English Language

Form 

Grammar

Reading

Writing

Listening

Speaking

S1

~ Articles

~ Adjectives

~ Adverbs

~ Agreement

~ Conjunctions

~ Gerunds & infinitives

~ If-conditionals

~ Imperatives

~ Inversion

~ Modals

~ Nouns (Singular, plural, countable & uncountable nouns)

~ Passive voice

~ Participle

adjectives

~ Pronouns

~ Phrasal verbs

~ Prepositions

~ Quantifiers

~ Questions

~ Relative clauses

~ Reported Speech

~ Punctuation

~ Passive voice

~ Sentence patterns

~ Tenses

~ Used to & be used to

* Current news

Literature:

Play and Prose:

~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

~ A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

Short Story:

~ The Fun They Had by Isaac Asimov

~ Eleven by Sandra Cisneros

Poem:

~ Praise Song For My Mother by Grace Nichols

~ I am very bothered by Simon Armitage

Themes:

~ Understanding HK

~ Superstitions & traditions

~ Teenage life

~ Science & technology

~ Wonderful people

~ Nature environment

~ Leisure health

~ Having fun

~ Articles (magazine, news)

~ Argumentative essay

~ Advice column

~ Blog entry

~ Diary entry

~ Itinerary

~ Letters (formal & informal)

~ Leaflet

~ Minutes

~ Photo caption & commentary

~ Postcard

~ Poem

~ Proposal

~ Reviews (book, movie)

~ Report (with data)

~ Resume

~ Scripts (drama, comic)

~ Speech

~ Story

~ Writing FAQ

 ~ Student Learning Profile (SLP)

~ JUPAS journal

Through listening practice, students are expected to:

~ understand and interpret the purpose and meaning of a range of spoken texts.

~ identify the key details of a range of spoken texts.

~ interpret speakers’ feelings, views, attitudes and intentions.

~ understand speakers with a range of accents and language varieties in speech delivered.

~ understand the use of a range of language features in fairly complex spoken texts.

Through having individual presentation and group discussion, students are expected to:

~ express information and ideas with suitable elaboration.

~ convey meaning using a range of vocabulary and language patterns appropriate to the context, purpose and audience.

~ establish and maintain spoken exchanges using formulaic expressions and appropriate communication strategies.

~ produce coherent and structured speeches with ideas effectively presented.

~ pronounce words clearly and accurately.

S2

* Current news

Literature:

Play and Prose:

~ King Lear by William Shakespeare

~ Billy Elliot by Melvin Burgess

Short Story:

~The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

~ The Great Mouse Plot by Roald Dahl

Poem:

~ All World’s a Stage by William Shakespeare

~ Eating Poetry by Mark Strand 

Themes:

~ School life & entertainment

~ Our community

~ The world around us

~ Managing your money

~ Popular culture

~ Technology

S3

* Current news

Literature:

Play and Prose:

~ A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

~ Animal Farm by George Orwell

Short Story:

~ The Red Convertible by L. Erdrich

Poem:

~ Reservist by Boey Kim Cheng

~ Anthem For Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

~ Attack by Siegfried Sassoon

~Search For My Tongue by Sujuta Bhatt

~ Still I Rise by Maya Angelou 

Themes:

~ Entertainment

~ Successful people & amazing deeds

~ Studying, school life & work

~ Sports

~ Cultures of the world

~ The individual & society

~ Equal opportunities 

S4

* Current news

Literature:

Poem:

~ At Grass by Philip Larkin

~ So you want to be a writer by Charles Bukoswki

Themes:

~ School life & lifestyle

~ Media & advertising

~ Nature & environment

~ HK issues

~ Workplace communications

~ Cultures around the world

~ Technology 

S5

* Current news

Literature:

Poem:

~ Meeting at Night by Robert Browning

~ Another Reason Why I don’t Keep a Gun in the House by Billy Collins

Themes:

~ Popular culture

~ Green life

~ Technology

~ Collective memories

~ Food

~ Endangered species

~ Art

~ Health

~ Natural habitat

~ Workplace communication 

S6

* Current news

Literature:

Poem:

~ The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

~ If by Rudyard Kipling