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Compare and Contrast

Present Perfect Adverbs

ominous, reassure, drought, cringed

Learning Objectives

Task

Grammar

Vocabulary

Narrative Characters

Reading

Very, Very Frightening

Level 8 Unit 8 Lesson 2

Have you ever been without your phone when you really needed it?

Interview

It was the hurricane, it blew the competition away

I asked people what their favorite natural disaster was.

Very Punny

Where should people go during the emergency? What should they do if they don't have a basement?

Listening

Grammar

before now

not now, but planned for the future

not in the past and also not now

at no moment

at any moment

an action completed not very long ago

already The storm has already dumped three feet of rain.

never I have never seen a hurricane.

yet I haven't finished my homework yet, but I'll do it soon.

ever That is the best book I have ever read.

still The water from the flood still hasn't gone down.

just ever never still yet already

just Julia has just called and asked you to call her back.

Adverbs

Just Now

Not Yet!

Reading

What would you do if you didn't have any electricity?

Prereading

She moved carefully up the stairs and pulled the basement door open.

If there is a real emergency, we’re going to need that phone

We used to get an old tire and float into town.”

Catherine opened her phone and turned on the flashlight. There was still no service, so she couldn’t call her brother. She shone the flashlight around the small room in the basement until her grandfather said, “Turn that off. and you’re going to run out of battery.” Catherine turned off the flashlight. In the dark, the sound of the wind was louder and more ominous.

ominous

and my shower could only be 2 minutes long.”

Fright

“I’m sure Nolan is fine,” Catherine said aloud, mostly to reassure herself. “They probably closed the roads and sent everyone somewhere safe for shelter” “You know, back when I was a kid that river used to flood every year. We’d have water in the basement sometimes higher than our heads. “I have never seen the river flooded,” Catherine answered with a frown. “No. They put the dam in about 10 years ago. Now they can control the flow of the water better, so it doesn’t flood.”

reassure

She moved carefully up the stairs and pulled the basement door open.

If there is a real emergency, we’re going to need that phone

We used to get an old tire and float into town.”

and my shower could only be 2 minutes long.”

“I remember how mom’s town always had a drought,” Catherine said, trying to remember the place her mother had grown up. “I remember I used to visit her parents and we weren’t allowed to flush the toilets. We couldn’t grow any vegetables or flowers “Yeah, they had quite a problem down there,” Catherine’s grandfather remarked. They only had that one little stream and by July every year it would be bone dry.

drought

She moved carefully up the stairs and pulled the basement door open.

If there is a real emergency, we’re going to need that phone

We used to get an old tire and float into town.”

and my shower could only be 2 minutes long.”

The wind gusted again against the house and Catherine cringed. A moment later there was a loud cracking sound and then a crash and a thud. The house around them shook and Catherine felt dust fall into her eyes. “What was that?” she shrieked. Catherine grabbed her phone and turned on the flashlight again. What she saw made her cry out.

cringed

She moved carefully up the stairs and pulled the basement door open.

If there is a real emergency, we’re going to need that phone

We used to get an old tire and float into town.”

and my shower could only be 2 minutes long.”

Mother

Grandfather

Catherine

Is the grandfather the father of Catherine's mother or her father? Do we know where Catherine's mother and father are? Do you think they are important to the story?

Character

Vocabulary

threatening and scary

period of having no water

the action you do when you feel fear

try to remove doubt or fear

Matching

cringe

drought

reassure

onimous

reassure

cringe

drought

ominous

Word Bank:

30

The dark, empty field lookedin front of Janit as she stared out into the dark. After the , all of the plants in the field had died and left it cold and barren. A harsh, cold wind gusted across Janit’s face and made her . Janit took a deep breath and tried to herself that everything would be okay.

Fill in the Blanks

Two Truths and a Lie

See Answer

• There has never been a drought in California.
• There can be a drought in one part of the world at the same time as flood in another part of the world.

• Bangladesh is the country in the world with the most floods.

This is completely false! California has many droughts, some that last a period of many years.

The Lie!

There has never been a drought in California.

Practice

Compare and Contrast

Listen to the podcast 2:50 - 5:24

Extension

Exit Interview

Why do people try to reassure themselves or others?

Goodbye!

Thank You!