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ELT LESSON PLAN

FLE 304 Section:2

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Date: 10. 11. 2008
Teacher(s) name(s): Yasemin KÜÇÜKAYDIN, Deniz ÖZCAN
Students’ Level of Proficiency: Intermediate
Students’ Age: 15-16
Class Size: 24
Duration of Lesson: 40’
Institution: Anatolian Teacher Training High School

II.
Lesson Topic/Theme:
Lesson Focus (Teaching Point):
Materials:
Audio-visual Aids:
Anticipated Problems:
Intelligences Addressed:
Pre-requisite Knowledge:
Objectives:
Rationale:
Tsunamis
Reading
Reading text, worksheet, whiteboard, exercises
Computer power points
Problems related to time, lack of vocabulary
knowledge of some students, differences in
comprehension ability
-Linguistic intelligence
-Intermediate Grammar knowledge
-Intermediate vocabulary knowledge
-The students will learn vocabulary associated
with tsunamis
-The students will brainstorm
-The students will develop their comprehension
abilities
-The students will have discussion so they will
able to develop their speaking skills
The students will develop their reading skills
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III.

A. WARM-UP (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

STEP TIME TASKS TASK INTERACTION PURPOSE

(TEACHER) (STUDENT
S)
The teacher The students . The greeting
enters the thanks and T-S procedure makes
classroom then greets the classroom
and greets the the teacher environment
students warmer and makes
S-T the students ready
W to begin the lesson
A 5 more eagerly.
R
M By brain storming,
M I The teacher The students the students will be
N will ask the will prepared to the
U students what brainstorm topic
T the and come up
E geographical with
U S term “coast” definitions
p means and for “coast”.
she will show
some photos
of coasts.

B. PRE-READING (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

STEP TIME TASKS TASK INTERACTION PURPOSE

(TEACHER) (STUDENTS)

P The teacher will The students T-S, S-S The students will
R 5 ask the students will share their have the chance to
to list the ideas with talk about their
E
M advantages and their mates own thoughts and
I disadvantages of and discuss develop their
R N living on the about the speaking skills.
E U coast. The teacher topic.
A T will ask questions
D E like “How can sea
S be a problem?”.
I
G
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C. WHILE READING (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

STEP TIME TASKS TASK INTERACTION PURPOSE

(TEACHER) (STUDENTS)
The teacher T-S
distributes
the reading
passage and
divides the
students into
six groups. The students will
Each group have the chance to
will have one check their
paragraph. comprehension
W abilities. They will
H The students S-S be able to speak and
will read their interact with each
I The teacher paragraphs and other.
L will want talk about
15 them to read what they
E their remember
paragraphs from the
M and discuss. paragraph.
I
R N
E U
A T
The teacher The students will
D E will ask the The students have a detailed
I S groups to will read their understanding of the
choose one paragraphs and text and they will
N person to have a have a chance to
G read their complete T-S work on it much
paragraphs. comprehension more
When each of the passage.
paragraph is
read if there
are people
who didn’t
understand
the passage,
she will give
extra time.
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D. POST READING (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

STEP TIME TASKS TASK INTERACTION PURPOSE

(TEACHER) (STUDENTS)

The teacher The students T-S

10 will give the will try to The students will
M hand-outs match the develop their
for words with guessing abilities
I vocabulary their
P N matching
activity. She
meanings.

O U will tell the

T students to
S match the
T E words with
S their
meanings.
R
E
A 5 The teacher The students The students will be
will distribute will identify T-S able to check their
D M the hand-outs which comprehensions of
I I for the true-
false activity.
statement is
true and
the text.

