4 Disaster! ?

What kind of weather

do you like or dislike?

1 Why did the boat catch fire? Watch and check.

2 Watch again. Order.

1 At first, it didn’t work! But then he tried again. STUDY
2 Why didn’t you go back to the beach? Were you listening to the
3 Now we’ve got a new idea for our blog … disasters! weather on the radio?
4 We couldn’t leave the island, so Dad had to phone for help! We weren’t listening to
5 Dad was listening to the radio. They said a storm was coming! 1 the radio.
We were listening to music.
6 We couldn’t take any pictures – we were running away.

3 Read and match.

1 They were getting warm a lightning hit the boat.
2 The sky went dark b because they were running away.
3 Lenny wasn’t feeling very well c when the journalist arrived.
4 When they were walking up the beach d when they were sailing to the island.
5 They didn’t get a picture of the fire e so they were looking after him.

4 Ask and answer.

1 How do you think each of the three children felt during the disaster?
2 How do you think they feel now? Why?

36 Language: past continuous and past simple

1 Can you remember the last lesson? Watch the language video. 4

2 31–32 Read and guess. Listen and check. Then do karaoke.

climbing eating playing sailing sitting skating swimming walking

What were you doing when the storm began? I was (1) walking up the mountain,
When the lightning hit and the water ran. He was (2) over the lake,
Where were you when the rain came down? We were (3) in the park,
On the mountain, at the beach, in the forest or the town. She was (4) a piece of cake.
They were (5) in the river,
He was (6) on the sea,
She was (7) up a wall,
I was (8) under a tree.

3 What were you doing when it happened? Write three sentences.

hurt my knee dropped my mobile phone lightning hit the tree started to feel ill

teacher saw me cut my hand it started to rain mother took a photo of me

4 Play the game. Guess it in five.

I was having a picnic when it started to rain.
What was I doing when it started to rain? Were you having a picnic? Yes, I was.

5 Choose one of your sentences and continue the story. Write 20–30 words.
1 What did you do? 2 What happened next?

Practice: past continuous and past simple 37

 1 Read the blog. How high was the wall of seawater in Messina?
ALL BLOGS MY BLOG NEW POST

K id’s Box
R epor ts Disasters sometimes happen, as we recently
found out. We decided to find out about some
famous disasters.

Disasters
The Hindenburg was one of the
This ship is called the Titanic. On biggest airships ever built. On 6
14 April 1912 it was sailing across May 1937, when it was arriving
the Atlantic Ocean when it hit an in the USA, it caught fire. People
iceberg. They couldn’t see the think this happened because
iceberg because of the fog. lightning hit it during a storm.

Hurricanes are very dangerous When a volcano erupts, it throws

storms with strong winds. The hot liquid rock and gases into the air
worst Atlantic hurricane in through the hole at the top. When
history was the Great Hurricane Krakatoa erupted on 26 August 1883,
in 1780, from 10–16 October. it made the loudest sound ever heard.

On 1 November 1755 an
On 28 December 1908, a tsunami
earthquake hit Lisbon,
hit Messina, in Italy. The enormous
in Portugal. The ground
wall of seawater was about ten
moved for ten minutes. The
metres high. How high do you think
earthquake destroyed most
the seawater is in this picture?
of the buildings in the city.

2 Read again and correct the sentences.

1 The Titanic hit an iceberg on 14 July 1912. 5 The Great Hurricane was in 1870.
2 The Titanic was sailing across the Pacific Ocean. 6 Krakatoa, the volcano, erupted on 28 August.
3 The Hindenburg disaster was on 16 May 1937. 7 The Lisbon earthquake was on 1 November 1575.
4 The Hindenburg airship was arriving in the UK. 8 The tsunami was on 28 October 1908.

3 Ask and answer.

1 Which do you think was the worst disaster? 2 What was the worst weather you can
Why? remember? What were you doing?
I think the earthquake was the worst disaster I remember a hurricane. I was
because the ground moved for ten minutes. playing with my brother at home.

38 Vocabulary: disasters and months

1 33 Listen and repeat the chant. 4
January, February, March,
April, May, June,
July, August, September,
October, November, December.
2 34 Listen and say the months.

1 It’s sunny and windy. There are

a lot of red apples on the trees … September.

January February March April May June

July August September October November December

It’s February.
Some children are reading comics. They’re
3 Ask and answer. sitting in their living room next to the fire.
What can you see?

