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Course Name: English Cutting Edge (HKTSA)
Level: Primary 5 – Primary 6
No. of Lessons: 10 (Suggested)
Lesson Duration: 1 hr 30 mins(Suggested)
Instructors: Native English teachers with a university degree ; related teaching experience, and/or teacher training such as TEFL, TESOL, CELTA, PGDE/PCEd, etc.
Leaflet: English Version* / Chinese Version
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Objectives
This course is designed to enhance students’ reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. A variety of relevant topics and vocabulary are introduced in this course to help further extend a student’s understanding and use of English. Students will develop more confidence in using English through interactive classroom activities and intensive practises.
Features
- Themes relevant to daily life and today’s society.
- A diverse range of activities in each unit to strengthen the 4 skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) required to be competent in English.
- Variety of text formats such as poems, e-mails, recipes, and advertisements etc.
Outline
Unit 1: Introduction to Conversations
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- Conversation
- Listening: Ordering a pizza
- Complete the dialogue
- Read aloud practice
- Reading: A radio interview (Text Type: Interview)
- Vocabulary list
Unit 2: To the Museum
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- Format of an email
- Reading: Ocean museum (Text Type: Email)
- Listening: Reservation form
- Writing: Whose schoolbag is it? (Text Type: Story)
- Vocabulary list
Unit 3: Speaking Up
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- Word stress
- Sentence stress
- Listening: Falling tone? Rising tone?
- Intonation for questions
- Speaking: Housework
- Writing: Speech festival (Text Type: Article)
- Vocabulary list
Unit 4: Weather and Seasons
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- Quiz: What to do in different weather conditions
- Bad weather “Dos and Don’ts”
- Reading: Poem (Text Type: Poem)
- Listening: Weather reports
- Speaking: Typhoon activities
- Vocabulary list
Unit 5: Saving the Earth
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- Scuba diving
- Reading: Coral reefs (Text Type: Article)
- Problems and solutions
- Read aloud practice
- Speaking: Green living
- Writing: Save the planet (Text Type: Report)
- Vocabulary list
Unit 6: School Activities
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- Reading: We need you (Text Type: Advertisement and Article)
- Listening: School fun fair
- Writing: Sports day (Text Type: Article)
- Vocabulary list
Unit 7: Food and Restaurant
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- Rhyme: Ice-cream cake
- Reading: Waiters wanted (Text Type: Job Advertisements)
- Listening: Charity cooking show
- Reading: Pizza face recipe (Text Type: Recipe)
- Make your own pizza
- Speaking: Baking time
- Vocabulary list
Unit 8: Describing People
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- Describing appearance
- Describing personality
- My favourite person
- Listening: Mary and Terry
- Speaking: A lost boy
- Vocabulary list
Unit 9: My Family
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- Listening: Booking a family trip
- Reading: A letter about my family (Text Type: Letter)
- Listening: A very beautiful story
- Speaking: Mother’s day
- Vocabulary list
Unit 10: Animals
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- Zoo animals on the loose
- Reading: A visit to a charity (Text Type: Article)
- Listening: Animal riddles
- Writing: A letter from my penfriend (Text Type: Letter)
- Vocabulary list