| Unit: 10.2: Causes and Consequences of Natural Disasters Lesson 4 | Grade 10 |
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| 10.1.9 use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings 10.2.1 understand the main points in unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics, including talk on a limited range of unfamiliar topics 10.2.2 understand specific information in unsupported extended talk on a wide range of general and curricular topics, including talk on a limited range of unfamiliar topics 10.3.5 interact with peers to make hypotheses about a wide range of general and curricular topics 10.6.3 use a variety of compound adjectives, adjectives as participles, comparative structures indicating degree, and intensifying adjectives on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics
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| Lesson objectives | All learners will be able to: Understand the main points from the context and give 70% accurate answers. Give 3-4 right answers while watching the video. |
| Most learners will be able to: Understand the main points from the context and give 80% accurate answers. Give 4-5 right answers while watching the video and explain the answers. |
| Some learners will be able to: Understand the main points from the context and give 90-100% accurate answers. Give 6 right answers while watching the video and explain the answers. |
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| Language objective | Understand the concept of Natural Disasters utilizing English language skills to express their knowledge. |
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| Value links | Respect, Cooperation, Multiculturalism
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| Cross curricular links | History, biology, geology
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| ICT skills | Projector or Smart board for presenting a video
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| Previous learning | Students should know a lot about the topic – they had similar vocab before. |
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| Kazakh culture | Kazakh natural disasters |
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| Pastoral care | To create a friendly atmosphere for collaborative work. |
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| 2 min (W)
| Welcome & Objectives Greet students and read through the lesson objectives: Give summary of the article you read at the previous lesson. Watch a video and do the tasks. Start working at a report on a natural disaster. | PPT Slide 1-2
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15 min (P/W) | Checking home task and revision (A Look Back on Mitch Rampage) Provide students with answers (A Look Back at Mitch's Rampage, page 4). Students swap their answer sheets and peer-check the answers. Discuss the meanings of the bold-faced words as a class. Students are free to make notes if necessary. In pairs or groups of three, ask students to summarize the information from the text in 4-5 sentences (give them 5 minutes to prepare); some volunteers present to the class.
| PPT Slide 3-4
A Look Back at Mitch's Rampage, page 4 |
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20 min (I)
| Watching a video: Learning the Ways of Invasive Species (0:00-5:34) Show Slide 5 and explain to students they will listen to the zoologist Joanna Bagniewska talking about different invasive species and their influence on the environment. Provide each student with Words from the video: Learning the Ways of Invasive. Go through Slides 6-13 and learn new vocabulary. Provide each student with Listening Answer Sheet. Explain that students will be given no more than 2 minutes after the video is played two times, so they should answer while watching the video. Play the video two times (0:00-5:34). ***Teacher is free to play the video with subtitles or without depending on the level of students. Students swap their papers for peer-check. Go through Slides 16-17 and discuss the answers.
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJW-Zgjz7G0
PPT Slide 5-13 Words from the video: Learning the Ways of Invasive
Listening Answer Sheet
PPT Slide 14
PPT Slide 15-16 (Answers)
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| Preparation for the Report Quickly discuss what natural disasters students have already read or watched about. Provide the students with Template for Report. Show Slide 18 and explain that students, in pairs, will prepare a report on a natural disaster at home. They must make notes about: - what, when and where the disaster happened; - describe how the disaster started and developed; - consequences and results.
Work schedule Step 1: Find a partner you will make a report with. Step 2: Look for examples, facts and statistical data on the Internet. Step 3: Make notes according to the plan. Step 4: Rehearse your report (both of you must contribute equally).
Criteria for speaking Use new topic vocabulary (no less than 3 words each student). Speak no less than 2 minutes (without pauses). Contribute equally to the report. Illustrate your report with pictures (optional)
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PPT Slide 17-20
Template for Report |
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| 3 min | Closing Thoughts & Discussion Discuss as a class the questions on slide 10: What problems in the natural world are caused by? How? H/W – Prepare for reporting on a natural disaster. | PPT Slide 21
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| Differentiation – how do you plan to give more support? How do you plan to challenge the more able learners? | Learners ‘Assessment – how are you planning to check learn learning? | Cross-curricular links |
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| Students will be put into flexible groupings to discuss the topic. In this manner, they will either have support or be able to support their fellow students. The co-teacher and teacher may group students into split groups to work with more teacher support. | Learners will be assessed informally through observations during the lesson, then, through their answers and observed thinking processes during discussion, and through peer-checking as well. | Biology & geology |
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| Summary evaluation What two things went really well (consider both teaching and learning)? 1: 2: What two things would have improved the lesson (consider both teaching and learning)? 1: 2: What have I learned from this lesson about the class or individuals that will inform my next lesson? |
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