Teaching English through Teaching English through Language Arts Language Arts

Mrs Maggie Hung

http://www3.ychlpyss.edu.hk/~lpy-lyc/index.html

Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Sec. Sch.

13th August, 2009

Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary

English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6)

First published 2007

ISBN: 978-962-8967-18-6

http://www.edb.gov.hk/FileManager/EN/Common/sow%20for%20the%20elective%20modules%20-%20211107.pdf

Learning and Teaching Resources in support of Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective

Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6)

http://www.edb.gov.hk/index.aspx?langno=1&nodeID=2769

Learning and Teaching Resources for Learning English through:

Drama Poems and Songs Popular Culture Short Stories

Recommended links for using CL 1. Why use Cooperative Learning? 2. Elements of CL 3. Class Activities that use CL http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm#activities 4. Lesson Plan: http://www.pgcps.pg.k12.md.us/~elc/learning1.html 5. Checklist for writing http://home.att.net/%7Eteaching/langarts/checklist.pdf 6. Teaching resources http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/structures.htm 7. Jigsaw classroom http://clte.asu.edu/active/usingjig.pdf 8. Roundrobin / Roundtable instructions http://clte.asu.edu/active/usingtps.pdf 9. Think-pair-share http://clte.asu.edu/active/teamskills.pdf

10. Strategies for helping ss develop team skills http://clte.asu.edu/active/roundrobin.pdf 11. CL Self Evaluation http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/co-op/selfeval.pdf12. useful PDF files

http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/clfiles.htm13. Seating arrangements for Cooperative Learning http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/co-op/seating.pdf14. How to start a CL classroom http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/

Teaching English through Language Arts

Integrated approach with CL strategies from social issues or daily news / theme from textbook

Example: Free but guilty --- a poem published on 26th May, 2009 (written by Mrs Wan Fung Yuen Shan) about the murder of a Chinese official by a hotel waitress in early May)

Activity 1: Cooperative Learning --- Pair Dictation

Free but guilty (1st stanza)A:

B:

A:

B:

A:

B:

A:

B:

A:

B:

Activity 2: Cooperative Learning---Jigsaw reading

1. Form yourselves into groups of 4: A, B, C & D. Each takes a role of Taskmaster, Recorder,

Housekeeper/Timekeeper & Encourager2. Each goes to a corner of the room to read for

orally reporting to your home team’s Recorder A: the first part of the development of the news, B: the second part of the development C: climax D: ending3. Go back to your home team and take turn to orally

report to the Recorder for completing the poem

Activity 3: Cooperative Learning---Roundtable Brainstorming

(Last part: Opinions from the writer)1. Take out one sheet of paper for your team to use.2. Listen to the question.3. Think about all the answers that might be appropriate.4. Write one answer on the paper while saying it out loud.5. Pass the paper to the teammate on your left.6. Listen to the one answer that each of your teammates will

write.7. Write an additional answer that no one has mentioned the

next time the paper comes to you.8. Listen to the additional answers from your teammates.9. Continue contributing answers, one at a time, until time

is up.

Activity 4: Drama Improvisation/ Script Writing/ Role

PlayIn a meeting before

hearing the trial of Deng Yujiao, improvise the following people’s opinions:

1.Xia Lin: Deng’s defence lawyer

2.a representative of a women’s rights group

3.Hao Jinsong, a rights activist

4.Zhang Zanning, a professor with SE University’s Law School

Teaching English through Songs

Get video clips and song lyrics from youtube

Teach grammar with song lyrics Let students stage a mini-musical performa

nce

Teaching English through Popular Culture

Get youtube video clips for hot commercials and ask students to perform/ use the same clip but create new scripts

For example: No to drugs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEUgZy4oLSE

Useful memberships

1. Hong Kong Cooperative Learning Association

2. British Council (English Festival)

3. Hong Kong Teachers Drama Association

http://www.hkedcity.net/iclub_files/a/1/107/webpage/Creative%20School/training_desemination_NSS089_090709.pdf

Interschool Language Arts Competitions

1. HK Schools Speech Competitionshttp://www.hksmsa.org.hk

2. HK Schools English Drama Competitions

3. HK English Public Speaking Contestshttp://libra.hkfyg.org.hk/leadership21/chi/competition_event_2848.html

Exhibition of useful references

1. Collections of poems

2. Books on teaching of poems

3. Big wall chart poems

4. EDB documents

5. Books from NET Section

6. Small Stories

7. Elective books from publishers

Handouts

1. Elective module overview

2. Resources for teaching short stories

3. Info sheets for teaching poems

4. MTR Song

5. Choral verses (for choral verse speaking)2002 Railway Song2004 The Lion and the Unicorn2004 A Magic Tent2005 Hide and Seek2006 Plague Around2007 From CHILD LABOUR

Thank you!

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