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Typhoon = Tropical storm: Bão nhiệt đới
Forest fire: cháy rừng
Unit 9: Natural disasters – A closer look 1
 
A closer look 1
I. Vocabulary
1, Fill each blank with a suitable verb in the correct form from the box below. Then listen, check and repeat
1, Fill each blank with a suitable verb in the correct form from the box below. Then listen, check and repeat
1. Yesterday, a terrible storm the rural area of Ha Giang Province.
2. Villagers rushed into public shelters as soon as the volcano .
3. Hundreds of buildings were completely destroyed when the earthquake the city.
4. The mudslide the whole village while people were still sleeping in their houses.
5. The forest fire for eight hours and some animals were badly injured or killed.
6. We managed to run out of the house into the street before the walls .
struck
buried
shook
erupted
collapsed
raged
2, Match the verbs in column A to the nouns in column B. Then listen, check and repeat
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B
2, take
3, evacuate
4, provide
5, put out
e. aid
d. shelter
c. the forest fire
b. debris
a. The village
1, scatter
3, Now use the phrases in 2 in the correct form to complete the sentences.
1. The rescue workers set up a camp to for the flood victims.
2. On the second day, there was a rainstorm which helped to
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3. When the storm started, they in a cave.
4. As the tornado moved through the town, high winds across the streets.
5. The police had to to public shelters before the volcano started to erupt.
provide aid
put out the forest fire
evacuate the village
scattered debris
took shelter
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II. Pronunciation: Stress in words ending –logy and –graphy
4, Listen and repeat these words. Pay attention to the stressed syllables
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5, Listen and mark the stress on the correct syllable in words below. Pay attention to –logy and -graphy
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6, Read the following sentences and mark (‘) the stressed syllable in the underlined words. Then listen and repeat the sentences.
1.We are studying the geography of Asia.
2. I had a biology lesson this afternoon.
3. They share a common interest in photography.
4. A biography is a book that tells the story of someone`s life, written by someone else.
5. Zoology is the scientific study of animals and their behaviour.
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