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  Activity 1 (U4.3) – labelling places based on words
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(U4.1-U4.17) Learning focus: Reading skills Part A (p.1-4)  A recording of
 Understanding chronological and
related to spatial orders
 Text 1: Playing with food: the fun of Practice Paper
 Activity 2 (U4.5) – discussing idea flow of a text
spatial ordering (U4.1) (Reading) Part A*
 Understanding the logical flow of
watching tiny cooking videos
 Simplified version
ideas (U4.4) Writing Part B1 (p.5-8)
 Activity 3.1 (U4.13) – reading through a table of
of Practice Paper
Learning focus: Question types  Text 2: Good manners across cultures (Reading) Part A*
 Chronological ordering questions
comparisons and contrast
(U4.6)  Activity 3.2 (U4.13) – filling in words for comparisons Part B2 (p.9-12) *available on
 Completing tables and diagrams
and contrasts  Text 3: Rituals: the heart of who we are as http://www.aristo.co
 Activity 4.1 (U4.16) – distinguishing different writing
(U4.7) a society m.hk/dshkdse/
Reading Assessment (U4.9) styles
 Activity 4.2 (U4.16) – identifying words indicating  Text 4: Let’s preserve our intangible
 Ready, set, backpack!
writing style cultural heritage
 Activity 5 (U4.17) – identifying the features and
Writing
 Comparing and contrasting in
writing style of a text 

 Activity 6 (U4.18) – finding descriptive words within a Paper 2 (Writing)

persuasive writing (U4.12)
 Descriptive writing (U4.14)
text
Part A (p.14-16)
 Activity 7.1 (U4.19) – writing a factual text
 Activity 7.2 (U4.19) – writing a text with sensory  An email about learning about a foreign

details culture
Part B (p.17-28)
Learning English through…
 Short stories

 Popular culture

 Workplace communication

 Debating

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