REASONS FOR CHOOSING THE TOPIC.NOWADAYS, IN THE INTEGRATION PERIO...

1.1. Reasons for choosing the topic.Nowadays, in the integration period and with the globalization trend, foreignlanguages, especially English, play a very important role in society. Englishbecomes an international language. It is used in many fields such as business, trade,communications, tourism and diplomatic activities, etc... . More than fifty countriesin the world use English as their official language and it is used as the secondlanguage in nearly eighty nations. Therefore, English is an ology which is neversaturated due to its newness and popularity in all fields. Our Party and governmentshowed their particular interest in teaching and learning foreign languages.Englishis considered as a main subject at upper secondary school.Teaching English with the communicative approach is our aim. How to improve allskills (listening, speaking, reading and writing) completely for our students is ourduty. All skills are important and it is necessary for us to develop them. Curriculumand textbooks are issued with a view to carrying out this aim successfully.However, writing skill seems to be one of the most difficult skills for students.Most writing tasks, for example describing charts, are not interesting enough toattract them. They do not even know how to deal with these tasks. Their writingsare only simple descriptions without comparisons. “What can I do to help mystudents?” “In what way do my students describe them well?” “What should I do tomake these writing tasks easier and more attractive?” The best way I did to assistthem is that I used the eliciting questions combined with games to guide them.I would like to share my teaching experience “Improving students’ ability todescribe charts in Tieng Anh 11 through question systems combined with games”in the hope that my colleagues can apply in teaching and we can discuss more toget the best result in teaching how to describe charts.