natural activities and larger.
In speaking skill lesson of Unit 1 “ A visit from a penpal” They are
training communication skills with a new friend abroad, from the greetings
and introduction themslves politely, “ Please to meet you. Let me introduce
myself.” O the introduction of the country and the people of Viet Nam and
learn about the land and people of Malysia. Once more they are practices
communication skills, at the end of the lesson , students act as Maryam and
other students create the dialouges freely with the theme “ Making friends”,
has created the habit of using English to communicate . They have both the
opportuniy to deepenunderstanding of places and nice tradition of the two
countries Viet Nam and Malaysia. After the lesson , it is the writing lesson.
They can conclude the knowledge from the speaking lesson to express in
words.
Unit 2: “Clothing” equips the children vocabulary of clothing they wear in

different places , different time. In speaking skill lesson, the students can
express their opinions and answer the questions related to the topic that they
are studying. This topic will attract more students, especially younger
students tend to fashion:
+ What do you ususally wear on the weekends ?
+ Why do you usually wear these / those clothes?
+ What are your favourite types of clothing? Why?
+ What color suits you? Why ?
+ Do you like to wear uniforms ? Why ?
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+ What do you usually wear on Tet holiday? / on your birthday?/ on your
sister’s or your brother’s wedding day ?
+ Do you want to be a fashion designer in the future? If yes, say why?
So on …….
In Unit 4 : “ Learing a foreign language” , they ask and answer about the
information in the contest “Oral” or persuade others to participate in
activities with them.
Communication skills are always trained regularly in lessons of the units.
b) Method 2: Organise education, skills training Cognitive behavioral
adjustment.
Secondary students are at the age of puberty, so the psychological and
physical developments have several complications. They want to express
themselves as adults but the behavior , the gestures so much of a child is
very superficial and elated, sometimes without understanding the
consequences that they themselves cause. So if adults donot timely
orientation, shape it may lead to unnecessary mistakes. As the teacher, the
concern , anxiety,especially with the current situation with the social and
economic development of society has changed people’s lives , besides the

positive expression also entails social ills are bad every hour, every minute
affecting students. Especially the development of information technology to
the black sites are everywhere on the Internet, books, rampant pornography,
high degree of resonance in the student environment has brought serious
consequences for the society.
To train students self- training skills to adjust perceptions, their behavior
through access to Information Technology, I have carried out the following
steps:

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+ When teaching reading information “Read” in Unit 5 I used the
pictures to introduce the Internet as follow:
- Can you use computers?
- What subjects help you to use computers?
- Have you ever used the Internet?
- Do you find the Internet useful?
- What do you use the Internet for?
- What are the advantages and the disadvantages of the Internet?
- Do you think the Internet cost you much?
- Do you think the Internet takes you much time?
- ………..
By answering these questions , the students can understand the positives and
negatives of the Internet and from that I trained my students for skills the
self- adjust their perceptions about the Internet, how to use the Internet to
promote the efficiency of the internet in learning and in life. After this class,
students are etched deeper knowledge, apply the vocabulary, sentence
patterns learned in reading, They listed words and phrases to the topics said
benefits and harms of the Internet to train traffic next. Through practice

speaking part ( pre- writing) is that they can be aware of what is detrimental
to avoid ourselves, or minimize it to the maximum. These tips are taught in
an appropriate use according to the students’ level. The time of these
activities and changes are in a flexible manner in order not to cause boring
lesson : Brainstorming or networks using …..

