Yan Chai Hospital No. 2 Secondary School

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Yan Chai Hospital No. 2 Secondary School
Catering for learner diversity in the New Senior
Secondary Classroom a wedding planning project
to motivate students to learn English
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The Planning of the NSS elective module
Learning English through Workplace Communication
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English Language Curriculum and Assessment Guide
(Secondary 4-6)

• Elective Part
• provides learners with opportunities to apply the
  subject knowledge and skills
• (i.e. the four skills, grammar,
  communicative functions, vocabulary and
  text-types)
• enhances the further development of generic
  skills such as communication, critical thinking,
  creativity and collaboration
• engages learners in a variety of activities
• provides learners with opportunities to
  demonstrate their learning or achievement through
  producing some kind of products (performance/
  display/ portfolio)

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Objectives

• Students are motivated to learn English

learning English through tasks and activities
catering for learner diversity (interests,
gender, ability, MI)

• Students get to know more about the working
  environment

Limited budget
High expectations
Use of English
Limited time

• Students are motivated to equip themselves for
  their future career

English
Generic Skills
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Rationale
Choosing an industry with different job types
interests
abilities
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Wedding planning involves lots of jobs types in
different industries
Industries Job types / Job titles
Advertising Marketing Catering Public relations Logistics Design Printing/ Publishing Beauty Care Entertainment/ Recreation Media Tourism Legal services Banking Finance Management Advertising Catering Event / wedding planning Sales Flowers Decorations Hair stylists Make up artists Photographers Video makers Fashion designers Drivers Travel agents Property agents Interior designers Renovation craftsman Lawyers
How do these job types relate to learning English?
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Suggested necessary services
Services Vocabulary Text types
Wedding ceremonies Venues Decorations
Wedding Reception Venues Food Decorations Menu
Wedding Attire Describing outfits Colours
Invitation Fonts Types of invitation cards Design Invitation (Poems)
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Suggested optional services
Services Vocabulary Text types
Wedding cakes ? Colours ? Flavours ? Decorations ? Shapes Catalogue
Wedding favours Catalogue
Wedding flowers ?Names of flowers ? Colours ?Meanings of flowers Catalogue
Wedding cars/ transportation ? Brands ?Colours ? Describing cars ?Decorations ? Models Itinerary Catalogue
Wedding music ?Musical instruments ?Names of wedding music/ songs and love songs Song lyrics
Photography ?Venues ?Equipment ?Technical terms Photo captions
Videography ?Venues ?Equipment ?Technical terms Itinerary
Make up ? Colours ? Cosmetics Labelling
Hairdressing ? Hairstyle
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Wedding Company (Module outline)

• The Wedding planning business
• - Job descriptions

Part 1 Background/ Introduction

• - Job advertisement
• - CV
• Application letter
• - Job interview

Part 2 Job application

• - Research
• - Understand the organizational set up
• Concept of organizational image

Part 3 Setting up wedding companies

• Meetings
• Business project
• - Use English creatively for a business purpose

Part 4 Preparing for Wedding Expo

• Sales presentation - Company leaflet
• Exhibition - Wedding Outfit
  Catwalk
• Samples - Portfolio

Part 5 Wedding Expo
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• The trial lessons

• October 2008 February 2009
• about 25 30 lessons (40 minutes/ lesson)
• S4 (4 classes)
• try out some of the services
• simplified some of the tasks

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Part 1 Introduction to the wedding planning
industry
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Tasks / Activities

• Reading magazine articles
• Reading newspaper articles
• Browsing websites of wedding planners

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Task
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Catering for learner diversity

• Simplified versions of newspapers/ magazine
  articles provided
• Reading materials provided by teachers
• vs
• Reading materials searched by students

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Part 2 Job Application
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Reading Job Advertisements
CJC Wedding Planner Company Decoration
designers Required by Wedding Planner Company.
Male or female, Form 5 standard. Preferably
having knowledge of decoration design. Please
send application with photo, phone number and
salary expected to Ms. Carine Jean Clark, no.
232, Queens Road East, Wan Chai, H.K.
Junior Clerks Required by Wedding Planner
Company. Male or female, Form 3 standard,
experience not essential. Please send application
with photo, phone number and salary expected to
G.P.O. Box 1234, Hong Kong.

• . What is the title of the job?
• . What are the job requirements?
• . What the job applicant do if they want to apply
  the job?

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Writing Job Advertisements
Driver Required by Transporter Company. Male
Only. Form 7 standard. Good manners. Preferably
with kung-fu skills. Please call 1234 5678 or
come to YCH2SS for interview. Bring driving
license and kung-fu certificate.
Students work
Beautician Required by Beauty Company. Female.
Form 5 standard. 3 years experience essential.
Preferably with experience of bridal make-up.
Send application with photo, phone number and
salary expected to Mary Chan, 345, Kings Road
west, Wan Chai, Hong Kong.
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Writing Resumes
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Writing Application Letters
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Job Interviews
Job Interview videos produced by teachers and
students
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Observers (students) use the following rubrics to
assess the candidates performance
1 2 3 4
Can present attractive and appropriate introduction that impresses the potential employer, gets attention and states reasons for wanting the job.
2. Can make clear account of personal academic achievement, skills and knowledge specific to the job requirements.
3. Can relate own strengths to match the job requirements.
4. Can give appropriate response to the questions asked by potential employer.
5. Can deliver enthusiastically with a clear and loud voice using suitable pauses.
6. Can ask a significant question about the job that shows interest in the job.
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Movie clips about job interviews
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Catering for learner diversity

