Aims and Objectives
Aim:
- To strengthen the foundation of English.
- To enhance students’ reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.
- To arouse students’ interest in learning English.
Mid-Term Objectives:
Enhancing teaching and learning effectiveness by
- using a learner-centred and a task-based approach;
- catering for learner diversity;
- promoting assessment for learning.
Long-Term Objectives:
- Lay a good foundation in learning English.
- Paving the way for independent and lifelong learning and effective communication of knowledge, ideas,values, attitudes and experience.reading, writing, listening and speaking skills.interest in learning English.
Characteristics
Content
Suggested Modules and Units for Key Stages 1 and 2
| Key Stage 2 | |
| Food and Drink | Changes |
| ‧Favourite food and drink | ‧Now and then |
| ‧We can cook | ‧Respect for life |
| ‧Eating out | ‧Wishes and dreams |
| ‧Healtht eating | ‧Growing up |
| ‧A changing world | |
| Relationships | Happy Days |
| ‧Knowing our neighbours | ‧Festivals |
| ‧Beautiful people | ‧Special events |
| ‧Marking friends | ‧Entertainment and Ieisure |
| ‧Send a message | ‧Hobbies |
| ‧East meets West and more | ‧A bag of laughs |
| We Love Hong Kong | The magic of Nature |
| ‧Jobs people do | ‧Wonders of mature |
| ‧Knowing more about my community | ‧Out in space |
| ‧Travelling around | ‧The lost world |
| ‧Special people,special people | ‧Fascinating oceans |
| ‧Taking care of our earth |
Primary Literacy Programme – Reading / Writing (PLP-R/W)
IMPORTANCE OF READING
Reading helps to develop thinking skills, enriches knowledge, enhances language proficiency and broadens life experience. Reading enhances the learning capacity of the student.PLP-R/w is a literacy/reading programme initiated/sponsored by EDB. The programme has been running with great success.The programme is being continuously supported by the NET section of EDB and is being taught by both local teachers and the Native English Teacher.
Goals
- Teaching reading and writing through a variety of strategies.
- Nurturing positive attitude towards reading and learning English.
- Learning to read and reading to learn.
Phonics
- Phonics are being taught during both PLP-R and GE lessons.
- Phonics are extremely important part of learning English.
- By learning the letter-sound relationships, students learn to read and improve their pronunciation and spelling skills.
From Reading to Writing
In order to help students to learn different text types and to write in context, we have developed task books with different levels for Primary 4 to Primary 6 students.
The books include:
- The Magic Porridge Pot
- Clifford’s Birthday Party
- What Really Happened, Little Red?
- The Bank Robbery
- Short Pants
- Milo’s Great Invention
- Grandma’s Story
- Puss in Boots
NET Scheme