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Natural Disasters

The document provides information about various natural disasters including droughts, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, and avalanches. It includes pictures matching disasters to words, lists of which disasters involve heat, earth movements, winds, or water. There are also short descriptions of people experiencing different disasters and exercises matching the disasters to sentences and headlines. The key at the bottom provides answers to the matching exercises.

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Natural Disasters

The document provides information about various natural disasters including droughts, earthquakes, floods, volcanic eruptions, and avalanches. It includes pictures matching disasters to words, lists of which disasters involve heat, earth movements, winds, or water. There are also short descriptions of people experiencing different disasters and exercises matching the disasters to sentences and headlines. The key at the bottom provides answers to the matching exercises.

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Natural

2 3 4
disasters
1) Match the pictures with 7 of the words
1

below.
avalanche / drought / earthquake / famine /
flood / forest fir e / hurricane / landslide /
tornado / tsunami / volcanic eruption / disease

5 6 7
2) Which of the natural disasters involve:
3) Decide which natural disaster (ex.1)
1. very hot temperatures? _______________
each person below is speaking about.
______________________________________
2. rocks or earth moving?
1. Mark: If food doesn’t reach the poorest
________________
region in the south of the country, then a lot
______________________________________
of people will die of hunger.
3. strong winds? _______________________
______________________________________
4. water (in any form) or no water ________ 2. Tom: It hasn’t rained 3. Ann: The flames
______________________________________ for over five months in this swept through the dry
part of Africa. The crops forest, destroying
4.____________________________________
Sarah: Heavy rains caused tones of are dying in the fields. hundreds of hectares of
rock and mud to slide down the trees.
mountainside, destroying a road and a
railway line. 6. John: The eruption started at 2 p.m. The
mountainside exploded and millions of tones of
5. Alan: We were skiing in the Alps when the snow lava flowed down into the sea.
on the slope above us started to slide down towards us.

7. Jane: It starts with a bad headache and


sickness. People usually recover if they see a doctor
4) Match 1-7 with a-g to make sentences. quickly.
1. The volcanic eruption has destroyed ________
5) Match the headlines (1-5) with the
2. A year without rain has caused ________
natural disasters in the box.
3. Doctors in the area ________
earthquake / drought / avalanche
4. The United Nations is sending food aid to ______ / famine / volcanic eruption / flood

5. The tsunami reached ________


No rain for a long time in
6. Five skiers were injured in ________ Symbati 1
7. The TV report showed the route of ________
30 seconds of a terrible shake
a) the avalanche on Sunday afternoon. 2

Entire village under water 3


b) the tornado: it struck the city and then moved east.
c) the forest and all the homes in the area around the
mountain. Cieva Vieja is going to awake
d) say that thousands of people are now ill with the after 200 years
disease. 4
e) the coast and destroyed thousands of homes. Lots of snow coming
f) the victims of the famine. down Weisshorn
5
g) a serious drought in Western Australia.
KEY
Ex. 1)
1. earthquake 2. tornado 3. drought 4. avalanche 5. forest fire
6. tsunami 7. flood

Ex. 2)
1. very hot temperatures: volcanic eruption, forest fire, drought
2. rocks or earth moving: avalanche, earthquake, landslide, volcanic eruption
3. strong winds: forest fire, hurricane, tornado
4. water: avalanche, flood, hurricane, tsunami
no water: drought, famine

Ex. 3)
1. Mark: famine 2. Tom: drought 3. Ann: forest fire 4. Sarah: landslide
5. Alan: avalanche 6. John: volcanic eruption 7. Jane: disease

Ex. 4)
1с 2g 3 d 4f 5e 6a 7b

Ex. 5)
1 drought
2 earthquake
3 flood
4 volcanic eruption
5 avalanche

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