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Learning Targets
for Key Stage 2:
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ISb -
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To converse about
feelings, interests, preferences, ideas, experiences and plans
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KSb -
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To interpret and use given
information through processes or activities such as matching, sequencing,
describing, classifying, comparing, explaining, predicting, drawing conclusions; and to follow instructions
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KSc -
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To identify ideas in
simple spoken and written texts, form opinions and express them
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KSd -
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To recognize and solve
simple problems in given situations, and describe the solutions
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ESb -
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To respond to characters
and events in imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written
and performative means
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Learning
Objectives:
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Text Types
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- Brochures
- Emails
- Personal Letters
- Card Games
- Riddles
- Maps
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Vocabulary
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Vocabulary Building Skills
- Understanding
word formation:
- compounding, e.g. wet + land = wetland
- Making word cards under different topics for reference
Vocabulary Items
Names of places and scenic
spots in Hong Kong
Hong Kong Geopark, Hong Kong Disneyland, Lautau Island, Po Lin Monastery,
the Peak, the Big Buddha, Hong Kong Wetland Park, Cheung Chau, Bird
Market, Golden Bauhinia Square, Hong Kong Zoological and Botanical Gardens,
Victoria Harbour, Lamma
Island, Hong Kong Space Museum
Names of Festivals
Cheung Chau Bun Festival
Means of transport
cable car, Peak Tram, ferry, tram
Verb phrases to describe different
activities
visit your favourite cartoon characters, watch the flag raising ceremony,
ride the ferry, explore the small fishing town, join the Pink Dolphin
Watching Tour, walk around the island, enjoy a relaxing tram ride
Compound words
e.g. wetland, teahouse, butterfly, dragonfly, skyscrapers, wildlife,
waterfall, multimedia, seafood, goldfish, firework, sunset, grandpa
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Language Items
and Communicative Functions
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- Make suggestions
e.g. I think Susan and her grandpa should go to the bird market
because she can buy him a bird as a birthday present. Do you agree?
- Use the connective 'because' to give reasons
e.g. Susan should go to the Peak because they can see the nice view of
Victoria Harbour
on the top of the mountain.
- Use connectives to express sequence
e.g. First, we had breakfast at a Chinese teahouse. Then, we had our
lunch in Sai Kung.
- Use simple past tense to talk about past activities or events
e.g. My grandpa came to Hong Kong
last weekend.
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Language Skills
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Reading
- Construct meaning from texts
- use known parts of words or word association to work out the
meaning of unknown words
- work out
the meaning of an unknown word or expression by using visual clues,
context and knowledge of the world
- Locate information and ideas
- scan a text to locate specific information by using strategies
such as looking at headings and repeated phrases
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Writing
- Present information, ideas and feelings clearly and coherently
- write paragraphs which develop main ideas
- use appropriate formats, conventions and language features when
writing a variety of text types, e.g. emails
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Speaking
- Present information, ideas and feelings clearly and coherently
- connect ideas by using cohesive devices
- Participate effectively in an oral interaction
- maintain an interaction by
- controlling participation in an interaction or group
activities, e.g. taking one's turn at the right moment and
recognizing others' desire to speak
- asking and responding to others' opinions
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Acknowledgement
For permission to reproduce
photos for this set of material, we would like to thank the following:
Kent Photography (LT 1.4)
Forest Chan (LT 1.5)
Frederick Yip (LT 1.5)
Germaine (LT 1.5)
Louis Yiu (LT 1.6)
Kwok Ying Jim (LT 1.6)
Larry Suen (Treasure Hunt)
Every effort has been made to
trace copyright. In the event of any accidental infringement where it has
proved untraceable, we shall be pleased to come to a suitable arrangement
with the owner.
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