Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity – Note-taking

　

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 thorough processes or activities such as sequencing, describing, classifying, comparing, explaining, predicting, inferring, summarizing and drawing conclusions

　

Learning Objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

Language Items and Communicative Functions

Language Skills

      

Generic Skills

- Symbols

　

- Abbreviations

　

- Notices

　

　

Facilities in School

library, playground, Biology and Chemistry laboratory, etc.

 

School life:

presentation, study tour, competition, composition, examination, information, etc.

　

N.A.

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Reading

Writing

　

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Study skills

Problem solving skills

　

Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC:

　

L6-R-2-S3BC:

　

L6-W-1-S3BC:

　

Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity

　

Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity

　

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


　
　

　

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

　

An Interactive Activity: Common Symbols for Note-taking

Sixteen common symbols are introduced to help learners note down messages. 

5

Part 2

　

An Interactive Activity: Abbreviations in Note-taking

Seven rules of forming abbreviations are introduced:

(i)                 Keep only the first syllable

(ii)               Keep only the first syllable and the first letter of the second syllable

(iii)             Keep only the first and second syllables

(iv)              Leave out some or all of the vowels

(v)                Use ‘g’ for ‘ing’

(vi)              Use text message abbreviations

(vii)            Use initials for a term

 

Examples and tryout items are given to students in helping them to familiarize with the rules.

　

15

Part 3

　

An Interactive Activity: Forming Abbreviations

　

Learners are asked to write the abbreviations for nine expressions with reference to the rules they have learnt.

　

10

Part 4

　

An Interactive Activity: Decoding Messages from Notes/ Abbreviations

Learners are asked to decode the notes or abbreviations for three messages.

　

15