The book demonstrates how texts, techniques and tasks used in secondary classrooms can be MOTIVATING, MEANINGFUL AND MEMORABLE.
Contributors vii Acknowledgements ix Worlds of Words: Authenticity of Response and the Experience of Literary Texts in the Hong Kong Second-language Classroom 1(12) Peter Kennedy Peter Falvey Their Heads Are Green and Their Hands Are Blue: S3 Sail Off with the Jumblies 13(20) Amanda Tann Radio Plays 33(12) Bob Adamson Annie Siu-yin Tong Using Hong Kong Stories in Hong Kong Classrooms 45(14) Peter Kennedy Using Asian Poems in English Classes: Sample Lessons 59(8) Mike Murphy From Reading to Speaking and Writing: Dramatizing for the English Classroom 67(10) Philip Kam-wing Chan Little Red Riding Hood in Hong Kong 77(14) Peter Kennedy `The Course of True Love: Bringing Romance to the English Classroom 91(26) Sarah Woodhouse Drama and Other Literary Strategies in the Teaching and Understanding of Poetry --- Approaches to the Experience Dimension of Language Use 117(12) Peter Falvey Imitation as Freedom: Creative Writing in the Second-language Classroom 129 Cully Wilcoxon