Activity 5. Create an Acitivty.

Activity : Make an investigation on the earthquake in Japan.

Topic: Earthquake in Japan.

Aim : Writing,speaking and reading skills.

Age group: 20-25 years.

English level: B1-B2

Time : 2 hours.

Object of activity:

a) Prepare students for the knowledge of scientific technicalities, in which case the terms of the geography about the earthquake.


b) Prepare students to have a clear pattern on the knowledge of the earthquake.
Will assess the ability to synthesis and the ability to answer to specific questions about the research topic.


Procedure :

• Students will gather information on the earthquake in japan.
• Below will need to do a search on the characteristics and the causes of the earthquake an tsunami as a natural phenomena.
Fox example,what is an earthquake, what causes an earthquake, what are the stages of the earthquake ...etc..

• Make a summary of the carnage caused by these natural phenomena and see the solutions that can be used to defend ourselves better from earthquakes.
• Read up on the differences between the earthquake and tsunami.
• Make a vocabolary with the technical terms unknown.

In class read a text with the differences and similarities between the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and Sumatra in 2004 and will answer questions.


Students can refer to this page : http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3755883

Chiara,Gerard & Laura.