Unit 9 (hs)

The past continuous thì quá khứ tiếp diễn1.. Cấu trúc của thì quá khứ tiếp diễnCấu trúcVí dụThể khẳng định +S + was/were + V-ingEx.. Cách dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn- Dùng thì quá khứ ti

A VOCABULARY

New words (Từ mới)

2 natural

disasters

4 thunderstorm (n) / θʌn.dɚ.stɔ n.d stˈ ʌn.dɚ.stɔ ɚ.stɔ ɔːrm/ bão có sấm sét, cơn giông

14 volcanic

eruption

/ vɒlˈkænɪk ɪˈrʌn.dɚ.stɔpʃən/

sự phun trào núi lửa

)

/ pr iˈ ɪt̬.i /

khá là

19 fortunately (adv

)

/ˈfɔːtʃənətli/

thật may mắn, may thay

)

/ s d.ˈ ʌn.dɚ.stɔ ən.li/

một cách đột ngột

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UNIT 9:

NATURAL DISASTERS

31 emergency

kit

/ɪˈmɜːdʒənsi kɪt/

bộ dụng cụ cấp cứu

worker

nhân viên cứu hộ

36 property (n) / prˈ ɑː.p iɚ.stɔ t̬.i / của cải, nhà cửa

)

/ˈsʌn.dɚ.stɔdənli/

đột ngột, bỗng nhiên

42 richter scale (n) /ˈrɪktə skeɪl/ độ Richter (đo cường độ động

đất)

45 a thick layer of

ash

(n) /ə θʌn.dɚ.stɔɪk ˈleɪər əv æʃ/

một lớp tro đầy

48 violently (adv

)

/ˈvaɪələntli/

một cách hung bạo

53 flowerpot (n) / fla pˈ ʊ ɚ.stɔ ɑːt/ chậu hoa

Structures (Cấu trúc)

No structures/ collocations/ idioms/ phrasal

verb

Meaning

B GRAMMAR:

I The past continuous ( thì quá khứ tiếp diễn)

1 Cấu trúc của thì quá khứ tiếp diễn

yesterday

(Hoa đang nghe nhạc lúc 3 giờ chiều qua.)

(Cô ấy không đang xem ti vi lúc đó.)

Thể nghi vấn (?) (Wh-question) + Was/Were + S + V-ing?

Trả lời:

- Yes, S + was/ were

- No, S + wasn’t/ weren’t

Ex Were they having dinner at home at that

time?

(Có phải lúc đó họ đang ăn tối ở nhà?)

- Yes, they were (Vâng, phải.)

2 Cách dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn

- Dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn để diễn tả một hành động đang xảy ra tại một thời điểm xác định trong quá khứ

VÍ DỤ:

At 7 o’clock yesterday, I was sitting in the class

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(Vào lúc 7 giờ ngày hôm qua, tôi đang ngồi trong lớp.)

- Dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn tả một hành động đang xảy ra thì một hành động khác xen vào

VÍ DỤ:

She was chatting with a classmate when the teacher stepped in

(Cô ấy đang tán gẫu với bạn cùng lớp thì giáo viên bước vào.)

- Dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn để diễn tả hai hành động đồng thời xảy ra tại một thời điểm trong quá khứ

VÍ DỤ:

While I was doing my homework, my younger brother was reading comics

(Trong khi tôi đang làm bài tập thì em trai tôi đang đọc truyện tranh.)

- Dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn để diễn tả hành động lặp đi lặp lại trong quá khứ và làm phiền đến người khác

VÍ DỤ:

My elder sister was always complaining about my room when she entered it

(Chị tôi luôn than phiền về phòng tôi khi chị ấy vào phòng.)

3 Dấu hiệu nhận biết thì quá khứ tiếp diễn

Trong câu dùng thì quá khứ tiếp diễn thường có các từ và cụm từ sau:

at + giờ + thời gian trong quá khứ (at 10:00 p.m last night)

at this time + thời gian trong quá khứ (at this time yesterday)

at that time (vào thời điểm đó)

while (trong khi)

when (khi)

VÍ DỤ:

I was playing chess with Tom at this time yesterday

(Vào giờ này hôm qua tôi đang chơi cờ với Tom.)

C PHONICS:

- Stress in words ending in -al and -ous (trọng âm của các từ chứa đuôi –al và -ous)

Khi thêm các hậu tố: -al, -ous thì trọng âm chính của từ không thay đổi.

Ex: music  musical

humour  humorous

D PRACTICE

PHONICS

Exercise 1.Write the words ending in -al below in the correct group of stress.

Oo

Ooo _

ooOoo _

Exericse 2.Write the words ending in -ous below in the correct group of stress.

oOo _

oOoo

Exercise 3 Find the word which has a different sound in the underlined part.

VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR

Exercise 1 Look at the pictures and write the name of the activities.

