LESSON 6

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Holiday plans in Hong Kong Lesson 6

Aim:

Planning a day trip

Language Focus

Ill (I will) - for discussing future plans

Sequence adverbs

Writing goal:

A day plan
A text message conversation
An information piece about a heritage site

Workbook pages

17 - 24

Writing book pages

9 - 12

Need

Guide book, Disney map

Warm up - text talk activity. Let students try to figure out the meaning, maybe they know most.
As an extension ask them to tell you what acronyms or word-replacements they generally use.

1. to/two/too

2. you

3. kiss

4. for/four

6. your/youre

7. before

8. late

9. ok

10. someone

11. great

12. sunday

13. anybody

15. tonight

16. laugh out loud 17. oh my gosh!

5. why

14. see you later

18. message

19. Happy Birthday

20. talk to you later

21. I dont know

22. better luck next time

23. was sick, getting better

24. question for you

25. let me know please

26. good night, slept well

27. I dont want to!

A day trip to Disneyland

, tell students that they will be planning a day trip to Disney to celebrate their

birthday or some other special event. If your class enjoys the back stories you can explain that their messages
have got all mixed up and they need to unscramble the conversation. If they want to cut out the conversation
and in order stick then they can.

Tell students to turn to page 11 of the reading and writing book. Explain that this activity is preparation for

writing their own plans. Work through writing the email to Molly, support students through it but allow them
to work independently. Afterwards encourage self-checking: spelling, grammar, sense.

Disney Planner
, give students the map of Disney and the planning stepping stones. Ask them to make a whole

day plan including times, activities and how to get there. Explain that the more detail they include in their plan
the easier itll be to use it later.

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Return to the writing book, this time page 12. Explain that this page is Mollys response to Tessa. They should

have been practising this kind of writing for a while so allow them to write independently and prompt them to
self check when they finish.

Disney Details
- tell students that in this email theyre going to be using the planning they did on the previous

worksheet to invite their friends to Disneyland with them. The planning details can focus on times, places,
what to bring etc. Remember to encourage students to model the unit grammar, (we will).

Game -
connect four
, this is a further opportunity to practise using the unit grammar, each counter requires a
I will statement before it can be added to the board.

Reading and writing book - page 9. Ask students to read aloud the informative passages about the Lam Tseun

Wishing Tree and Aberdeen fishing village. Check understanding of vocabulary and then go on to answer the
questions on the next page.

Boxing up
- explain this technique as a writing aid, (you can use the explanation on top of the worksheet), get
students to box up (pick apart), the text about the Wishing tree in preparation for making their own.

Once students can see where to go when breaking down a text get them to use the
boxing up my brain
worksheet in order to practise doing it the other way, (from idea to finished project). There is also a teachers
worksheet so that teachers can model using this technique. Allow research if necessary.

Draw up a draft
- explain that drafting is another key technique for writers and have them use their box charts

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to draft out the article, (emphasise the roughness of this, it doesnt need to be neat). After draft completion
ask students to identify the changes they need to make and tell them to mark out the corrections before...

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...Homework, write out a polished version of the rough draft.

A quick text quiz

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R u a techno-whiz or a dinosaur? Test ur knowledge of text-speak - do u no what these mean?!

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15. 2nite
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For questions 1-9 give yourself 1

point for each correct answer.
For questions 10-18 give yourself 2
points for each correct answer.
For questions 19-29 give yourself 2
points for each correct answer.
Once you have checked all of your
answers you can calculate the total,
how well did you do?

0 - 19
Blackboard Beginner
Youre new to this whole technology thing
arent you? I think youre either too young
to have a tablet computer or too old to
know how to use one!

20 - 37
PC Pro
You know your way around a computer
and have all the useful short-cuts already
at your finger-tips.

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Smartphone Superstar
19. hbday _____________
20. ttyl
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21. idk
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Youre a child of the computer age (or a

robot with a computer for a brain). You
know so much text-speak that I would be
surprised if you can even read this!

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25. lmk pls _____________
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Paper connect four

Think about what things you will do in the
future, it could be something you will do later
something youll do tomorrow, next week, next
or next year. You could talk about what you will
school, what you will do on holiday or what
eat for breakfast.

today,
month
do in
youll

Take it in turns to make sentences about what you will do. Each time you make a
correct sentence you can claim a square by writing one word of your plan in that
square. The first person to connect four is the winner.

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LESSON 6

A day-trip to Disneyland
A. These two friends were planning a day trip out but their phones storage malfunctioned and now
their conversation is all scrambled. Read through and try to reconstruct the conversation.

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B. The person writing in the grey text bubbles seems to have a problem with spelling and
punctuation. Go through their messages and make corrections. (Of course people do use lazy
English to write texts but its always good to know how to write correctly.)

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BOXING-UP
This technique for investigating and planning all types of text will soon have you mapping the most intricate and
intriguing of tales.
To investigate different texts you can split it into paragraphs/chapters/ideas and study what each part is made of. This
works just as well for persuasive arguments as it does for fairy stories or instructional writing. Investigating texts is a
great way to understand what different kinds of writing need to include as well as what works well and what isnt so
successful.

The Lam Tseun Wishing Trees

Look at the text again, what are the different components of the article? What is included in each part?
What else could have been added? Just write notes.

Intro/
scene setting

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Box-up my brain
After checking out the example in the book now its your turn to plan out an informative text using the boxing up
technique
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Choose a historical site or cultural practise that youre interested in.

Remember:
- it is always much easier to write about something youre an expert in so try to pick a topic
that youre already interested in and something that you will either be able to research or
something you know loads about.
- think about the layout and flow of your article and let that help you decide what your
boxes will be, (you could include history/use/your experiences etc).
- try to pick out some top-notch vocabulary that you want to use in the final article.
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Box-up my brain - Teacher copy

After checking out the example in the book now its your turn to plan out an informative text using the boxing up
technique
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Remember:
- it is always much easier to write about something youre an expert in so try to pick a topic
that youre already interested in and something that you will either be able to research or
something you know loads about.
- think about the layout and flow of your article and let that help you decide what your
boxes will be, (you could include history/use/your experiences etc).
- try to pick out some top-notch vocabulary that you want to use in the final article.
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Draw up a draft
Drafting, re-drafting and polishing are ESSENTIAL skills for any budding writer. Use this page to draft out your article,
dont worry about getting the spelling, order or grammar correct yet, just get your ideas written down. You can always
add more later too so try to use this page to write down a few of the key sentences.

Now check, put a tick after each as you check it:

Spelling

Grammar
Does it make sense

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Capitals

Correct sentence joiners

Read back to yourself
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Disney Details
Email your friend to let him/her know the plan for the day, (youre being very demanding because its your birthday or
something, Im sure you wouldnt normally tell your friends what to do).

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