The document discusses different types of natural disasters such as earthquakes, volcanoes, hurricanes and storms. It provides statistics on various disasters and explores their impacts, listing books about earthquakes in San Francisco, volcanoes in Hawaii, hurricanes and future extreme weather. The document also contains exercises asking the reader to identify words related to different disasters and suggesting writing a homework assignment about surviving an earthquake.
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Volcano & Earthquake
Volcano & Earthquake
Disaster! The Great San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire of 1906
Under the Volcano: A Novel
Hidden Big Island of Hawaii: Including the
Volcanoes National Park
Sudden Sea: The Great Hurricane of 1938
A Life Time in the Eye of the Storm
The Coming Storm: Extreme Weather and
Our Terrifying Future
4. Volcanoes: They are the that
shape our planet.
Hurricane: There are walls of , which
homes and families out to sea. They
are and will cause destructions.
Storm: This is an
weather.
Earthquake: They are that shape our
planet. They can almost the whole
city and cause that make houses
burn down.
Workshop
Try to find the words and expressions in the
text to fill in the form and underline the
sentences in the text:
eruptions
water
sweep
terrible
extreme
quakes
fires
destroy
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Which disaster do you want
to know more about,
volcanoes, earthquakes,
hurricanes or storms?Why?
And which book will you
choose to read? Why?
6. Facts about Earthquake
Modern scientists give us more rational . But it,
too, show just how we really are. Earthquakes
happen ,because on the vast slow scale, the entire
of the planet is in motion. The earth crust is into
broad pieces called Tictanic plates flowing the liquid
mental hundreds of . These plates are
constantly moving. ´..The movement is incredibly ,
about half an inch per hour, or just about the speed of finger
nails¨ growth. In some parts of the world, the plates collide.
One plate slides or the other. The forces push
up the crust, mountains and volcanoes. of all
earthquakes happen the boundaries between
Tictanic plates.
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7. The Great San Francisco
Earthquake and Fire of 1906
e.g .
If the houses had been strong enough, they wouldn¨t have fallen down.
, there wouldn¨t have been
so many people who died
then.
If
It had been well predicted
People then had known more about
earthquakes
The earthquake had not been that
strong
´´.. (More than 3,000)
8. Disasters can be caused by nature and
also us human being.
For example:
S A R S
9. How much do you know about SARS?
1. We should often clean our hands to prevent
being infected with the SARS virus.
2. We should often close the windows to keep
the virus out
3. We should do more exercise to make our
body defensive against SARS
4. SARS is for Severe Acute Respiratory
Syndrome.
5. If we had remembered to protect the
environment, we wouldn¨t have been hit by
SARS
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2.We should often open the windows to keep
the air circulating well. T
11. If we had remembered to protect
the environment, we wouldn¨t
have been so badly hit by SARS!
Why should we protect the
planet?
We have only one world..
12. Keep , we¨ll
never fail in front of
any disaster.
And Join our hands
to our
What should we do?
Smiling,
protect
13. Time:
Richter Scale:
Death:
More:
Morning of April 18, 1906
7.7C 7.9
More than 3,000
It destroyed almost the whole city and cause a fire
that lasted for 3 days. And the firefighters fought
bravely against the fires.
Buildings destroyed: 28,000 buildings, including the
homes of three-quarters of the
city's population
What happened then?
14. HOMEWORK
Imagine you were one who survived an
earthquake, how do you feel about the
experience in an earthquake?
Including:
1.Your experience in an
earthquake.
2. How and why could you
survive the earthquake?
3. What lessons have you
learned from this
unforgettable experience.