Урок "Погода і клімат"

7^th form

Topic: Weather and climate

Subtopic: Narrating a frightening experience

Learning outcomes: pupils will be able to tell their classmates about frightening experiences associated with weather.

1. The Pre-Task stage

1. Motivation.

Teacher:  Recently I have had a very unusual experience.

On the 23^rd of September at 6.17 am people of Khmelnytsky and Ternopil regions experienced some earth movements or shock waves. According to the Richter scale the magnitude was about 4. We could feel the shaking of the house as if a large lorry was passing by. Fortunately, most people even didn’t notice it. But it was a terrifying morning.

Answer the questions:

1. Can you guess what natural disaster is spoken about?
2. What words or phrases have helped you to guess?
3. Did you feel the shock waves on that day?
4. If yes, describe your condition or feelings.

2. Giving instruction for the task

Pupils should make up the dialogues in pairs using phrases given during the lesson. Using facial expressions and body gestures they should act out the dialogues as close to the real situation as possible. The situations are taken from the newspaper headlines.

3. Materials support

New vocabulary,  newspaper headlines, a piece of paper for each group

4.  Scaffolding the task
   1.           Phrases

Asking about an experience:

• Are you alright?
• What happened?
• Is everything OK?

             Describing an experience:

• It was awful/scary/frightening etc.
• It was a horrible/terrifying etc. experience.

              Commenting on smb’s experience:

• You had a lucky escape.
• That’s terrible.

              Describing feelings:

• I was scared/frightened etc.
• I’m glad I’m OK now.
  2.           Presenting a model

Teacher: Look at the picture. It’s related to a dialogue. What do you think the dialogue is about?

           Listen to the dialogue.

A: How are you, Bob? I heard your house had some storm damage. What happened?

B: It was terrible. I was lying in bed and reading a book, when suddenly, there was a loud noise and then a huge crash. A tree fell through the roof.

     A: Poor you! How did you feel?

     B: I was terrified. At least no one was hurt.

     A: You were very lucky.

     B: I know. It was a horrible experience. I’m relieved it’s over

3.           News headlines:

• HIGH WINDS HIT THE CITY LEAVING THOUSANDS WITHOUT POWER
• SOME REGIONS HIT BY AN EARTHQUAKE
• FLOODED STREETS AFTER A HEAVY RAIN

II.   Task Stage

2. Language Focus and Feedback with more practice.

2. Teacher-led correction of mistakes common to many pupils.

- Vocabulary (important to use given words and phrases)

     - Pronunciation, intonation, speech

      - Grammar (plural of nouns, word order, tenses Past Simple and Past Continuous, etc.);

      - Content (logical connections, covering the topic).

• Teacher-conducted Practice.