UNIT 9 LESON 3 READ

Thach Hoa secondary
school


earthquake

Tidal wave

Volcano

Tornado

Drought

Ice rain

Typhoon

Flood

Snowstorm


Wednesday, March 23rd
2012

UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
Period 56

LESSON 3: READ
1. New words:

Wdnesday, March 23rd
Period 56
2012 - LESSON 3: READ
UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
1. New words:
Pacific Rim (Ring of
vành đai (lửa)Thái Bình D
Fire):
ơng
sụp đổ
collapse (v): sóng
thần
tidal wave (n):
bất ngờ, đột
abrupt (adj):
ngột
sự dịch
shift (n):chuyển
lốc xoáy
tornado (n):
có hình
phễu
funnel- shaped (adj):
hút lên
suck up (v):
phun, sự phun
erupt (v)- eruption trào

Tuesday, March 23rd
UNIT 9: NATURAL2010
DISASTERS
Period 56

LESSON 3: READ
1.New words:
2. Read:


rd
Tuesday,
March
23
Period 56
2010 - LESSON 3:
UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTERS
READ
Complete the table with the passage
numbers:
Sentences
Passage

a. It is called hurricane or cyclone when
it reaches 120 kilometers per hour.
b. It is a funnel- shaped storm and it can
suck up anything that is in its path.
c. It was the world’s largest volcanic
eruption in more than 50 years.

d. It is the result of an abrupt shift in the
underwater movement of the earth.
e. It caused severe damage in Kobe in
1995.

3.
Typhoons
5.
Tornadoes
4. Volcanoes
2. Tidal
waves
1.
Earthquakes


LESSON 3: READ
1.New words:
2. Read:
a. Tick True or False?


Wednesday, March 23rd
Period 56
UNIT 9: NATURAL
DISASTERS - LESSON 3:
2012
a. True or False?
READ
1. Most of the earthquakes in the world occur

in the Ring of Fire.
2. The earthquake in Kobe in 1995 caused
severe damage.
California
3. A huge tidal wave traveledAlaska
from to to
California
Alaska
and hit Anchorage in the 1960s.

T
T
F

4. Typhoon, hurricane and tropical storm are
different words for the same natural disaster.T
was
the
is
the
world’s
5. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo
F
world’s
largest
largest volcanic
ever volcanic
eruption in more
than 50
years.

eruption.
6. A tornado looks like a funnel.
T


Tuesday,23rd March
UNIT 9: NATURAL2010
DISASTERS
Period 56

LESSON 3: READ
1.New words:
2. Read:
a. Tick True or False?
b. Complete the sentences.


Tuesday, March 23rd 2010
Period 56 UNIT 9 (cont): LESSON 3:
READ
b. Complete
the sentences.
occur
1. The majority of
around the Pacific Rim.
earthquakes……………………...........

2. During the earthquake in Kobe,
people
many………………

were killed when homes, office blocks and
highways
collapsed.
there
3. A tidal wave
can only occur
is an abrupt
shift in the underwater
when………………………
movement of the earth.
a cyclone
4. In Australia, a tropical storm is known
as…………...
5. The Chinese language gavethe
us word
“typhoon”
……………………......
passes
6. A tornado is a type of storm that………………….....
overland
below a thunderstorm and sucks up anything
that is in


Tuesday, March 23rd
UNIT 9: NATURAL2010
DISASTERS
Period 56

LESSON 3: READ

1.New words:
2. Read:
a. Tick True or False?
b. Complete the sentences.
3. Further practice.


Complete each sentence with a correct name of
natural disaster:
earthquak
1. The …………………….of
January 2010 in
e over 300.000 people.
Haiti killed

2. In 2001, a hugetidal
…………………. hit Bali in
wave
Indonesia and caused
severe damage.
tornadoe
3. Most of disastrous…………………
occur
in North America. s


- Learn new words by heart
- Do again all the exercises
- Be ready for the next
lesson

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