Materials/Supplies

Telephones, phonebooks, pictures

Contributors & Organizations

1. Teresa Gonzalez, NHS
2. Sandra Stevens, HCDE
3. Bart Busker, HCC,
4. Charlie Tolliver, HCC
5. Jennifer Jones, HCDE
6. Charlene Molnar, HCDE & NHC

Objective

Student will be able to respond to emergencies and report them. Will be able to identify ways to protect self and family.

Vocabulary

ambulance, emergency, fire department, first aid, crime, rob, mug, break-in, steal

Text Books

Life Prints
Real Life English
Ready to Go

Activity/Procedures:

Warm-up: Review pictures and vocabulary from part one.

Introduction:

A. Audiotape of actual 911 emergency! Demonstrate a 911 phone call.
B. Introduce new vocabulary and drill.
C. Present dialog or text: prepare students for practice reporting emergencies.

1. Help victim
2. Use phone
3. Call 911 and report

Put in mixed level groups of 3 or 4. Write a dialog showing how to respond to an emergency and report it.

Other Resources

Guest speakers from fire, police, poison control

Evaluation/Assessment

1. Ask and discuss: what happened? How could it be prevented?
2. Matching type quiz putting pictures with appropriate responses.

Grammatical Focus

• Direct address
• Active verbs
• Present and Past Tenses