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.
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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/C
ommon/sow%20for%20the%20elective%2
0modules%20-%20211107.pdf
Learning and Teaching Resources in support of
Suggested 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
Recommended links for using CL
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1. Why use Cooperative Learning?
2. Elements of CL
3. Class Activities that use CL
http://edtech.kennesaw.edu/intech/cooperativelearning.htm
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
10. Strategies for helping ss develop team skills
http://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/
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)
Activity 1:
Cooperative Learning ---
Free but guilty (1st stanza)
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Pair Dictation
Activity 2:
Cooperative Learning---Jigsaw reading
1. Form yourselves into groups of 4: A, B, C & D.
Each takes a role of Taskmaster, Recorder,
Housekeeper/Timekeeper & Encourager
2. 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
Activity 3:
Cooperative Learning---Roundtable Brainstormin
(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.
Activity 4: Drama
Improvisation/ Script Writing/ Role
Play
In a meeting before hearing
the trial of Deng Yujiao,
improvise the following
people’s opinions:
1. Xia Lin: Deng’s defence
lawyer
2. a representative of a
women’s rights group
3. Hao Jinsong, a rights
activist
4. Zhang Zanning, a
professor with SE
University’s Law School
Teaching English through Songs
 Get video clips and song lyrics from
youtube
 Teach grammar with song lyrics
 Let students stage a mini-musical
performance
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=mEUgZ
y4oLSE
Useful memberships
1. Hong Kong Cooperative Learning
Association
2. British Council (English Festival)
3. Hong Kong Teachers
Drama Association
http://www.hkedcity.net/iclub_files/a/1/10
7/webpage/Creative%20School/training_d
esemination_NSS089_090709.pdf
Interschool Language Arts
Competitions
1. HK Schools Speech Competitions
http://www.hksmsa.org.hk
2. HK Schools English Drama Competitions
3. HK English Public Speaking Contests
http://libra.hkfyg.org.hk/leadership21/chi/
competition_event_2848.html
Exhibition of useful references
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Collections of poems
Books on teaching of poems
Big wall chart poems
EDB documents
Books from NET Section
Small Stories
Elective books from publishers
Handouts
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Elective module overview
Resources for teaching short stories
Info sheets for teaching poems
MTR Song
5. Choral verses (for choral verse speaking)
2002 Railway Song
2004 The Lion and the Unicorn
2004 A Magic Tent
2005 Hide and Seek
2006 Plague Around
2007 From CHILD LABOUR
Thank you!
Time for comments!