Learning Activities:

• Log on: Learning Goals

• Review: Course Schedule and Assessment Policy

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

Learning Activities:

• Revision: Reporting Statements

• Reported Questions: Form and Usage

• Log-off: Learning Goals

1. Integrate form, meaning, and use in academic discourse and communicative settings;

2. Demonstrate consistent and appropriate language use in extended conversations and discussions;

3. Transfer their knowledge of the structure of English into effective, concise, and grammatically correct longer types of writing such as formal academic essays and communicative texts; and

4. Self-edit their oral and written production.

Which learning outcome is most important for you now?

Course Dates:

September 25

October 2, 9

November 13, 20, 27

December 4, 11

Padlet:

https://padlet.com/ansontototo/kc0924

Contact me:

ansonto@connect.hku.hk

Part 1

1. Highlighted the timetable and assessment

2. Introduced our class Padlet

3. Reviewed and reflected on the learning objectives

4. Set our class rules

Part 2

1. Used reported speech and reported questions to narrate a game

2. Watched the video “72 Questions with Taylor Swift” by Vogue

3. Interviewed our peers and reported our findings with your groupmates

What did you learn today?

1. Course Schedule and Topics

2. Course Assessment Methods

3. Assessment Policy

(PS: Read this course outline AGAIN as there are some major changes in the course schedule and assessments.)

Together by Sia

Listen to the beginning of the song. Consider:

• How does the music make YOU feel?

Listen to more of the song. Consider:

• What message can we take from the song about our lesson today?

Listen to the rest of the song. Consider:

• What language structure in the lyrics brings us such feelings and messages?

KWL

• What do we KNOW about modal verbs?

• What do we WANT to know?

• What have we LEARNED?

Part 1: 3:45-4:25

Learning Activities:

• Housekeeping: Updates on Course Schedule

• KWL Board

• Modal Verbs: Context and Usage

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

Learning Activities:

• Practicing Modal Verbs

• Class Secrets

• Assignment 1 Setup

• Reported Speech

• Modal Verbs

Submission Details

• Microsoft Forms

• Due Thursday, 3rd October 2024, 23:59

Part 1

1. Song of the Day

2. Worked on a modal verb KWL on Miro Board

3. Looked at the story of Grammar Bob

4. Played a Kahoot on modal verbs

Part 2

1. Read an article about earthquakes in the US

2. Made some guesses about some secrets of our class

3. Interviewed our peers to verify our guesses

4. Shared some interesting findings with the class

What did you learn today?

Refer to Miro Board.

Learning Activities:

• Assignment 1 Review

• Gerunds and Infinitives: Different meanings

• Activity: Summary Cloze

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

Learning Activities:

• Revision Quiz

Part 1

1. Looked at the Glows and Grows on Assignment 1

2. Studied different scenarios where using gerunds and infinitives mean differently

3. Watched a video and completed a summary cloze based on the video

Part 2

1. Completed a short quiz to prepare for uniform test

What did you learn today?

If I had a Million Dollars by Barenaked Ladies

Listen to the song:

• Sing along!

• Write down an example of conditional sentence used in this song.

• What is the message of the song?

• Fill in the blanks in the lyrics

Part 1: 3:45-4:25

• Mid-term Quiz Review

• Warmer: Song of the Day

• Learning the Second Conditional: Usage and Form

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

• (Cont’d) Learning the Second Conditional: Usage and Form

• Practicing the use of the Second Conditional

• Writing with the Second Conditional

• Assignment 2 Set-up

Type 2 Conditionals

Submission Details

Submit your work in Session 5 (November 20, 2024)

Part 1

1. Reviewed the quiz done in Session 3

2. Revised the use of Type 1 Conditional

3. Listened to the song If I had a Million Dollars and wrote down some sentences using Type 2 Conditional

Part 2

1. Analysed the structure of Type 2 Conditional

2. Played a matching game on Type 1 and Type 2 Conditionals

3. Watched a video of Harry Potter Spells

4. Introduced Assignment 2

When I grow up by Tim Minchin (from the musical Matilda)

Listen to the song and write down on the memo:

• Your name, class, and class number

• What do you want to do when you grow up

Part 1: 3:45-4:25

• Assignment 2 Submission

• Warmer: Song of the Day

• Revision: What tenses do you know?

• Learning the Future Perfect: Usage and Form

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

• (Cont’d) Learning the Future Perfect: Usage and Form

• Practicing the use of the Future Perfect

• Writing with the Future Perfect

• Exam Practice

Part 1

1. Submitted Assignment 2

2. Listened to the song When I grow up and imagined what we are doing when we grow up

3. Played a Kahoot game on tenses

4. Introduced the usage and form of Future Perfect

Part 2

1. Practiced the language structure of the Future Perfect

2. Imagined and wrote what we are going to be when we are at the age of 75

3. Finished some mixed tenses exercises

What did you learn today?

Rewrite the Stars by Zac Efron and Zendaya

Listen to the song and consider the following questions:

• Who are they

• What are they doing?

• Where are they?

• Why are they here?

• How do YOU feel?

Part 1: 3:45-4:25

• Warmer: Song of the Day

• Revision: the Past Simple vs. the Present Perfect tense

Part 2: 4:35-5:15

• (Cont’d) Revision: the Past Simple vs. the Present Perfect tense

• Practicing the use of the Past Simple and Present Perfect

• Writing with the Past Simple and Present Perfect

• Revising different tenses

Mixed Tenses

Submission Details

Submit your work in Session 7

(December 4, 2024)