Form 4 & 5 students: Achiever
Students learn grammar from a functional approach and are given ample opportunities to practise and apply their language skills.
Authentic tasks are designed so that students are encouraged to communicate in English proficiently.
Through reflective journaling, oral presentations, contrastive studies and continuous assessment, students are explicitly taught to monitor their own learning.
Time and Location
Starts: 8th October, 2011
Saturdays 9:00a.m. – 12:30p.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: $1600.00 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
Grammar and Function
Unit 1 2
- Angles of literacy
- Connecting with stories
- realism and fantasy
- author’s craft
- Making comparisons and giving descriptions of processes and situations:
- Making general statements about the world and “universal truths”
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 2
- From the stories we tell
- classification
- sensory details
- choosing a topic
- Referring to events in the past, present and future and to the frequency with which things occur
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 3
- Framing and focusing
- first impressing
- identifying key details
- using dialogue
- Justifying one’s behavior,
- Decision and point of view
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 4
- Perspectives on a subject
- choosing a topic
- using prior knowledge
- specialized language
- Making enquires
- Dealing with enquiries and responding to requests or complaints
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 5
- The power of language
- figurative language
- compare and contrast
- word meanings
- Expressing factual information
- Presenting plans
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 6
- Focus on writer
- realism and fantasy
- genre
- Reading essentials of reading
- Finding and providing evidence for a particular conclusion
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 7
- Story landscapes
- mood
- using details
- Characters in stories
- characterization
- cause and effect
- point of view
- Giving and justifying recommendations and making proposals
- Expressing personal feelings, opinions and judgments and presenting arguments
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 8
- Shifting forms: nonfiction and poetry
- recognizing bias
- genre
- author’s viewpoint
- English for Vocational Competence
Unit 9
- Reinforcing and testing language skills
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.
