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Tip #4: Emergency
Contacts
Purpose: To review family vocabulary and relationships; to discuss the importance of emergency contact lists; to create an emergency contact list.
Preparation Time: none
Materials: paper and
pencils; a sample emergency contact list
Procedure:
- Learners create a table with the
following headings: name, age, relationship, phone number.
- Learners make a list in the names column
of people in their family.
- Learners complete the table.
- Conduct a classroom discussion about the
need for emergency contacts, situations they may be necessary in, what
things to consider in choosing an emergency contact, etc.
- Each learner chooses two people from the
list to be emergency contacts.
- Learners share why they chose those two people.
- Learners get a half-sheet of paper and write Emergency Contact List at the top.
- Learners copy the information for their
contacts.
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