The advantages
of the Internet

The disadvantages
of the Internet

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Through this writing lesson I’ ve also trained for the skills , students can
express their opinions about the specific issues.
In the end of the writing, I ask students to apply skills to work in groups to
discuss the disadvantages of the internet, thereby we can determine the use
of the Internet effectively and also instruct them to use games of all kinds to
use English while playing , learning and to ensure a reaonable time. After
school , I pick out afew good students to write on the subject and block up
the forum by the host of gifted students under the guidance of teacher. From
these activities, I help the students practice the skill cognitive self regulation,
their behavior through access to Information Technology. ( the English
Olympic competitions and Math through Internet for grade 9).
c. Method 3: Organize education, skill training exercise and health
protection.
Everyone knows that health is an invaluable asset, health is everything. So
having a good health and protecting it are not easy at all.. Our health

depends on very simple things. It is educating a scientific lifestyle , knowing
how to protect the environment and preseving facilities, energy saving.
Today this problem becomes even more urgent than ever. Human life is now
changing rapidly in each moment one. Without a good education and
traning, the current generation, the next generation will be hard to adapt to
life, facing many problems:
* The problem of waste and insatiable:

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Human mercilessly exploit resources such as land , minerals, rivers,
mountains, gray matter and labor. Daily and hourly,people are also using
them indiscriminately, without much thought and without caution. Since
then, the consequences of which man has and will suffer enormous . A price
that noone else is paying the progency of us.
In the role of teacher, I become a conservationist who indicate what people
are doing today and lead them to the idea of saving through Unit 7 “ Saving
energy”.
From the first lesson thanks to the available paintings in the ( Getting
started) , I introduce them to observe the pictures, ask questions , students
respond and clarify the situations the pictures contain the waste resources.
- What happen to the faucets ?
- Is the TV on ? Who is watching TV?
- Is the radio on / Who is listening to the radio?
- Is the light still burning ?
The following suggested questions are used to talk about how to handle the
above situations:
+ What should we do to save electricity / water?
+ Should we turn on the TV / radio / lights/ faucets if we don’t use them ?

+ Do you think energy is never exhausted?
From the answers to handle the situations of students, naturally they take
part in the protection and saving natural resources as well as national energy
resources in which they usually do it at home. These ideas will also wake
children who never or no sense of protection and saving energy resources.
To attract those who are not interested in this issue, I continue to give out
real questions about their school and class:
+ Should we turn off the lights , the fans at recess ?
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+ What should we do with the lights, the fans when they are dirty?
+ Should we turn the lights in the classroom when the sun is shining brightly
?
+ Should we turn the lights and the fans before leaving the classroom?
+ We should turn the faucets after using, should we?
+ Why should we do those above things ?
When they answer these questions perfectly, they are trained the problemsolving skills. Moreover, It also reminds and educates them to know how to
save energy not only at school but also at home.
After completing the “listen and read”, I give out the subject that requires
the to discuss in groups in order to help them grasp how to save energy at
home and at school.

What do we have to
do to save energy at
home?

What do we have to
do to save energy at
school?

With the answers they do , express their opinions before class has proved
that they know how to save energy , protect the environment as well as
protect their own health.
+ Take a shower instead of bath
+ Turn off the faucets after using
+Make sure there are no cracks in the water pipes.
+ Turn off the lights after leaving the room
+ Turn of the TV, radio when they aren’t used
+ ……….

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In Speaking skill lesson, Students are trained to make suggestions on saving
energy using the drawings:
+ I think we should fix the faucets
+ I think we should turn off the faucet.
+ Why don’t we turn off the fan?
+ Shall we turn off the gas fire?
+ Let’s turn down the gas.
+ How about turning off the air conditioner?
+ What about turning off the lights and the television when we don’t use?
+ We should go to school, to work on foot or by bike instead of by
motorbikes, cars, ….
+I suggest taking a bus instead of a car.
Applying the knowledge they have learned from the “read” lesson, I ask
students to discuss in groups with the topics “ The ways to spend less on
lighting” . They also have learnt;
The ways to spend less on lighting

- Using energy saving bulbs instead of ordinary 100 watt light bulbs.
- Turning off the lights before leaving the room.
- Using household appliances properly following the instructions.
- Keep the refrigerator door closed
- Using household saving appliances.
Writing lesson is the one that students gather al the knowledge in the
extensive training prior to compelete an article revolves around the issue of
energy savings. Obviously, the students are learned about the dangers of
wasteful use of energy and consciousness change lives for the better.
* The problem of environmental pollution.

