CATCH-UP FRIDAY
PLAN of ACTIVITIES
March 8, 2024
I.PRE- READING
Activity 1. Building up Vocabulary
Search the meaning of the given words through a relay
- Divide the class into a desired number of groups and have them prepare a dictionary for their
group. Each group will fall in line and take turns to search and write the meanings of the words
for 1 minute. The first group that gives the correct meanings of the 10 words will win the game.
WORDS:
1. Meteorologist
2. Basement
3. Flood
4. Calamity
5. Peek
6. Weather
7. Pump
8. Investigate
9. Immediately
10. Mess
Activity 2. Predicting the Text
- Raise motivational questions to elicit responses:
Ask: What are the calamities usually experienced in the Philippines?
The teacher will show a short video clip about a Typhoon https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=rxmHNuky0hU
Ask: 1. What can you say about that news?
2. What do you think is the aftermath of Typhoon Yolanda?
3. Do you know what to do before, during, and after a calamity like a Typhoon?
(Students will share their answers in the class or if there is enough time the teacher can
also group the students into 3 groups and have them think/share their ideas. Group 1 – before;
Group 2 – During; Group 3 – After and let them present their ideas in the class)
The teacher will show the video in the class after their presentation.
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4. What do you think is the text we will read today about?
II. DURING READING
Activity 3. Previewing the Text
- The students will be given a copy of the reading passage.
- Have the class read the passage “After the Flood”.
- 30 minutes for Silent Reading and another 30 minutes for Oral Reading (The teacher can use
the strategy Round Robin Class Reading, where a student can call out a name to read the next
sentence until all students in the class have read sentences in the story)
- After reading, ask the following questions to check the students’ comprehension.
a. How did Vicky’s understanding of a flood change?
b. Why did Vicky’s parents put a note on the refrigerator telling her not to open it?
c. What other items besides clothes might Vicky and her family be able to donate to victims
of the flood?
d. What would you do for an entire day without power?
e. What value/s can you get from the story?
III. POST READING
Activity 4. Role Playing
-Students will be divided into the desired number of groups. Each group will choose a scenario in
the story to act out. They will be given enough time to plan and make their dialogue/scripts based on
the scenario.
Rubric for Grading
AFTER THE
FLOOD
Reading about weather in books is one thing, but living through a natural disaster was another.
Even though the flood was not too bad, I was not prepared for what it was really like! It all
started two days ago. It was a rainy day, like every other rainy day I’ve ever remembered. The
only unusual thing was how anxious the adults seemed to be getting. I started to pay more
attention whenever I saw the news on at our house, at a restaurant, or anywhere else. The
meteorologists kept saying that the rain hadn’t stopped in a long time, and it didn’t look like it
was going to stop anytime soon. I didn’t really know what that meant for us, since Mom was
always saying that rain was good for all the plants. The next morning, however, I began to
understand. I woke up and went down for breakfast. Usually, Mom or Dad was already eating
by the time that I woke up, but neither of them was at the kitchen table, and the lights all over
the house were off. This is weird, I thought. I went to get out the milk, but there was a note on
the refrigerator telling me not to open the door. As I was wondering what I could eat for
breakfast, I noticed that the rain was still going, and that I could hear noises coming from the
basement. I went to investigate. Peeking through the basement door, I immediately stopped.
There was water down there! It didn’t look like a lot, but there were toys and things floating by!
I could hear Mom and Dad’s voices. “Hello? What’s going on down here?” I called down the
stairs. “Good morning, Vicky. All of this rain is causing some problems. The power all over
town is out. Our basement is flooded, and so are some of the roads. A lot of houses have water
in them, too,” Dad called back.
A little water didn’t seem too bad, and the power had gone out before, so I wasn’t too worried.
Mom and Dad seemed to be taking care of it. They were talking about a pump, so I think they
were getting the water out of the basement. I went to go play in my room. Not too long after,
Mom and Dad came back upstairs, changed their clothes, and washed their hands using hand
sanitizer. I asked them what was going on. “Well, we pumped the water out by hand, but there’s
some damage downstairs. We’re going to have to find some fans once the power comes back to
try to dry out the basement as much as we can, but we might have to tear out the drywall and
replace it. There are things that got all wet that we’re going to have to replace, too. It’s quite the
mess,” Mom said. “We’re also going to have to see if we can get a generator, it looks like the
power will probably be out for the rest of the day.” We decided to drive around to see how other
people in our town were doing. There were a lot of roads that were closed because of water
covering the road, so we couldn’t get to the store. One bridge over the river was closed because
water was rushing over it! The houses by the river looked like they were in the river. We stopped
to help people who were filling bags with sand. The bags helped to keep the water away. They
said their neighbors across the street were in another town living with relatives until their house
could be repaired. I couldn’t believe how much the flood was affecting us! When we finished
filling up sandbags, we drove back home. “I can’t believe those people lost all their clothes and
household items. We should go through our stuff and see what we can donate. We’re lucky we
only had a couple of inches of water in our basement, it could have been a lot worse,” said Dad.
Mom and I agreed. Even though we didn’t have power and fixing the basement could get
expensive, we were lucky.