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drought earthquake eruption victim tsunami flood ash tornado lightning violent victim landslide

Exercise 2 Complete the sentences with the words in exercise 1

1. Thunderstorms can be _, while tornadoes, and lighting can be life threatening.

2. In our country people have very strong buildings because we often have .

3. I saw on TV that yesterday there was an on an island in the Pacific and hot lava came down

the volcano

4. My little sister is afraid of _, so when there is a bad storm she always hides.

5. The flood in Quang Ngai cause , which buried some houses in the moutainous areas

6. The volcanic eruption poured out _into the air, blanketing the nearby towns and disrupting

air travel

7. I don’t like shopping in places with a history of _.

8. The flood _ are being sent food by the government.

9. The _ has made farmers anxious about the harvest.

10. _ is a Japanese term for an unusually large ocean wave caused by undersea earthquake,

landside, or volcanic eruption

11. _ is a strong wind that blows in a circle.

12.The heavy rain was the cause of the

Exercise 3 Match the words in column A to the correct meanings in column B.

1 lightning A. a sudden strong shaking of the ground

liquid rock are forced out into the air

3. earthquake C a long time when there is not enough rains

the sea

5. landside E. a sudden bright light in the sky when there is a storm

6. tornado F. a mass of earth, rock, ect that falls down the slope of a mountain or a cliff

7. typhoon G. a large amount of water covering an area that is usually dry

8. volcanic eruption H a violent storm with very strong winds that move in a circle

9 wildfire I. a very big fire that spreads quickly and burns natural areas like woods, forests

and grassland

10 tsunami J. a violent tropical storm with very strong winds

 Your answer:

Exercise 4 Match the words or phrases on the left with their meaning on the right.

1 damage A. cultivated plant or agricultural produce

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4. natural disaster D. give notice or advice about protential danger

5. property E. extended period of water scarcity due to lack of rainfall

9 drought I. substance that flows freely and takes the shape of its container

Exercise 5 Write the words / phrase in the box next to their definition.

landslide volcanic eruption flood

1. Very bad weather with strong winds and rain, and often thunder and

lightning

_

2. A mass of earth, rock, etc that falls down the slope of a mountain or a

cliff

_

3. It is when hot gases and liquid rock (lava) pour out from a volcano _

5. A violent storm with very strong winds which move in a circle; there is

often also a long cloud which is narrower at the bottomthan the top

_

Exercise 6.Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs below.

1. I think there was an earthquake yesterday because the ground _for a few seconds.

2. The rain for hours yesterday I thought there might be a flood.

3. The big tree in our garden down in the storms.

4. The level of the water in the river always when it rains a lot.

5. The wind _so hard I think the roof might come off our house!

Exercise 7.Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words below.

g

o

flood

1 Have you got an umbrella? It’s going to with rain later today.

2 I hate it when there’s a — there’s water everywhere

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3. The was like something out of a film - the wind was lifting everything up

4. Oh, look! That girl’s hat is going to away

5. My grandfather loves watching the in the sky during a storm

6. Look at this line It shows how high the river can when it rains a lot.

Exercise 8 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verbs given.

1. Many important historical documents were in the fire.

2 My mother always me not to talk to strangers

3. The flood really _the lives of thousands of people in Central Viet Nam last week

4 Smoking is likely to your health permanently

5. Strong winds had _serious damage to the roof of the house

6. We can _changes in climate with a surprising degree of accuracy

7. Temperatures will drop as the cold front down across Northern Viet Nam next week

8. Since the volcano last many houses have been built in a dangerous position on its slopes

9. The floor began to from a distant explosion

10.They predict that a large earthquake will the east coast before the end of the decade Exercise 9.Complete the sentences with the adjectives given.

1. Scientists understand many of the factors that cause eruptions.

2. The storm caused damage to farm buildings

3. Floods and earthquakes are disasters

4. The winds in the storm reach the speed of over 400 km per hour

5. After three days lost in the mountains, all the climbers arrived home and sound

6. He disappeared on his way to school and has been for over a month

7. Thick fog has made driving conditions

8. They offer help for people in the flooded areas

Exercise 10.Complete the sentences with the words given.

property landslide residents emergency tornado

1. The social workers need to know what to do in a(n)

2. He had ignored their to stay in the house during the earthquake

3. Investigators examined the to find the cause of the fire.

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4. Storms delayed the of the crash victims

5. The local were angry at the lack of water supply for a few days

6. The earthquake caused severe to a number of buildings

7. The fire resulted in damage to their

8. The building was badly damaged in a(n)

9. We saw big of wind moving down these narrow streets

10.The house was buried under a(n)

Exercise 11 Complete the correct answer A, B, C or D.

