A. My Pupils
• Pupils’ abilities in different
classes vary a lot.
• Our pupils are highly-motivated
as they participate actively in
most of the English activities.
My Students’ Strengths
and Weaknesses
• They are able to express their ideas by
writing simple and clear discrete sentences,
mostly descriptive texts.
• They are weak in using appropriate cohesive
devices such as suddenly, however.
• They lack lexical competence to read
complicated stories or to write stories with
clear development.
B. Our English Programme
• Curriculum
tailoring started
in 2002 at P.2
• Promote free
writing – Use of
Sketch Book
I have a brother. His name is Keith.
He is thirteen years old. He is tall. He
is thin. He has short hair. He has small
eyes. He has big ears. He (have) big
mouth. He (have) black hair. He (have)
many
(football’s
T-shirts).
Heislikes
This
is my friend,
Emily. She
eight.
playing
computer
games
and
(foot
She lives in Jordan. She likes skipping. ball’s).
She
I think
he isShe
kind.
Hedrawing
lives inpictures.
Tsing Yi.
likes
reading.
likes
She
likes
singing.
She likes
He goes
to school
bydancing.
car. She is helpful.
She is clever.
C. Purpose of the Sketchbook
- Draw and write: help pupils to write
and express their ideas with picture
clues
- Repetition: Recycle and consolidate
the learnt language items
- Revise the learnt sentence patterns
- Develop a Vocabulary Bank
Myra is my friend and my classmate too. She is nine
years old. She lives in Mongkok. Her birthday is on 21st
March. Her family has a mother, a father and herself, but
she has no brothers or sisters. She likes swimming, dancing
and singing. Myra likes eating (chip) and ice cream. She
studies in Canton Road Government Primary School She likes
P.E., music (and) English lessons. Myra is good at running,
singing, dancing and swimming. Her class teacher is Miss Wu.
She likes playing game with friends. Myra is kind, helpful and
clever.
My mother is fat and tall. She has long
hair. She has small ears. She has (smell) nose.
She has big eyes. She is beautiful. She is
funny, (king), polite and (working) late. She is
(sales). She (go) to work sometimes by
minibus, sometimes by car.
At weekends, we go shopping, swimming in
the beach and eat (buffer).
She likes swimming, singing and shopping.
She has five sisters and five brothers.
I like my mother very much.
My mother has black hair. She is tall and she
has wrinkles. She has small eyes and small nose
and big (mother). My mother is funny. She
sometimes tells me a joke. Sometimes my mother
is very strict. Mum helps me with my homework.
Sometimes I help mum to carry the bags. Mum
looks after me but she doesn’t read (story) to me.
Mum always washes the dishes, cooks the dinner
and sweeps the door. Mum doesn’t water the
plants and feed the pets because I don’t have
plants and pets but I like pets. I like my mother
very much.
D. One of the Learning
Objectives at P.4 Level
Improve Pupils’ Writing Skills:
• Provide the ending of short and
simple stories
• Write stories with clear development
Canton Road Government Primary School
English (1st Term) Quiz (1)
P. 4 (
)
Name: _____________________(
)
Date: _________________
E. Early Findings:
A. Read the story and underline the correct answers:
John’s three wishes
John loses his way. He is tired and hungry. He falls asleep in the street. In his dream, John sees a fairy. The fairy gives him
three wishes. What is John’s first wish?
I want to buy some presents for my family.
• A quiz is set to test pupils’
reading and writing
competence at the beginning
of September
• The less able pupils failed to
provide an ending to the
story
The fairy gives John a hundred dollars. John goes shopping. He is thinking about his family. His mother likes wearing beautiful
clothes and his dad likes listening to music. John is sad. The fairy wants to make John happy. She tells John about the spaceman. She
asks John about the second wish.
I want to see a spaceman.
Where is John now? He is in a spaceship with a spaceman. It travels to the moon. John is having a good time. But John is still
unhappy.
I want to go home. That is my third wish.
Then ……………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………….
1. John loses his way. He cannot find his ( bed , money , home ).
2. John sleeps ( in his bed , in the street , in his way ).
3. The fairy gives John ( $100 , a pen , a book ).
4. John buys a ( box of sweets , dress , pen ) for his mother.
5. John buys a ( CD, computer game , football ) for his dad.
6. The fairy is ( kind , unhappy , naughty ).
7. The spaceman ( walks , stops , drives ) the spaceship to the moon.
B. What happens at the end? Write 2-3 sentences to finish the story.
Then_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
F. Another Interesting Findings:
Background: Students’ performance in First
Term Test
Strength: able to write simple and short
descriptive text about one’s classmate
Weakness: unable to respond to text with
personal experience and imaginative ideas
(BC Skill 1)
Case 1
Kelly is my classmate. She is the most helpful in the
class. She usually helps with my homework. She go to
school on foot. She always go to swimming. She always
does her homework. She often goes shopping. She has no
brothers and sisters. She likes reading story in the
library. She never playing football. I think she is nice.
