TABLE OF CONTENTS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLE
LIST OF FIGURE
CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION ...................................................................... 1
1.1. Background of study ................................................................................... 1
1.2. Research Aims ............................................................................................ 1
CHAPTER II: CONTENT ................................................................................ 2
2.1. Describe the solution before creating the initiative .................................... 2
2.2. Describe the topic solutions ........................................................................ 2
2.2.1. Solution 1: Consult with the school board of directors and
professional groups ......................................................................................... 3
2.2.2. Solution 2: Test your understanding and ability in English eloquence 3
2.2.3. Solution 3: Develop training plans and contents .................................. 3
2.2.3.1. Training plan .................................................................................. 3
2.2.3.2. Training content ............................................................................. 6
2.2.4. Solution 4: Form pronunciation, listening, communication and
rhetoric skills ................................................................................................ 13
2.2.5. Solution 5: Collect and build a question bank .................................... 16
2.2.6. Solution 6: Coordinate with parents in fostering work ...................... 17
2.3. The effectiveness of the topic ................................................................... 17
2.3.1. Economic effectiveness ...................................................................... 17
2.3.2. Social effectiveness ............................................................................ 17
2.3.3. Applicability and replication .............................................................. 18
CHAPTER III. CONCLUSION ...................................................................... 19
3.1. The significance of topic .......................................................................... 19
3.2. Recommendations and suggestions .......................................................... 19
REFERENCE .................................................................................................... 21
APPENDIX ........................................................................................................ 24
LIST OF TABLE
Table 1. Teaching plan to foster English eloquent skills for grade 10 specialized
students ................................................................................................................. 4
LIST OF FIGURE
Figure 1. Additional vocabulary on the topic “Family, Friends and
Relationships” ....................................................................................................... 7
Figure 2: The vocabulary of Unit 1. Family life of the 10th grade English
textbook (I-learn smart world) .............................................................................. 8
Figure 3. Vocabulary of the topic “Information Technology” in the book
Vocabulary for IELTS .......................................................................................... 9
Figure 4. Introducing a basic essay structure ..................................................... 10
Figure 5. Illustrative example to analyze the structure of an essay .................... 11
Figure 6: Presentation structure .......................................................................... 13
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CHAPTER I: INTRODUCTION
1.1. Background of study
In order to promote the movement of speaking English and learning English in
specialized schools as well as give students the ability to develop comprehensively,
teachers should create opportunities for students to demonstrate their English speaking
ability, which contributes to training communication skills in foreign languages, oratory
ability, and improving the quality of English teaching and learning in schools. To
promote students' creativity, acumen, and intelligence, teachers also try to learn and
implement eloquent skills in their lesson plans to increase the interest of gifted students.
This is one of the useful skills that help students expand their vocabulary, grammar,
practice writing and speaking skills, and create motivation to help them become more
confident when communicating in English.
As I am a teacher who has been teaching professionally for a few years with a lot
of enthusiasm and concern about how to train talented pupils who are good at
communicating and being eloquent in English for my school, I made plan for my
teaching in class.
Teaching students to be eloquent in English is a process. Therefore, to create a
complete plan, we have to ask many questions to ourselves and our students. How to
learn to speak well about topics? How to teach students to have good rhetoric skills in
English? What are some tips for students to be confident on stage? That is the concern
of every English teacher. With all my efforts in thinking, exploring, exchanging and
discussing with other colleagues, along with rubbing hands-on experiences in teaching
and supporting the training of students specializing in learning English eloquent skills
at the high school level over the past few years, I boldly share some of my experiences
and thoughts through the topic: “How to develop eloquence in speaking for the gifted
students”. With the desire to share experiences and contribute to enriching methods and
materials for teaching English rhetoric skills for specialized students with colleagues, so
that the movement can increasingly develop its good effects.
