Unit 9 : NATURAL DISASTERS
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Friday, March 18th 2011
Week 29 - Period 54
I/- Brainstorming
Earthquake
1
Typhoon / Hurricane
2
Tornado
3
Snowstorm
4
Volcano
5
Tidal wave
7
Flood
The ring of fire
1. To strike – struck:
2. to collapse:
3. to suck:
II. NEW WORDS
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
Fill in the blanks with suitable words:
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
II. NEW WORDS
1. True or False?
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F
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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.
III. READING:
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
III. READING:
2. Complete the sentences:
IV. POST READING:
1. Earthquake / occur / Pacific Rim
IV. POST READING:
2. Typhoon / tropical storm / accompanied / rain and wind
IV. POST READING:
3. Tornado / funnel-shaped storm / over / land / under / thunderstorm.
IV. POST READING:
4. A tidal wave / the result / abrupt shift / underwater / movement
IV. POST READING:
5. Volcanoes / release / gases / magma / through / craters.


Read the text again.
Learn the new words by heart.
Write what you known about the tsunami in Japan some days ago.
Homework
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