4 Cross out the extra word.

1 What were they to doing on Wednesday 5 The lightning hit many my car on 19 August.
13 November? 6 My birthday was in the January.
2 There was a very bad storm on the 31 May. 7 The fire did started on 29 June.
3 They couldn’t see because of was the fog. 8 In Antarctica there’s a the lot of ice.
4 Why was do he running?

5 Read the notes and write about what happened.

Friday 13 March was a terrible day for Jane. What happened?
when / go downstairs / put / foot / on / toy car
When Jane was going
fall down / break / leg
ambulance / come / take / to hospital
downstairs, she put her
when / nurses / carry / Jane / into hospital / drop foot on a toy car.
now / Jane / in hospital / with / broken leg / and / broken arm

Practice: disasters and months 39

 Sou nds and life ski lls
Thinking creatively
1 Watch the video. When did the young people
feel afraid, excited, sick and worried?
Pronunciation focus
2 35 Listen and write the circled words in
the correct sound column in the table.
REPORTER: Why didn’t you go back to the beach ?
STELLA: Because we were very near the island .
So we decided to wait there for the weather to get better.
LENNY: Yeah, we were walking up the beach to find somewhere safe , when lightning
hit the boat and it caught fire !
STELLA: We couldn’t leave the island, so Dad had to phone for help!
A E I O U
sailing sea sky hello rescue

3 36 Listen and complete the rhyme with words from Activity 2.

There’s a bad storm with rain and .
The ’s on fire and it’s very, very frightening.
Here comes the helicopter over the .
I hope it’ll my friends and me!

4 Look at the quiz in the magazine and write 5 In pairs, ask and answer
more questions. questions from the
quiz. Can you think of
interesting reasons?
Why didn’t you … ?
Are you good at thinking of reasons and excuses
for not doing things? Do the quiz and find out.
Why didn’t you eat your breakfast? Useful language
Why didn’t you go to the park yesterday? Why didn’t you … ?
Why didn’t you come to class on time? Because …
Why didn’t you ?
Why didn’t you ?

40 Sounds and life skills: the vowel sounds | creative thinking

 37
Diggory Bones 4

Give me The
What’s the
Baloney Stone! That group of stars is date today,
You … you … called the ‘Canis Major’, Emily? 21 July, why?
which means ‘The big dog’.

You can have the

And the brightest
stone back when
star on the dog’s Today is the beginning
you help me to get
nose is called ‘Sirius’. of the Ancient
what I want.
Egyptian year.
Is it too No … I
There’s the dangerous understand In the Ancient Egyptian
cave over there! for you, these places calendar, Sirius showed the
Bones? better than opening of the New Year.
you, Brutus.
I’m not afraid.

Night’s falling and a

storm’s coming. It’s
going to be very dark! Today, it’s going to
show us the ‘opening’
of the secret cave!

It’s really hot Aagh! We’re walking

When we were looking at near a volcano!
down here.
the stars, I remembered
the terrible disaster.

A volcanic eruption
destroyed Ancient
Alexandria and Run to the
then a tsunami light, Emily! Aagh!
covered the city
with water.

1 What terrible disaster happened in Ancient Alexandria?

Why is it going to be very dark? Story: unit language in context 41
 Wh ere ca n we fin d vo lca no es?
1 38 Listen and read. What causes volcanoes?

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fic Ring of Fir e Have you ever heard of Pompeii? On 24 August in the year 79, nearly 2,000NEW
yearsPHOTO
ago, a nearby
ci
Pa volcano called Vesuvius erupted and covered the city of Pompeii in rock and ash.
Vesuvius is in Italy, but did you know that there are volcanoes all over the world, and
that one of the most active zones is the Pacific Ring of Fire? It’s an area in the Pacific
Ocean where there are almost 75% of the Earth’s volcanoes.

The reason there are so many The movement of tectonic plates also They can use this energy to heat houses, make hot
volcanoes in the Ring of Fire is causes earthquakes, and around 90% of water and even make electricity. Many countries,
because of tectonic plates, which these happen in the Pacific Ring of Fire. including the United States, Indonesia, Japan,
are layers of rock just below the New Zealand and the Philippines, already use
One of the positive things that
Earth’s crust. The places where geothermal energy.
comes from the Pacific Ring of Fire is
two plates meet are called plate
geothermal energy. Magma is the
boundaries, and when the
name of the very hot liquid rock that is
plates move, which they do a lot,
deep underground. Around the Pacific
mountains and volcanoes form
Ring of Fire magma is very close to the
between them. Many of these
Earth’s crust, which makes it easier for
plates meet at the Ring of Fire,
engineers to use this heat from the
which is why so many volcanoes
ground as a source of green energy.
appear in the area.