1.2. Research Aims
In this research, the researcher has two aims in researching that in following below:
1. To find out some eloquent teaching techniques in speaking.
2. To apply the eloquent teaching techniques in a lesson on speaking skill.
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CHAPTER II: CONTENT
2.1. Describe the solution before creating the initiative
In recent years, developing English eloquent skills for teaching specialized
students has attracted a lot of attention from Departments of Education, schools,
teachers, students and parents in Hue province. To meet this requirement, Quoc Hoc
High School for the gifted in general and the English team in particular have invested
effort and time in finding document sources and carefully preparing lesson plans before
class to guide students in completing into a full exercise. After a process of selecting
and training students, I have drawn the following experiences:
First, since there are not many resources on teaching rhetoric skills for
specialized students, teachers do not have many sources to research.
Second, students lack vocabulary or poor thinking and association skills, and do
not have a lot of ideas for speaking topics.
Third, they have fear and lack of confidence when presenting in public. In
addition, they have not grasped the techniques to attract listeners and their
demeanor is not up to standard. This greatly affects the presentation of the topic
and answering questions from the judge.
Fourth, due to the lack of a learning environment and communication with
foreign teachers, their pronunciation is not completely correct.
The above difficulties and challenges motivated me to research and explore some
books to develop English rhetoric skills for specialized high school students.
2.2. Describe the topic solutions
After a few years of directly teaching students specializing in English rhetoric
skills at the school, I have drawn up a few effective solutions, along with reference
documents that I have compiled closely to the topics according to the 2018 pilot
textbook program. I hope the solutions of the topic will contribute to improving the
quality of English rhetoric skills of specialized students of the provinces in general and
Quoc Hoc High School for the gifted in particular.
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2.2.1. Solution 1: Consult with the school board of directors and professional groups
As a teacher who directly teaches specialized students, I have actively consulted
with the school's Board of Directors and the professional group to create the best
conditions as soon as possible so that my colleagues and I have time to research
documents and achieve high results. Besides, we need to develop reasonable plans and
schedules together. In addition, I suggest the Board of Directors should provide
additional resources for speaking and rhetoric books at the library for English teachers
and students to refer to.
2.2.2. Solution 2: Test your understanding and ability in English eloquence
* Purpose: One of the basic steps for teachers to grasp the status of students in their
class is to check the level of students' eloquence and vocabulary so they can prepare
lessons which is appropriate to the class they teach.
* I took the following steps to evaluate students:
Step 1. Based on the assessment of the English teachers' abilities in class and based
on the previous year's English learning results.
Step 2: Organize a survey with 4 contents:
- Vocabulary: take a vocabulary test about 100 sentences at levels B2 and C1 to
test the depth of understanding and flexibility when using words.
- Writing: write an essay about 250 words - you can design your own or use the
topics in task 2 of IELTS Writing.
- Public speaking: assign students a topic related to the topics they have learned
and present for about 3-5 minutes.
- Interviewing: ask 2-3 questions related to the topic the student presented.
2.2.3. Solution 3: Develop training plans and contents
2.2.3.1. Training plan
Based on the teaching plan according to the new 2018 textbook, I have developed
and planned to integrate into the lessons as follows. Specifically, each specialized class
will have 6 specialized classes (including full teaching of 4 skills, grammar and
vocabulary), so I let you practice within 8 months of the 10th grade year. On average,
there are 2 periods per week for learning rhetoric skills. This is the right time for students
to study this rhetorical skill in-depth because they have just entered high school, so most
of the skills are not good yet. This will help them become more interested and expand
knowledge for themselves.
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Make a specific, detailed training plan for each vocabulary topic, writing skills
exercises and rhetoric topics:
Table 1. Teaching plan to foster English eloquent skills for grade 10
specialized students
Month
Lessons
Contents
September
1-2
Teach students how to speak eloquently.
3-4
Teach students how to write “Argumentative/Opinion/Agree
or Disagree” essay effectively.
5-6
TOPIC 1: In some countries, many more people are choosing
to live alone nowadays than in the past. Do you think this is a
positive or negative development?
