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Course Name: Magazine Magic Gold
Level: Primary 5 – Primary 6
No. of Lessons: 12 (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.
Objectives
This workshop aims at training senior primary student’s writing skills in the form of creating a magazine. Each student will create a magazine about a place in Hong Kong. During the process, they will learn about different kinds of writing (informal letters, descriptive, narrative and imperative writing, etc) in a fun and innovative way. At the end of the workshop, the students are expected to create a magazine the knowledge acquired.
Features
- Provide a wide range of reading and writing activities to increase understanding of the topics
- Analyse and write different kinds of text types including a restaurant review, an advertisement and a fashion column
- Enhance students use of grammar in their work
- Strengthen research skills through student’s writing
- Develop editing skills through editing student’s own work
- Produce an individual magazine to showcase student’s writings (professional printing can be provided at an additional cost)
Outline
Unit 1: Getting Started
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- Warm-up: Geing to know one another
- Course introduction: Creating a magazine
- Magazine realia
- Magazine vocabulary
- Brainstorming: Theme of the magazine
- Writing: Catchy names
Unit 2: A Place in Hong Kong
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- Hong Kong itinerary
- Descriptive writing: Similes and metaphors
- Descriptive writing practice
- Writing: Acrostics
- Game: Mad libs
Unit 3: Transport
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- Matching activity: Modes of transport
- Vocabulary gap-fill exercise
- All about transport
- The MTR map
- Giving directions using imperatives
- Writing: Directions
Unit 4: Food
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- Warm-up: Food pyramid
- Activity: Food card game
- Pre-writing: Sequencing
- Writing: My recipe
- Writing: Restaurant review
Unit 5: Shopping
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- Warm-up: Oral marathon
- Activity: At the shops
- Consolidation: Shops
- Reading: The Hong Kong shopping festival
- Post-reading activity: Special products of Hong Kong
- Puzzle: Let’s go shopping
- Activity: Writing an advertisement
Unit 6: Magazine Workshop 1
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- Warm-up: Guess the country
- Holiday memories
- Writing: A memorable holiday
- Activity: Designing and creating my magazine
Unit 7: Fashion
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- Warm-up: National dress
- Grammar: Adjectives
- Grammar exercise
- Activity: Alphabet adjectives
- Writing: Colour poem
- Activity: Designing clothing
Unit 8: Postcards
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- Warm-up: Stretch a sentence
- Reading: Holiday postcards
- Grammar: The present perfect
- Activity: What did you do on your holiday?
- Activity: Designing a postcard
- Writing a Postcard
- Writing: A postcard to my friend
Unit 9: Accommodation and Advice
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- Accommodation types
- Accommodation wanted
- Writing: Giving advice
- Writing: Accommodation adverts
Unit 10: Reference and Encyclopaedia Entry
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- Overview: Reference writing
- Activity: Searching for relevant information
- Writing: My reference page
- Online reference page
- Writing: An encyclopaedia entry
Unit 11: Magazine Workshop 2
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- Warm-up: List-a-holic
- Activity: Magazine work
- Writing: Organising the magazine content
- Magazine front cover
- Activity: Completing the magazine
Unit 12: Magazine Showcase
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- Individual presentations
- Peer review: Writing comments
- Vote: Best magazine