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Problems and Solutions

Present Perfect Future Continuous

shutters, typhoon, knock off, stitches

Learning Objectives

Task

Grammar

Vocabulary

NarrativePerspective

Reading

Very, Very Frightening

Level 8 Unit 8 Lesson 4

Have you ever been somewhere very, very windy?

Interview

when the wind causes something to move

amaze

blow away

blow away

Very Punny

avalanches won by a landslide.

I asked people what their favorite natural disaster was,

Very Punny

Did speaker B go skiing the day before?Why or why not?

Listening

Grammar

Used to predict how long you will do an action if you continue doing it.

if I continue sitting, by tomorrow, I will have been sitting for three days.

will + have + been + ingIf I keep reading, tomorrow I will have been reading for 3 weeks straight.

I am sitting now. I started sitting yesterday.I have been sitting for two days,

Future Present Perfect Continuous

I started living in my house in 2020. I am still living there now. If I live in my house until 2026, how long will I have been living here?

How Long?

When they finally arrive in France,

Predict

By the time the race is over,

Reading

What are some dangers of broken glass?

Prereading

over to close the wooden shutters attached to the window. “We should have shut these before we started,” he muttered. Catherine nodded, and then cringed in pain. She put her hand to her head. “Don't you worry about your head,” he told his granddaughter calmly. “I have done a lot of first aid.”

shutters

The glass in the window came flying into the room and hit Catherine in the legs. The gust of wind knocked her off the stool and she hit the side of her head on the wall before she fell to the ground. Her grandfather reached

Fright

“You know, when I was in the navy,” her grandfather began. “There was a typhoon. It was pretty similar to this, actually. We were all sitting around listening to the wind, and then Buddy Joels opened up the front door.

typhoon

Catherine sat up slowly. Her head hurt and her eyes were blurry. She wasn’t sure if she was standing up or sitting down and she thought she might throw up. The side of her head had a large gash and blood was dripping down onto her shirt.

smiled. “We were miles away from a hospital and there was no way we could travel anywhere, with the wind and the rain like they were. So do you know what I did?”

knock off

That wind came in faster than anything you’ve ever felt before. It knocked a picture right off the wall and it flew across the room and hit Buddy hard, right on the side of the head. Same place just like you.” Catherine’s grandfather

you think we’ll have to do the same for you?” Catherine held her hand to her head and felt the sticky, red mess. “I guess we’re going to have to,” she replied.

stitches

Catherine smiled weakly. What she thought her grandfather had done filled her with dread. “Well, I’ll tell you. I got a piece of string and a needle and I sewed some stitches into Buddy’s head. Otherwise, who knows what might have happened to him. Do

Gave him stitches

Took him to the hospital

Gave him a hug

All of the below

A piece of glass

A piece of the wall

A hospital bed

A picture from the wall

A typhoon he saw in the navy

A tornado he saw when he was a teenager.

A typhoon he saw the year before

A flood he saw as a child

On Catherine's legs

In Grandpa's head

In the shutters

Out of the window

What did Catherine’s granddad do to help his friend?

What hit Buddy in the head?

What does Catherine's granddad compare the storm to?

Where did the glass that flew in the window land?

Comprehension

Check

What do you think grandpa's perspective is on this storm?

Past Experiences

Past Job

Perspective

Vocabulary

strong window coverings

sewing done to close a cut

strong storm in the sea or ocean

make something fall off of its place

Matching

typhoon

knocked off

stitches

shutters

shutters

All of my windows...

I built green panels around the outside of all of my windows.

stitches

The doctor ...

John needed the doctor to sew the cut on his head to stop the bleeding.

knock off

The cat ...

The cup was knocked off the table by the cat.

typhoon

The ...

The boat was completely destroyed by the huge tropical storm.

Restate

Practice

Problems and Solutions

What are possible solutions?

PeoplePetsElectricityFoodWaterInjuries???

Solutions

Problem

Choose a natural disaster and write a descriptive paragraph about what it might look like after the disaster occurs.

Extension

Exit Interview

Why do authors use descriptive adjectives and literary devices?

Goodbye!

Thank You!