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
October
1-2
Vocabularies for “Making decision” and grammar.
3-4
TOPIC 2: Should parents make decisions for their children?
Do you agree or disagree with this opinion?
5-6
TOPIC 3: Foreign visitors should pay more than local visitors
for cultural and historical attractions. To what extent do you
agree or disagree with this opinion?
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
November
1-2
Practice reading & listening skills
3-4
TOPIC 4: What are the good and bad points of advertisements?
5-6
TOPIC 5: Some people think that strict punishments for
driving offences are the key to reducing traffic accidents.
Others, however, believe that other measures would be more
effective in improving road safety. Discuss both these views
and give your own opinion.
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
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December
1-2
Vocabularies for “Technology” and grammar.
3-4
TOPIC 6: Do you think people’s work in the future will be
heavily affected by technology?
5-6
TOPIC 7: Some people regard video games as harmless fun
or even as a useful educational tool. Others, however, believe
that video games are having an adverse effect on the people
who play them. In your opinion, do the drawbacks of video
games outweigh the benefits?
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
January
1-2
Practice reading & listening skills
3-4
TOPIC 8: Nowadays people become more impatient because
of the conveniences of modern life.
5-6
TOPIC 9: Several languages are in danger of extinction
because they are spoken by a small number of people, some
people say that government should spend public money on
saving these languages, while others believe that would be a
waste of money.
Discuss both these views and give your opinion.
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
February
1-2
Vocabularies for “Sports & Health” and grammar.
3-4
TOPIC 10: Fewer young people play sports these days. Why is this?
What can be done to encourage more young people to do sports?
5-6
TOPIC 11: In the developed world, average life expectancy is
increasing. What problems will this cause for individuals and
society? Suggest some measures that could be taken to reduce
the impact of aging populations.
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
March
1-2
Practice reading & listening skills
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3-4
TOPIC 12: Nowadays it is common for people to get married
and have children in their thirties rather than when they are
younger. Do you agree or disagree that this trend will benefit
society?
5-6
TOPIC 13: Some people believe that teenagers should be
required to do unpaid community work in their free time as it
is beneficial for the community and teenagers as well. To what
extend do you agree with the statement.
7-8
Practice writing skill and correct students’ writing directly.
April
1-2
Review speaking skill.
3-4
Review writing skill.
5-6
Review reading & listening skills.
7-8
Review vocabularies and grammars.
The teacher analyzes for students the content of each topic, then suggests and creates
an outline for each topic, which serves as a basis for students to stay on track with the
content and not deviate from their ideas.
* Training duration: 2 periods/week
2.2.3.2. Training content
a, Vocabulary by topic
Teachers regularly mobilize students' vocabulary by topic to avoid forgetting
learned vocabulary and becoming new words. Therefore, to limit this, I used the
"Brainstorm" to ask students to recall the vocabulary and word structures they have
learned according to vocabulary topics. As soon as students write down the vocabulary
they know within 3 minutes, I will divide the columns on the board and call students to
write the words they have. This is a form of "Peer-to-peer learning" that provides some
additional phrases for more flexible use like the images below (these images are often
designed into slides on PowerPoint or printed out).
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FAMILY & RELATIONSHIP VOCABULARY
Figure 1. Additional vocabulary on the topic “Family, Friends and Relationships”
Because the number of students in each class is quite large, teachers need to guide
students to go home to find and read more high-scoring essays with topics related to the
topic they have learned. Then set your own time to outline and record with your phone.
This way helps students apply and remember vocabulary and enrich their ideas. Besides,
teachers must cover and equip students with systematic vocabulary and cover the grade
10, 11 & 12 curriculum according to the textbooks of the Ministry of Education and
Training. In this area, I refer to the Ministry's English textbooks for grades 10, 11 &12.