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Environment includenatural factors and material factors related closely
surrounds people and seriously affect life, production, exstence and
development of man and nature. Therefore, environmental protection is to
protect yourself. The paintings of Unit 6: The environment remind them
the spectacle really urgent that human environmental triggers. I use tricks
“name the pictures” so that students can focus on the topic “ environmental
problems” such as air polution / water polution/ rubbish ( garbage) …
I give out the phrase : garbage dump, air pollution, water pollution,
deforestation, dynamite fishing, spraying pesticides to the children
communicate with online. In order to think about the issues, I pose the
questions related to the environmental clean up activities in local schools or
in accordance with the age of the children daily small, on the occasions of
the holidays or the environmental months.
+ What do you do everyday to keep your school clean?
+ Why do you have to do that?
+ How often do you take part in the activities for environment in your local?

+ Do you encourage your friends to do with you?
The answers have proven they have a sense, good attitude when
participating in activities
+ Cleaning the school before and after the classes with my classmates
everyday.
+ Cleaning the streets/ roads / our living area with my relatives and the
neighbours every weekend.
+ Planting trees / flowers in the school garden or in the schoolyard with my
classmates and the teachers in the spring or in the autumn
+Collecting trash and putting it into the garbage bin.
+ Making our school and our local clean and beautiful.
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+ Taking part in the activities for environment in our local in the
environmental month.
Through the “listen and read” I have also illustrated them clearly see the
environmental protection is the task of the whole society with paintings
clean local environment.
In

speaking lessons, based on the phrases that I guide them skills to

persuade others or friends to do some environmental protection as save
paper , reduce the pollution of water, but the lake , sea, air, prevent littering
in schools and public places, which reduces the amount of waste out…..as
follows:
+ I think you should recycle used paper, newspapers to reduce the amount
of garbage we produce.
+ I think it would be better if we use banana leaves in stead of paper or

plastic bags to wrap food because plastic bags are very hard to dissolve.
They will cause pollution. And if we use less paper we can save trees in the
forests. That’s how we can save our environment.
+ It would be better if we don’t throw all garbage in the class and around the
schoolyard. We should put it in the waste bins.
Finally , I ask students to discuss in groups with questions : “ What do you
do to protect environment?” for further training for their environmental
protection duties.
In reading lesson, by learning and analyzing poems about the environment, I
give some suggested questions to help them understand the meaning of the
poem education, see the perspective of the mother is wrong . Example:
+ Do you think the same?
+Is the mother right when she thinks so ?
+ Who do you think pollutes our environment everyday?
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I also clarify for the students the environmental protection are also instances
of human culture.
* The problem of disease:
Mankind is facing many dangerous diseases, risk threatening the outbreak of
life on earth, such as SAS, HIV, H5N1, H1N1, Hepatitis B …. However ,
this disease can be controlled if we are willing to protect the health . Many
good evironmental protection activities can be preventive method. I have
intergrated a lot of questions on the details of the lesson 6 to instill th sense
of hygiene and health for themselves and the community.
+ Do you think air pollution / water pollution/ … is harmful to your health?
+ Why do we have to keep our environment clean and fresh?
+ What happens if we spoil the place where we are living? …..
d) Method 4: organization education, skills training disaster or

epidemic.
Due to wasteful lifestyle, irresponsibility of many people, today around the
globe we are facing with natural dissaters, epidemics that occur in
succession as droughts, floods, crop failures, hurricanes, earthquakes ,
tsunamis , …. Many people lost their homes, major economic damage fall.
In order to educate students to have awareness of prevention and fighting the
disasters , I use the pictures Unit 9 : “ Natural disasters lesson 1” , I ask
students to observe to determine the topic. Then through exercises to
identify different natural disasters: snowstorm, earthquakes, volcano,
typhoon…..
In speaking lesson, the questions relating to disaster prevention skills,
namely flood are given for the to discuss the class expressed thre opinion:
+ What does your family often prepare before a typhoon?
+ What does your family often buy to prepare before a typhoon?
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+ When typhoon comes, what do you usually do?
+ What do you and your family do after typhoon to protect our environment
and our health ?
……
After the students express

