UNIT 8 READ

Can you name some natural disasters you know?Tornado volcano snowstorm earthquake tidal wave typhoon... *Checking Vocabulary:Tidal wave n sóng thần abrupt adj bất ngờ, đột ngột shift n s

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Teacher: Trần Hữu Sơn

TRƯỜNG THCS VĨNH TÂN TỔ ANH-GDCD-HOẠ-NHẠC

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Tuesday , April 7 th , 2009

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Match the pictures to the correct words

Can you name some natural disasters you know?

Tornado

volcano

snowstorm earthquake

tidal wave typhoon

I/ Vocabulary:

 the Pacific Rim (n)

 collapse (v)

 abrupt shift (n)

 hurricane (n)

= cylone

= typhoon

 erupt (v)

 eruption (n)

 funnel- shaped (adj)

 suck up (v)

 baby carried (n)

Lòng chảo Thái Bình Dương

*Checking Vocabulary:

Tidal wave (n) sóng thần

abrupt (adj) bất ngờ, đột ngột

shift (n) sự chuyển dịch, thay đổi

warn (v) cảnh báo, báo trước

phun trào, sự phun

erupt (v) eruption (n)

cơn lốc xoáy

tornado (n)

funnel-shaped (adj) có hình phểu

hút lên

suck up (v)

 baby carried (n) Xe nôi em bé

the Pacific Rim (n) Vành đai lừa Thái Bình Dương

 A) True or False ? Check ( ) in the boxes 

1 Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in the

Ring of Fire.

2 The earthquake in Kobe in 1995 caused severe

damage.

3 A huge tidal wave traveled from California to

Alaska and hit Anchorage in the 1960s.

4 Typhoon, hurricane and tropical storm are

different words for the same natural disaster.

5 The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world’s

largest ever volcanic eruption.

6 A tornado look like a funnel.

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( from Alaska to California )

( in more than 50 years )

II PractiSe IN PAIR (a)

B) Complete the sentences

1 The majority of earthquakes ………

2 During the earthquake in Kobe, many………

3 A tidal wave can only occur when………

4 In Australia, a tropical storm is known as……

5 The Chinese language gave us………

6 A tornado is a type of storm that ……….

II PractiSe IN GROUPS (B)

 B) Complete the sentences

1 The majority of earthquakes …

2 During the earthquake in Kobe, many …

3 A tidal wave can only occur when …

4 In Australia, a tropical storm is known as …

5 The Chinese language gave us …

6 A tornado is a type of storm that …

occur around the Pacific Rim, known as a Ring of Fire.

houses, office

buildings and highways collapsed

there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth

a cyclone.

the word “typhoon”

has a funnel shape and suck

up anything in its way

I/ Vocabulary:

II Practice (a)&(b)

IIi further Practice

1 An earthquake which happened in China in 1556 killed

approximately 830.000 people

2 Volcanoes, which are not only on the earth's face but also in the ocean, grow bigger and bigger every year.

 HOMEWORK

- Do all the exercises

- Learn new words.