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One Student writes new words.
Another answers:
What should you do before a typhoon coming?
(We should buy candles, matches, a ladder, canned food, check the windows, door, fix the leak on the roof, fill the buckets with water, etc.)
Lesson 3: READ
Unit 9 Natural Disasters
Friday, March 11th, 2016
drought
Thunderstorm
volcano
snowstorm
flood
typhoon
earthquake
Match the names with the following disasters:
1
2
3
7
6
4
5
UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
Lesson 3: READ
I. New words:
1. to strike:
va chạm
2. a tornado:
cơn lốc xoáy
3. funnel-shaped:
dạng hình phễu
4. to suck up:
hút lên
5. a tidal waves:
sóng thần
6. shift:
sự chuyển dịch
7. an earthquake:
động đất
1. earthquake
2. Tidal wave
3. tornado
4. volcano
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c
b
d
1. Earthquakes: Ninety percent of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim, which is known as the “Ring of Fire. In 1995, a huge earthquake struck the city of Kobe in Japan. A large number of people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed.

2. Tide waves: Tidal waves are the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth. In the 1960s, a huge tidal wave hit Anchorage, Alaska. The tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California!
3. Typhoon: When a tropical storm reaches 120 kilometers per hour, it is called a hurricane in North and South America, a cyclone in Australia, and typhoon in Asia. The word “typhoon” comes from Chinese: tai means “big” and feng means “wind”, so the word “typhoon” means “big wind”.
4. Volcanoes: We can usually predict when a volcano will erupt, Mount Pinatubo, which is a volcano in the Philippines, erupted in 1991. It was the world’s largest volcanic eruption in more than 50 years. Hundreds of people died, but were thousands were saved because scientists had warned them about the eruption.
5. Tornadoes: Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms which pass overland below a thunderstorm. They can suck up everything that in their path. In Italy in 1981, a tornado lifted a baby, who was asleep in a baby carriage, into the air and put it down safely 100 meters away.
II. Complete the table.
1995
Tidal waves
Kobe
Mount Pinatubo
1991
Tornado
1981
Natural disasters
Earthquakes
Enchorage
1960s
Volcanoes
Italy
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Review the Relative Clauses.
Learn by heart: new words.
Prepare Ex 1 (language focus).
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