Key Stage 3 Targets:
To develop an ever-improving capability to use English:
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To interpret and use more extensive information through processes and activities such as comparing, inferring and drawing conclusions (KSb)
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To identify and define problems from given information, consider related factors, solve the problems and explain the situation (KDd)
Learning Objectives:
Text Types
Vocabulary
Language Skills
Generic Skills
| - | Statements |
| - | News headlines |
| - | Poems |
Spies and detectives Mysteries, codes, secret, messages, clues, magnifying glass, investigate, suspect, trap, solve, decode
Places at home
Dining room, living room, master room, bedroom, study, bathroom, kitchen
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Give and follow more
advanced instructions
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Use the simple past tense for reporting
procedures followed in the past
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Reading |
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Writing |
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critical thinking
skills |
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problem solving
skill |
Relevant Basic Competency Descriptors:
| L5-R-3-S3BC |
Understanding the use of a range of
language features and other techniques to present themes,
characters, experiences and feelings in simple literary /
imaginative texts (IS, KS, ES)
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| L6-R-1-S3BC | Using an increasing range of reading strategies to understand the meaning of texts with some degree of complexity (IS, KS, ES) | |
| L6-R-2-S3BC |
Extracting and organizing
information and ideas from texts with some degree of complexity (KS)
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| L6-W-1-S3BC |
Writing a variety of texts of
different purposes with relevant and generally adequate content (IS,
KS, ES)
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| Level of Difficulty |
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- Preliminary to S3BC (at S1 level) |
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- To S3BC (at S1 to S2 level) | |
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- At S3BC (at S3 level) | |
Activity
Description
Duration
(min)
Available for Self Learning
Part 1
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Students are asked to identify the magnified objects by examining the photos as well as reading the clues provided.
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Interactive Activity 2: Secret Codes
Students are asked
to identify the hidden messages by investigating the secret codes and
reading the clues provided.
Interactive Activity 3: The Final Challenge
Students
are asked to find the way out of a haunted house by using the clues
provided (i.e. secret codes, news headlines, a map, a poem, etc.).
Answer for Part 4
Students are asked to write some field notes about how they escaped from the haunted house by revisiting Part 3 again.