• Application form vs application letter resume
• Interview videos produced by teachers and
  students movie clips of interview scenes helped
  to strengthen students memory
• Higher ability students were given a chance to be
  bosses and wrote their own job advertisements

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Part 3 Setting up wedding companies
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Tasks / Activities

• Students form groups and set up their wedding
  planning companies

CONTENTS
Item Marks
A Company profile
B Services
C Theme Wedding
D The Wedding Expo
E Wedding Outfit Catwalk
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Themed weddings

• Example
• Beach
• Nature
• Seasons
• Special Occasions
• Styles
• Fairy Tale
• Victorian
• Religious

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Catering for learner diversity

• Company names and logos were designed by students
• Students were allowed to select services and
  themes they were interested in
• Job types which require higher intellectual
  ability
• vs
• Job types which focus more on technical
  skills
• Each company could select the number of services
  they would provide
• Different levels of tasks can be given to
  different companies for each kind of service

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Part 4 Preparing for Wedding Expo
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Task / Activities (Group work)
CONTENTS
Item Marks
A Company profile
B Services
C Theme Wedding
D The Wedding Expo
E Wedding Outfit Catwalk
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Writing sales presentation scripts
Company Fairy Tale Wedding Company Good
morning/afternoon, everyone. Welcome to our Fairy
Tale Wedding Companys presentation. A wedding
is the most important thing in your life. You
must have a gorgeous wedding with high quality
service and yet, the cost of it need not be high.
Not only are our services of high quality, but
the price is also sensible. First, we will show
you the gowns of the couple. Then, a video clip
will be shown to you. It is a wedding party which
our company helped the couple to plan. Last,
there will be a Q A session. We hope you can
enjoy our presentation. Thank you.
Unique Wedding Company as its name implies, is a
company that strives for perfection and
emphasizes the importance of uniqueness. Unique
Wedding Company is professional in offering the
wedding through-train services that ease the
hassles of the couples. Starting from the detail
of costumes renting, make up artists and stylists
booking to the design of wedding souvenirs and
wedding cakes, we look into every detail and we
show our customers we do care about every detail.
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Designing the booths
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Designing wedding outfitsWriting wedding outfit
description
Company Pretty Life The theme is romance. The
brides dress is of ball gown style. Wearing the
ball gown, the bride looks noble and graceful.
The material for the dress is curtain. For the
lower part of the dress, we rolled magazine paper
and stitched the rolls onto the dress. There is a
big bowknot on the belt so that the beautiful
body shape of the bride is fully addressed.
Company Forever Love Our theme is Chinese
traditional. The top is made of black plastic.
The trousers are made from black cloth. On the
upper outfit, there is a red flower ball which is
made of paper, representing the two important
elements of the Chinese traditional wedding
completeness and luck.
Company Your Choice Our company has designed our
signature wedding gown that highlights the love
of nature. Our wedding gown carries lots of
flowers that gives a refreshing feeling for the
lovers. With the mystical design of natures
spider-web pattern and snake-like hair set, our
bride will have the most unforgettable wedding
event of her own choice.
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Part 5 Wedding Expo
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Booth
Introducing the services/ products of the
companies to the visitors
Making Sales Presentations
Wedding Outfit Catwalk
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Guiding questions for visitors
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Catering for learner diversity

• Students selected the jobs they wanted to take
  up within the group
• There were different types of jobs. Jobs were
  allocated to team members according to their
  interests and abilities
• The companies were allowed to use different ways
  to introduce their companies to the visitors
• Jobs were allocated to team members according to
  their strengths (verbal, visual, kinesthetic
  tasks)

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Use of resources

• English teachers
• Teachers of other subjects
• Alumni
• PTA parents
• Wedding planner

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Impact
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Students

• Post-project questionnaire
• Students were motivated to learn English
• Students got a sense of achievement and were more
  confident in using English for communication and
  presentation
• Students got to know more about the working
  environment (93).

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• Post-project questionnaire
• Students generic skills were improved

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Post-project questionnaire

• Students realized the importance of English in
  the working environment. They would like to
  improve their English and equip themselves for
  their future careers.

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Teachers

• Developed the teaching strategies to cope with
  the NSS Curriculum
• Encouraged English teachers to use life-wide and
  experiential learning approach in the teaching
  process
• Strengthened the culture of collaborative
  reflective practices among the English panel

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At School Level

• The Project
• Enhanced inter-departmental collaboration (cross
  curricular planning)
• Used a whole school approach to enrich the
  English learning environment
• Served as a platform to share successful English
  learning experiences among students, teachers,
  parents alumni

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Difficulties and solutions
Time Constraints
Level of difficulty
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Conclusion
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content
readiness
process
differentiate
interest
product
learning profile
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Generic skills
problem solving skills creativity critical thinking skills collaboration skills communication skills self-management skills
Language skills
reading skills writing skills listening skills speaking skills vocabulary learning skills
Workplace
Life long learning
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