Curso First Certificate - Lesson 31

EL CURSO DE FIRST CERTIFICATE PREFERIDO POR LOS HISPANOPARLANTES

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Disasters

Natural and man-made disasters

ACTIVITY 214: There exist natural and man-made disasters. Some of them can be prevented or even predicted. Look carefully at the pictures below and try to choose the correct disaster from the menus. Then check the answers.
     
     
     
     
     
     
 

Disasters: definitions

ACTIVITY 215: Match the following disaster definitions with the disaster names choosing the appropriate alternatives from the menus. Then check the answers.

1.

Violent destructive windstorm characterized by
a funnel-shaped cloud.

2.

The rising of a body of water and its overflowing
onto normally dry land.

3.

Shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth.

4.

Sudden pouring out of fumes, lava and volcanic material.

5.

A slide of large masses of snow and ice and mud down a mountain.

6.

A temporary shortage of rainfall.

 

Disasters: causes

ACTIVITY 216: Generally speaking man-made disasters can be prevented, and natural ones can be predicted to a greater or lesser extent with modern technology. But in a man-made disaster, natural causes may also have played a part, and in a natural disaster, man may also have some responsibility for causing it.

In this activity you have to copy/paste or paint/drag the names of the disasters from the box into the appropriate blank spaces. Then check the answers.

fire

volcanic eruption

shipwreck

hurricane

typhoon

flood

plane crash

avalanche

earthquake

drought
 

NATURAL DISASTERS
(man has low or no control)

  

MIXED DISASTERS
(man may have some control)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Disasters: headlines

ACTIVITY 217: Choose from the menus what the real situation is or seems to be for these headlines. Then check your answers.

1.

POISON GAS CLOUD SPREADS

 

  

 

2.

POLICE DEFUSE TERRORIST BOMB

 

  

 

3.

OIL SLICK RECEDES

 

  

 

4.

AIDS TIME BOMB TICKING AWAY

 

  

 

5.

ALL SURVIVE
JUMBO EMERGENCY LANDING

 

  

 

6.

FLOOD WARNINGS
NOT HEEDED IN TIME

 

Un vocabulario de difícil temática pero necesario, verdad? 
En la página siguiente Mr. Grammar explicará acerca de TIME EXPRESSIONS (frases adverbiales y cláusulas de tiempo)  ...

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