СОР № 1 Английский язык 10ЕМН класс Natural Disasters

Natural Disasters

Задание:

Choose 1 natural disaster mentioned in the audio. Work in groups and make a presentation on a natural disaster. Use the video as an example. Use the rubrics below for peer-assessment.

Rubrics for your presentation.

Решение:

Sample answer
Floods are among Earth’s most common–and most destructive–natural hazards. A flood occurs when water overflows. This can happen in a multitude of ways. Most common is when rivers or streams overflow their banks. Excessive rain, a ruptured dam or levee, rapid ice melting in the mountains can overwhelm a river and send it spreading over the adjacent land, called a floodplain.
Moving water has awesome destructive power. When a river overflows its banks or the sea drives inland, structures poorly equipped to withstand the water’s strength are no match. Bridges, houses, trees, and cars can be picked up and carried off.

Transcript:
I don’t know about you, but I think there are more natural disasters now than before. Every time I turn on the news there’s some kind of disaster. There are bushfires in Australia and California, earthquakes in China, hurricanes in Mexico and droughts in Africa. I’m sure global warming is creating more natural disasters. I’m lucky. Where I live, we don’t really have natural disasters. I’ve never experienced anything like the things on TV. Japan has many natural disasters. They have earthquakes, typhoons, flooding, volcanoes, all kinds of things. They are lucky they have the money to deal with them. There are countries in Africa that aren’t rich. When a natural disaster hits them, everyone suffers terribly.