Example: The vocabulary of Unit 1. Family life of the 10th grade English textbook
(I-learn smart world) is summarized as follows:
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Figure 2: The vocabulary of Unit 1. Family life of the 10th grade English textbook (I-
learn smart world)
In addition, I refer to the vocabulary in books published from reputable publishers
such as First Expert Coursebook, Vocabulary for IELTS, On Screen C1, Successful
FCE, CAE Gold Plus Picture book version.... Vocabulary in these books is introduced
according to the topics close to the Ministry of Education's program, with a rich volume
of words and high accuracy.
Example: When teaching vocabulary about the topic Technology, I refer to the
Information Technology article in the Vocabulary for IELTS book to add more
vocabulary.
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Figure 3. Vocabulary of the topic “Information Technology” in the book Vocabulary
for IELTS
The above methods will help students master their vocabulary, and at the same
time, having good vocabulary will help them confidently perform better speaking.
b, Article format by topic:
In order for students to develop good rhetoric skills, essay writing plays an
important part in improving and developing logical thinking, so teachers need to focus
on guiding students to take written exams based on topics.
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Figure 4. Introducing a basic essay structure
To ensure students can understand how an essay is well-structured and well-
argued, teachers should give students an illustrative and analytical essay.
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Figure 5. Illustrative example to analyze the structure of an essay
c, Format of readings by topic
According to some surveys and my teaching and school experience, I personally
find that most students have difficulty coming up with ideas for their eloquent topics.
Therefore, teachers preparing readings (attached appendix) that closely follow the topic
of rhetoric is one of the necessary factors to help students learn and systemize ideas
logically.
General information
& Topic question
General information
& Thesis statement
Topic sentence 1
Supporting sentences 1
Topic sentence 2
Supporting sentences 2
Restate thesis statement.
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d, Thematic rhetoric
Step 1: To have a fluent and satisfactory eloquent speech, teachers need to guide
students on the structure of a presentation. The sentence structures of introduction,
transition, and conclusion need to be used flexibly to make the speech more complete.
* Introduce yourself
- Good morning, ladies and gentlemens.
- Good afternoon, everybody
- I’m …, from [Class]/[Group].
- Let me introduce myself; my name is …,
* Introduce the topic
- Today I am here to present to you about [topic]….
- I would like to present to you [topic]….
- As you all know, today I am going to talk to you about [topic]….
- I am delighted to be here today to tell you about…
* Introduce the structure
- My presentation is divided into ……. parts.
- I’ll start with / Firstly I will talk about… / I’ll begin with……
- Then I will look at …
- Next,…
- And finally…
* Beginning the presentation
- I’ll start with some general information about …
- I’d just like to give you some background information about…
- As you are all aware / As you all know…
* Ordering
- Firstly…secondly…thirdly…lastly…
- First of all…then…next…after that…finally…
- To start with…later…to finish up…
* Finishing one part
- Well, I’ve told you about…
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- That’s all I have to say about…
- We’ve looked at…
* Starting another part
- Now we’ll move on to…
- Let me turn now to…
- Next…
- Let’s look now at…
- However….. Whereas ……. Beside ….. On the other hand…..
* Ending
- I’d like to conclude by…
- Inconclusion ……., To sum up………, Inshort ……..
- That brings us to the end of my presentation.
* Thanking the audience
- Thank you for listening / for your attention.
- Thank you all for listening, it was a pleasure being here today
- Well that’s it from me. Thanks very much..
- Many thanks for your attention.
- May I thank you all for being such an attentive audience.
Figure 6: Presentation structures
Step 2: Choose topics that are close and related to lessons in the grade 10, 11, and
12 curriculum. You can refer to external topics based on the provincial rhetoric exam
questions by year.
Step 3: Guide students to create an outline to create main ideas based on the
questions assigned by the teacher. Building a question system for each topic is very
important to help students build ideas for their speeches and practice answering the
examiner's questions.
2.2.4. Solution 4: Form pronunciation, listening, communication and rhetoric skills
* Pronunciation:
Teaching vocabulary combined with teaching correct pronunciation: When the
teacher introduces some new vocabulary in addition to introducing the meaning, it is
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necessary to guide students on the correct pronunciation. Besides, teachers should
instruct students how to look up the dictionary on their phone or computer so that the
reader can pronounce and imitate.
