Typhoon, hurricane and tropical storm are different words for the same natural disaster.. The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world’s largest ever volcanic eruption..[r]
(1)(2) Tornado volcano snowstorm earthquake tidal wave typhoon (3) (4) New words tidal wave (n) tornado (n) collapse (v) occur (v) happen Ring of Fire ( n ) abrupt (a) sudden The building was collapsed shift (n) erupt (v) eruption ( n ) warn (v) funnel-shaped ( a ) suck up ( v ) = lift ( v ) The volcano is erupting (5) True or False ? Check ( ) in the boxes Most of the earthquakes in the world occur in the Ring of Fire The earthquake in Kobe in 1995 caused severe damage A huge tidal wave traveled from California to Alaska and hit Anchorage in the 1960s ( from Alaska to California ) Typhoon, hurricane and tropical storm are different words for the same natural disaster The eruption of Mount Pinatubo is the world’s largest ever volcanic eruption ( in more than 50 years ) A tornado look like a funnel T F (6) Complete the sentences The majority of earthquakes occur … around the Pacific Rim, known as a Ring of Fire During the earthquake in Kobe, many houses, … office buildings and highways collapsed A tidal wave can only occur when there … is an abrupt shift in the underwater movement of the Earth In Australia, a tropical storm is known as a…cyclone The Chinese language gave us the … word “typhoon” A tornado is a type of storm that has … a funnel shape and suck up anything in its way (7) Answer the questions Where most earthquake happen? What are the other name of typhoon? What is the name of a volcano in Philippines? What are tornado? What does tornado look like? (8) (9) Where most of earthquakes happen ? Around the Pacific Rim (10) (11) 3.What are the other names of “typhoon” ? Hurricane, Cyclone (12) What is the name of a volcano in the Philippines? Mount Pinatubo (13) (14) What are tornadoes? - Tornadoes are funnel-shaped storms which pass overland below a thunderstorm (15) Lucky number (16) What does a tornado look like? It looks like a funnel (17) (18) HOMEWORK Redo the exercises • Prepare Write (19) a h T r o f u o y nk r u o Y ! n o i t n e t t a (20)