Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Forms

Language Skills

• Use formulaic expressions to begin and end a short written message, e.g. Thank you for your letter./ Dear Miss Chan, / Best Wishes,
• Use formulaic expressions to express good wishes, e.g. Merry Christmas.

Use nouns to noun phrases to identify time, days and dates, e.g. 1st December

Reading:

• Recognize the format and language features of some common text types, e.g. cards, letters
• Locate specific information in a short text in response to questions

http://wlts.edb.hkedcity.net/filemanager/file/english/Card_Writing/Card_Writing_Overview.htm

Brief Description:
A list of interactive activities about writing cards for different occasions, such as Christmas, send a card to teacher

User tips:

• This is an exercise for less able students.
• Teachers can show students how to use contextual clues and syntactic strategies to interpret sentences into meaningful messages.
• Authorware 6 is required to view the interactive tasks.

Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Forms

Language Skills

• Use nouns to identify objects, e.g. There's a story book.
• Use formulaic Expressions to make and response to suggestions, e.g. Let's buy it for him. That's a good idea.

Reading:

• Identify the main idea in a sentence
• Locate specific information in a short text in response to questions

http://wlts.edb.hkedcity.net/filemanager/file/english/Choosing_Presents/Choosing_Presents_Overview.htm

Brief Description:
An interactive exercise about choosing Christmas presents for friends

User tips:

• This is an exercise for less able students.
• Teachers can show students how to use contextual clues and syntactic strategies to interpret sentences into meaningful messages.
• Authorware 6 is required to view the interactive tasks.

Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Forms

Language Skills

• Vocabulary:
  • activities, e.g. ride a bike, swim, go fishing
  • feelings: e.g. afraid, tired, thirsty
• Use the simple past tense to talk about past activities or events

Reading:

• Recognize the format and language features of some common text types, e.g. poems, diaries, chants

Writing:

• Use appropriate formats and conventions of short written texts such as post cards, diaries

Speaking:

• Use the simple phrases and sentences to communicate with others with the help of cues

http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/languagesupport/resource/English/58_In_the_Holiday/index.htm

Brief Description:
A process writing task which aims at developing students' reading and writing skills through a variety of text types

User Tips:

• Teachers can read the lesson plans, download Booklet and do the whole task based on it.
• Students can follow the activities in the task, such as learning vocabulary, doing mini-survey, reading different text types and writing.
• Students can use simple past tense to share their experiences on holidays.

Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Forms

Language Skills

• Vocabulary:
  • Festivals: e.g. Christmas, Easter, Chinese New Year
  • Activities: e.g. see the full moon, eat moon cakes
  • Seasons: e.g. autumn, spring
• Use the simple present tense to express interests, feelings and opinions

Reading:

• Identify key words for the main idea in a sentence
• Recognize the format and language features of some common text types, e.g. poems

Writing:

• Reproduce sentences based on teacher's model and use words from print in the environment
• Provide personal ideas and information based on a model or framework provided

http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/languagesupport/resource/English/37_20070628/index.htm

Brief Description:
A task about festivals and activities of different festivals

User Tips:

• Teachers can download the Worksheets for the activities, such as riddles guessing, writing about favourite festivals, playing cross-word puzzles.
• For integration of activities, teachers can read Unit Plan and Lesson Plan.

Learning Objectives

Resources

Remarks

Language Forms and Communicative Forms

Language Skills

• Vocabulary:
  • Festivals: e.g. Christmas, Dragon Boat Festival
  • Terms related to festivals: e.g. Dragon Boat, Santa Claus
• Use the simple present tense to express interests, feelings and opinions

Reading:

• Recognize the format and language features of some common text types, e.g. leaflets

Writing:

• Gather and share information and ideas by using strategies such as building concept maps
• Use appropriate formats and conventions of short written texts such as leaflets

http://cd1.edb.hkedcity.net/cd/languagesupport/resource/english/79P/index.htm

Brief Description:
A task about festivals in which students write up a leaflet introducing a festival in Hong Kong

User Tips:

• Activate students' prior knowledge about festivals using songs and pictorial cues.
• Show a leaflet to students and discuss the format and language features of a leaflet.
• Students can make use of concept map to organize ideas about the festival they like.