4.16 Current affairs recount Level ***
Language focus Recount, simple past tense, vocabulary: geography
Skills focus Writing
Thinking focus Creating
Teaching approach Promote creativity – accept errors
Interaction Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation Write the sentence stems and writing prompts on the board.
See Box 90.
Procedure 1 On the board, write the natural disasters from Box 86. If the children do
not know these words in English, provide the meaning in their first
language.
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2 Ask the children to recall any images of natural disasters from recent
television news broadcasts.
3 Using the sentence stems and writing prompts from Box 90, ask the
children, in pairs, to construct a small current affairs recount. Encourage
them to talk together and decide on the most suitable language for their
recount.
