Oral English for F.2 - Course Outline

Lesson

Topic

Vocabulary / Language

Skills

Activity

One

A Trip to Ocean Park

Present / past simple

Adverbs of frequency-often, usually etc

Prepositional phrases- to go on rides, to go on the train, to go by bus to, etc

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Warmer: Animal Word Chain game

Brainstorming

Discussion

Writing: A trip to Ocean Park

Two

Festivals

Present / past simple

Adverbs of frequency-often, usually etc

 

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Listening Team spirit building and self-management

Brainstorming

Students represent different countries

Choose a festival and prepare how it is celebrated in their groups and present it to the class by dramatizing it

Whole class feedback

Three

Friends

Present / past simple

Adverbs of frequency-usually, often…

Vocabulary

Speaking

Reading

Listening

Warmer: My best friend mingle game

Brainstorming-

Who is a best friend?

Reading for gist

Discussion: Talk about your best friend.

Writing task

Whole class feedback

Four

My Dream Home

Have / has got

It’s got

Negative form: It hasn’t got

Question form: Has it got…?

Vocabulary

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Listening

Visual brainstorming

Facilities

Pronunciation drill

Discussion- T’s dream home

Writing: My dream home

Five

Children’s Day!

-Use of the imperative in making rules

-Card messages

-Imaginative and communicative skills

- Reading

-Speaking

-Listening

- Brainstorming

- Reading for Gist – About children’s day in other countries

-Compare children’s day in other countries with Hong Kong

-Making kites and coming up with rules about the freedom children need

Six

Fun Day

Tense review

Speaking

Reading

Writing

Listening

Team spirit building and self-management

Critical thinking

Quiz based on course and other interesting topics, Fun games: like charades, monster mat,

Tongue twisters etc

Whole class feedback

Seven

Describing People’s Appearances

Describing people’s appearances using appropriate adjectives and structures

-       Speaking

-       Writing

-       Reading

Noughts and Crosses: Follow the teacher’s instructions

Age and Appearance: Tell the meaning of some phrases

From sentences using ‘Has got’

Height and Weight

Build: describing people’s physical state

Crossword puzzle

Write details about yourself in the chart then choose two members of your family or two friends and write their details

Eight

Pleasant Sounds and Annoying Noises

-Adjectives e.g. loud, sweet, musical, soothing, clear, cheerful, monotonous

-Present participles functions as adjectives, e.g. a crying baby, a ringing phone, a laughing person, a barking dog  

-Collaborative and communicative skills

-Speaking

-Listening

-Reading – read a short article

-Warmer-Nothing but Noise! – practise the sound produced by a crying babies, spectators cheering a football match, aeroplanes taking off, people in a karaoke bar.

-Pair work: Pleasant sounds and annoying noises – The sound of a barking dog, traffic, a laughing person. Are the noises pleasant or annoying?

-Reading for Gist – Danger noise levels set for Europe

 

Nine

Get Well Soon – Keeping Fit

Vocabularies on health and food

Conditionals (3)

-       Reading

-       Writing

-       Speaking

Look at the pictures and discuss your ideas in groups

Common sayings about exercise

The vegetable puzzle

Written task: write an essay on ‘A healthy lifesyle’

Grammar exercise – Conditionals (3)

Ten

Writing a Report: Travel and Holiday

-Present participle used to link sentences

-Past tense

-Vocabulary. e.g. castles, museums

-Adjectives to describe holiday, e.g. relaxing, exciting, exploring

-Reading

-Writing

-Listening

-Speaking

-Brainstorming-group discussion – discuss ‘Travel and holiday’ in groups (with guiding questions provided)

- Reading for Gist – Travel Page

- Post-reading Task – work in groups, answer some questions about the passage.

- Linking sentences – present participle used to link sentences.

-Writing – write a report about a school trip.

Eleven

Revision / Party / Evaluation

Tense Review

Speaking: main focus

 

-Revision of the whole course through games and fun activities like blockbuster, hexagon checkers etc

-Whole class discussion – questions/comments/evaluation