1. The forest fire quickly and destroy many trees

2. When a vocalno , hot gases snd lava run down

3. The tornado caused a massive _ to the town

4. After the earthquake struck the city, rescuers searched for _

5. Typhoon Haiyan made the damage, and of life became freat in the Philipphines

6. A number of other provinces will declare drought in the coming weeks

7. In some areas, human _ can be a contributing factor in causing landside

8. The Pacific Ring of Fire is an area of frequent earthquakes and volcanic _, encircling the basin

of the Pacific Ocean

9. A soft, loose soil may more intensely than hard rock at the same distance from the same earth

10.What we have done to our environment today will _our life later

11.After the , the river overflowed in several places and huge areas of farming lands are now several feet under water

12. are the result of an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth

13.Yesterday morning, while I to school with my friends, it began to rain heavily

14.The heavy rain caused a , blocking the road to the shopping centre

15.The rescue workers arrived quicky the people trapped in the collapsed

16.The _ destroyed several shops in the area

17.“What’s the ? Why are you upset?” asked the concerned friend

18.The coastal town was devastated by a tsunami, causing extensive to shops and homes

A. damage B. benefit C. development D humour

19.During the hurricane, the emergency supplies were used providing relief to the affected areas

20.As the floodwaters continued to rise, the residents ran of the food and clean water

Exercise 12.Choose the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined words in each of the following sentences

1 The storm was awful and caused a lot of damage.

2 My little brother Timmy never screams although he is frightened.

3 I have an important presentation tomorrow I’m feeling a little bit worried.

4 The man died while trying to rescue the villagers from the flooded area.

5 The rescue services sent helicopters to the area to try to find the missing boy.

6 El Nino has happened for at least the last 300 years.

7 The heavy rain had a negative effect on the crops, causing them to tot and fail to grow.

8 The hurricane swept through the coastal area, destroying houses and leaving many people homeless.

9 Fortunately , the firefighters arrived quickly and were able to extinguish the forest fire before it spread

further

10 The flood damaged many properties along the river, including houses and business.

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11 The earthquake caused the ground to tremble, making people feel scared and insecure.

Exercise 13 Choose the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined words in each of the following sentences

1 I need to strengthen my knowledge about natural disasters by reading more books on the subject.

2 There have been numerous reports of floods and landsides in the region due to heavy rainfall.

3 The storm damaged several houses and uprooted trees in the neighbourhood.

4 It is important to have a personal emergency kit prepared in case of natural disaster.

5 This chemical is toxic to many forms of life.

6 Natural disasters can cause serious damage to human life.

7 We cannot prevent natural disasters, but we can prepare for them

8 The forest fire raged for eight hours, killing all of the animals.

Exercise 14 Fill in each blank with suitable collocations.

1. I _the window and see the bustling street

2. I always _that sotre because their product quality is not good.

3. I will _wearing this shirt to see of it fits me or not.

4. I _buy a new phone.

5. I _money for shopping and can’t buy anything else

6. I will _go to the store before they close

7. I live _that I might lose money when shopping online

8. This bag the one I saw on the website

9. This product is _a simple and fastionable design

10.This lamp is used for lighting up the room.

Exercise 15.Complete the sentences by putting the verbs in brackets into the past continuous.

1. While she (sleep) _, the thieves broke in and stole her handbag

2. What you (do) at this time yesterday?

3. Mary burned her hand yesterday when she (prepare) _dinner

4. While my parents and I (have) _dinner, we heard a very loud noise

5. What _you (do) _when the volcano erupted last night?

6. While he (walk) _in the woods last week, it started to rain very hard

7. I'm writing to tell you about what happened to me last week while I (visit) _my uncle's

family

8. The flood came suddenly while the villagers (sleep) _soundly.

Exercise 16 Put the verbs in brackets into the past simple or past continuous

1. (you, swim) when someone (steal) your wallet?

2. The dragon _ (fly) over the castle when he (hear) a girl crying.

3. Cinderella (hear) the chimes of midnight while she _ (dance) with the prince.

4. Snow White (sing) softly beside the well when suddenly she (see) a dwarf.

5. While the hunter _ (pass) nearby the hut, he _(notice) the wolf

6. As the Queen _ (bathe), a frog out of the water and (talk) to her.

7. The princess (try) to tell the prince the truth but he _ (not, listen).

8. While Mendel (revise) _ his lesson, his sister _ (read) fables

9. _ (Jane, practise) the piano when you _(walk) into her room?

10.When I (knock) on the door, there (be) no answer

11.Alan (look) _ out of the window when he (see) _a big funnel ofwind moving

towards his house

12.When they (drive) _ on the road near the mountain, a mass of earth androck (fall)

down the slope.

13.When the building (start) _ to tremble, many people living there (run) out of their

flats in fear

14.While my mother (cook) dinner, my father (fix) _ the washingmachine.

15.Tom (fall) when he (run) up the stairs.

16.Alan (look) _ out of the window when he (see) a big funnel of wind

moving towards his house

17.When the building (start) to tremble, many people living there (run) out of their

flats in fear

Exercise 17 Put the verbs in brackets in the past simple or past continuous

I _ (1 be) born in Da Nang, but my family (2 move) to Ho Chi Minh City when

I (3 be) five I (4 go) to primary school and secondary school there My father

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