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Môn :Tiếng Anh 9
Teacher: Nguyen Phu Duc
Let`s listen to the song "It`s a small world"!!!
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
There are a lot of natural disasters in the world. These are pictures about them.
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
Match natural disasters to the correct pictures.
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5
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Work in groups:
2 - earthquake
1 - Tornado
3 - volcano
5 - Tidal wave
4 - typhoon
Answers:
Are these natural disasters dangerous in our life?
What kinds of natural disasters are there in Viet nam?
Look at the text on page 78, listen to the tape and find the new words.
I. Vocabulary
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
Earthquake:
Tidal wave:
Volcano:
- strike - struck - struck(v): đánh, tàn phá
- collapse (v): sụp đổ
- shift (n): sự chuyển dịch
Typhoon = Hurricane = Cyclone: bão nhiệt đới
- Eruption (n)
Tornado:
- Suck up (v): hút
- Baby carriage(n) xe nôi
- Pacific Rim (n): vòng đai TháI Bình Dương
- abrupt (a): bất ngờ
- Erupt (v): phun trào
- Funnel - shaped (a): có hình phễu
I. Vocabulary
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
II. Reading
1. True or False? Check (V) the boxes. Correct the false statements (exercise 5a on page 79).
1. Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in 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. Tornado looks like a funnel.
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Work individually.
1. Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in 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. Tornado looks like a funnel.
=> The tidal wave traveled from Alaska to California
The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world`s largest volcanic eruption in more than 50 years.






I. Vocabulary
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
II. Reading
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
people were killed when homes, office blocks and highways collapsed
there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth
a cyclone
the word typhoon
passes overland below a
thunderstorm and sucks up anything that is in its path.
2. Complete the sentences (exercise 5b on page 79).
1. True or False? Check (V) the boxes. Correct the false statements (exercise 5a on page 79).
I. Vocabulary
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
II. Reading
2. Complete the sentences (exercise 5b on page 79).
Questions
1. Why do people call the Pacific Rim "Ring of Fire"?
2. What will happen when there is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the earth?
3. What does "typhoon" mean?
Because 90% of earthquakes occur around the Pacific Rim.
Tidal waves will happen.
It means "big wind".
1. True or False? Check (V) the boxes. Correct the false statements (exercise 5a on page 79).
Do you know about volcano and earthquake facts?
1. Volcano
- On the surface the earth: over 1500 active volcanoes
- In the ocean: about 10000 volcanoes.
- Mauna Loa in Hawaii is the biggest volcano.
- Indonesia has the most volcanoes.
- Now a day; 500 million people live close to active volcanoes.
2. Earthquake
Earthquake occur in about 800 kilometers deep.
The largest earthquake was in Chile: Richter 9,5.
An earthquake in China in 1556 killed 830000 people.
Some animals such: dogs, cats, snakes and horses have been known to behave stangely before a Earthquake
III. Home work
I. Vocabulary
Unit 9: Natural disasters
Lesson 4: Read
II. Readung
Learn by heart all the new words.
Redo exercise a, b (page 79).
Prepare part "Writing" (Unit 9).