Suggested work scheme DEVELOPING

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

Year & Term: Secondary 4 First Term Teacher: ________________

Weeks/ Unit Skills development Suggested tasks and activities Practice paper Teaching support
Cycles

2-5 1 Entertainment Reading Reading Paper 1 (Reading) • Answer checking PDF

(U1.1-U1.15)
Learning focus: Reading skills
• Skimming for main ideas in a text
(U1.1)
• Scanning for specific information
(U1.2)
Learning focus: Question types
• Thematic questions (U1.4)
• Factual questions (U1.5)
Reading Assessment (U1.6)
• Activity 1 (U1.2) – labelling section Part A (p.1-4) • A recording of Practice
names for text structure • Text 1: Can broadcast TV compete with
Paper (Reading) Part A*
• Activity 2 (U1.3) – locating information online streaming?
*available on
from a text Part B1 (p.5-8)
• Text 2: A wicked good time http://www.aristo.com.hk/dsh
Writing • Text 3: Film Magic Festival kdse/
• Activity 3 (U1.11) – identifying features of Part B2 (p.9-12)
a picture story and time markers in texts • Text 4: Pop culture’s big world
• Activity 4.1 (U1.14) – identifying the 

• Which games offer the best audio writing style and the main idea of letters Paper 2 (Writing)
experience out there? • Activity 4.2 (U1.15) – identifying writing Part A (p.14-16)
style and language features • An email to a friend about an incident at a
Writing • Activity 5.1 (U1.15) – identifying useful live performance
• Picture-aided writing (U1.9) phrases in a letter
Part B (p.17-24)
• Personal letters and emails • Activity 5.2 (U1.15) – labelling format of
Learning English through…
(U1.12) a letter
• Drama
• Poems and Songs
• Short Stories
• Popular Culture

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