Teaching word stress, sentence stress and sentence intonation: In communication,
stress and intonation are very important in expressing the speaker's emotions and
intentions. The same sentence with a rising intonation or stress placed on another word
will have a different meaning than a sentence with a falling intonation or stress placed
on another word.
* Listening skill:
Most students grasp a certain amount of vocabulary and some English grammar
rules.
However,
when
communicating,
students
have
difficulty
listening
to
conversations of native speakers. Most students do not hear clearly and do not
understand the content of the conversation. Allowing students to practice listening
through tests at levels B2 & C1 will help students have the opportunity to develop
pronunciation and phonetics. A student can know a lot of vocabulary and grammatical
structures, but if they pronounce it incorrectly, the listener will find it difficult to
understand or misunderstand. For example, if a sentence is pronounced correctly but has
incorrect grammar, the listener can still understand the content that needs to be
conveyed, but if the pronunciation is incorrect, the listener will misunderstand the
content. That's why students need to imitate native speakers' pronunciation, stress,
intonation, and articulation. Learning the correct English sounds, stress, and intonation
right from the beginning is extremely important because once they get it wrong from the
beginning, learners will have difficulty adjusting it later.
Teachers need to create for students the habit of practicing English Listening -
Speaking skills regularly, practice listening to understand what they hear, practice
saying what they are thinking. Teachers should explain to students that during the
learning process, making mistakes is inevitable. Besides, they should encourage
students never to be afraid of pronunciation, grammar or other errors when speaking. In
communication, the listener does not focus on the speaker's mistakes but just wants to
understand what the speaker wants to say. When necessary, the teacher will correct
students' errors, and gradually students will practice the habit of talking in English
properly and speaking English like a native speaker.
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* Grammar and Writing skill:
Most specialized students know a certain amount of vocabulary and some English
grammar rules, but when communicating with teachers or others, they cannot systemize
ideas logically and use inflexible grammar, and vocabulary which is not in the right
context. Therefore, to use English well, students not only learn through theory but also
need to learn through experience (writing an essay after each topic). To master writing
skills, students need a period of time to practice and correct specific errors, which
requires teachers to invest time to closely follow each student.
* Communication skill:
Communication skills are one of the important skills that needs to be practiced
practically. The art of communication is the art of conveying messages gently and
succinctly so that others can understand you and most people can grasp information
quickly. Because I understand the importance of communication, I have carried out the
following tasks:
- Teachers need to create a communication environment in each lesson, paying
attention to comfortable and friendly body language to practice and correct errors step
by step for students to improve. To help students get used to the communication
environment, teachers should regularly use English during lessons, especially when
making requests, commenting on lessons, or praising students. This will give students
the atmosphere of a foreign language lesson. However, so that students can understand
the lesson, we should also use Vietnamese to explain. Using bilingual (English-
Vietnamese) in lessons will help students get used to the environment, understand the
lesson and have practical application. In the classroom, teachers need to encourage
students to use English to form the habit of using language in the classroom. Requiring
students
to
use
language
will
give
them
the
habit,
courage
and
motivation
to
communicate well when speaking English with teachers, when taking exams or in real-
life communication.
- During training sessions, teachers need to ask questions surrounding the topic to
stimulate students' thinking, curiosity, interest and reflection when communicating in English.
- Instruct students to use body language when presenting or communicating to
attract listeners and easily understand what they are expressing.
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* Eloquent skill:
Before instructing students in rhetoric skills, teachers should motivate them to
confidently
give
their
personal
opinions
and
boldly
discuss
their
topics.
After
understanding each student's style, teachers will take the following steps:
- It’s necassary to show videos of some highly rated English debate contestants on
Youtube so that students can refer to and strengthen their own style.
