Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm Helping grade 10 students improve their sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society by integrating some activities into the english lessons

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1. 4.3.4. Sample 2 – Unit 4: For a Better Community (1) • Aim: Raise students’ awareness of their contributions to community. • Suggested activity: Making mind-map: For a Better Community. • Type of activity: group work • Time: 7-8 minutes • Application: this activity can be applied in part Project of Unit 4: For a better community or as an assignment for students at home after Unit 4. (because Project Part is omitted) • Procedure: - Divide the class into groups of 6-8 students. - Ask them to discuss and make a mind-map about what they should do for a better community in 5 minutes. - After 5 minutes, students hang their mind-map on the board and representatives of each group present their ideas. - Ask other groups to give comments - Teacher gives feedback. • Ask the students to carry out what they have talked about to contribute to a better community. • The following pictures illustrate students’ activities and their products: 21
2. 4.3.5. Sample 3 – Unit 4: For a Better Community (2) • Aim: Raise students’ awareness of helping others. • Suggested activity: Making a plan: Fund-raising plan. • Type of activity: group work • Time: 7-8 minutes • Application: this activity can be applied in part Project of Unit 4: For a better community or as an assignment for students at home after Unit 4. (because Project Part is omitted). 23
3. • Procedure: - Divide the class into groups of 6-8 students. - Ask them to discuss how to make a plan to raise fund to help the poor. - Each group makes a brief fund-raising plan. - After 5 minutes, call some representatives to present their plans. - Ask other groups to give comments - Teacher gives feedback. - Ask the students to carry out their plans. • Suggested answers: We can do the following activities to raise funds to help the poor: - Collect old books and other school things for their children and old clothes for them - Collect used paper, bottles, cans, and sell to get money. - Organize fund-raising activities: + Sell handmade things such as cards, toys, flowers, pictures, drawings, + Plant flowers and trees and sell to get money. + Cook some snacks and sell to get money. • Some pictures of Students’ activities: 24
4. 4.3.6. Sample 4 - Unit 9: Preserving the Environment • Aim: Raise students’ awareness of preserving the environments. • Suggested activity: Drawing and presentation (Students will draw a picture and then make a presentation about preserving the environment). • Type of activity: group work • Time: 5 minutes for presentation • Application: this activity can be applied as an assignment for students at home after Unit 9: Preserving the Environment. • Procedure: - Divide the class into groups of 10-12 students. - Ask them to discuss activities they should do to protect the environment and draw a picture of those activities. - After 5 minutes, call the representatives of the groups to present their groups’ pictures. - Ask other groups to give comments. - Teacher gives feedback and asks students to practice those good things in their daily lives. 25
5. The following pictures illustrate students’ activities and their products: 26
6. 4.3.7. Sample 5 - Unit 10: Ecotourism • Aim: Help students understand more about ecotourism and become responsible tourists. • Suggested activity: Discussion: What should we do to be responsible tourists? • Type of activity: group work • Time: 6-8 minutes • Application: this activity can be applied as a Post-Reading activity in Lesson 3: Reading (Go Green) of Unit 10: Ecotourism. • Procedure: - Divide the class into groups of 5-6 students. - Ask them to discuss what they should do to be responsible tourists. - After 4 minutes, call the representatives of the groups to present their groups’ ideas. - Ask other groups to give comments. - Teacher gives feedback and asks students to practice those good things. • Suggested answers: How to become responsible tourists: + Choose direct fights, or avoid traveling by plane if possible (because airplanes are responsible for huge amounts of carbon emissions). + Learn about the rules and the customs of the place you visit. + Respect the locals and their cultures + Do not leave trash. + Decrease environmental impacts. + Support the locals (1. taste authentic cuisine in local restaurants; 2. when you need a tour guide, hire a local; 3. always tip appropriately; 4. buy authentic products from locally owned and operated businesses) + Choose eco-friendly accommodation. + Choose your travel activities with care. + Enjoy the wildlife without harming it. + Do not give money to beggars (in some countries, children are taken out of schools and forced by their parents to ask tourists for money. If you give money to people on the street, you will be fostering this reality. Sign up for a volunteer, teach at a school or give them food, so you'll be helping a lot more than giving away money). 27
7. The following pictures illustrate students’ activities 28
8. PART III: CONCLUSION 1. The Results of Applying the Teaching Experience Before this teaching experience was introduced, it had been applied in teaching in some different classes of grade 10 at Quynh Luu 1 High School from September 2021 to April 2022 to measure the effectiveness of the activities. After that, the second survey was conducted. The same questionnaire was delivered to the one hundred grade 10 students who had taken part in the first survey. The table below shows a positive result. Questions Answers Before using After using the activities the activities 1. How do you think A. Normal 38% 17% about importance of sense responsibility? B. Important 40% 44% C. Very important 22% 39% 2. How often do you think A. Rarely 25% 9% about your responsibilities B. Sometimes 52% 40% in your daily activities? C. Usually 23% 51% 3. Do you find it A. Unnecessary 8% 0% necessary to be taught B. Necessary 50% 40% sense of responsibility in the class? C. Very necessary 42% 60% 4. Do you learn much A. Little 30% 18% about sense of B. Normal 62% 50% responsibility through your English lessons? C. Much 8% 42% 5. How much is your A. Little 30% 21% sense of responsibility to B. Normal 58% 47% yourselves, your family, school and society? C. Much 22% 33% After the above activities have been integrated intentionally into the lessons, almost all students know that sense of responsibility is important, and they care much about their responsibility in daily lives. 40% students agree that teaching sense of responsibility in class is necessary and the rest of them say that it is very necessary. Many of them learn much about sense of responsibility 30
9. through their English lessons. As a result, most of the students are aware of their responsibility to themselves, their family and society. In conclusion, it has been proved that when those activities are used suitably, the students’ awareness of responsibility to themselves, their families and society seems to be improved remarkably. 2. Some Recommendations for Integrating some Activities into the English Lessons. As discussed above, integrating some activities into the English lessons brings great help in improving students’ sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society. These activities can help students in learning the language; encourage them to participate actively in the lesson, gain knowledge and learn about their sense of responsibility. However, there is one question. How to choose a suitable one and how to make it work the most effectively? These are some recommendations for integrating some activities into the English lessons in order to improving students’ sense of responsibility to themselves, their families and society: - The activities should be chosen based on many factors such as the content, the aim of the lessons, the level and characteristics of students. - The activities must connect the topics of the lessons with the responsibilities that students should fulfill. - The activities should keep all of the students involved and interested. - The activities should help the students develop their communicative skills. - The activities should make students think of their responsibilities in the real life. - Teaching sense of responsibility may make students bored so the activities should be challenging and interesting enough to attract their attention and stimulate them to take part in. - The length of the activities should be set suitably. In brief, it is very important for teachers to choose and apply suitable activities. Therefore, in the real teaching, the teachers should be flexible to choose and integrate the activities to exploit the benefits of these activities in the most effective way. As a result, the students’ sense of responsibility to themselves, their family and society will be improved day by day. 31
10. REFERENCE Tieng Anh 10 Tap 1 Tieng Anh 10 Tap 2 the-nao-775315.ldo 32