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Forces of NatureStudents use and are exposed to vocabulary in order to describe subjects related to extreme weather conditions and natural disasters. Describing Past Events & StoriesStudents study the Past Simple, Past Continuous, and Past Perfect Simple tenses in the context of narrating both simple past events and longer and detailed stories. Compound SentencesStudents are introduced the basic mechanics of writing compound sentences. |
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Natural DisastersActivity based on recording of several people describing experiences with natural disasters. Activity reinforces student understanding of unit vocabulary. Hiro's StoryGrammar-based listening activity serving as a comprehension-check of the past tenses. Activity is based on one man's story of surviving the Japan earthquake and tsunami of 2011. HurricanesActivity based on one man’s description of his experience with a hurricane. Activity contains several unit vocabulary words. |
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Unit Introduction DiscussionUnit introduction conversation activity. Vocabulary DiscussionVocabulary discussion activity. Role-PlaysStudents improvise dialogues according to prompts. Story CreationStudents work in groups and prompt each other in an effort to orally recite stories in the past simple and continuous tenses. DiscussionStudents discuss answers to questions that focus on the use of the Past Simple and/or the Past Continuous. Explain WhyStudents work with a partner and give fictional reasons for doing things in the past. Activity targets the use of the Past Perfect Simple. In What Order?Students work with a partner and use the Past Perfect Simple to figure out the order in which their partner did activities listed on their page. Recalling DetailsStudents read short stories to their partner and then quiz them on their comprehension targeting responses in the passive voice. What Happened?Students present situations to each other in order to prompt sentences in the passive voice. |
| Grammar |
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The Past Simple & ContinuousStudents review and reinforce their comprehension of the past simple and continuous tenses. Page also covers the rules along with several audio examples of the three ways to pronounce “...ed” in past forms of regular verbs. Past Perfect SimpleStudents learn the meaning, form, and usage of the past perfect simple tense and its role in narration. Past PassiveStudents practice using the three tenses studied in Unit 3 in the passive voice. |
| Reading |
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Three Stories about Natural DisastersReading activity containing examples of unit grammar and vocabulary. |
| Use of English |
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We'd Been There BeforeFour short conversations that serve as a lead in to Grammar 3-2. ReliefWebStudents use ReliefWeb.int, a digital service provided by the United Nations, to learn about areas of the world experiencing problems with natural disasters. |
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Compound SentencesStudents learn how to write compound sentences. Transition Words & PhrasesThis lesson focuses on linking devices used to connect ideas between sentences or within compound sentences. Students practice using these transitions. ParagraphStudents write a paragraph describing a natural disaster. |
| Vocabulary |
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appear backpack blizzard bomb cause chase choke climb coast damage destroy direction disaster earthquake find out float flood floor force freezing frightening frightened go off ground harsh hill hit hurricane interrupt kite land landslide measure natural nature pass by prepare rebuild rescue Richter Scale roof scream shake shout storm tsunami typhoon underwater wall wave |