Course Introduction

Intensive Phonics Class

Phonics is traditionally taught through recitation and memorization. 20 years ago, our school took the lead, adopting an intuitive phonetic spelling approach. In addition, our school maintains small class sizes, covering the blindspots created in mainstream schools, which have large classes. All our courses are taught by Native English Teachers, who teach purely in native English. Hong Kong English is nowhere to be found. At the same time, a local Cantonese-speaking teacher is also present to ensure understanding. We make sure that every student can fully understand, master and use the phonetic spelling rules, laying a solid foundation for learning further English, all the while building confidence and interest. We focus on developing listening and speaking skills, building vocabulary and sentence pattern mastery through games and activities.

Course Objective

Focus on developing listening and speaking skills, building vocabulary and sentence pattern mastery through games and activities.

Lesson Contents

Each lesson has a theme. Through different activities such as games, singing, stories, poetry reading and dialogues, we encourage our students to learn English (including pronunciation and intonation) in a fun and pleasant environment, improving their learning ability. In addition, we cultivate discipline and cooperation in order to promote the physical and mental health of the children.

The goal is the same but the method is not.

We agree that English is difficult to learn. Traditionally in Hong Kong, English is taught through rote memorization. We believe, however, that children can most effectively master English through listening and speaking in a more natural environment, which we take strides to provide.

Interactive learning with small group teaching

Our courses are taught by Native English Teachers with extensive training and teaching experience. Our lively teaching style makes learning English easy and fun. We make it easy for our students to engage and master by providing simple, elegant explanations of the rules.

Cooperation with parents provides twice the results with half the effort!

The journey to mastering English is long. Developing a love of English is the key to success. We set goals for our students and we evaluate their progress so that parents can understand and cooperate. With parents and teachers cooperating, children can become “English learning” lovers.

Levels & Curriculum:

• Basic : A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z

• Level 1: at, an, ap, ad, ag, ig, id, it, in, ip, ox, ot, op, og, ob

• Level 2: ug, un, ub, up, ut, ed, et, en, eg, el, eck, ack, ick, uck, ock

• Level 3: ch, th, sh, wh, sm, sn, sp, sl, sc, sk, sw, st, fl, gl, cl, bl, pl, qu

• Level 4: long vowels & diphthongs: a, e, i, o, u, ai, ay, ie, oa, ow, oe, ue, ui, ew, ea, ee

• Level 5: long vowels & r-controlled vowels: y, ar, er, ir, ur, or, ore, eer, ear, are, air

• Level 6: Diphthongs: oy, oi, ou, ow, au, aw, oo; shr, str, scr, spr, spl, squ; soft c & g; silent letters

• Level 7: -ch, -tch, -sh, -th; (zh), -ng; -nk, -nd, -nt, -mp, -st, -sp, -sk; -ft, -lk, -lt; -ing, -ly, -ed; syllabication, prefixes, suffixes, compound words, spelling rules

Conversational English Class

Even children of just 5 years old can write stories! Through our interesting two-way role-plays and situational conversation teaching, every student gets used to communicating with others naturally in complete sentences. In this course, over 300 sentences and 2,000 vocabulary words are taught, enriching the students’ vocabulary and strengthening their ability to express themselves in English. Alongside our sentence and vocabulary development, we teach the children how to put sentences together into a story, which gives them a great sense of satisfaction.

Cantonese is a monosyllabic language so students tend to read every syllable of each word with the same emphasis when speaking English, producing very mechanical results. Learning Phonics is an important part of pronouncing words correctly but in English the stress is important as well, too often a victim of the Hong Kong accent! In coordination with Read Aloud, we teach our students the proper stress and intonation in words and sentences in order to get rid of the Hong Kong accent! With help from parents, twice can be learned in half the time!

The goal is the same but the method is not.

We agree that English is difficult to learn. Traditionally in Hong Kong, English is taught through rote memorization. We believe, however, that children can most effectively master English through listening and speaking in a more natural environment, which we take strides to provide.

Interactive learning with small group teaching

Our courses are taught by Native English Teachers with extensive training and teaching experience. Our lively teaching style makes learning English easy and fun. We make it easy for our students to engage and master by providing simple, elegant explanations of the rules.

Cooperation with parents provides twice the results with half the effort!

The journey to mastering English is long. Developing a love of English is the key to success. We set goals for our students and we evaluate their progress so that parents can understand and cooperate. With parents and teachers cooperating, children can become “English learning” lovers.

Reading aloud for ten minutes a day provides benefits for the rest of their lives

Students should read English aloud from ten minutes a day to improve their pronunciation and volume. If they can’t read a sentence smoothly while looking at it, they won’t be able to handle it when they have to speak on their own.

Levels & Curriculum:

• Level 1: Family Members, Friends, Parts of the Body

• Level 2: Feelings, Food, Toys, School

• Level 3: Animals, Colours, Weather, Days

• Level 4: Shapes, Fruit, Home, Sports

• Level 5: Transportation, Clothes, Habits, Classroom

• Level 6: Injury, Sickness, Places, Numbers, People

Cambridge Writing Class

Our courses’ lower levels are based on Cambridge University Press’ Movers and Flyers textbooks. In higher levels, we cover and utilize Cambridge’s A2 Key and B1 Preliminary textbooks. We have a comprehensive approach to English, targeting and improving students’ listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. We put a special focus on grammar and writing, major weaknesses in many Hong Kong children. We learn useful vocabulary, improve grammar, and develop ideas. We help our students not only achieve more readable writing but writing which is interesting in and of itself.

Course Contents:

1. Extensively practice the four core skills of English: listening, speaking, reading and writing.

2. Teach and consolidate the rules of grammar.

3. Stimulate thinking and self-expression by employing group discussions, pictures, objects, etc.

4. Teachers and students have natural dialogues, emulating Cambridge exams in order to improve students’ listening and speaking skills.

5. Play games to encourage children to find a love for English learning.

6. Teach the skills and formats used in different writing styles.

7. Students much complete writing assignments at home which further the line of thought and discussion from class.

8. Through reading comprehension and writing development, we broaden vocabulary, optimize sentences and comprehensively improve students’ grasp of English’s breadth and depth.

Course includes:

• Cambridge “Complete A2 Key for Students” Textbook

• Cambridge “Complete B1 Preliminary for Students” Textbook

Levels & Curriculum:

• Basic : Nouns, Verbs, Subject Verb Agreement; Guided Writing

• Module 1 : Tenses Series 1; Narrative Writing

• Module 2 : Tenses Series 2; Creative Writing

• Module 3 : Modal Verbs, Pronouns, Relative Pronouns, Quantifiers, Articles; Descriptive Writing

• Module 4 : Adjectives, Adverbs; Dialogue Writing

• Module 5 : Phrasal Verbs (Prep.); Persuasive Writing

• Module 6 : Passive Voice, Relative Clauses, -ing/p.p. Clauses; Argumentative Writing