Enhancing Vocabulary Learning and Teaching at Primary Level

Module 3: We Love Hong Kong
Unit: A Visit to Hong Kong

	1.	Motivate pupils with some photos of famous scenic spots in Hong Kong and elicit ideas about what people can do there.
	2.	Introduce the names of some more scenic spots using word cards. Help pupils organise the scenic spots in a spider web to strengthen the development of paradigmatic associations.
	3.	Elicit from pupils what activities people can do at the different scenic spots with the help of word cards. Draw pupils’ attention to the syntagmatic associations, i.e. the word combinations as in ‘go on the rides’, ‘watch the dolphin show’, etc. Guide pupils to organise the words and phrases in a table to help them relate the places with the activities.
	4.	Ask pupils to read the conversation about holiday plans in the textbookLongman Welcome to English 4B (2005) Chapter 3 (pp. 17&18) and highlight the use of the future tense to talk about future events.
	5.	Ask pupils to read the poem ‘Wonderful Hong Kong’ in the textbookLongman Welcome to English 4B (2005) Chapter 3 (p. 24). Introduce the features of poems (e.g. repetition and rhymes) and some new scenic spots and verb phrases.
	6.	Share-write a verse (LT 3.1) with pupils before they write their own poems to further consolidate the learning of the newly learnt vocabulary and phrases.
	7.	Engage pupils in a ‘Guessing Game (ppt.)’ to help them revise the vocabulary learnt.