Case 2
Kelly is my classmate. She is helpful and hard-working. She
often read a books. She always goes her homeworks. She usually
helps me wirt my homework. She sometimes helps her mother
housework
Case 3
Aiyan is my classmate. She is thin. She always
tells joke. She is funny. She is hardworking too. She
has a brother.
Sarah’s father, Mr Chan, is a hardworking man. He always gets up early at half
past six every morning. He usually has a bath before breakfast. Then he goes
to work by MTR at quarter to eight. However, he was late this morning……
This morning, Mr Chan’s clock did not work. When
he got up, it was quarter past seven. He ran to the
bathroom but his daughter, Sarah, was inside. He waited
and waited but Susan did not come out.
Fifteen minutes later, Mr Chan went to his bedroom to put
on his clothes first. When he went back to the bathroom, Sarah
was still inside. Mr Chan could not wait any longer. He knocked on
the bathroom door and shouted……
A.
Read the story again and
sentences: (@2, 12/100)
answer
the
following
1.
How does Mr Chan go to work?
2.
___________________________________________________________________
Why did Mr Chan get up late this morning?
3.
___________________________________________________________________
Where do we usually go to wash our hands?
questions
in
complete
We usually go to the ___________________ to wash our hands.
4.
How many bathrooms do you think Mr Chan has in his flat?
____________________________________________________________________
5. What did Mr Chan say to Sarah when he knocked on the bathroom
door?
He shouted,”______________________________________.”
6. What do you think happened next? (e.g. What time did Sarah come
out? What time did Mr Chan go to work? Was he late?) Write 2
sentences.
____________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________
Case 1
Case 2
Case 3
A. Simon does a lot of things on Sundays. Look at the pictures. Fill in the blanks with the correct time
in words. (@2, 18/100)
Simon is very busy on Sundays. First, he gets up at 1.
nine o’clock
and has breakfast at
• They were weak in
developing an ending of a
story in accordance with
the main and supporting
Suddenly ………….
ideas of the reading text
2.___________________________. Then he plays football at 3.________________________________ with his
friends. He has lunch at 4._________________________________.
In the afternoon, he rides a bike at 5._____________________________. Then he goes home at
6._______________________________. He watches cartoons at 7.__________________________________.
After that he listens to music at 8.___________________________________ and he reads comics at
9.______________________________________.
Then
he
10._____________________________________.
B. What happens? Try to write 2 sentences to finish it. (2@, 4/100)
Suddenly, Simon ___________________________________________________
_____________________________________________. After that he __________
________________________________Finally,
he goes to bed happily.
has
dinner
at
Case 3
Case 2
Case 1
G. Teaching Strategies
• Separate Reading from Writing.
• Provide pupils with the beginning and
ending of the story and encourage them to
write (mini story).
Purpose: Use story grammar/structure
that comprises setting, characters,
problems, events, and resolutions, to
encourage pupils to present ideas
coherently.
Some pupils show their
understanding and they
are able to complete the
story sensibly and
creatively.
Suddenly, some robbers robbed
Suddenly,
hiskey.
sister
pushes
Samgointo
the
Simon’s
Then
robbers
away
pond. Then,
Sam’s
sister
very happy,
quickly.
Simon
is is
crying.
Joe but Sam
have
nintytheir
dollars.
They
is angryThe
withchildren
his sister.
Next,
mother
remember
robbers’
face. Then
they
buy
a Sam
birthday
cake.
Then
they
to book
finds
outcall
in the
pond.
She
callsgo
the
nine-nine-nine
to
report
the firemen
shopSam.
buy a card for Kelly.
to help
policeman.
H. Learning Progress of a
less able pupil
Suddenly my father is go home. He open the door and
then I can go to school.
He has a breakfast. Then he is food-poisoning.
Suddenly, they see a robbers. He is
climbes into the house. They call 999.
H. Some Useful Suggestions
• Select specific language items.
• Integrate what pupils have learnt
with their personal experience.
• Gather and share information and
ideas by brainstorming and building
concept map.
• Highlight the key words which help
pupils to think in a relevant context.
Thank You