Planning Guide: NCP: English

Speaking & Listening

4.4 Discuss differences between disaster and accident.
Discuss any prior knowledge of Cyclone Tracey.
Discuss how people prepare against a natural disaster.
3.1 Retell scenes from videos
Report to class on group projects.

Reading & Viewing

3.5 4.5 Reading and discussion of texts.
Find information from texts.
Group discussion of Big Book - Natural Disasters.
View videos.
Read for information from comprehension sheets.
Scenario for what they would do in a bushfire. Without Warning p 9-10
4.8b Search newspaper articles.

Writing

3.11 Story writing. (Winning award)
Poetry writing.
3.12b Checking dictionary meanings.
Catastrophe words for spelling and defining.
3.12a Write descriptive paragraphson phenomena.
Diary writing.
Brainstorming.
Note taking from video/internet.
Newspaper articles.