U8 Interactive Display: Natural Disasters Teacher Notes

Round Up: after using the slideshow

Suggested use: after Lesson 7 (but can be
used after any lesson in the unit, too)
Time: 20 minutes (plus 10 minutes for
extension activities)
The children will:
• Learn about safety precautions for natural
disasters.
• Reinforce and practice language to give advice
(should/shouldn’t).
• Ask if any of the class have experienced any of the
natural disasters in the slideshow. What did/didn’t
they do when it happened?
Extension Activities
• Individual: choose and write. The children
choose a natural disaster and write two
sentences about it.
• Pairs: finger spelling. The children take turns
writing a natural disaster on their friend’s
back with their finger. Their friend guesses the
word.

Warm Up: before using the slideshow

• Draw a simple picture of a volcano on the board
and ask the children to tell you what natural
disaster is associated with this (a volcano eruption).
Ask if the children have experienced this natural • Have children choose a natural disaster and
disaster and to describe what they saw. find information about why the natural disaster
• Play “Back to the Board” with the natural disaster happens. They can draw a diagram to show what
vocabulary. Two teams: have one volunteer from happens.
each team sit with their back to the board. Write a
different natural disaster on the board (e.g. flood,
tsunami, earthquake). The teams describe the
word (no actions) and the first volunteer to guess
correctly wins a point for their team. Continue
with the other words.

Procedure: using the slideshow

• Play Slide 1. Ask the children what active means
when describing a volcano (the volcano can erupt).
Ask them what the dangers are if you visit an
active volcano (flying rock, an eruption).
• Play Slides 2–7. Have the children listen and
remember the other natural disasters mentioned.
Check answers (tsunami, hurricane, earthquake,
flood).
• Complete Interactivity 1. Play the audio again to
check answers.
• Complete Interactivity 2.
• Complete Interactivity 3. Three groups: allocate
tsunami to the first group, flood to the second,
and earthquake to the third. Read each sentence
aloud. The group with the correct natural disaster
stands up.
• Two teams: recap the advice in each slide. Say the
natural disaster and elicit the advice given, e.g.
During a tsunami you should move away from the
beach. The first team to say the sentence correctly
wins a point.
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