Teaching and Learning
Team work and caring
In China Holiness Church Living Spirit College, teachers share their experiences in motivating students with one another. Teachers also work as a team to encourage students to complete their English Builder lessons. The school policy of keeping a student assignment record helps teachers monitor students’ progress.
Objectives to achieve in junior forms:
To introduce different text types and basic reading skills.
To introduce and consolidate various types of writing formats.
To introduce students’ English foundation on the four skills and familiarise them with the TSA format.
To provide students with a list of thematic vocabulary and a spiral model of learning vocabulary.
To equip students with different listening skills to accomplish listening tasks.
To build up students’ confidence to speak individually through recordings and TSA practice.
To encourage students to read more extensively by reading different articles and novels, and participating in our online reading programme.
Objectives to achieve in senior forms:
To consolidate students’ English foundation on the four skills and get them familiar with the DSE format.
To revise and consolidate different reading skills, question formats and listening practices.
To introduce and revise different test or text? types, reading skills and question format.
To introduce and revise writing format and language styles of different types of letters.
To provide students with a list of thematic vocabulary and a spiral model of learning vocabulary for writing and listening.
To equip students with different listening skills to accomplish listening and integrated tasks by assigning more practices.
To help students to comprehend the reading materials for speaking examination and build up students’ confidence to speak individually and in group through practice of oral and SBA practice.
To encourage students to read more extensively by reading novels, fictions and newspapers.
To provide students with adequate speaking skills and practice during lessons and after school to enhance their oral and SBA performance.
Content of Teaching
Junior forms:
Themes
Paper 2
Writing
Paper 3
Listening and integrated skills
Paper 4
Speaking
Others
-school life
-family and friends
-travelling
-festivals
-ocean park
-shopping
-art genres – movies
-role model
-teen problems – self -image & interpersonal relationship
-environment
-popular culture
-career
Charity/ voluntary work
-webpage
-Diary entry
-personal letter
-leaflet
-film review
-letter of advice
-letter of complaint
-short story
-Article (job and charity)
-Tailor-made listening exercise
-listening skills
-integrated skills and writing
-phonics
-individual presentation
-group interaction
-mini-dictionary
-ideas notebook
-tenses
-preposition
-pronouns
-adjective
-gerunds & infinitives
-articles
-wh-questions
-reported/ direct speech
-conditional sentence
-passive voice
-relative clause
Senior forms:
Themes
Paper 2
Writing
Paper 3
Listening and integrated skills
Paper 4
Speaking
Others
-Skimming exercises
-scanning exercise
-pre-exam exercise reading
-Vocabulary
-Sentence Patterns
-Personal letter
-leaftlet
-complaint letter
-letter to the editor
-two-sided argumentative
-wrting a proposal
-diary entry
-Speech
-letter of advice
-memo
-Tailor-made listening exercise
-school-based Listening Vocab book
-Listening Skills
-integrated skills and writing
-group discussion
-individual response
-tutorials
-Mini-dictionary
-Ideas notebook
-News Clipping
-Learning English Through Workplace Communication
-newspaper clipping
-short stories
-SBA