Unit 9. Natural disaters

Welcome to our class
Wednesday, March 25th 2009
UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTER
LESSON 4: write
It’s a noun. It has 7 letters. The children are very fond of them.
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LOSE
WIN
What is the story about?
The dog with the coming typhoon.
What was the weather like?
Perfect (adj)= very nice
What was the dog doing?
Run around in circles
Shelter (n)
How did Lan feel?
Scared (adj)
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Ordering the pictures
It/ beautiful day. Sun/shine.
Sky/ blue. Weather/ perfect. Lan/
outside/ play/ her dog/ Skippy
All of a sudden/ dog/ behaved
strangely.
She/ keep/ run around in circles
Lan/run/ home/with/dog/tell
/mother/ what Skippy/ do. Lan’s
mother- Mrs. Queyn/tell Lan/she/
Hear/on TV/ there/be/typhoon
coming

Suddenly /sky/become/very dark.
Strom/come/with strong winds/
Heavy rain/ Mrs. Quyen/family/
Scared.
Mrs. Quyen/gather/family/tell/
They/find/shelter/in the home
But/soon/storm/finish. Everyone/
glad./What/clever dog/ Skippy! She/
Save Lan/from/catch/in/typhoon
It/ beautiful day. Sun/shine.
Sky/ blue. Weather/
perfect. Lan/
outside/ play/ her dog/
Skippy
All of a sudden/ dog/
behaved strangely.
She/ keep/
run around in circles

Lan/run/ home/with/dog/tell
/mother/ what Skippy/ do.
Lan’s mother- Mrs. Queyn/
tell Lan/she/hear/on TV/
there/be/typhoon coming

Suddenly /sky/become/
very dark. Strom/come/
with strong winds/
heavy rain/ Mrs. Quyen/
family/ Scared.
Mrs. Quyen/gather
/family/tell/they/find/
shelter/in the home
But/soon/storm/finish.
Everyone/glad./
What/clever dog/ Skippy!
She/Save Lan/from/
catch/in/typhoon
It was a beautiful day. The sun was shining (shiny), the sky was blue and the weather was perfect. Lan was outside playing with her dog, Skippy. All of a sudden, the dog began behaving strangely. She kept running around circles. Lan ran home with her dog to tell her mother what Skippy was doing. Lan’s mother, Mrs. Quyen, told Lan that she heard on TV that there was a typhoon coming. Mrs. Quyen gathered her family and told them to find shelter in the house.
Suddenly, the sky became very dark. The storm came with strong wind and heavy rain. Mrs. Quyen and her family were scared, but soon the storm finished and everyone was glad. What a clever dog Skippy!. She saved Lan from being caught in the typhoon.
Sample Writing:
How did the dog behave before the coming typhoon?
What did Mrs. Quyen do?
How was the storm?
What did everyone feel when the storm finished? How did they think about the dog?

ANSWER THE QUESTIONS
Group 1
Group 2
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- Write again the story
- Prepare lesson LANGUAGE FOCUS
Relatives Pronouns: who, which, that
Relative clauses

HOME WORK
How did the dog behave before
the coming typhoon?
The dog behaved strangely.
She kept running around in circles.
How was the storm?
The storm came with strong winds and heavy rain

You get 3 stars
You get 3 stars
What did Mrs. Quyen do?
Mrs. Quyen gathered her family and told that
they should find a shelter in the home
What did everyone feel when the storm finished ?
How did they think about the dog?
Everyone was glad. The dog is very clever, she
saved Lan from being caught in the typhoon