2
2 Read again and complete the diagram.
tectonic plates magma 1
the Earth’s crust plate boundary

3 Are there volcanoes in your country? 4

Are they active, dormant or extinct?
What other volcanoes do you know about?
There are a lot of volcanoes in my
country but they’re all dormant. FIND OUT MORE
What is the largest volcanic
I know about Mount Saint Helens, which eruption in history?
is an active volcano in the United States.

42 Geography and History: natural landscapes | critical thinking

 DID YOU KNOW…? 4
1 Read the message. What is The largest volcano in the world is
Iceland famous for? Mauna Loa in Hawaii. At 9,159 metres
high, it is bigger than Mount Everest.
However, 5,000 metres of that is und
erwater!

To: Petra Subject: Iceland is amazing!

Hi Petra,
During the summer holiday, I visited the amazing island of Iceland. Iceland is a volcanic island in the
North Atlantic Ocean, which is famous for its dramatic geography.
In Iceland, you can see geysers, which are holes in the ground that blast out jets of water and steam.
There are also natural hot springs, huge lava fields and glaciers. In fact, glaciers cover 10% of the island.
Sometimes there are volcanic eruptions and I learnt that, back in 2010, a volcano erupted and filled the sky
with ash. It meant that all planes in about 20 countries couldn’t take off!
Iceland uses its interesting geography to make electricity.
In fact, the island makes electricity by using power from
its rivers and waterfalls and heat from the ground, which is
very good for the environment.
I hope I can go back to Iceland again one day because it
is a fantastic place. I’ll tell you more about my trip when
I see you!
Bye for now,
Eric

2 Underline which to give extra information in the message in Activity 1.

Learning to write:
Which to give extra information
We can use which to give extra information.
The reason there are so many volcanoes in the Ring of Fire is because of
tectonic plates, which are layers of rock just below the Earth’s crust.

3 In pairs, discuss places you know that are famous for their landscape.
Write your ideas in your notebook.

Ready to write:
Go to Activity Book page 42. Make a presentation on a
volcanic eruption.

Geography and History: natural landscapes | learning to learn 43

 Units 3 and 4

1 Read the letter and write the missing words.

Dear Aunt Anika,

I’m writing to tell you about the great time we had last weekend.
I think Mum told you we were going to Manchester on Saturday.
Well, we went to the stadium to see a football game, because
Manchester United were playing against Liverpool. I really
enjoyed it but, sadly, Liverpool didn’t (1) .
(2)
They 1–0.
On Sunday we spent the day exploring the city.
We got lost because we didn’t have a (3) .
No problem! We asked a police officer for (4) and he showed us where to go.
We visited the Lowry Museum which had some interesting paintings by a famous
(5)
from Manchester, L S Lowry. There is a picture of the museum attached to
this email. Hope you like it.
Yours,
Jamie

2 39 Listen and write. There is one example.

1 Who was he visiting: grandad

2 Where did they go first:
3 Address: Road
4 Opening times: From 10:00 to
5 Where they had lunch:
6 Transport home:

44 Review: units 3 and 4

3 Play the game. 4
Find your way home
Instructions: Go round the board following the instructions. When you stop on a picture,
spell the word. If it’s right, roll again. If it’s wrong, stop.

You ask a
You find two
police officer
tickets to the
how to get
theatre. Go back
home. Go
to see a play.
straight there.

You need
You’re Cross over
Go to the end to sleep. Go
hungry. Go the river.
of the street forward to
back to the the hotel.
and stop at the
restaurant.
bridge.
To go to the
restaurant
you need to go
straight on.
Move 3 squares.

You’re
Climb lost. Go back
over the Turn left and
to the police station
wall. and ask a police turn left again.
officer.

Turn right You want to Go back

and then turn look at the old to the fire
right again. paintings. Go to station on
the museum. the corner.

You missed your

plane. Go back
to the airport.

You catch a Go Cross over

straight Go and explore Turn left and
bus. Move 4 the bridge. move 1
on. the castle.
squares. Move 3 square.
Move 2
squares. squares.

Get a taxi to the

train station.

Review: units 3 and 4 45