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Trờng THCS Hoằng Ph ợng - Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm
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Tác giả: Phạm Ngọc Thanh
Chức vụ: Giáo viên
Đơn vị công tác: Trờng THCS Hoằng Phợng
Môn: Tiếng Anh
Năm hoàn thành: 2008
Giáo viên : Phạm Ngọc Thanh
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N¨m häc:2007-2008
A. The beginning
I.the common problems.
For long, English has been considered to be a compulsory subject at any
schools. Therefore, to univeralize it at school is becoming extremely in need.
But, its requirement is not as low as we used to think about it:
* To have a perfect class, we need to improve our knowledges and teaching
method. Especially, we ought to be perfect at conducting a propaganda
campaign.It means that every student can understand grammatically the
importance of learning English.They need to answer correctly the question
from the bottom of their heart “Why do we need to learn English?”.They
should come to learn English with all their heart and by their love to it.We
may be satisfied when we see and “ hear” that our students are keen on
learning English and they ask us always about difficulties in learning English.
* New English textbook has been changed all about their appearances and
contents.They aim to help both teacher and student have good classes as they

hope.Especially, new textbook clearly helps student easily improve their four
skills ( Listening;Speaking;Reading;Writing). But, how do we teach these four
skills perfectly? .Especially,listening skill.
II. The reasons of choosing this subject.
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-Listening skill is very important for anyone who wants to learn a foreign
language,especially,English.If we do not have good listening skill,we can not
respond to our teachers, friends, and others, we can not understand the lesson
and ,unfortunately,we are by accident becoming inactive to English speaking
situations.Having good listening skill help you communicate with your
partners , foreigners,help you in your job, promote you in the future.More
necessary in the open policy time-The time of WTO.We can not have an
earningful job without English.
-To help student improve their listeing skill is very difficult.Most teachers
inThanh Hoa find it challenging to carry out the listening lesson so it is
considered every teacher tries to find the best method to ease this.
-After graduating from Hong Duc University,I have been teaching in Hoang
Phuong Secondary School,I always try my best to find out the best method for
my classes.But, sometimes I find it difficult to teach well.I asked for more
advices from my friends and my teachers.They all said that I need to help
student to understand the neccessity of learning English then I should take the
best techniques for my lessons that must be suitable for my student and the
contents.
-After seven years teaching English my friends and I have difficulties in
teaching the listening lessons.We have together found the best ways and done
lots of experiments to have good techniques for listening lesson.Now, I would
like to share my little experience of teaching the listening lesson with you.I
hope that it can help us a bit teach the listening lesson well.

III.the studying subjects and objects.
-The ideas for improving listening .
-Students in Hoang Phuong Secodary School.
IV.The studying domain.
-Listening skill
-Techniques to teach the listening lesson.
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V. The method of studying.
-From my experiences.
-Questioning.
-Interviewing.
B .the content
I . Improving listening skills
When students listen to a cassette or to a person speaking, they can find it a
challenge.This is because they have no visual clues and may think that they
will not understand.Also,we usually only have one chance to hear something
.This is why,as we see in our teaching job.Before a listening exercise, we need
to start by doing activities to prepare students.Then we need to do activities in
which the students need to use the imformations from the item they have
listened to.
-The main sub-skills of listening are:
1.Predicting
2.Listening for the main ideas
3.Listening for specific information.
-To help improve listening,we plan the lesson in these phrases:
1 Pre-listening
2.While-listening
3.Post-listening

The purposes of these activities is to focus students
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attention on the item they
will listen to.You can tell them that they probadly will not understand
everything but that this does not matter.
II.Pre-listening
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activities.
A pre- listening activity need to be short- five minutes at most.It can include
any of the following ideas, but make sure you choose a different lessons for
variety and to keep students motivated and wake up their interests.
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1. Brainstorming .
Discuss the tile or the topic of the item they will be listening to with the
class. You or a student can write any important vocabulary on the blackboard,
for future checking and reference.
2.Discussion.
Ask students to discuss among themselves a picture or something els about
the item they will be listening to,or the tile.They can talk about what they
think the topic will include,who could be in it, and what might happen.
Encuorage everyone to say something,by asking them to work in pairs or in
small groups.
3.Questioning
Student look at the picture related to the item they will listen to and think of
questions that they would like to be answered.This gives useful practice in
question formation, as well as giving students a reason to listen ( to find out if
their questions are answered).
4 Pre-teaching difficult key words.

Sometimes you may want to teach students some of the difficult and
important key words that they will hear:
- Do not present over six new words in one class
- New words should be presented following the steps below
+ Make an instruction about the word need presenting
+Teacher read it aloud and ask student to repeat in chorus then individual
+ Teacher write it on the blackboard and
-When you teach or present new vocabulary, you must teach its meaning and
pronunciation.
-The precise meaning of the new words, in specific contexts , is very
important.
-The meaning of new words can be taught through pictures, mine, real objects,
as well as from a situation in the context.
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