Unit 5 Natural Disasters

Unit 5 Living with Natural Disasters

Tb p. 60-61

Open Ended

Show what you already know (vocabulary):

In 1 minute, type as many examples of natural disasters / extreme weather as you can. Use commas to separate your answers.

Multiple Choice

How many types of natural disasters are mentioned in the first paragraph?

• 3

• 4

• 5

• 6

Multiple Choice

Based on your own knowledge, which geographical feature of Hong Kong causes frequent typhoons in the city in the summer?

• surrounded by mountains

• located on the coast

• located next to a river

• surrounded by glaciers

Multiple Choice

Where does the water in the Yellow River come from?

• Rain

• Glaciers

• Foothills

• Dams

Multiple Choice

In line 18, what does 'its' refer to? (... will burst its banks...)

• The government

• The dams

• The Yellow River

• The glaciers of Tibet

Multiple Choice

Which picture shows a peninsula?

Multiple Select

According to this section, what are the TWO reasons that show an earthquake is a disaster? (tick 2 answers)

• It has happened before.

• It killed 3000 people

• It leads to a tsunami.

• It caused destruction to the city of San Francisco.

Multiple Choice

Which picture best represents the sentence:

Mount Vesuvius overlooks the city.

Multiple Choice

Which meaning best fits the word 'evacuate'? (line 40)

• to save people from a dangerous situation

• to move people to a safe place before sth dangerous happens

• to remove sth from a container

Multiple Select

From this section, tick the statements that are TRUE.

• Only Dallas experiences tornadoes, hurricanes, floods and droughts.

• Dallas is facing the problem of drought.

• It is believed that drought will continue in the summer.

Multiple Select

When we talk about 'extreme weather', it means the weather:

(you can tick more than 1 answer)

• is unusual.

• may cause loss of human lives.

• can cause destruction to a place.

• only happens to a place once.