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Teaching English through Language Arts

Teaching English through Language Arts. Mrs Maggie Hung http://www3.ychlpyss.edu.hk/~lpy-lyc/index.html Yan Chai Hospital Lim Por Yen Sec. Sch . 13 th August, 2009. Suggested Schemes of Work for the Elective Part of the Three-year Senior Secondary English Language Curriculum (Secondary 4-6).

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Teaching English through Language Arts

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  1. Teaching English through 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

  2. 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

  3. Learning and Teaching Resources in support ofSuggested 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

  4. 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

  5. 10. Strategies for helping ss develop team skillshttp://clte.asu.edu/active/roundrobin.pdf • 11. CL Self Evaluation • http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/co-op/selfeval.pdf • 12. useful PDF files • http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/clfiles.htm • 13. Seating arrangements for Cooperative Learning • http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/co-op/seating.pdf • 14. How to start a CL classroom • http://home.att.net/~clnetwork/

  6. 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)

  7. Activity 1: Cooperative Learning --- Pair Dictation Free but guilty (1st stanza)

  8. Activity 2: Cooperative Learning---Jigsaw reading • Form yourselves into groups of 4: A, B, C & D. Each takes a role of Taskmaster, Recorder, Housekeeper/Timekeeper & Encourager • 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: ending 3. Go back to your home team and take turn to orally report to the Recorder for completing the poem

  9. 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.

  10. Activity 4: Drama Improvisation/ Script Writing/ Role Play

  11. Teaching English through Songs • Get video clips and song lyrics from youtube • Teach grammar with song lyrics • Let students stage a mini-musical performance

  12. 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

  13. Useful memberships • Hong Kong Cooperative Learning Association • British Council (English Festival)

  14. 3. Hong Kong Teachers Drama Associationhttp://www.hkedcity.net/iclub_files/a/1/107/webpage/Creative%20School/training_desemination_NSS089_090709.pdf

  15. Interschool Language Arts Competitions • HK Schools Speech Competitionshttp://www.hksmsa.org.hk • HK Schools English Drama Competitions • HK English Public Speaking Contestshttp://libra.hkfyg.org.hk/leadership21/chi/competition_event_2848.html

  16. Exhibition of useful references • Collections of poems • Books on teaching of poems • Big wall chart poems • EDB documents • Books from NET Section • Small Stories • Elective books from publishers

  17. Handouts • Elective module overview • Resources for teaching short stories • Info sheets for teaching poems • MTR Song

  18. 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

  19. Thank you! Time for comments!

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