Lesson plan 8 grade

Short term plan

LESSON: Natural Disasters

School: Secondary school of Nagarashy

Date: 01.10.2016

Teacher name: Kaskarbayeva T.N.

CLASS: 8

Number present:

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Learning objectives(s)

Content 10.C1use speaking and listening skills to solve problems

that this lesson is

creatively and cooperatively in groups

contributing to

Language 10.S7use appropriate subject-specific vocabulary and

syntax to talk about a limited range of general topics, and some

curricular topics

Lesson objectives

All learners will be able to:

• understand with limited support the main points of extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics

• understand most specific information and detail of supported extended talk on a range of general and curricular topics

• give an opinion at sentence level on an increasing range of general and curricular topics

Most learners will be able to:

• understand more complex supported questions on a growing range of general and curricular topics

• keep interaction going in longer exchanges on a range of general and curricular topics

• organise and present information clearly to others

• respect differing points of view

Some learners will be able to:

• use talk as a means of reflecting on and exploring a range of perspectives on the world

• communicate meaning clearly at sentence and discourse level during pair, group and whole class exchanges

Previous learning

In the previous unit, learners developed listening and speaking

skills to solve problems creatively and cooperatively in groups

while discussing TV programmes and films.

Plan

Planned

Planned activities (replace the notes below with

Resources

timings

your planned activities)

4 minutes



Learners look at the six scanned images (A - F) of

Scanned images of

natural disasters on the board. Find out what they

six natural

know about the content of the images then write

disasters from

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'natural disasters' on board. Elicit or pre-teach

page 54 of English

volcano, tsunami, earthquake, flood and hurricane,

in Mind Learner's

write them on board marking main stress so

Book 2 projected

learners pronounce words correctly before

on board.

6 minutes

matching words to images.

 Ask which picture is the odd one out and why.

Accept a variety of answers e.g. picture E: The

flood is the odd one out because there are people

in the picture. Lead them to F: nuclear explosion

because it is not a natural disaster. Learners in

small groups decide 1) which words look similar to

Kazakh and Russian (tsunami) and which look

different 2) which words sound similar to Kazakh

and Russian and which are different. Find out if

they know which natural disaster has different

names in English. (hurricane = typhoon and

cyclone depending on the ocean where it occurs)

Does a hurricane have different names in Kazakh

and Russian?

Middle

 Learners look at world map projected on board

Map of world

projected on board

10-15 minutes

from website. Ask questions about what it shows,

showing areas with

scroll over some places marked on map and read

natural disasters:

aloud facts about natural disasters. Which areas of

the world have most natural disasters? Which are

earthobservat

disasters they learned about at the start of the

ory.nasa.gov/Natur

lesson and which are different? e.g. sand storms

alHazards

15-21 minutes

www.teaching

 Write 800, 26.5, 10 and 1500 on the board. Explain

you will read four sentences aloud. In pairs,

english.org.uk/lang

learners agree which number goes into the gaps. 1.

uage-

There are more than _____ active volcanoes in the

assistant/essential-

world. 2. Tsunamis can go as fast as ____ km an

uk/natural-disasters

hour. 3. Hurricanes happen when temperatures are

Sentences adapted

____ degrees C. 4. ____ % of the world's

from Task 3 on

population live near active volcanoes. Read

web link

21-28 minutes

sentences again then check answers. 1. 1500 2.

800 3. 26.5 4. 10. Which is the most surprising

fact?

 Find out if learners have read or written part of a

Opinion adapted

from Task 4 on

blog on the Internet. Explain people write

web link above.

messages on blogs to give their opinions. Put

learners in groups. They appoint one learner to

report back ideas; one to write down words used in

28-32 minutes

the L1; one to say how good their use of English is;

a timekeeper. Write on board: 'Natural disasters

happen in other countries so we can't help the

32-35 minutes

people who live there.' Do they only happen in

other countries? Can they help? Do they agree with

the opinion or not? Give 5 minutes for discussion.

 Learners from each group report back ideas, their

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