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Texas Adult Education Standards and Benchmarks
for ABE ASE and ESL Learners

esl LESSON PLANS

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Texas Adult Education Standards
Lesson Plan

Before you begin

Title: Making an Emergency Call

Setting: ESL

NRS Level(s): Level 3: High Beginning

Open entry/exit: Yes

Context: Workplace

Standard(s): Speak So Others Can Understand

Benchmark(s): 1.3, 2.3, 3.3

Objective: To successfully make emergency 911 call

Materials: Cell phones – to use as props

Estimated time needed to prepare for this lesson plan: 20 minutes

Estimated time needed to complete this lesson plan: 1 hour

The Lesson Plan

Introduce the lesson:
As a class, review the importance of making 911 calls at work. Ask the students if any of them have made a 911 and have them discuss this experience.

Teach the lesson:
As a class discuss the different emergency situations that may arise while at the workplace. Also with the class discuss the various types of emergency support that they might interact with when placing a 911 call.

Practice the lesson:
In pairs, have an intermediate or beginner student pretend to make an emergency 911 call while an intermediate or advanced student acts as the dispatcher. The emergency situation should be one that could occur at the workplace.

After making the calls, have each pair discuss to the class what they learned for the activity. Have students practice making “wh” questions and answering “wh” questions

Assess the lesson:
Teacher observation and student feedback of the learning activity.

Apply the lesson to the real world:
Using this hands-on approach will help the students if they are ever in an emergency situation and need to make an emergency 911 call.

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