N N which false
U according to
G the text.
T
E
S

E. CONTINGENCY PLAN (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

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If the teacher has extra time; the teacher will have the
class discuss about what they
would do if they were to
experience a tsunami

If the teacher has little time; vocabulary matching

activity will be given less
time

F. FOLLOW-UP (Minutes allocated) (Interaction Patterns)

The students will find true stories about tsunamis and share them with
the class next week.
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APPENDİX

KILLER: pronounced "soo-NAH-mee"

Many people have grown up fearing tidal waves. In the past, students might have
rattled off the term "tidal wave" in a list of natural disasters including hurricanes,
forest fires, blizzards, and tornadoes. What many people are learning now is that
"tidal wave" is a vague and general term and that tsunamis actually have nothing
to do with tides. Tsunami is the Japanese word for "harbor wave" and these
waves may reach devastating heights of 100 feet or more.

Unlike storm surges, which are caused by hurricanes, tsunamis are usually
caused by earthquakes in the ocean. These waves can be formed at any time,
without warning, and have been known to lift heavy trucks off the ground when
they hit the coast. They move as fast as 150 to 200 miles per hour. One famous
tsunami that wiped out the town of Hilo, Hawaii in the summer of 1958 killing one
hundred fifty-nine people, was caused by an earthquake-triggered landslide
2,500 miles away in the Aleutian Islands of Alaska. The displacement of water
from that landslide sent the tsunami rolling half way across the Pacific until it hit
something that could slow it down.

You only have to live in a coastal area in order to worry about tsunamis. The
earthquakes that cause them occur on the sea floor, sending energy through the
water that creates small seismic waves. These otherwise unremarkable waves
do not grow and become dangerous until they come into contact with the shallow
waters of coastlines, harbors, or bays.

Some scientists have used the comparison of throwing a pebble into a still pond
as an example of how tsunamis work. If the pebble were a meteorite, the ripples
that travel away from the point of impact would be like the energy that could
create a tsunami in shallow coastal waters. It is also possible for island
volcanoes in the Pacific to cause tsunamis near the coastlines of continents.
Pacific rim volcanoes have particularly explosive eruptions and their ash and lava
can cause landslides in the ocean that can lead to tsunamis.

It is impossible to tell how high a tsunami will be until it hits the shore, which they
do with little or no warning. Although researchers have estimated that a major
tsunami only strikes the West Coast of the United States every 300 to 400 years,
the last was estimated to have been caused by an earthquake in the 1700's and
experts say that coastal towns in states like California are totally unprepared
today and at high risk.

Common safety tips for dealing with tsunamis include heading for higher ground
or the upper stories of high rises or even climbing trees if you have time. You
should not rely on roads for evacuation because highways can become flooded
or get backed up with traffic. The best way out may be on foot. Most importantly,
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if you're in a coastal area and you survive an earthquake, you may want to
prepare for a tsunami as soon as the quake has passed. Also remember that
tsunamis can occur as a series of waves. After Hilo was hit by another tsunami in
1960, many people went back to their houses and got hit by a second wave that
came six hours later. It was this second tsunami, incidentally, that destroyed the
town's power plant.
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VOCABULARY ACTIVITY

Match the words below with their meanings.

1.blizzard a)the act of breaking out or bursting forth.

2.devastating b)hot liquid rock that comes out of volcano
3.pebble c)causing a lot of damage and destruction
4.eruption d)connected with or caused by eartquakes
5.to rattle off e)a smooth,round stone in or near water
6.seismic f)a snowstorm with strong wings
7.harbor g)to say sth. aloud from memory without having
to think hard
8.landslide h)to destroy or remove sth. completely
9.lava i)a mass of earth,rock,etc.that falls down the slop of a mountain
10.wipe out j)an area of water on the coast where ships
shelter

Activity: True or False?

Indicate whether the following sentences are true or false or not included.

1. Tsunamis are extremely large tidal waves.

2. A tsunami is more likely to hit California than islands like Japan or Hawaii.

3. Earthquakes cannot be considered tsunami warnings.

4. It is the lack of depth in coastal waters that give tsunamis their final power.

5. Volcanoes themselves do not directly cause tsunamis.

6. Hilo, Hawaii was hit by two tsunamis in a three-year period.