1. Seminar on ‘Experience Sharing and Good Ideas on Implementing SBA for English Teachers’ Organized by English Campus www.hkedcity.net/english

2. SBA Platform http://sba.hkedcity.net We provide online and offline support for all SBA teachers http://sba.hkedcity.net Online Support Film Channel Book Channel Teaching Resources Presentation Skills New Forums Offline Support SBA Teacher Network

3. Offline Support for Teachers More activities will be held to support the running of SBA for English teachers. Including one in April Exclusive to SBA Teacher Network members

4. SBA Teacher Network Aims: to gather English teachers with common interest to provide sharing opportunities and exclusive teaching resources for members How to join: You must register for a Teacher account You agree to join the network

5. New Resources for Online Support Presentation Skills Teaching Resources Shared among Schools Film Channel (video clips)

6. Presentation Skills http://sba.hkedcity.net/presentationskills http://sba.hkedcity.net/presentationskills Targets: It targets at English teachers and all students in secondary schools, especially S3 to S4. Aims: To help students enhance their presentation and discussion skills

7. Presentation Skills It can serve as teaching resource as well as self-learning materials. There are 8 episodes: 1. Introduction to Giving Presentations and Taking Part in Interactions 2. Preparing for Presentations and Group Interactions 3. Pronunciation & Delivery 4. Communication Strategies 5. Vocabulary and Language Patterns 6. Ideas & Organization 7. Interaction Skills 8. You Won’t Do These

8. Presentation Skills http://sba.hkedcity.net/presentationskills http://sba.hkedcity.net/presentationskills Introduction of the SBA Presentation and Group Interaction skills programme by Mr. Graham Young (video) (video) All the 8 episodes will be released to public on mid January 2006.

9. Teaching Resources Shared among Schools http://sba.hkedcity.net/teachingresources Two kinds of teaching resources: 1. Teaching pack(s) developed by English Campus 2. Teaching resources contributed by school/ school teachers

10. Film Channel http://sba.hkedcity.net/films http://sba.hkedcity.net/films Selected video clips of the SBA movies are available in Film Channel including Gattaca, Erin Brocovich, Jurassic Park, Spiderman, About a Boy and Shrek For students to practise listening and learn vocabulary For teachers to plan language teaching through film viewing

11. Membership and Accounts at HKedCity Public accounts (have to be converted to Teacher accounts by providing eservices account information) Teacher accounts http://sba.hkedcity.net/member From January 2006 onwards, you can only register for accounts online.

12. Membership and Accounts at HKedCity Student accounts (exclusive resources for our student members) School IT coordinators have to update old account info or issue new accounts for students in their schools. Please refer to http://www.hkedcity.net/article/main_info/joinus-e / http://www.hkedcity.net/article/main_info/joinus-e /