Sáng kiến kinh nghiệm Teaching phrasal verbs through English songs at Buon Ma Thuot upper secondary school

Special attention is always paid to education by the Communist Party of Vietnam and the Vietnamese government because education can give us a chance to get access to the civilizations of human races and the understanding of the world. In addition, it helps improve the quality of life and brings various benefits to individuals, collectives and the society. Via many sessions, the Communist Party of Vietnam stated: “We need to continue enhancing the total quality of education, innovating the contents and methods of teaching and learning, renewing the system of schools and classes and the system of educational management; implementing the standardization, modernization and socialization.”. With the tendency of globalization and world integration, English is regarded as an extremely mportant means of communication to make all the people throughout the world get closer and understand one another egardless of geographical distances, politics, religions and races. It plays an indispensable part in almost every aspect of the society: politics, commerce, diplomacy, tourism, economy, culture and education. What’s more, the year 2015 is the first year when the general certificate of secondary education examination and the university entrance examination are combined and mixed into the national general certificate of secondary education examination (GCSE Examination). English is picked out as one of the three compulsory subjects for the provinces which meet the requirements of learning and teaching English in a good condition. It is these changes that have made a wide range of notable challenges to high schools, especially teaching staff in equipping the learners with the language skills in order to meet the higher and higher demands of the society. Hence, the teachers of foreign languages in general and the teachers of English in particular can’t cease improving their qualifications, innovating the methods of teaching and applying more modern teaching method of foreign languages in the communicative approach with a view to improving the language proficiency and communicative competence of students. In order to meet the tendency and needs of the society, the teachers of English are required to come up with creative and impressive teaching methods. Since then, the students can understand the lessons deeply and apply them into their real-life conversations naturally.
The Ministry of Education and Training has had many sets of textbooks composed in the communicative approach so that the learners can improve and develop their language skills such as listening, speaking, reading and writing. Of the four language skills, each skill is of a specific and equivalent importance. The four skills have a close and reciprocal relationship and they help learners master their target language. Thus, if the learner is not good at any skill, he/she will have to cope with some obstacles in the process of using the language. After many years
of teaching English, I realize that the students find it very difficult to remember English phrasal verbs. They often ask me to show some ways to remember the phrasal verbs in different contexts. More interestingly, the phrasal verbs often have quite distinct meanings when they are combined with different prepositions e,g: look up, look after, look for, look into, look at.