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A message to the students of Yuen Long A message to the students of Yuen Long

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lutheran secondary school From Gary Harfitt HKU 30 th October 2015 ENGLISH In one word But is English only about tests textbooks and scores Reading for everyday life and reading for school subjects ID: 561498

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A message to the students of Yuen Long lutheran secondary school

From Gary

Harfitt

, HKU.

30

th

October 2015Slide2
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‘ENGLISH’

In one word…Slide5
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But is English only

about tests, textbooks and scores?Slide7

Reading for everyday life and reading for school subjects: different kinds, different purposes, different

ways;

Everyday English is different from academic English

– everyday text-types are different from academic text-types. Differences – contexts, text-types, academic functions, sentence patterns and vocabulary;Similarities – both are important to the language

development of our studentsSlide8

To me English is also a window to the worldSlide9
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But…Slide11

Who are these famous characters and what do they have in common?Slide12

Alliteration in other characters we love…

Donald Duck

Daisy Duck

Daffy DuckPorky PigBugs BunnyRoad Runner

Bob the BuilderThe Teletubbies

Sesame StreetAtom AntFred FlintstonePostman PatThe Wind in the WillowsSlide13
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“LANGUAGE IS A LIVING THING”

ENGLISH IS ALL AROUND US IF WE TAKE THE TIME TO LOOKSlide16
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“But I keep making mistakes in English….” Slide22

English IS troublesome…

A

moth

is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for thereNor dear and

fear for bear and pear,And then there’s

dose

and

rose

and

lose

Just look them up – and

goose

and

choose

.

And

cork

and

front

and

word

and

ward

And

font and front and word and swordCome, come, I’ve hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive –I’d mastered it when I was five!From Hints on Pronunciation for Foreigners by Herbert Farjeon.Slide23

How many ways can we say ‘I am hungry’ in

English?

I need foodI’m starvingI’m ravenousI could eat a horse

My stomach is growling / roaring / rumblingI’m famishedMy stomach feels like my throat has been cutI am peckish Slide24

WE

ALL

MAKE MISTAKES!! Slide25
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An extract from Mr Stink by David WalliamsChapter 1 Scratch ‘N’ Sniff

Mr

Stink stank. He also stunk. And if it is correct English to say he

stinked, then he stinked as well. He was the stinkiest stinky stinker who ever lived.A

stink is the worst type of smell. A stink is worse than a stench. And a stench is worse than a pong. And a pong is worse than a whiff. And a whiff can be enough to make your nose wrinkle. It wasn’t Mr Stink’s fault he stank. He was a tramp, after all. He didn’t have a home and so he never had the opportunity to have a proper wash like you and me. After a while the smell just got worse and worse.Slide27

Be brave in your learning and it will bring you a lot of benefits one day

I visited your school many, many times between 2003-2005Slide28

Do not miss any opportunity to develop your language skills – take part in school activities and projects because you don’t know when these opportunities will arise again.

Let me finish with a true story from when I was at school…Slide29
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“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” (Hans Christian Anderson)

GOOD LUCK!!!