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 fiftycountries in the world use English as their official language and it is used as thesecond language in nearly eighty nations. Therefore, English is an ology which isnever saturated due to its newness and popularity in all fields. Our Party andgovernment showed their particular interest in teaching and learning foreignlanguages.English is 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.Curriculum and textbooks are issued with a view to carrying out this aimsuccessfully. However, writing skill seems to be one of the most difficult skills forstudents. Most writing tasks, for example describing charts, are not interestingenough to attract them. They do not even know how to deal with these tasks. Theirwritings are only simple descriptions without comparisons. “What can I do to helpmy students?” “In what way do my students describe them well?” “What should Ido to make these writing tasks easier and more attractive?” The best way I did toassist them is that I used the eliciting questions combined with games to guidethem. 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.