- To achieve high scores, teachers instruct students to pay attention to their rhetoric,
which must always be fluent and avoid repeating words. During the presentation, you
may forget something, but stay calm and confidently say the next part. Besides, teachers
must control rhetoric time and divide the time appropriately into each part.
- English teachers often let students present topics in front of the class to increase
students' "boldness" and confidence in front of the crowd, and naturally express their
attitudes about the issue they are eloquent.
2.2.5. Solution 5: Collect and build a question bank
* Why is it necessary to build a test bank?
Firstly, students' skills, techniques, and tricks are not formed through the teacher's
words but through their regular review and practice, "Practice makes perfect".
Second, create a good psychology for students when drawing rhetorical questions.
If students are trained in many of these forms, they will not be confused or surprised
when taking the test.
Third, through the test results, teachers will easily monitor students' learning
results and progress, thereby accurately choosing the official team.
* How to build a test bank effectively?
To have rich resources, teachers need to always explore and be creative. I
personally see that teaching specialized students is an opportunity to "deepen" expertise.
Designing an effective rhetorical skills lesson requires an investment of time and effort.
Therefore, summer vacation is a "golden" time to prepare documents. Here are some
ways that I often use in my lessons:
- Prepare speaking topics: teachers should collect exam topics over the years and
topics in the curriculum or topics close to students in life. In addition, teachers can
synthesize topics from the speaking and writing tests of IELTS exams.
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- Drafting questions: questions are drafted from easy to difficult, including general
questions
about
the
topic
and
extended
questions
related
to
students'
actual
understanding of that topic.
2.2.6. Solution 6: Coordinate with parents in fostering work
To achieve good results, parents play a vital role in supporting and creating conditions
for their children during the training process. Teachers should ask parents to remind children
to learn and read information about topics assigned at home. Parents may not be able to
provide knowledge support, but they will be the driving force to help children become more
self-aware at home. Good coordination between teachers and parents will contribute to
training children to improve day by day, and bring high results for themselves in particular
and for the school in general.
2.3. The effectiveness of the topic
2.3.1. Economic effectiveness
The solutions in the topic are easy to implement and low in implementation costs.
Teachers should provide maximum support for the gifted students who are talented in
English rhetoric but cannot afford to study at centers due to high tuition fees.
In addition to successfully applied solutions, the topic also provides practical
resources for teaching specialized students to colleagues. These are documents that I
have accumulated and compiled after a few years of teaching, contributing to improving
the quality of the school's students.
2.3.2. Social effectiveness
The topic: “How to develop eloquence in speaking for the gifted students” has
been applied at Quoc Hoc High School for the gifted - Hue and brought high efficiency
to students. They are proactive, positive, enthusiastic, and excited when participating in
rhetoric lessons. In addition, they are confident in themselves and show their teachers
that their eloquence improves week by week.
Through the students' progress, we can see that the topic has practically reflected the
effectiveness of the solutions and resources collected and selected below (attached
appendix). The topic needs to be applied into practice, helping students expand their
knowledge and better understand their eloquence. Besides, teachers also find new skills to
teach speaking to help you avoid boredom. This is one of the tasks of specialized teachers.
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Incorporating rhetoric skills into speaking teaching effectively and stimulating
learners'
interest
requires
teachers
to
have
experience
and
strong
professional
knowledge, grasp innovative methods in teaching and frequently approach new sources.
2.3.3. Applicability and replication
The topic “How to develop eloquence in speaking for the gifted students” has been
implemented experimentally at Quoc Hoc High School for the gifted - Hue for three grades
(10, 11, 12) and brought quality results for gifted students, arousing in students’ passion and
interest in English.
The solutions in the topic are easy to implement and have diverse resources, and closely
follow the reality of the curriculum. Therefore, English teachers of gifted schools can apply
and refer to promoting the learning of English rhetoric, thereby improving the quality of the
gifted students, helping students flexibly apply knowledge, learned skills as well as
contributing to training excellent students to meet the needs of the new era and speech
competitions at school, provincial or national levels.
