Unit 9. Natural disaters

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UNIT 9. NATURAL DISASTERS
Period 56. Read
Vocabulary
collapse (v)
Match the words to the correct pictures
typhoon
volcano
earthquake
tidal wave
tornado
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I. Complete the sentences with the words from the passage.
In 1995, a big earthquake struck a city in ________
A tidal wave occurred in Alaska in the ________
A 120km per hour-storm is called a typhoon in Asia, a__________ in North and South America, a __________ in Australia.
____________, which is a volcano in the Philippines, erupted in 1991.
A tornado is a ___________ storm.
Japan
1960s
hurricane
cyclone
Mount Pinatubo
funnel-shaped
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II.Match the words in column A to those in B.
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1.The majority of earthqukes… a. there is an underwater abrupt shift.
2.During the earthquake in b. a cyclone.
Kobe, many…
3.A tidal wave can only occur c. occur around the Pacific when… Rim.
4.In Australia, a tropical storm d. people died.
is known as…
5.The Chinese language e. the word “typhoon”.
gave us…
6. A tornado is a type of storm f. pass overland below a that... thunderstorm and can suck up anything.





III.True (T) or false (F)?
Most of the earthquakes in the world
occur in the Ring of Rire.
A tidal wave traveled from California to Alaska and hit Anchorage in the 1960s.
A tornado looks like a funnel.
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Alaska to California
IV.Answer the questions.

. What does “Typhoon” mean in Chinese?
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Did a tornado lift a baby and put him down safely 100 meters away in Italia in 1981?
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It means “big wind”.
Yes, it did.
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homework
Do ex.a/79
Prepare the next lesson “Language focus”

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