Vocabualary practice

BLOCK I

1. Guess disasters on the pictures and give answers below.

1 ____________ 7 ______________

2 ____________ 8 ______________

3 ____________ 9 ______________

4 ____________ 10 _____________

5 ____________ 11 _____________

6 ____________ 12 _____________

2. What disaster is being described in each of these sentences?

1. It lifted a car about ten feet off the ground, and then we saw it disappear down the street.

2. It was about two meters deep and we watched as most of our furniture just floated away.

3. The grass turned yellow and most of the crops died.

4. The walls began to move visibly, and large cracks opened up in the ground.

5. We could see the lava slowly advancing towards the town just ten miles away.

3. Identify weather conditions in these pictures.

1 ____________ 4 _____________

2 ____________ 5 _____________

3 ____________ 6 _____________

4. True or false? If a sentence is false, write a true sentence about the weather conditions.

1. It often pours with rain in the desert.

2. It gets quite chilly in the desert in the evening.

3. Thunder makes noise.

4. Lighting can kill people.

5. A shower is a gentle breeze.

6. A spell of hot weather may end in a thunderstorm.

7. If it is humid, the air will be very dry.

8. Below zero, water turns to ice.

9. Heavy rain means that it is pouring with rain.

10. When it’s foggy you need sunglasses.

5. Complete these scales.

…………..→ wind → strong wind → ……………→ hurricane

…………. → hot → warm →not very warm → cold→ ………….

6. Give two nouns to go with the adjectives. Try not to repeat the nouns you choose.

Model: sandy beach / shore

1 sandy 2 steep 3 shallow 4 rocky 5 turbulent 6 dangerous

7. Complete the sentences, as in the model.

Model: The Nile is a river.

1. The Atlantic is …………………………………………....

2. The Alps are ……………………………………………...

3. Greece is ………………………………………………....

4. The Sahara is …………………………………………......

5. The Amazon is ……………………………………….......

6. The Mediterranean is ………………………………….....

7. The Bahamas is ………………………………………......

8. Africa is ……………………………………………….....

9. Crete and Corsica are ………………………………….....

10. Everest is he highest ………………………..in the world.

11. Michigan and Erie are two of the great ……………….…

12. The ‘Great Bear’ is a group of ……………………….…..

BLOCK II

1. Say the following in one word.

1. wet light cloud near the ground, which is difficult to see through clearly;

2. rather cold, in a way that makes you feel uncomfortable;

3. a gentle pleasant wind;

4. a short period of light rain;

5. very cloudy and dash;

6. extremely cold;

7. a storm with a lot of snow and strong winds;

8. frozen raindrops that fall as small balls of ice;

9. soft white pieces of frozen water that fall from the sky in cold weather;

10. a mixture of snow and rain.

2. Match the words and their definitions.

1. forecast	a. the amount of rain, snow etc. that falls;
2. precipitation	b. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to or condenses on the ground;
rain	c. weather conditions of a place or area;
mist	d. a light gentle wind;
weather	e. thick water vapor which is difficult to see through;
climate	f. water falling in drops from the clouds;
fog	g. small dirty pool of rain water;
drizzle	h. water vapour at or near the earth’s surface, less thick than fog;
shower (downpour)	i. a heavy fall of rain;
breeze	j. rain in small fine drops, thin continuous rain;
puddle	k. conditions over a particular area, at a specific time with reference to sunshine, temperature, rain and so on.

2. Read the text and decide which answer, A, B, C, D best fits each space for questions 1-10. The first is done for you.