Unit: 10.2: Causes and Consequences of Natural Disasters Lesson 2 | Grade 10 |
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Learning objectives(s) that this lesson is contributing to | 10.1.9 use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings 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 10.4.5 deduce meaning from context in extended texts on a wide range of familiar general and curricular topics, and some unfamiliar 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 |
Lesson objectives | All learners will be able to: Recognize the words in the context. Understand the main points while watching the video. |
Most learners will be able to: Recognize the words in the context and utilize them. Give full answers the questions about the video. |
Some learners will be able to: Recognize the words in the context and utilize them correctly. Give full answers the questions about the video and explain the others |
Language objective | Understand the concept of Natural Disasters utilizing English language skills to express their knowledge. |
Value links | Respect, Cooperation, Multiculturalism |
Cross curricular links | History, biology, geology |
ICT skills | Projector or Smart board for presenting a video |
Previous learning | Students should know a lot about the topic – they had similar vocab before. |
Kazakh culture | Kazakh natural disasters |
Pastoral care | To create a friendly atmosphere for collaborative work. |
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Planned timings | Planned activities | Resources |
2 min (W) 15 min (W) | Welcome & Objectives Greet students and read through the lesson objectives: Practice topic related words for discussing natural disasters and their consequences. Watch and discuss a video about a nature disaster. But first, it is necessary to check the homework. Teacher should go around the class and stamp the papers of the students who are ready with their home task. Students are asked to swap the papers for peer-checking. One by one, students read out the question, the right answer and the sentence they find in the text which supports the answer. Teacher clicks again and again to shows the answer on Slide 4. Explain to students that they must check also the spelling in Task 2 answers. After the students have checked the answers and counted the points, they return the works to the owners. | PPT Slide 1-2 PPT Slide 3-4 The End of Life on Earth |
15 min (G) 10 min (I/W) | Vocabulary Cards Explain to students they will play a game Vocabulary Cards. Give students 2 minutes to look through the words they learnt at the previous lesson. Make up groups of 4-5 students, and ask them to sit round one table. Show Slide 5 and explain the rules of the game. Give the students a set of cards with words and definitions face down. In turn, students take a card and read the definition to their group. The other students try to guess. The one who guesses the word takes the card. When all the cards are ‘played’, each student count their cards to know the winner of the game. *** The number of card sets depends on how many groups are supposed to play. Watching Video Pompeii Show slide 6 and elicit students’ knowledge about what disaster the film depicts. Click again to show the answer. Show Slide 7 with the list of words from the video and ask students to write them down into their vocabularies (or stick the printed-out handout). Students watch the video with subtitles *** Teacher can play the video two times depending on the level of the students. | PPT Slide 5 Vocabulary Cards PPT Slides 6-9 Words from the Video |
3 min | Closing Thoughts & Discussion Discuss as a class the question on slide 10. ***Teacher can provide the students with additional reading as home task | PPT Slide 10 Additional reading |
Additional information |
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 |
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 |
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? |