Suggested work scheme DEVELOPING

SKILLS
for HKDSE
Papers 1 & 2 Reading and Writing Book 4 (2017 Edition) Unit 4 1 of 1 (2017 Edition)
SET A

Year & Term: Secondary 4 Second Term Teacher: ________________

Weeks/ Unit Skills development Suggested tasks and activities Practice paper Teaching support
Cycles
1-4 4 Cultures of Reading Reading Paper 1 (Reading) • Answer checking
the world
(U4.1-U4.17) Learning focus: Reading skills • Activity 1 (U4.3) – labelling places based on words Part A (p.1-4) PDF
• Understanding chronological and related to spatial orders • Text 1: Playing with food: the fun of
• A recording of
spatial ordering (U4.1) watching tiny cooking videos
 Activity 2 (U4.5) – discussing idea flow of a text Practice Paper
Part B1 (p.5-8)
• Understanding the logical flow of
• Text 2: Good manners across cultures (Reading) Part A*
ideas (U4.4) Writing Part B2 (p.9-12) • Simplified version
Learning focus: Question types • Activity 3.1 (U4.13) – reading through a table of • Text 3: Rituals: the heart of who we are as of Practice Paper
• Chronological ordering questions comparisons and contrast a society
(Reading) Part A*
(U4.6) • Text 4: Let’s preserve our intangible
• Activity 3.2 (U4.13) – filling in words for comparisons *available on
cultural heritage
• Completing tables and diagrams and contrasts http://www.aristo.co
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(U4.7) • Activity 4.1 (U4.16) – distinguishing different writing m.hk/dshkdse/
Paper 2 (Writing)
Reading Assessment (U4.9) styles Part A (p.14-16)
• Ready, set, backpack! • Activity 4.2 (U4.16) – identifying words indicating • An email about learning about a foreign
culture
writing style
Part B (p.17-28)
Writing • Activity 5 (U4.17) – identifying the features and
Learning English through…
• Comparing and contrasting in writing style of a text • Short stories
persuasive writing (U4.12) • Activity 6 (U4.18) – finding descriptive words within a • Popular culture
• Descriptive writing (U4.14) text • Workplace communication
• Debating
• Activity 7.1 (U4.19) – writing a factual text
• Activity 7.2 (U4.19) – writing a text with sensory
details

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