Teaching Staff in 2025-2026:

• Ms. Sze Fong (Panel Head)
• Ms. Huang Zifei Jocelyn
• Mr. Paul James Cowden
• Mr. Yu Wan Yui

 

Course Objectives:

Language Arts has been established as part of the core school-based English curriculum for all Form 1 and Form 2 students.  In L.A. lessons, students are exposed to a wide range of literary genres and engaged in lively classroom discussions.  The training involved would help them to appreciate the artistic prowess of literature and learn to use English more effectively in order to communicate ideas, which in turn contributes to enhanced reading & communication skills, critical thinking, cultural understanding, personal growth and academic capability. 

 

Texts & Topics:

Poetry

Imagery, persona & narrative voice, rhyme & rhythm, alliteration, simile & metaphor, personification, reading of assigned poems and creating one's own pieces

Short Story

• Characterization, setting
• Seventh Grade by Gary Soto
• The Landlady by Roald Dahl

Play

• Dialogues, role-playing
• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Film

The School of Rock (2003)

 

Novel

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley