Shohreh Tavassoli

Lesson Plan: Lesson 4, Earthquake and How to Survive Them

TimeMaterialsWhat and How describe Activities?Segment

3minuteShow image about somebody that died, survived and lost their families during an earthquake, by PowerPoint.

Hi everybody. Today you're going to read another interesting article in your book, unit 4. I'm sure you'll enjoy it since the writer in this article is trying to give you information about a very common happening on our planet, the earth, but before going to the text and read it; I will show some pictures about the topic.

Warm up

Call the roll

Talk about yesterday

8minute

Showed some images about preventing of damage during an earthquake, by PowerPoint,

I will arrange (pair/group work) to whole class

Have you ever experienced an earthquake?

When was the last earthquake that you remember?

What happens during an earthquake?

Where is the best place to go during an earthquake?

What preparations should you make before the earthquake hits?

After cloud prediction technique, I shared those slides and they checked guesses.

Stay calm.

Stay away from windows, bookcases, or other heavy objects.

Introduction

Asking questions like:

Explain them about prevent of damage during an earthquake by cloud prediction.

and explained

Students about it.

Get under desk or table or other furniture with back to windows.

Sit in a corner or with back against a wall with back to windows.

Move away from buildings, trees, overhead wires, and poles.

If you are on the road, drive away from underpasses and overpasses, stop in a safe area, and stay in your car.

.8minutePowerPointConsist of: be formed from ,be made up of

common: happening often; shared by everyone

Calm: not excited

Damage: physical harm to something.

Destructive: causing damage and destruction

Entirely: completely

Earthquake : a sudden shaking of the earth's surface The powerful earthquake caused a lot of injury and death

Emergency: an event needing immediate action

Experience: skill gained from doing a job

Forecast: say what the weather will be like

Flood: when a lot of water covers an area that is usually dry

Float: Stay on the surface of a liquid such as water.

Provide: make something available for someone who needs it

Populated: full of people.

Vocabulary and pronunciation

Teach those new words and their meaning in English and Persian by examples.

Pronunciation by asking them to repeat words two times after me.

get repetition chorally

Probable: likely to be or to happen.

Predict: say that something will happen.

Procedure: a way of doing something, specially the usual way

Rattle: move something with a sound.

Locate: find the place of something

Smoothly: without any sudden movements or changed, the traffic is moving smoothly.

Shake: move something up and down and from side to side.

survive : continue to live after an accident, war or illness These plants cannot survive in very cold

7minuteThe Earth is made up of three main layers: the crust, the mantle, and the core. The crust, the layer that you live on, is like the skin of an apple. It is very thin (from 6 to 30 kilometers) in comparison to the other two layers. It is broken into many pieces called plates. These plates float on the soft, plastic mantle below the crust .The core, which is at the center of the earth, consists of heavy metals and is about 4000 centigrade hot.

Reading

I will Read one paragraph for them and ask them to explain about that and then do comprehension check on page 37

5minuteVoice from laptop by speakers

Listening to voice of lesson 4/Earthquakes and how to survive them and looking the papers. Ask of two students to come in front the whiteboard for writing new words on board, after finish it, give them pen as a gifts.

Listening

7minuteWith board and use different colors of board markers

Divide board into four sections, and explain about using of too, so, such and enough in separate section.

Too+ adjective/adverb+ infinitive:

It is too hot to go outside

Grammar

Explain about use of too ,so, such and enough, asking of students for giving

It is too early to wake up

So + adjective /adverb:

That is so unfair

So tall, So expensive, So slowly, So quickly

Such + Noun:

Such a tall man, Such a hot day

Adjective/adverb+ enough + infinitive:

He is smart enough to pass

She was fast enough to win

examples

5minuteNominate students to read on sentences

Ask them to fill in the blanks in the following sentences with so, such, too and enough on page 40.

Practice / Evaluation

2minuteAssign homework orally

Ask students to finish off the exercise at home and search on the topic on the net and bring a

paper about it .

Application