| Warm-up T. shows a video presentation about natural disasters to class, and asks the learners to guess the theme of the lesson.
Learning objectives are told to class.
3. Pictures of natural disasters are shown and explained to class: 1. avalanche 2. drought 3. earthquake 4. flood 5.tsunami Pre-reading Matching activity - pair work. Ss. match words and their definitions in pairs. Afterwards pairs swap their works and check them from the board. 1.Avalanche – the large movement of snow in the mountains 2. Drought – when there is no rain in a place for a long time 3. Earthquake – when the plates of the Earth start to move and shake 4. Flood – when the large amount of water covers the land 5.Tsunami - an unusually large sea wave produced by under volcanic eruption
While-reading. Class divided into groups of 4 and 5 students. Students read the given passages in their small groups and fill the missing gaps with the words in bold. sometimes, water, disaster, feed, air, avalanche, rain, size, famine, happen An ………………is the large movements of snow down the side of a mountain. They occur when the snow becomes too loose and as it slides down it mixes with ………….. and water to cause a powerful and dangerous …………….. A drought happens when there has been no …………. in a place for a long time. The land becomes too dry and it is impossible to grow any plants or vegetables on the land. Droughts occur in very hot countries. A drought may result in a ………….; this is when there is not enough food to …………the people and they start to starve (die from not eating). An earthquake occurs when the plates of the earth start to move and the ground begins to move and shake. Earthquakes can range from the very big (which can destroy cities) to the very small (which you might not even notice) The ……..of earthquakes is measured on the Richter scale. A flood occurs when a large amount of …………. covers the land. Too much rain usually causes floods. Floods also ………… when the water level in a river becomes too high. As sea levels continue to rise, ………… the risk of flooding increases. Post-reading Group assessment. After working with the text Ss swap their works with other groups. Then groups assess each other from the answers provided on the board. Answers: avalanche, air, disaster, rain, famine, feed, size, water, happen, sometimes Differentiation by task, through support for less able learners: find and read the answers to the questions from the text. How does the flood occur? A flood occurs when a large amount of water covers the land. When does a drought happen? A drought happens when there has been no rain in a place for a long time. What is famine? Famine –this is when there is not enough food to feed people. Writing Differentiation by task without support for more able learners. Ss compose a paragraph about possible natural disasters in 2050 with the use of key words. | 
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