Lesson

Topic

Grammar Points

Skills

Activities

One

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Two

Amusement Parks

-Present, past  simple, present perfect

-Adverbs of frequency

-Adjectives

-Vocabulary

-Communicative, leadership

-Self- management

-Critical thinking

-Organizational, collaborative and critical listening skills

-Team work- 2 teams- opposition and preposition – teams are responsible for nominating their own speakers, judges, timekeeper and chairperson

-During the debate teams have to collaborate to come up with on the stop ideas to rebut their opponents’ viewpoints – Close monitoring and picking up errors to do a whole class board correction later in order not to interfere with fluency practice

-Learning log

-Whole class feedback – discussion

Three

Neighbours and Neighbouring Countries

-Adjectives to describe people, e.g. bizarre, gentle, warm-hearted, reserved.

- Organizational, collaborative and critical listening skills

-Speaking

-Listening

-Reading

-An Ideal Neighbour (Pair Work) – What makes a good neighbour?

-Good neighbours, bad neighbours and strange neighbours – Think of some adjective you can use to describe the best, the worst and the strangest neighbour you ever met.

Four

Hong Kong needs more engineers than medical officers

-Present, past  simple, present perfect

-Adverbs of frequency

-Adjectives

-Vocabulary

-Communicative, leadership

-Self- management

-Critical thinking

-Organizational, collaborative and critical listening skills

-Team work- 2 teams- opposition and preposition – teams are responsible for nominating their own speakers, judges, timekeeper and chairperson

-During the debate teams have to collaborate to come up with on the stop ideas to rebut their opponents’ viewpoints – Close monitoring and picking up errors to do a whole class board correction later in order not to interfere with fluency practice

-Learning log

-Whole class feedback – discussion

Five

Books

-  Present/past simple

-  Past participle

-  Vocabulary

-    Speaking

-    Listening

-    Reading

-    Warmer: Describing a blank piece of paper

-    Brainstorm novels

-    Some famous Western/Chinese authors

-    Discussion: My best author

Six

Personal Profiles

-  Present Simple

-  Adverbs of frequency

-  Vocabulary: personal profile

-    Speaking

-    Listening

-    Reading

-  Present/past simple Circles

-  Questionnaire: Personal Profile

-  Find Someone who…. game

Seven

Birth, Marriage, Death

-Vocabulary

-Present/ Past simple

-Reading

-Speaking

-Listening

-Vocabulary building

-Jigsaw Discussion Session: Ss working in groups will read individually on topics like ‘Birth’, ‘Marriage’ and ‘Death’.

- Individual Presentation and discussion: Ss will present their own story and then discuss their stories  in groups

-Writing – write a short essay expressing one’s view on the topic

Eight

Let’s Party

-Revision

-Speaking

-Listening

-Blockbuster

-Question time

-Comments from students to help with the evaluation of the course