their opinions, I assigned each groups of 4

students to make a list of suggestions on what to do before , during and after
the storm comes. They conduct the coversation after they agree together
what to do . I call some students from each group and make new groups
again . They can discuss on how to prevent disasters in the locality. The
children are excited about the oulined work done by the school, family and

themselves.
I think it is good for the different subjects at school integrating to teach
students about life skills. They will know how to protect themselves , to be
aware of their work to protect the environment, to convince the peers to do a
good job. Therefore,

inaddition to delve into the education and skills

training in 4 groups. I don’t also forget to teach them about other skills
training as ( self- consciousness to participate in activities, spitit team, spirit
to help their friends when they are in troubles …… ) persuading skills,
presenting skills a specific problem …..
2.4. Effectiveness of experence initative.
After one year of implementation of this topic, I found that students have
changed obviously. Since then they have done the works well and had very
positive signs. Specifically, they join more information tectnology but with
the purpose of studying: join english and math contests on the Internet, get
necessary informantion

for studying in exams: Literature, History ,

Geography, Maths …….. They have adjusted their awareness, behavior in
the access to the information technology . Most of the children have done
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good discipline as : turn off the fans electric lights when not using, donot
litter, garbage of the class, the school, home and the street. Many of them are
aware that health protection is important . …
This is the survey of data after the English class of the topic:

* Students’ awareness about the life skills:
Clas

Studen Communication Adjust

Training to Disastrous

s

ts

awareness skills

protect the prevention

amount

%

health
amo
%

disease skills
amou %

76,92

unt
23

88,4

nt
20

76,9

22

6
84,6

19

2
73,0

skills
amount

9A
9B

26
26

22
21

%
84,61
80,79

20
19

73,07

1

7

Behavioral survey carried out by the students life skills
Clas

Studen Communication Adjust

Training

s

ts

9A
9B

26
26

skills

awareness

protect

amount

%

skills
amou

%

health
amou

76,92

nt
19

73,0

18

7
69,2

20
20

76,92

to Disaster
the prevention
%

disease skills
amo %

nt
23

88,4

unt
18

69,23

21

6
80,7

19

73,07

3

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PART 3 : CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS:
* Conclution

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In conclusion, in the process of globalization, countries in the world are
becoming more and more closely linked and increasing cultural and
economic exchanges ... The competitions in the fields is increasing.
Therefore, equipping and training life skills is a pressing issue for everyone,
especially for students, the future owner of the country. It is the general goal
of the education , the subjects in the school, the teachers themselves are the
trend of world education. The topic: "Train the students’ life skills
throught a number of English lessons in 9 th grade " that I presented
above is not beyond that purpose.
English is a subject that has many advantages in this field, the initial
implementation has been certain results. But this is not an early, one-sided
work that must be continuous, with the support of the school principals, the
youth team leader as well as the teachers and tutors, I believe future
generations will be good and confident in life.
* Suggestions
The education, training of survival skills must continue long, hard. I hope
that my topic is supplemented and applied successfully, I have the following
suggestions:
+For teachers:

Subject knowledge is the basis of life skills, so it must be taught correctly,
sufficiently and accurately. Pay attention to the linkage between subject
knowledge in the comprehensive knowledge system.
- Teachers themselves must have a certain living capital, experience and
accumulate experience through real life, have the ability to learn high.
- Need to see this is a regular job.
- The integration of education and training of life skills must be flexible,
natural, avoid force, impose.
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- Teaching is integrated in each lesson, each lesson and each type of unit.
- Teaching is linked to reality to create the opportunity to apply subject
knowledge.
Take advantage of every opportunity to integrate, spend more time for
students to experience.
+ For the school
- Create conditions for the mass organizations in the school to participate in
education for students.
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