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Learning and Teaching Activity – A Study Tour to New Zealand

Learning objectives:

Text Types
  • Forms
Vocabulary
  • Documents for a study tour:
    • confirmation slip, self-addressed envelope, cheque, passport, etc.
  • Personal information:
    • allergic, Buddhism, religious reasons, independent, etc.
  • Travelling:
    • departure, arrival, Hong Kong International Airport, etc.
Language Skills
  • Reading
    Locate Information and Ideas
    • scan a text to locate specific information by using strategies such as looking at headings and repeated words
    • skim a text to obtain a general impression and the main ideas
    • identify details that support a main idea
  • Reading (Key Stage 3)
    Understand, Interpret and Analyze Different Written Texts
    • make use of knowledge of the world to make sense of the written text
    • acquire, extract and organize information relevant to specific tasks identify implied meanings through inferencing
Generic Skills
  • Problem solving skills

Related Basic Competency Descriptor:

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS KS)

L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)

Activity Description Suggested duration (minutes) Available for self - learning?
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This task consists of 5 parts. The following texts are included in the Data File: (in Word Format)
1. A letter of acceptance with a confirmation slip attached to it
2. An extract from an application form
3. Two pages extracted from a passport
4. Pre-tour briefing notes
Task Description:
You are Crystal, a Secondary 3 student who has been accepted to join a study tour to New Zealand in July 2005. You are going to do 5 tasks to prepare for the tour based on the information in the Data File. (in Word Format - student version, teacher version.
Part 1: Complete the confirmation slip attached to the letter of acceptance issued by AF Exchange Tour.
Part 2: Complete the cheque which you will send to AF Exchange Tour as deposit .
Part 3: Complete the self-addressed envelope for future correspondence.
Part 4: Check your passport and decide whether you should renew it.
Part 5: Read the pre-tour briefing notes and decide what you should bring for the tour.
40 The Data File and the tasks are available for printing.
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Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:

KSa- To provide or find out, select, organize and present information on familiar and less familiar topics
KSb- To interpret and use more extensive information through processes or activities
KSd- To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the solutions