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CHAPTER III. CONCLUSION
3.1. The significance of topic
In recent years, the specialized students I am teaching have made significant
progress in their rhetoric skills when I have seen their excitement in eloquent classes.
Therefore, I decided to write this topic with the hope of sharing my experiences to help
colleagues at your school have more documents to refer to and jointly improve the
quality of specialized students nationwide.
With the initial desire to help specialized students achieve high results, study
effectively, have a lot of interest, connect learned knowledge with advanced one, apply
it
into
daily
lessons,
help
students
boldly
present
in
public
and
have
good
communication skills as well, I boldly applied the lessons I had researched into the
teaching program and obtained quite positive results.
3.2. Recommendations and suggestions
However, for students and teachers to achieve higher goals, some of the following
suggestions need to be combined and put into practice. First, the school administration
and professional team create the best possible conditions (in terms of time or cost) for
teachers to participate in specialized teaching. Second, the professional team should
have meetings for teachers to exchange experiences and related documents. Last but not
least, we should give more feedback to the Board of Directors about providing more
English book resources in the library for teachers and specialized students to refer to.
With these findings, this topic encourages teachers to update teaching materials.
By finding materials and designing lessons appropriate to the level and ability of
students in each grade, teachers can improve results and promote the development of
students. In addition, teachers also need more attention from authorities at all levels,
school administrators, organizations and unions to create conditions for teachers having
opportunities to access training, improve professional qualifications and participate in
regular training courses. School administrators and school facilities managers need to
create an online community so teachers can share their documents and ideas, this will
give them the opportunity to learn from each other in teaching.
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Above is all the experience that I have spent a lot of time and enthusiasm to learn
and implement. Therefore, in the following school years, I will continue to update more
documents and implement them in each class to teach rhetoric skills for the gifted
students, share experiences on this topic widely, and try to overcome the shortcomings
of the topic to develop student capacity and improve teaching quality at Quoc Hoc High
School for the Gifted – Hue as well. However, this topic is just my personal experiment
and certainly still has many limitations. In order for the topic to be more complete and
effective, we respectfully hope that our teachers and colleagues will provide comments
and additions so that it can be applied better in the coming years.
Sincerely thank!
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REFERENCE
Excerpt from the Teacher Group of Hai Hau Primary School - Nam Dinh province
(2022): Experience initiative "Some solutions to improve the quality of training for
students taking the "English Eloquence" exam at the primary level"
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ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES OF SOME TEACHING MATERIALS
AND TRAINING EXERCISES
Improving your verbal communication skills requires commitment and practice.
But we have a few ways to help you practice speaking more eloquently effortlessly:
Build Your Vocabulary
•
Read widely: Reading books, articles, and other forms of written communication
can help you expand your vocabulary and develop an understanding of different writing
styles.
•
Use a thesaurus: An online or physical thesaurus can help you find synonyms
for words you commonly use, which can add variety to your speech.
•
Learn a new word daily: By learning one new word every day, you can gradually
build your vocabulary without feeling too overwhelmed.
Manage Your Tone
•
Speak with intention: Before speaking, consider the message you want to
convey and the tone that would be most appropriate.
•
Use nonverbal cues: Your tone is not just conveyed through your words, but also
through your facial expressions, body language, and eye contact. Practice using these
cues can help you adjust your tone to match the situation.
•
Listen actively: Active listening helps you evaluate the verbal and nonverbal cues
of those around you. This, in turn, can help you adjust your tone accordingly.
Maintain Your Clarity
•
Be concise: Avoid using unnecessary phrases or filler words that can detract
from the point of your message.
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Use simple language: Using simple language can help ensure that your message
is understood by a broader audience.
LESSON: HOW TO PRACTICE SPEAKING ELOQUENTLY
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EVALUATION CRITERIA FOR ELOQUENCE
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APPENDIX
VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR 1
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VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR 2
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WRITING
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READING