Secondary English 4 Unit 2

ABOUT OPEN ENGLISH

Welcome to Open English. The books have been written and designed to help students learn English in the most effective and interesting way. Below is a brief description of the sections in each study unit at the Secondary 4 level.

Pre-tasks: Various resources and activities are used to present to students the theme of the unit, and then expand and deepen their understanding.

Pre‐reading

• introduces the unit theme through lead-in activities;
• provides opportunities for students to share their experiences and opinions about the theme; and
• introduces basic reading skills.

Reading

• provides a range of reading texts;
• presents targeted vocabulary items and grammar structures in these texts; and
• tailors the comprehension exercises to the HKDSE Paper 1.

Listening and integrated skills

• asks students to write a short text by making use of the reading materials and listening task; and
• tailors to the HKDSE Paper 3.

Vocabulary development

• extracts relevant vocabulary items from the reading texts;
• introduces vocabulary-building skills; and
• provides contextualized exercises.

Text type and grammar review

• studies the structures and writing style of a specific text type;
• introduces relevant grammar structures with explanatory notes and contextualized exercises; and
• asks students to make use of the targeted grammar items in the final task.