【正文】 Groups CompetitionAnother important point should be mentioned is that students perform well in activities in order to pete with others and be successful. Competition has been regarded as an indispensable motivational factor in Chinese classrooms. Teachers believe that petition can encourage students to try their best and the success in an activity will help students to set up selfconfidence. Overall, teacher should carefully prepare and structure their activities in the classroom in order to highly motivate their students to promote their better achievements. The primary English teachers often use Groups’ petition to motivate students. In order to offer an active atmosphere for the students to learn English in the class, English teacher should adopt more flexible and interesting group petition to encourage students’ enthusiasm. Here the author of this paper will introduce some famous methods that English teachers often use in the class.. 1 A contest of climbing the stepsGroup 1 2 3 4Draw a picture like this on the corner of the blackboard before the class begins. It is a petition between four groups. A smiling face stands for one group. According to the group’s performances, they can reach a higher step or backward onestep. Which group can get the flat on the top step is the winner. A contest of Apple treesGroup 1 Group 2Draw two apple trees on the blackboard, group 1 is girls, group 2 is boys. The group who can finish the task better or faster gets an apple. The group who gets the most apples is the winner. A contest of growing hairGroup 1 2 3 4Draw four smiling faces stand for four groups. According to the group’s performance, the face can add or drop a hair. At the end of the class, the teacher counts the number of their hair, and praise the winner. The group who gets the less hair, will change to a sad face but not a smiling face, like picture 3. A contest of catching the mouseGroup 1 2 Each cat stands for each group. Which one can answer the teacher’s question or finish the task better and faster will catch the mouse. That is the winner.There are so many forms of group petition that the author cannot illustrate all of them in this article. However, they have the mon purpose that is to motivate the students effectively in the class. Cooperative workStudents often enjoy working with one another, which means that cooperative work can be highly motivating. “Learners are motivated by each other as well as by the trainer/teacher”(Fisher 2003. lecture notes). In the cooperative activity, students municate with their partners and provide each other with help. Students are willing to share ideas and skills with each other to make the work better done. It is worth noticing that students who lack ideas will be enlightened by their peers and get hints or clues in the group work. It is sure to contribute to develop students’ munication and cooperative skills that are being more and more important in the world. The features of cooperating learningCooperative learning is a generic term covering a multiplicity of techniques in which two or more students are assigned a task that involves collaboration and selfinitiated language. ( Brown, 2001。畢業(yè)論文（設(shè)計(jì)）How to Motivate Students in Primary English Teaching1. Introduction 12. Motivation and English teaching 2 The definition of motivation 2 Types of motivation 3 Motivation and classroom teaching 43. Principles of motivating students in the class 5 Enthusiasm principle 5 Empathy principle 54. Strategies of motivating students in teaching 6 Human center pattern 6 Establish a good relationship with the students 6 Make full use of English textbook 75. Methods of motivating students to be active in English class 8 Teachers’ evaluation 9 Affirmation evaluation 9 Encourage evaluation 10 Evaluation form 11 Questioning 12 Groups Competition 13. 1 A contest of climbing the steps 13 A contest of Apple trees 14 A contest of growing hair 14 A contest of catching the mouse 15 Cooperative work 15 The features of cooperating learning 16 The advantages of cooperative learning 17 Examples of cooperating learning in the class 17 Pair works 18 Checking each other 18 Teaching games 196. Conclusion 22References 281. IntroductionIt is a great challenge for teachers to enable students to study with interest and fun in the classroom. No one will deny that it is very important to develop appropriate approaches to motivate students for active learning. Omrod (1999) found that motivation affects cognition since motivated individuals are more likely to involve in effective learning and memory. Every practicing teacher will recognize the impor