Assessment for Learning Resource Bank

Web-based Learning and Teaching Support

Learning and Teaching Activity –  A Study Tour to New Zealand

 

 

Key Stage 3 Targets:

To develop an ever-improving capability to use English
  • To provide or find out, select, organize and present information on familiar and less familiar topics (KSa)
  • To interpret and use more extensive information through processes or activities (KSb)
  • To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the solutions (KSd)

Learning objectives:

Text Types

Vocabulary

 

Language Skills

 

Generic Skills

Forms

Documents for a study tour:

confirmation slip, self-addressed envelope, cheque, passport, etc.

Personal information:

allergic, Buddhism, religious reasons, independent, etc.

Travelling:

departure, arrival, Hong Kong International Airport, etc.

Reading

Locate Information and Ideas

?      scan a text to locate specific information by using strategies such as looking at headings and repeated words

?      skim a text to obtain a general impression and the main ideas

?   identify details that support a main idea

 

Reading (Key Stage 3)

Understand, Interpret and Analyze Different Written Texts

?      make use of knowledge of the world to make sense of the written text

?      acquire, extract and organize information relevant to specific tasks identify implied meanings through inferencing

 

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problem-

solving skills

 

Related Basic Competency Descriptors:

L6-R-1-S3BC Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity  (IS KS)
L6-R-2-S3BC Extracting and organizing information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity  (KS)

Activity

Description

Duration

(mins.)

For students'self-access

Part 1 - Part5

 

 

This task consists of 5 parts. The following texts are included in the Data File: (in Word Format)

1.      A letter of acceptance with a confirmation slip attached to it

2.      An extract from an application form

3.      Two pages extracted from a passport

4.      Pre-tour briefing notes

 

Task Description:

You are Crystal, a Secondary 3 student who has been accepted to join a study tour to New Zealand in July 2005. You are going to do 5 tasks to prepare for the tour based on the information in the Data File.(in Word Format - student version, teacher version).

 

Part 1: Complete the confirmation slip attached to the letter of acceptance issued by AF Exchange

Tour.

 

Part 2: Complete the cheque which you will send to AF Exchange Tour as deposit

 

Part 3: Complete the self-addressed envelope for future correspondence.

 

Part 4: Check your passport and decide whether you should renew it.

 

Part 5: Read the pre-tour briefing notes and decide what you should bring for the tour

 

                 

 

                    

 

 

 

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The Data File and the tasks are available for printing.