REASON FOR THE STUDYENGLISH HAS BEEN AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT IN SCHO...

1.1. Reason for the study

English has been an important subject in schools. However, many students often

have difficulty in learning this language in regards to both practicing skills and

grammatical rules. Cam Thuy 3 High School is situated in a remote and

mountainous area, which makes the teaching and learning English in the school

become much more difficult than in many other schools in the province. Therefore,

a teacher in the school is always expected to update his teaching methods and to

adjust them in such ways that they can be more suitable to his students too.

‘Tag questions’ is a grammar lesson of Unit 15, ‘Tieng Anh 11’. The students are

expected to be able to use a kind of questions in English which may often appear in

daily communication as well as in some important written tests of English. However,

a lot of students often find it hard to practice the lesson as well as to do the written

tests because the lesson is related to the forms of verbs in different tenses. From my

own teaching experiences and observing other teachers’ lessons, I have learned that

the only solution to have been used to the situation is revising the forms of verbs in

different tenses. However, this often takes a lot of time. Moreover, many students,

especially those with average and under average levels still find it hard and often get

confused when determining the auxiliaries. As a result, the teaching and learning the

lesson in our school have not been effective.

It is vital that a new teaching technique should be used to help the students,

especially the students with low levels, learn and practice the lesson. The situation

has inspired me to study the way of TEACHING TAG QUESTIONS FOR

CLASS 11A3, CAM THUY 3 HIGH SCHOOL.