| Unit: 10.2: Causes and Consequences of Natural Disasters Lesson 1 | Grade 10 |
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| 10.1.9 use imagination to express thoughts, ideas, experiences and feelings 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
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| Lesson objectives | All learners will be able to: Learn new words for discussing natural disasters, their causes and their consequences. Understand the main points from the context and give 70% accurate answers. |
| Most learners will be able to: Use new words for discussing natural disasters, their causes and their consequences Understand the main points from the context and give 80% accurate answers. |
| Some learners will be able to: Explain new words for discussing natural disasters, their causes and their consequences Understand the main points from the context and give 90-100% accurate 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 | Welcome & Objectives Greet students and read through the lesson objectives: Learn new words for discussing natural disasters, their causes and their consequences. Read the text and do multiple-choice and fill-in-the gap tasks. ***Show students Slide 3 first and ask them to guess what new topic they are going to discuss.
| PPT Slide 3, 1, 2
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10 min (P/G/W)
25 min (W)
5 min (P/G) | New Topic –Causes and consequences of natural disasters Pre-learning (P) Show Slide 3 with a set of photos. Students should think about and discuss with the person next to them what these photos have in common (what they depict). This discussion should lead to students identifying these photos as examples of natural disasters. (G) Students will be asked to discuss in groups and then formulate a definition for natural disasters. Pass out the handout with synonyms, and ask student to glue it into their notebook. As a class, discuss the synonyms.
Disaster Vocabulary: Show slide 6 and elicit students’ knowledge about what disasters of the natural world they know. Show Slide 7 with the list of topic related words and ask to read aloud the words students already know. Pass out the Natural Disasters Words handout. Tell students there are new words, definitions and examples with these words given. Give students 1-2 minutes to read through the words. Show Slides 9’s picture, click for the definition. Students should guess what word the picture represents. Click again and again for the word and the word in a sentence. Read the sentence and any notes aloud. Do the same with Slides 10-29. ***The slides are in the same order as given in the list. Teacher can confuse the order.
Reading: The End of Life on Earth Pass out The End of Life on Earth handout to each student. Explain to the students they will start reading the text in class, and do Task 1& Task 2 as a home task. First, ask students to do the reparation exercise: put the disasters in the correct groups. They can do the exercise in pairs or in groups of 3. Click on Slide 31 again to show the answers for students to self-check. |
PPT Slide 3
PPT Slides 4-5 Synonyms
PPT Slides 6-7
Natural Disaster Words
PPT Slides 9-29
The End of Life on Earth PPT Slide 30-31
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| 3 min | Closing Thoughts & Discussion Discuss as a class or in groups the information on slide 32. H/T – Complete Tasks 1&2. | PPT Slide 32 The End of Life on Earth
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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. | 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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