Five-Minute Activities for Young Learners

Box 92
Hurricane/Cyclone safety instructions
Emergency
Safety procedure:
Verbs
Nouns
procedures
cloze activity
Preparation:
Preparation:
Buy some batteries for
1 . . . some batteries
1 Buy
2 radio
your radio and your
for your 2 . . . and
3 torch
torch, as well as some
your 3 . . ., as well as
4 food
canned food.
some canned 4 . . .
Fill some large bottles
5 . . . some large
5 Fill
6 bottles
with drinking water.
6 . . . with drinking
7 water
7  . . .
During the
During the
cyclone/hurricane:
cyclone/hurricane:
Listen to the radio or TV
8 . . . to the 9 . . . or TV
8 Listen
9 radio
for information. Go to the
for information. 10 . . . to
10 Go
11 bathroom
strongest part of your
the strongest part of your
12 hall
home, for example, the
home, for example, the
bathroom, cellar or hall.
11 . . ., cellar or 12 . . .
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Follow-up
• If you have extra time, you could use the lists of nouns and verbs to
jointly construct a list of emergency procedures, similar to those in Box
92. To construct a text jointly, call upon children in the class to suggest
the sentences that you should write on the board. Do not correct their
work, but write it as they say it. When the text is finished, look at it
together and ask the children to suggest ways of improving it. This could
include making corrections to grammar, changing vocabulary choices, or
altering the order of the sentences.
• For other procedures, see Activities 2.9, 3.4, 4.12, 4.15, 5.8, 6.10, 6.13,
6.16.
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