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本書簡介

Hong Kong is a city of surprises! Explore and learn more about Asia's World City with Hong Kong Surprise! The texts have been designed to educate as well as entertain, and will appeal to children both familiar with the region, and those just passing through.

Special features include:

• Categorised subject matter: Dynamic Design, Inspiring People, Amazing Wildlife and Joyful Events
  • enlivening the English-learning experience
• Local contexts , with special emphasis on Hong Kong's Chinese traditions and culture
  • appealing to children of all nationalities
• Surprising and fascinating facts , presented alongside beautiful pictures
  • stimulating interest in a broad range of topics
• Material for cross-curricular learning through integrating a range of disciplines: science, geography, history, moral and civic education
  • establishing meaningful links between different concepts and ideas, which lay the foundation for lifelong and life-wide learning
• Activities designed to involve the use of information technology for interactive learning
  • providing children with opportunities to apply IT skills for problem-solving
  • encouraging children to help themselves in the process of knowledge acquisition
• Carefully chosen vocabulary items
  • enabling children to derive meaning from words and sentences in context to facilitate 'learning to read'
  • developing a 'reading to learn' culture

作者簡介

Originally from Canada, Karmel Schreyer is one of Hong Kong's most accomplished children's authors. She has written some young adult novels and children's picture books. When not writing fiction, Karmel writes non-fiction for various publications, as well as educational materials for children throughout Asia. Her previous publication with SCMP Books is Family Fun in English which is for young children