Form 1 students: Transformer
A cognitive approach is used to enhance students’ awareness in how they learn English as a second language and how they can reflect the experience they gain from daily life in English.
Through reflective journaling, oral presentations, contrastive studies and outing experience, students are explicitly taught to use English to communicate.
Time and Location
Starts: 30th August, 2011
Saturdays 9:00a.m. – 12:30p.m. & 2:00p.m. – 5:30p.m.
Address: 10/F, Chung Kiu Commercial Building, 47-51 Shan Tung Street, Mongkok, Kowloon
(EXIT E2 – Mongkok MTR station
Features
- Outdoor activities to develop observation and insights to enrich life experience
- Tele-conferencing via the web (for senior groups) to enhance speaking skills
- Journal writing for reflective learning
- Learning through activities to strengthen macro language skills of reading, listening and speaking
- Grammar study to enhance writing skills
- Generation of world knowledge through extensive reading
- Emphasis on higher order thinking and organization skills through reading
- Encouraging peer communication through group discussions and presentations
Cost
Course cost: $1500.00 per every four lessons
Course materials and worksheets are included.
Other: On extra curriculum activities (outdoor activities or events) parents will have to pay for meals, transportation and admission tickets. The amount depends on the activity and venue but we will always attempt to find the best value in these situations.
Curriculum Organization At-a-Glance1 (2011-2012)
There are a total of 40 weekly sessions that run for 3½ hours in one academic year.
Reading and Listening
Contrastive Analysis and Grammar
Speaking and Writing
Unit 1 2
- Reading for information
(non-fiction readers)
- Contrastive Analysis and Grammar
- difference in system and structure
- Nouns
- Sentence basics
- Information report
- Explanation
Unit 2
- Essentials of reading
thinking with the Writer - managing the Main Idea
- author’s purpose
- Nouns
- Articles
- Sentence basics
- Personal writing
Unit 3
- Essentials of story
- point of view
- summary
- Pronouns
- possessive pronouns
- Sentence Combining
- Narratives
- Responses
Unit 4
- Understanding character
- speech writing
- characterization
- Pronouns
- singular and plural nouns
- Sentence combining
- Narratives
- Responses
Unit 5
- Author’s Craft
- Figurative language
- personification
- scene
- Verbs
- Word formation
- Sentence problems
- Description
- Creative writing
Unit 6
- The Art of Argument
- Constructing an
argument - facts and opinions
- persuasive proposal
- Verbs
- Passive voice
- Sentence problems
- Exposition
- Persuasion
Unit 7
- Active reading: social Studies
- essays and articles
- summary
- Adjectives
- Subject
- Sentence Variety
- Subject writing
Unit 8
- Active Reading: Expository writing
- sequence
- cause and effect
- Adjectives
- Conjunctions and complex sentences
- Sentence variety
- Subject writing
Unit 9
- Active reading: persuasive writing
- connotations
- exploring bias
- examining tones
- Complex sentences
- Persuasive writing
1 The curriculum is subject to change without prior notice.
2 There are four 3 1/5-hour lessons in each unit, except for Unit 1, which consists of five lessons, of which the first is free of charge.
