Communication your views on natural diasters

Communication Your views on natural diasters Unit 9 Natural disasters Communication Your views on natural disasters GAME Write the NATURAL DISASTERS KIM’S GAME flood tsunami mudslide drought forest fi.

Unit 9: Natural disasters

Communication Your views on natural disasters

Write the NATURAL DISASTERS

KIM’S GAME

forest fire tornado volcano earthquake

I Vocabulary

• Climate change : biến đổi khí h u ậ

• Victim : nạn nhân

• Be affected bị ảnh hưởng

• Be reported được công bố

• Deal with đối phó với/giải quyết

1 Listen to a radio programme on 4Teen News

Then fill the gaps with the words you hear

Sarah

• I think there are more natural disasters now

than there used to be Whenever I watch the news on TV, I see places that are (1)

………or affected by drought I am

certain this is the result of climate change

and global (2)……….

flooded

Warming

• I do not think that there are more natural

disasters now than in the past But more are being reported on the news in shorter time periods We have seen them so often on the news that we have become (3)………to

• I think recent earthquakes and tsunamis just

show how (4)……….we are to deal with them Despite all the technology and

knowledge available to us nowadays, many people become victims of natural disasters.

unprepared

• I do not think we can prepare for natural

disasters as nobody knows when or where they are going to strike It’s Nature’s way of (5)………us who is in charge and that

we should show more respect to the natural environment.

Reminding

2 Read the listener’s views on natural disasters again and decide who you agree with and who you disagree

with

3 Answer the two questions Express your own

views and write them down below

I think that there are more natural disasters than in the past The reason is that people made many harmful things to

environment such as reforestation, waste dumping these affects badly to environment and causes natural disasters.

4 Work in pairs Now compare your views with

a partner Do you share the same views?