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 |
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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) |
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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 |