This document contains a lesson plan about teaching students about honesty. The 3-lesson plan aims to raise awareness of the importance of honesty in daily life and help students protect themselves from scams. Activities include group discussions on shopping experiences, watching videos about Hong Kong tourism and scams, reading an article about a mainland Chinese couple who fell victim to a scam, and follow-up discussion questions and writing assignments. The plan provides materials and outlines pre-reading, while-reading, and post-reading activities to help students develop comprehension and evaluation skills.

1. A Lesson Plan
--- Double Trouble for
Mainland Tourists
By Joshua Chi
16th January, 2012

2. A Lesson Plan
 Suggested target students: Form 4
 Suggested duration: 3 lessons
 Aims:
 1. To raise the awareness of how honesty plays
an important role in our daily moral life.
 2. To develop students’ honesty and ability of
protecting themselves from getting conned.

3.  Language learning skills:
 Students will be able to
 1. develop comprehension skills:
 A) Predicting through headings and subtitles.
 B) Guessing the meaning from context.
 C) Referencing skills.
 D) Inference skills.
 2. Consider and evaluate their own moral
criteria.

4.  Materials and resources:
 1. the reading article.
 2. a computer.
 3. blackboard and marker.
 4. worksheets.

5. Pre-reading
 Activity 1: Group Discussion
 1. Do you like shopping when you travel to somewhere
else?
 2. How did you feel and what did you do if you had had this
experience of getting conned and resulting in a big loss to
you?
 3. What do you think of the Hong Kong tourism?
 4. Do you think why Hong Kong has been deemed as the
paradise place for shopping in the world?
 4. What do you think of honesty? Is it very important in a
modern commercial city?

6. Activity 2: Watching videos
 1. Hong Kong-Live it, love it:
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42zQwPcnAmA
 2. Welcome to Hong Kong”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RT6zr8BVhK0
 3. Forced shopping on tourists in HK
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFABhVqCUTw
 4. Hong Kong Experiences Fake Gold Scam
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fS1rcE_yCc

7. Activity 3: Prediction
 Predict what the article is going to
talk about through the heading:
Double Trouble for mainland
Tourists.

8. While-reading
 1. Read the article and answer the questions:
 1) Why did the mainland couple flew back to
Hong Kong?
 2) What did the couple do in mainland China?
 3) Did they get their refund?
 4) What happened to them when they came back
to Hong Kong?
 5) Do you think that honesty is very important to
any city?
 6) What can Hong Kong do to protect tourists
from scams according to Dorothy Mak?

9.  2. Check the answers with students after
finishing reading.
 3. Word Test
 Match the meaning of the new words in the
article:
 con, scam, ordeal, bumpkin, fall victim
to, vow, outraged, humiliated, take advantage
of, injustice, rip-off, bite the bullet, arbotrator.
Tribunal, -----

10. Post-reading
 Activity 1: Group Discussion
 Discuss in groups about:
 1) Who should take responsibilities for the loss
of the old couple from mainland China? The
couple, the shop owners or the Hong Kong
government?
 2) whether does honesty play an important part
in promoting Hong Kong Tourism or not?

11. Activity 2: Writing
 Supposed you were the old couple and you
would like to write a letter to the consumer
Council complaints Officer Dorothy Mak
about your suggestions of how to stop scams in
Hong Kong and make Hong Kong become the
real paradise of shopping in the world.
 Activity 3: Listen to a song about Honesty
by Billy Joel
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWu0N0qP
eME&feature=related

12. Thanks for your
Attentions !