Unit 9: Nature Disasters

carriage n: đánh phá sập, đổ sập hút, mút bất ngờ sự chuyển dịch bão lớn phun trào có hình phễu xe nôi... A huge tsunami ……… the city of Sendai in Japan a week ago.. Many facilities ………

Friday, March 18th 2011

Week 29 - Period 54

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I/- Brainstorming

The ring of fire

1 To strike – struck:

2 to collapse:

3 to suck:

4 abrupt:

5 Shift (n):

6 hurricane:

7 cyclone:

8 to erupt:

9 funnel – shaped (adj)

10 carriage (n):

đánh phá sập, đổ sập hút, mút

bất ngờ

sự chuyển dịch

bão lớn phun trào

có hình phễu

xe nôi

1 A huge tsunami ……… the city of Sendai in Japan a week ago.

2 Many facilities ……… after the tsunami.

3 The Mount of Vesuvius………in 79 AD and destroyed Pompeii.

4 Scientists can predict the volcanic………

5 Babies like being taken out in the ………

struck

collapsed

erupted

eruption carriage

1- Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in

the Ring of Fire.

2- The earthquakes in Kobe in 1995 caused

severe damage.

different words for the same natural disaster.

6 A tornado looks like a funnel.

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3 A huge tidal wave traveled from Alaska to

California and hit Anchorage in the 1960s.

3- A huge tidal wave traveled from California

to Alaska and hit Anchorage in the 1960s.

5- The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philipine is the

world’s largest ever volcanic eruption in more than 50 years. 5- The eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philipine

is the world’s largest ever volcanic eruption.

1 The majority of earthquakes………

2 During the earthquakes 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

and lots of houses, office blocks ang highways collapsed

people died

underwater movement of the Earth

there’s an abrupt shift in the

the meaning of the word “Typhoon”

a cyclone

passes overland below a thunderstorm

has a shape like a funnel and

1 Earthquake / occur / Pacific Rim

2 Typhoon / tropical storm / accompanied / rain and wind

3 Tornado / funnel-shaped storm / over / land / under / thunderstorm.

4 A tidal wave / the result / abrupt shift / underwater / movement

5 Volcanoes / release / gases / magma / through / craters.

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•Read the text again.

•Learn the new words by heart.

•Write what you known about the

tsunami in Japan some days ago.

good Luck to you

Goodbye

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