by Anna Shlipatska
MODULE 1. Hong Kong. Articles
Learning goals:
Cross-cultural: get the students aware of the Asian (Hong Kong) culture, geographical
location, habits
Educational: study new and revising old vocabulary; enhance listening skills; developing
speaking skills; learning grammar; practicing ICT skills
Communicative: discussion, expressing opinions on personal preferences; enhancing
conversational and explanatory skills; learning to collaborate and work in teams
A set of 75-minutes lessons provided at distance for grade 8. Tools used: Power Point; Google Maps;
Google Forms; DirectPoll; Flinga; YouTube; LearningApps; Kahoot.
The teacher’s role during all of the lessons turns out to be a guiding one. Mostly the teacher offers
the student the range of different activities (mostly interactive) and trusts them to complete them in
groups/pairs. The teacher’s intrusion is minimal, while the students are engaged into the activities
and carry the biggest part of responsibility for the outcome. They also collaborate while completing
communication tasks and creating a PP presentation together.
Lesson 1
I. Warm-up: acquaintance (15 mins)
a. Quiz DirectPoll link
b. Discussion of the quiz
II. Main Body:
a. Introduction to the topic (15 mins)
i. Guess-questions (combined with the acquaintance part)
ii. Video https://youtu.be/72__Mdioty8 (6 mins)
iii. Discussing the video (right answers)
b. TEXT “Living it up in Hong Kong” (30 mins):
i. Pre-reading work – vocabulary:
1. Read the words from the list
2. exercise (https://learningapps.org/display?v=p30apj1an20 ) (5 mins)
ii. Listening to the text p.51-52 (5mins)
iii. Homework/Discussion p. 53 A (all together – 5mins), B (first in pairs) (10
mins)
iv. Animals Idioms
(https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1gHAi9HBW__9vRWAvYCjUJS2F3I
U79KFJ5sE2iUtITTA/edit?usp=sharing ) (5-10mins)
III. H/W: AB p.75 ex.309, p.77 ex.312
Lesson 2
I. Warm-up: Kahoot (10 mins)
II. Home-task check (15-17mins):
a. AB p.75 ex.309,
b. p.77 ex.312
c. The vocabulary list (p.70-71) - choose any 10 words from the list and use them in a
small story of your own; then tell the story to your pair (10 mins) (MUSIC in the
background (my google drive
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1JbnIWB09nrpQrZZU82_EE-Qw_g2ufHuk/view?
usp=sharing ).
III. Grammar Introduction (15 mins + 15mins):
a. Unit text (p.51-52)- go to the FLINGA page (https://edu.flinga.fi/s/E6M7X3V);
i. look through the text and write down the examples (complete phrases) of
using different articles (including ZERO) Krista
ii. Then discuss in pairs which rules are used and send your ideas to Flinga
iii. Summarizing PP slide and general discussion of the rules
b. Grammar practice:
i. p.83 ex.326, (p. 85 ex.329) (5 mins)
ii. Song exercise: fill in the gaps with A/An, The, Zero article (2+2mins/song =
4mins)
1. Then listen to the song and check your answers (1. Rolling Stones
https://youtu.be/2QR5g41FtsU beginning till 1.45; 2. Sting
https://youtu.be/CXt4ikEdBEs beginning till 1.15)
iii. Worksheet exercise (https://forms.gle/t53KgPazZj7ZE5D68 ) (5 mins)
IV. New Vocab PB p.54-55:
a. Intro - read the list of words together (from the book)
b. Conversational phrases of telling the directions – https://youtu.be/6sAGcYBKVpU
(1.42 + 2 mins)
c. Pair work with maps (Google maps Hong Kong) - telling directions (6 routes in
general per pair – 15 mins). One student gives directions using the satellite view, the
other follows the instructions using the Street View.
STARTING POINTS CLOSEST DESTINATIONS
Choi Hung Station Nam Lian Garden
Jordan Valley Park
Ngong Ping Davis Youth Hostel Wisdom Path Ngong Ping Fun Walk
Tian Tan Buddha
Sunny Bay Subway Station Noah’s Ark Hong Kong Theme Park
Inspiration Lake Recreation Centre
Mirror Tower Mody Road Temple Street Night Market
Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Hong Kong Museum of History
Immigration Tower Gloucester Road St. John’s Cathedral Garden Road
Victoria Park
Man Mo Temple Hollywood Road
HOME-TASK: check up own stories for the articles; p.85-86 ex.330, 332
Lesson 3
I. Warm up (15 mins):
a. Explain the word for the partner to guess (5 mins)
b. Describe and discuss the photos with your partner: All the photos were taken in a
single city but still are very different. Discuss (5 mins) (slide with the photos +
questions)
i. What kind of buildings can you see in the photo? How do they differ?
ii. What kind of people might live there?
iii. In your opinion, which is the liveliest photo and which is the calmest?
iv. Do all the photos live up to your expectations how a typical Chinese city
might look like? Why (not)?
v. Should you choose, in what kind of neighbourhood would you like to live?
c. Now write up 5 sentences about the city life basing on one of the photos. Mind the
articles and remember to use the active vocabulary from the text (p.51-52) and p.
54-55 (practising articles & vocabulary) (5 mins)
II. Work on the text (p.51-52) (20 mins):
a. Look through the text for 2 mins
b. Close the book and retell the text in your own words to the partner. If needed the
partner can ask the leading questions to help. Switch the roles (8 mins) (SHARE THE
MIND MAP AT THE SAME TIME)
c. p. 79 Ex 316 (5 mins)
i. Listen to the ex (1 min)
ii. You have to cover one of the columns. Now you can see your partner’s lines
in English and your own in Finnish to help you to act out the conversation.
d. p.53 ex 304 - Listening task (2 mins)
i. Now haggle with your partner on one of the items on the screen (5 mins)
(slide with pictures and price tags)
III. Homework check (5 mins):
a. p.85 ex.330 (read sentence by sentence)
b. p.86 ex.332 (as a listening exercise)
IV. Grammar (30mins):
a. Quickly revise the rules (5 mins) (summarizing slide with the rules)
b. Practice:
I. Google form (https://forms.gle/t53KgPazZj7ZE5D68 ) (5 mins)
II.Ex. 328, 331 (5 mins + to those who were quick)
i. board game (printouts) (15 min) (slide with rules)
LESSON 4 (totally online lesson via Teams)
Prepare Teams channels in advance for each group and upload a PP pattern for everyone to use.
I. Warm-up: Quick cultural quiz on facts about Hong Kong (True or False):
https://forms.gle/cGdyTVebCRysJFBeA (5 mins)
II. Presentation (6 groups are assigned one text from p.60-61): Imagine you’re travel agency
representatives and you have to promote the sightseeings in Hong Kong (For Jackie Chan
text you may promote some cinema/film/or places of interest in Hong Kong connected with
the actor) (slide for instructions)
a. Read your text
b. Surf the Google for additional info on the topic
c. Create a presentation (poster/ PP slides) (30 mins):
d. Present your topic to the class (make sure that everyone in the group has an
opportunity to speak out) (5mins/group =30 mins)
III. Poll: which sightseeing seems the most attractive?
