Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – A Study Tour to New Zealand

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

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

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Skills

Generic Skills

Forms

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.

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

-	problem- solving skills

Related Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC:	Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity
L6-R-2-S3BC:	Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1 - Part 5

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. 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.

The Data File and the tasks are available for printing.