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bent, deafening, worry, recover, ominous, reassure, drought, cringed, century, supplies, tarp, pelted, shutters, typhoon, knocked off, stitches, ointment, freezer, severe, desperate, survey, motioned, drains, motorway

Assessment

Task

Grammar

Vocabulary

NarrativeAuthor

Reading

Very, Very Frightening

Level 8 Unit 8 Lesson 8
What would you do first if there was an emergency?

Interview

We found a lot of words about tornados. Can you make a pun using any of these words?

Very Punny

What is the audience and the tone of this passage?

Listening

Grammar

Have you ever been in a flood?

Ever/Never

Have you ever seen a tornado?
We have been jumping like this for ten years.
We have been jumping like this since 2013!
sinceto tell a specific moment in timeI have been reading since 1984.
forto tell an amount of timeI have been teaching for 35 years.
What things are you doing now?

For and Since

Not Yet!

When they finally arrive in France,

Predict

By the time the race is over,
Think about a favorite book of movie. What would you have done differently than the main characters?

If I were you,

Well,

Well,

Well,

Reading

What should you do to avoid an injury during a storm?

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
If you were the author, what would happen now?

Author

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

A snake might make you cringe.You cringe when you are happy.Hail could pelt you on the head.The wind could pelt a lake.A tarp could protect a bicycle from rainYou can ride a tarp to work.

Tick

Check

Parents never worry about their children.If someone is lost, you might worry.It is helpful to reassure your friends.Reassuring yourself will make you worry.A dark forest might look ominous.A sunny day always looks ominous.

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
large main highway
place where water goes down
move your body to communicate
look at closely

Matching

drains
mentioned
motorway
survey

motioned

freezer

shutters

typhoon

survey

ointment

Dice Definitions

use movement to communicate

strong window coverings

a place to keep frozen food

a strong storm in the sea

a cream used for medicine

examine something

Practise

Question

or
or
Maybe . . .
I wonder
Present your descriptive paragraph.

Extension

Exit Interview

If you were going to write a story about someone in a natural disaster, what natural disaster would it be?
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