- •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. Discuss or debate the questions below. Remember to support your answers!
- •Vocabulary development
- •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?
- •1. Answer the questions below
- •Word list
1. Answer the questions below
What is tornado drill? Why did Louie dislike it so much?
Why did Louie want to see a tornado?
What damage did tornado cause to the Anderson family?
What is the Principal’s advice to help Louie to confront his fear? Did his parents agree? Why?
Why did the people of the neighborhood keep playing tricks on Mr. Anderson?
What happened to the letters by Mr. Anderson?
2. Choose the best answer using the information from the video
1. When tornado comes people are to
Go to school shelter
Go to the basement
Stay at home and shut the windows and doors
2. The first tornado for Mrs. Anderson was
The scariest thing she’s ever seen
The most exciting thing she’s ever seen
She has missed it as she fell asleep
3. After being caught by tornado Louie
Lost his appetite
Had a tornado phobia
Developed a paranoiac behavior
4. According to Mr. Anderson to get rid of one’s fear one must
Write it on the piece of paper
Tell about it to someone you trust
Pay no attention and stop thinking about your fear
5. Mr. Anderson decided to acknowledge that he has written the letters because
He wanted to get authorial fee
He was jealous, as the other people took advantage of his letters
He wanted to give all the letters to his wife
Translation
Translate the given text into Ukrainian
How do we stay safe from tornadoes?
The U.S. has a wonderful tornado warning systems. The national system of severe weather watches and warnings has saved untold numbers of lives. In addition to the sirens, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Weather Radio network puts nearly everyone within range of government weather broadcasts. These radios can sound an alarm whenever severe weather warnings are issued for your area. Even with this excellent warning system, there are fatalities as we saw in these recent storms. Many deaths result directly from the force of the tornadoes.
In the event of a tornado, go into a tornado shelter, or the basement, or into a small interior room on the lowest floor of a building, such as a bathroom or closet. Protect yourself from flying debris and stay away from windows. If you are away from a sturdy home, you must seek adequate shelter. Avoid auditoriums, gymnasiums, and eating areas; their large, high roofs can blow off and the walls can collapse. If you are in a mobile home or car, leave it and go to a strong building. Many people are killed when cars and mobile homes are overturned in high winds. If there are no shelters nearby, get into the nearest ditch or depression and protect yourself from flying debris.
Videos have wrongly popularized the notion that it is safe to hide under a highway overpass as the tornado passes overhead. Don’t do it. It is far safer to take shelter in a sturdy building instead. A highway overpass creates a “wind tunnel” effect underneath it and can increase the amount of damage from a tornado.