A Visit to Hong Kong Park

Module Places and Activities

Unit Out for fun

Programme outline Have you ever been to Hong Kong Park? It is a park where you can see beautiful flowers and plants, birds and trees, fish and turtles. Cuckoo the puppet likes the waterfalls and streams the most. Max and Judy decide to visit the place after looking at the interesting pictures on Cuckoo’s website. Just before entering the park, they find many warning signs for visitors. While taking a leisurely walk, they come up with a fun idea. They try to design some new signs with their own words for the park. Would you like to create some new signs for the park too?

Key Stage 1 Learning Targets To develop an ever-improving capability to use English ~ to state opinions using information and ideas in simple spoken and written texts (K.S.c) ~ to respond to characters and events in simple imaginative and other narrative texts through oral, written and performative means such as drawing pictures and creating captions

Communicative functions 1. Identify names of some plants such as orchids, lotuses, etc. 2. Tell what people must and must not do in a park, e.g., No fishing, Walk carefully, Do not smoke, etc. 3. Learn about the vocabulary related to water, e.g., waterfalls, stream, pond, water fountain, etc.

Suggested activities 1. Introduce the programme briefly and the main characters: Cuckoo the puppet, Max and cousin Judy. 2. Print out the photos of Hong Kong Park in COPYMASTER 1. Ask pupils if they know the park and guess what they can find there. 3. Watch the programme together. Draw pupils’ attention to the things Max and Judy see and do during their trip. 4. Encourage pupils to respond to Cuckoo’s instructions such as “Try to use your own words. Rewrite a sign.”, “Draw if you like. Create a new sign.” 5. In COPYMASTER 2, pupils look at the pictures. Choose and fill the right word(s). What can you see in the park? Answers: 1. waterfalls 2. water fountains 3. pond 4. stream

What can you see in the conservatory?

1 Answers: 5. cactuses 6. orchids

What can you see in the aviary? Answers: 7. birds

What can you see in the pond? Answers: 8. lotuses/ lotus leaves

What can you see in the lake? Answers: 9. fish 10. turtles

6. In COPYMASTER 3, pupils have to try rewriting the signs by using two negative imperative forms. In Part A, add “Do not” to the front of the sentences to instruct others “not to do” an action. In Part B, add the determiner “No” to the front of the sentences and change the verbs into gerund form. These imperative sentences are often found on notices warning people that some actions are forbidden. Part A. Start with “Do not”. Answers: 1. No eating or drinking→ Do not eat or drink 2. No running →Do not run 3. No climbing→ Do not climb 4. Please keep away from the water → Please do not go near the water

Part B. Start with “No”. Answers: 1. No swimming 2. No fishing 3. No picking of flowers or plants 4. No smoking

Note: The capitalization of all the words on signs or notices is not a must except for the first letter of the first word. And the imperative sentences on most of the signs and notices usually end with no punctuation marks.

2 COPYMASTER 1 A Visit to Hong Kong Park

3 COPYMASTER 2 A Visit to Hong Kong Park What can you see in the park? Fill in the words.

water fountains waterfalls stream pond birds

lotuses cactuses fish turtles orchids lotus leaves

1.______

4 2. ______

3.______

4. ______

5 What can you see in the conservatory?

5. ______6. ______

What can you see in the aviary?

7. ______

What can you see in the pond?

8. ______

What can you see in the lake?

6 9.______10. ______

COPYMASTER 3 A Visit to Hong Kong Park Rewrite.

Part A. Start with “Do not”

1.______

2.______

7 3.______

4.______

Part B. Start with “No”

1.______

8 2.______

3.______

9 4.______