4TH FORM INFO/ MATHS / SCIENCES Unit Lesson I- Pre-listening: a- Explain the following idiomatic expressions Remember idioms cannot be taken literally They have another meanin It never rains but it pours = It rains a lot all the time When one bad thing happens, a lot of other bad things also happen, making the situation even worse This isn’t light rain at all It’s raining heavily It’s raining cats and dogs = It’s pouring: the rain is heavy It’s raining and cats and dogs are out playing The rain drops resemble cats and dogs b- Match the 2nd idiom with its corresponding picture (in c) c- Read the following sentence and identify alliteration and metaphor: Snowstorm blankets in wintry white Alliteration = repeating the same consonant sound at the beginning of two or more words in close succession Imagery = The use of figurative language to evoke images of objects, actions, or ideas b Metaphor = is a comparison that shows how two things that are not alike in most ways are similar in one important way d- Match the weather condition in the above verse with its corresponding visual e What you expect the newscast to be about? II- Listening: 1- Topic : Choose the correct topic: An earthquake /A typhoon/ A plane crash Identify the corresponding picture of the topic Go back to ( c ) 3- Complete the definition: A ty………… …….is a vi……………… tropical storm that has a cir……………… movement It occurs in the west Pacif……… and the Indian Ocean 3- Foreshadowing: Listen and choose the correct option About five hundred homes were (smashed – washed – mashed) away by floods after Wayne struck the (east – wet – west) coast of Taiwan yesterday bringing driving (ends – and – winds) of up to (eight - eighteen – eighty) – four miles per hour The typhoon (flied – flooded – fled) wide areas of Taiwan and (ripped – crept – crippled) communications and power supplies All domestic flights were cancelled and Taipei’s international airport was closed for about five hours Government reported that passenger (fair – far – ferries) had been sunk but gave no details of (casual – casualties – cases) The work of emergency relief teams is being (hampered – damped – happened) by blocked roads and the loss of power and telephone communications in central regions It will be some time before we hear the final casualty figures There will be another report from our correspondent in Taipei in midnight news …………………… ………………… ………………… ……………………… Label the following pictures using these words: a ferry / a washed out house / a sinking ship/ emergency relief team Match words with their explanations : 6- What were the consequences of Wayne? an 7-Say if the following statements are true or false a/ Human casualties were reported to be many (T / F) b/ The emergency teams found it easy to work (T / F) 8-Grammar focus: Complete the rule: We use the passive form when the action (what happened) is more imp………………………… / more focused on than the doer (who/ what did the action) or when the doer isn’t kn………………………… 9- Study the following sentences and say why this form is used a/ My house was stolen ( _) b/ Thousands of villages were destroyed by the hurricane ( _) c/My wallet was pick pocketed ( ) d/Hundreds of lives were taken when the Titanic sank ( _) Practise : Turn the following active sentences into the passive Today, British civil aviation authorities ordered the country's airspace to close as of noon, due to a cloud of ash drifting from the erupting Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland The volcano has erupted for the second time in less than a month, melting ice and shooting smoke and steam into the air The rising floodwaters forced hundreds of people to flee The volcanic ash has cancelled many flights and disrupted air traffic across northern Europe, which in turn stranded thousands of passengers Listening script About five hundred homes were washed away by floods after Wayne struck the west coast of Taiwan yesterday bringing driving winds of up to eighty – four miles per hour The typhoon flooded wide areas of Taiwan and crippled communications and power supplies All domestic flights were cancelled and Taipei’s international airport was closed for about five hours Government reported that passenger ferries had been sunk but gave no details of casualties The work of emergency relief teams is being hampered by blocked roads and the loss of power and telephone communications in central regions It will be some time before we hear the final casualty figures There will be another report from our correspondent in Taipei in midnight news