Recommendation of an English Book For S.1 Discussion

Discussion Task You are going to recommend an interesting and meaningful English book to S.1 students. Which book would you recommend and why?

Activity One: Needs of S.1 students What are their problems in learning English? Draw a mindmap.

Activity Two: Pair Work Explain to your neighbours about the problems which you have identified. Beginning with:  I find that most S.1 students have some problems when they are learning English.  To commence with,  In addition,  Last but not least,

Activity Three: Advantages of reading an English book to learn English Advantage 1 Advantage 2 Advantage 3

Activity Four: Can your book help them? Title of your book Interesting and meaningful content? Outstanding Characters? Advantages of reading the book? problems?

Activity Five: Role Play Student A is the S.1 student. You need to tell the other S.5 students your problems. Students B, C and D are the S.5 students who have just finished reading a book and they will give some ideas about using an English book to improve students’ language proficiency.

Useful Phrases Starting the discussion  Are you all ready? Let’s start our discussion now. Introducing the topic for discussion  Our English teacher would like us to recommend a meaningful and interesting book for the S.1. Putting forward your opinions + Reasons and Examples  I would like to recommend XXX because it is XXX. The book is about … I am sure those S.1 students would find it interesting and meaningful. Inviting others to comment  What do you think? Agreeing/ Disagreeing + reasons  I am afraid I can’t agree with you. Your book is too XXX

Activity Six Student D is an S.1 student who does not know how to improve his/her English proficiency. Students A, B and C will give some hints on how to do it