The document outlines a lesson plan on natural disasters that has the following objectives: - To develop students' vocabulary on natural disasters; - To improve students' reading, listening, and grammar skills; - To teach students how to safely respond in emergency situations like fires, floods, and earthquakes. The lesson includes warmup activities, reading exercises, homework checks, grammar practice, listening activities, and discussions to meet these goals.

1. “The Earth does not belong to us,
we belong to the Earth”
Chief Seatle

2.  to remember and practise the vocabulary
on the topic “Natural Disasters”;
 to read and understand about natural
hazards;
 to develop listening skills;
 to revise grammar material: II
conditionals;
 to learn how to behave in case of fire, flood
and earthquake;
 to develop creative and critical thinking.

3. 1. Warming-up. Game “Avalanche”.
2. Reading. Crossword Puzzle “Tsunami”.
3. Check up homework “Earthquake”.
4. Problem–Solving “Rescuers.”
5. Grammar practice. II Conditionals.
6. Listening “Infamous Natural Disasters”.
7. Mutual dictation “Landslide”.
8. Summing-up the results. Self-evaluation.

4. Warming up.
A student calls for a word out of lexical terms
on the topic, another student repeats the previous
term/terms and adds his one. A winner is a
student who can repeat all words called by his
peers in a group.

5. NATURAL DISASTER

7. Reading. Crossword Puzzle
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8. Check up homework
 group I - to write essays on the quotations
about nature and the environment;
 group II – to find the information about
natural disasters in the mass media and
give the item for a group discussion;
 group III – to role-play the situation about
the people who survived after some
terrible disasters.

14. Top 10 Infamous Natural Disasters
Name Where? When? How much?
1. Central China Floods China 1931 1mln.peopledied,50mln
peoplewereaffected
2. Haiti Earthquake Haiti January, 12
2010
1 mln. people
homeless
3. Bhola Cyclone Pakistan November, 12
1970
1 mln. people homeless
4. Indian Ocean
Earthquake and
Tsunami
14countries(Indonesia,
ShriLanka,Tailand).
2004 Entire towns and
villages were destroyed
5.Tangshan Earthquake China July, 1976 The devastation lasted
years
6. Japan Earthquake
and Tsunami
Japan March, 2011 235 bln. $
7. Cyclone Nargis Birma 2008 10 bln. $
8. Sichuan Earthquake China May, 2008 146 bln. $
9. Hurricane Katrina NewOrleans(theUSA) 2005 108 bln. $
10. Hurricane Andrew Bahamas, Florida,
Louisiana (the USA)
Late August,
1992
40 bln. $

15. Mutual dictation
We have to be very careful what we do with nature,
provoking to some extent natural disasters like droughts,
sandstorms and famines in Africa, floods in Netherlands,
hurricanes in the USA, volcanoes and earthquakes in
Turkey, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Armenia, typhoons and tidal
waves, landslides and fires. Natural disasters make big
problems and people all over the world come to help the
regions where the catastrophe has happened. Different
countries send to the area of the natural disaster food and
medical supplies, as well as doctors, nurses, blankets, tents
and clothes.

17. Your results
Your
score
6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18
Your
mark
6 7 8 9 10 11 12