What is Hong Kong like?
What are the geographical features of Hong Kong?
What is the landscape like?
What is the weather like?
What are the city and the countryside like? How are they different?
Hong Kong is a world city of trade and finance in China with strong historical and modern links with the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong is in South China; 10,000km away from the United Kingdom.
Hong Kong is in area a small city region with contrasting urban and rural environments in close proximity and with extreme weather.
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Printed copies of photographs from the PowerPoint presentation for each table group
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Range of versions of the word mat (based on ability or Key Stage) with different images placed in the centre of the mat for each table
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Paper for recording geographical descriptions of photographs
To watch a video of Hong Kong during a plenary go to Vimeo
You may wish to show a second video of Hong Kong, go to YouTube
To describe images of Hong Kong using geographical vocabulary.
Pupils view the first photograph on the What is Hong Kong like? PowerPoint presentation (see downloadable resources) for 20 seconds only. They try to remember as much as they can about the image, and then re-draw it themselves and add labels.
Pupils then compare their drawings with their talk partner and show pupils the image once again for them to see what they included and what features of the place they missed out.
Start a whole class discussion through posing the questions included in the PowerPoint slides:
Use the What is Hong Kong like? PowerPoint presentation to display a series of photographs of Hong Kong and pose the slide title questions to initiate discussion about each image.
Note: The notes section of each slide has important questions for the teachers to ask pupils as they are viewing the photographs, as well as information on where exactly the photograph was taken.
Define the following terms as they appear in the series of images:
Harbour
A place on the coast where ships moor and ‘port’ (a place used by ships to load and unload people and goods)
Hill
A naturally raised area of land
Weather
The state of the atmosphere at a particular place and time including heat, cloudiness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain
City
An urban area of significant size and importance
Village
A group of houses and buildings in a rural area that is larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town
Beach
A pebbly or sandy shore by the sea
Explain that every day hundreds of ships leave Hong Kong for other ports across the world. Each container is full of goods ‘Made in China’.
Ask pupils to bring a photo of one thing made in China from home for a class display.
Ensure each table group or pair has a word mat with a different photograph of Hong Kong in the centre. Take the images from the PowerPoint presentation to produce a broad range of images for the pupils.
Pupils use the Geographical vocabulary word mat (see downloadable resources) as a guide to create sentences with geographical vocabulary to describe the various human and physical features of the place shown in their photograph.
Extension
If pupils complete this, they can swap their word mat with another group or pair to increase their range of geographical vocabulary further.
Pupils read out examples of their sentences created during the main activity. ‘Two stars and a wish’ from other pupils can be used as a form of peer assessment.
Play the two videos by clicking the hyperlinks on slide 22 and ask pupils:
Pose further questions for whole class discussion:
Further study
More able or KS2 students can visit this site to view ten of the best time-lapse films of Hong Kong during a computing lesson or homework activity. You could ask the students to critically appraise the videos and report back to the class.
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This resource has been developed as part of the Rediscovering London's Geography project, funded by the GLA through the London Schools Excellence Fund. It seeks to improve the quality of teaching and learning of geography in London’s schools, in addition to encouraging more pupils to study geography |