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 2015Slide2Slide3Slide4
‘ENGLISH’
In one word…Slide5Slide6
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 worldSlide9Slide10
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 WillowsSlide13Slide14Slide15
“LANGUAGE IS A LIVING THING”
ENGLISH IS ALL AROUND US IF WE TAKE THE TIME TO LOOKSlide16Slide17Slide18Slide19Slide20Slide21
“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!! Slide25Slide26
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…Slide29Slide30
“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale” (Hans Christian Anderson)
GOOD LUCK!!!