Teaching English through Language Arts Mrs Maggie Hung Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Sec. SchYan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Sec. Sch. 13 th August, 2009

Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6)  First published 2007  ISBN:  ommon/sow%20for%20the%20elective%2 0modules%20-% pdf ommon/sow%20for%20the%20elective%2 0modules%20-% pdf

Learning and Teaching Resources in support of Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6)  =1&nodeID= =1&nodeID=2769  Learning and Teaching Resources for Learning English through:  Drama  Poems and Songs  Popular Culture  Short Stories

Recommended links for using CL  1. Why use Cooperative Learning?  2. Elements of CL  3. Class Activities that use CL   4. Lesson Plan:   5. Checklist for writing   6. Teaching resources   7. Jigsaw classroom   8. Roundrobin / Roundtable instructions   9. Think-pair-share 

10. Strategies for helping ss develop team skills CL Self Evaluation useful PDF files Seating arrangements for Cooperative Learning How to start a CL classroom

Teaching English through Language Arts  Integrated approach with CL strategies from social issues or daily news / theme from textbook  Example: Free but guilty --- a poem published on 26th May, 2009 (written by Mrs Wan Fung Yuen Shan) about the murder of a Chinese official by a hotel waitress in early May)

Activity 1: Cooperative Learning --- Pair Dictation Free but guilty (1 st stanza) A: B: A: B: A: B: A: B: A: B:

Activity 2: Cooperative Learning---Jigsaw reading 1.Form yourselves into groups of 4: A, B, C & D. Each takes a role of Taskmaster, Recorder, Housekeeper/Timekeeper & Encourager 2.Each goes to a corner of the room to read for orally reporting to your home team’s Recorder A: the first part of the development of the news, B: the second part of the development C: climax D: ending 3. Go back to your home team and take turn to orally report to the Recorder for completing the poem

Activity 3: Cooperative Learning---Roundtable Brainstorming ( Last part: Opinions from the writer) 1. Take out one sheet of paper for your team to use. 2. Listen to the question. 3. Think about all the answers that might be appropriate. 4. Write one answer on the paper while saying it out loud. 5. Pass the paper to the teammate on your left. 6. Listen to the one answer that each of your teammates will write. 7. Write an additional answer that no one has mentioned the next time the paper comes to you. 8. Listen to the additional answers from your teammates. 9. Continue contributing answers, one at a time, until time is up.

Activity 4: Drama Improvisation/ Script Writing/ Role Play In a meeting before hearing the trial of Deng Yujiao, improvise the following people ’ s opinions: 1.Xia Lin: Deng ’ s defence lawyer 2.a representative of a women ’ s rights group 3.Hao Jinsong, a rights activist 4.Zhang Zanning, a professor with SE University ’ s Law School

Teaching English through Songs  Get video clips and song lyrics from youtube  Teach grammar with song lyrics  Let students stage a mini-musical performance

Teaching English through Popular Culture Get youtube video clips for hot commercials and ask students to perform/ use the same clip but create new scripts For example: No to drugs Zy4oLSE

Useful memberships 1.Hong Kong Cooperative Learning Association 2.British Council (English Festival)

3. Hong Kong Teachers Drama Association 7/webpage/Creative%20School/training_d esemination_NSS089_ pdf 7/webpage/Creative%20School/training_d esemination_NSS089_ pdf

Interschool Language Arts Competitions 1.HK Schools Speech Competitions HK Schools English Drama Competitions 3.HK English Public Speaking Contests /competition_event_2848.html /competition_event_2848.html

Exhibition of useful references 1.Collections of poems 2.Books on teaching of poems 3.Big wall chart poems 4.EDB documents 5.Books from NET Section 6.Small Stories 7.Elective books from publishers

Handouts 1.Elective module overview 2.Resources for teaching short stories 3.Info sheets for teaching poems 4.MTR Song

5. Choral verses (for choral verse speaking) 2002 Railway Song 2004 The Lion and the Unicorn 2004 A Magic Tent 2005 Hide and Seek 2006 Plague Around 2007 From CHILD LABOUR 2002 Railway Song 2004 The Lion and the Unicorn 2004 A Magic Tent 2005 Hide and Seek 2006 Plague Around 2007 From CHILD LABOUR

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