Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity –For Your Eyes Only

Learning Targets for Key Stage 3:

ISc -	to produce formal messages in written form
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 and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing conclusions
KSd -	to identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

Attitudes

Generic Skills

-Dialogues

-Descriptions

Describing People

Medium height, well-built, stout, slim, skinny, frail, matronly, curvaceous, in her forties, wrinkles, pimples, bald, balding, curly, wavy, straight, moustache, beard, scars

Use adjective phrases to describe people's appearance (e.g. medium height, well-

built, plain-looking)

Reading

-know what a word or phrase refers to in context

Listening

-identify key ideas in a conversation

-extract information and ideas in a spoken text

Writing

-produce written texts appropriate to context, purpose and audience

Develop independence and a commitment to lifelong learning through undertaking self-access language learning both inside and outside the classroom

-critical thinking skills

-problem solving skills

- reference skills

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L5-L-2-S3BC

Using an increasing range of strategies to understand the meaning of simple texts on familiar and less familiar topics which are delivered clearly and in generally familiar accents

L5-R-3-S3BC

Understanding the use of a range of language features and other techniques to present themes, characters, experiences and feelings in simple literary / imaginative texts

L5-R-4-S3BC

Applying a range of reference skills for various purpose with the help of clues
　

L6-W-1-S3BC

Writing a variety of texts for different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content
　

L6-W-2-S3BC

Writing a variety of texts using punctuation marks, and a range of vocabulary and language patterns with some degree of appropriateness and accuracy to convey meaning

L5-W-5-S3BC

Writing a variety of texts using the salient features of a range of genres generally appropriately with the help of clues

Level of Difficulty

	-- Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level)
	-- To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level)
	-- At S3BC (at S3 level)

*Activity*	*Description*	*Duration* *(min)*	*Available for Self Learning*
Part 1	Interactive Activity 1: Faces Learners are asked to drag the correct portraits into the boxes according to the description of their appearance.	10
Part 2	Interactive Activity 2: Appearance Quiz Students are asked to complete a quiz about the phrases and expressions used in describing people’s physical appearance.	45
Part 3 　 Tapescript	Interactive Activity 3: Lady in Red Students are asked to listen to a conversation between Martin and Hugo. They are required to identify Jennifer according to the features described in the dialogue by using the note-taking skills.	45
Part 4	Interactive Activity 4: Eagle-Eyed Witness Students are asked to remember the features of two suspects as much as possible within 10 seconds. They are required to describe the appearance of each suspect by clicking on the correct features provided in the table.	15
Part 5 Activity Sheet Suggested Answers	Writing Activity: An Eye-Witness Report Students are asked to write short descriptions about the two suspects with the information provided in Activity 4 as well as browsing two given websites for reference.	30