TEACHING DEMO TOPICS

Please make a 5-10 min video of you doing a teaching demo. You can use any props or
technology. Students may or may not be present in the video.

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Choose one of the topics below accordingly:

PRIMARY ENGLISH (1-2)

● Blend to read, and segment to spell, words with final and initial adjacent consonants,
e.g. b-l, n-d
● Use rhyme and relate this to spelling patterns
● Recognize common word endings, e.g. -s, -ed and -ing.

PRIMARY ENGLISH (3-4)

● Know irregular forms of common verbs
● Use effective strategies to tackle segmenting unfamiliar words to spell, including
segmenting into individual sounds, separating into syllables, using analogy, identifying
known suffixes and prefixes, applying known spelling rules, visual memory, mnemonics
● Learn rules for adding -ing, -ed, -s to verbs

PRIMARY ENGLISH (5-6)

● Investigate the spelling of word-final unstressed vowels, e.g. the unstressed ‘er’ at the
end of butter and unstressed ‘ee’ at the end of city
● Extend understanding of the use of adverbs to qualify verbs, e.g. in dialogue
● Use a thesaurus to extend vocabulary and choice of words
● Investigate the origin and appropriate use of idiomatic phrases.
LOWER SECONDARY ENGLISH
● Show some appreciation of how the writer’s language choices contribute to the overall
effect on the reader, e.g. demonstrating the effectiveness of imagery in contrasting texts
or arguing that the use of highly emotive language in an advertisement is/is not
counterproductive in its effect on an audience.
● Shape and affect the reader’s response through conscious choices and in planned ways
by selecting ambitiously from a wide and varied vocabulary for a range of tasks,
purposes and readers.

UPPER SECONDARY ENGLISH

● Effectively summarize, paraphrase and re-express reading
● Demonstrate understanding of how writers achieve their effects (reading)
● Speaking & Listening: understand and convey complex information in a sophisticated
way
● informative, analytical and/or argumentative essay

PRIMARY SCIENCE

● Know that plants need energy from light for growth

● Investigate how seeds need water and warmth for germination, but not light
● Know that insects pollinate some flowers

● Use scientific names for some major organs of body systems

● Describe the main functions of the major organs of the body
● Explain how the functions of the major organs are essential.

LOWER SECONDARY SCIENCE

● Discuss positive and negative influence of humans on the environment, e.g. the effect on
food chains, pollution and ozone depletion
● Discuss a range of energy sources and distinguish between renewable and non-
renewable resources. Secondary sources can be used
● Describe how selective breeding can lead to new varieties

UPPER SECONDARY ECONOMICS

 Government and Micro-economy
 International Trade and Globalization

UPPER SECONDARY PHYSICS

 Electrical quantities
 Radioactivity
 Simple kinetic molecular model of matter