- 1. The Earth does not belong to us, we belong to the Earth
Chief Seatle
2. to remember and practise the vocabulary on the topic Natural
Disasters; to read and understand about natural hazards; to develop
listening skills; to revise grammar material: II conditionals; to
learn how to behave in case of fire, flood and earthquake; to
develop creative and critical thinking. 3. 1. Warming-up. Game
Avalanche. 2. Reading. Crossword Puzzle Tsunami. 3. Check up
homework Earthquake. 4. ProblemSolving Rescuers. 5. Grammar
practice. II Conditionals. 6. Listening Infamous Natural Disasters.
7. Mutual dictation Landslide. 8. Summing-up the results.
Self-evaluation. 4. Warming up. A student calls for a word out of
lexical terms on the topic, another student repeats the previous
term/terms and adds his one. A winner is a student who can repeat
all words called by his peers in a group. 5. NATURAL DISASTER 6.
Reading. Crossword Puzzle 4 2 3 1 5 6 7 7. Check up homework group
I - to write essays on the quotations about nature and the
environment; group II to find the information about natural
disasters in the mass media and give the item for a group
discussion; group III to role-play the situation about the people
who survived after some terrible disasters. 8. Top 10 Infamous
Natural Disasters Name Where? When? How much? 1. Central China
Floods China 1931 1mln.peopledied,50mln peoplewereaffected 2. Haiti
Earthquake Haiti January, 12 2010 1 mln. people homeless 3. Bhola
Cyclone Pakistan November, 12 1970 1 mln. people homeless 4. Indian
Ocean Earthquake and Tsunami 14countries(Indonesia,
ShriLanka,Tailand). 2004 Entire towns and villages were destroyed
5.Tangshan Earthquake China July, 1976 The devastation lasted years
6. Japan Earthquake and Tsunami Japan March, 2011 235 bln. $ 7.
Cyclone Nargis Birma 2008 10 bln. $ 8. Sichuan Earthquake China
May, 2008 146 bln. $ 9. Hurricane Katrina NewOrleans(theUSA) 2005
108 bln. $ 10. Hurricane Andrew Bahamas, Florida, Louisiana (the
USA) Late August, 1992 40 bln. $ 9. Mutual dictation We have to be
very careful what we do with nature, provoking to some extent
natural disasters like droughts, sandstorms and famines in Africa,
floods in Netherlands, hurricanes in the USA, volcanoes and
earthquakes in Turkey, Japan, Mexico, Italy, Armenia, typhoons and
tidal waves, landslides and fires. Natural disasters make big
problems and people all over the world come to help the regions
where the catastrophe has happened. Different countries send to the
area of the natural disaster food and medical supplies, as well as
doctors, nurses, blankets, tents and clothes. 10. Your results Your
score 6-7 8-9 10-11 12-13 14-15 16-17 18 Your mark 6 7 8 9 10 11
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