Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

4.18 Emergency procedures
Level
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Language focus
Procedure, imperatives
Skills focus
Listening for nouns and verbs
Thinking focus
Sorting information
Teaching approach
Promote accuracy – correct errors
Interaction
Pairwork, suitable for large classes
Preparation
Make an overhead transparency of the cloze activity in
Box 92.
Note: This subject may need to be treated with sensitivity.
Procedure
1 Tell the class that you are going to read out some emergency
procedures. This is what people have to do when a hurricane or a
cyclone is approaching. Choose the appropriate word for your area,
i.e. hurricane or cyclone, and check that they know the meaning of these
words.
2 Ask the children to form into pairs. One person has to listen for all the
nouns, and the other person has to listen for all the verbs. In this activity,
listening for the verbs is easier than listening for the nouns, so allocate the
verbs to your less able learners.
3 Now slowly and carefully read out the emergency procedures from
Box 92.
4 Finally, call on the children to give their answers and complete the cloze
on the overhead transparency.
The world around us
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