Extreme Weather

Universidad Isabel I de Castilla

Julia Pardos

LESON PLAN

- Target Group: 25 1st year

Secondary School students.

- Length: 55 minutes

- Use of English:

1.- Grammar:

Continuous forms in present and

past for explaining the processes of

phenomenon formation.

2.- Vocabulary:

Nouns:drizzle, downpour, hailstones, frost, sleet,

blizzard, thunder, mist, drought, breeze, heat wave, hot

spell, cold snap, blustery, wind, whirlwind, hurricane,

tornado, drought, below zero, lood, above zero.

Verbs: to be boiling hot, to be airless, to be muggy, to,

be chilly, to be overcast, to be freezing, to be soaked to the

skin, to snow, to hail, to pour down, to teem down, todrizzle.

- Skills: 1.- Reading comprehension (reading

the article and summarising it)

2.-Listening comprehension

(Understanding the video, listening to

other presentations)

3.-ICT skills (selecting good/ bad

information , using visual support for

their presentations)

4.- Speaking (Presenting their

expositions)

-Motivational video:

Play a 1 minute video about the

topic. Then there is a short

exchange of opinions about the

extreme weather and the topic in

general.

(7 minutes)

Introduction of the topic: Division of the class in five groups

of five people. Each group has to

look for real information about a

real extreme weather event and

after that expose a short report

about it to the rest of the class.

Group 1: Tornado;

Group 2: Hurricane;

Group 3: Tsunami;

Group 4: Earthquake;

Group 5: Drought

The students will go to the

school’s computer lab and they

will look the information up on

the Internet together with

supporting images or videos.

After that they will have to write

a short report about it and

present it to the rest of the class.

(20 minutes)

Each group will choose a

team leader and he/she will

present the extreme

weather example to the rest

of the class.

(10 minutes)

The students will fulfil a rubric

form where they will evaluate

their partner’s presentation and

contents. They will also add a

comment on each extreme

weather event. The groups will

distribute their rubrics to every

class mate.(7 minutes)

Complete the following form: Grade 1 to 5 on the

sections and add a comment on the subject presented

PRESENTATION CONTENTS COMMENT ON THE SUBJECT

GROUP 1

Tornado 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

GROUP 2

Hurricane 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

GROUP 3

Tsunami 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

GROUP 4

Earthquake 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

GROUP 5

Drought 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

Grading Criteria

• The student’s mark will depend on:

Exposition Contents 50 %.

Comments on the Rubricform 25%.

Contibution to the finaldebate 25%.

Being the team leader +1.

Learning applied to Real

World

How are our

actions

affecting the

weather?

Is our planet

giving us warning

signals?

Have we

ever had any

of these

extreme

weather

examples? (10

minutes)

Useful links for students

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_severe_weather

_phenomena

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/geograp

hy/weather_climate/extreme_weather_rev1.shtml

https://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/0

9/29/extreme-weather-wreaks-havoc-from-spain-to-

morocco/

Tornadoes:

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-tornado.htm

Hurricanes: http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/

Tsunamis:http://environment.nationalgeographic.co

m/environment/natural-disasters/tsunami-profile/

Earthquakes:

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/

Droughts:http://drought.unl.edu/DroughtBasics/Wh

atisDrought.aspx

Links

Extreme Weather clip:

http://www.tubechop.com/watch/47

74678

Extreme weather original video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v

=9BMO0eg87rg