Lighthouse for Hong Kong: Book 9 (Practice)
This is an integrated English language practice course for students in Hong Kong, focusing on thematic learning. It covers reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and grammar essentials such as reported speech, indefinite pronouns, and adverbs through units on cuisine, detective work, and fairy tales.
Course Overview
Content Summary
This is an integrated English language practice course for students in Hong Kong, focusing on thematic learning. It covers reading comprehension, vocabulary development, and grammar essentials such as reported speech, indefinite pronouns, and adverbs through units on cuisine, detective work, and fairy tales.
Master English language skills through thematic exploration and targeted practice.
Author: Michael Downie, David Gray, Juan Manuel Jiménez
Acknowledgments: Richmond Publishing, Educational Publishing House Ltd (2014)
Learning Objectives
- Identify and describe traditional British foods (raw oysters, pasty, black pudding) and understand their cultural contexts.
- Correctly match countries to their corresponding nationalities and iconic international dishes.
- Use a variety of cooking verbs (e.g., chopping, peeling, frying) to describe food preparation.
- Identify and categorize items on a restaurant menu into starters, main courses, and desserts.
- Apply quantifiers (enough, plenty of) and determiners (another, other) correctly in the context of food and inventory.
- Express personal food preferences using the "prefer... to..." structure.
- Identify and categorize party items and services using specific vocabulary (e.g., confetti, party blowers, balloon twisting).
- Demonstrate reading comprehension by extracting details from personal accounts and promotional advertisements (leaflets).
- Formulate questions and answers using the possessive 'whose' to determine ownership.
- Analyze mystery narratives to identify key evidence, suspects, and investigative errors.