- •1. All the students are asked to find a sheet of paper and a pencil. The teacher is going to read the description of a scene below and the students would try to draw it.
- •2. Look at the picture you’ve drawn. What has happened in the scene? Think of the other natural disasters you know. Give a definition for “natural disaster”.
- •3. Check your ideas. Make sentences to read the definition of natural disaster using the words below.
- •1. You are going to read an article describing different types of natural disasters. Some sentences have been removed from the article. Fill in the gaps with the suitable sentence.
- •2 . Newspapers often write about natural disasters. Read the newspaper extracts and match a disaster with the description below
- •3. Make up 5 Ukrainian sentences using the words from exercise 2-3. One by one students read the sentences out for the neighbor to translate them into English.
- •1. The problem of natural disasters is widely discussed throughout the world as well as in the Internet forums. Read the questions for the forum issue of the day. What do you think about it?
- •2. Look at the spidergram below. Use the words form the table above to describe each element of the chart. What do you know about each natural disaster?
- •2. Discuss or debate the questions below. Remember to support your answers!
- •Vocabulary development
- •1. Answer the questions below
- •Word list
Word list
Act of God
Affliction
Aftershock tornado
Avalanche
Blistering
Blizzard,
Calamity
Circumstances beyond one’s control
Crashing
Cyclone
Debacle
Deluge,
Destructive
Devastating
Drought
Earthquake
Enormous
Epidemics
Eruptions
Famine
Ferocious
Fierce
Fire
Flood
Fog
Force majeure
Forceful
Freak accident
Gargantuan
Hail
Heat wave
Hurricane
Ice storms
Inevitable accident
Lahars
Landslide
Lightning
Massive
Mighty
Mudslide
Raging
Rampaging
Scorching
Sinkholes
Sinkholes
Slide
Snowstorms
Storm
Storm surges
Stuffy
Sweeping
Thunder
Thunderous
Tidal wave
Tormenting
Tornadoes
Tsunami
Typhoon
Unavoidable casualty
Vicious
Violent
Vis major
Volcano eruption
Washing away
Whirpool
Wildfires
Wildfires