Natural Disasters

Who is this?

Today you will be a forgetful (забудькуватий) international news reporter.
First you have to study natural disaster, so you can report on disasters.

Warm up
What do you know about natural disasters?
Do natural disasters occur in Ukraine?
If so, what are the disasters?

Vocabulary
Force of nature/ weather
сила природи/ погода
To suffer
страждати
Shortage
нестача
Slide
ковзати
Erosion
Ерозія
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Which natural disasters do you already know?
Avalanche
Landslide
Drought
Famine
Tsunami
Flood
Hailstorm
Blizzard
Earthquake
What else?

vocabulary
Force of nature/weather
сила природи/погода
To suffer
страждати

Make a list of examples
Can you give and example of a force of nature?
Example: wind, snow . . . .
Can you give an example of suffering?
Example: hunger, sleepy . . . .
Make a list.

List
Natural forces
Wind
Sunshine
Rain
Hail
Lightning
Waves
And more
Suffering
Tired
Hungry
Death
Loss of home
Loss of possessions
Cold
Sunburns

Natural Disasters
Natural disasters occur when forces of nature damage the environment and manmade structures. Natural disasters can cause a great deal of human suffering. The result: people may be injured or killed, or may lose their homes and possessions.

Questions about the text
Did the text help you understand forces of nature and suffering better?
Can you give more examples of forces of nature and suffering?
What else besides humans can suffer?

Vocabulary
Slide
ковзати
Erosion
ерозія

For each natural disaster fill out the chart like this

Avalanches
An avalanche is any swift movement of snow, ice, mud, or rock sliding down a mountainside or slope. Avalanches are natural forms of erosion and often seasonal.

Avalanches
They can reach speeds of more than 200 miles per hour.
They are triggered by such events as earthquake tremors, or human-made disturbances.

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What force of nature can cause an avalanche?
What kind of suffering can an avalanche cause?

Landslide
A landslide is a gradual, down sliding movement of a mass of rock and earth (debris). The mixture of debris from a landslide with water may produce harmful lahars (mudflows).

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Discuss обговорювати
Compare landslides and avalanches (use slide, erosion).
How are landslides and avalanches different?
What forces of nature might cause a landslide?
What suffering might a landslide cause?

Vocabulary
Shortage
нестача

Droughts
Droughts are unusually long periods of a rainfall shortage.
Livestock and wildlife, as well as humans, die of thirst and famine; large land areas often suffer damage from dust storms or fire.

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Instructions
Make your own questions about droughts?
1) Think by yourself.
2) Share your question and possible answer with a partner.
3) Share your question with the class?
4) Who can answer the question?

Famines
Famines are extreme shortages of food that cause people to die of starvation.

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Think, pair, share
1) In your own words (своїми словами) write a description of a famine.
2) Share your description with a partner.
3) Share your description with the class.

Think
Do you know what a disturbance and a wave is?
If not, think of what disturbance and wave is.

Tsunamis
A tsunami is a series of huge waves that happen after an undersea disturbance, such as an earthquake or volcano eruption.
Tsunami is from the Japanese word for “harbor wave.”

Tsunamis
The waves may travel in all directions from the area of disturbance as fast as 450 miles per hour. As the big waves approach shallow/ мілина waters along the coast they grow to a great height and smash into the shore. They can be as high as 100 feet.

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Think
A disturbance is . . . .
A wave is . . . .
Describe a disturbance and wave using English in your own words (своїми словами)
Is a natural disaster a disturbance?

Summary
Force of nature/ weather
сила природи/ погода
To suffer
страждати
Shortage
нестача
Slide
ковзати
Erosion
ерозія
Shallow
мілина
Wave
хвиля води

Application
The situation: you are a forgetful (забудькуватий) news reporter.
On your own describe a secret(секрет) natural disaster.
Discuss your description with a partner
As a news reporter describe your secret natural disaster. Do not say what kind of disaster it is.

List of natural disasters
Avalanche
Landslide
Drought
Famine
Tsunami
Flood
Hailstorm
Blizzard
Earthquake

Floods

Hailstorms

Blizzards

Earthquakes

Example
I’m here at the beach. There are large waves once the water gets shallow. Humans are suffering, because people are loosing their homes. Ooops. I forgot what type of natural disaster this is.
Class guesses.

Get your microphone and umbrella!

Are you ready?
Report the news, but don’t forget to be forgetful.
The class will help you remember the natural disaster.

Homework
In your own words (do not copy) write about (number) other natural disasters
Earthquake
Flood
Blizzard
Hailstorms
And others

Hailstorms
A hailstorm is rain drops in the form of balls or lumps of clear ice and compact snow. It is not known for sure how hailstones form and grow. Hail causes much damage and injury to crops, livestock, property, and airplanes.

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Blizzards
A blizzard is a winter storm characterized by high winds, low temperatures, and driving snow.

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Earthquakes
An earthquake is a trembling movement of the earth's crust.
These tremors are generally caused by shifts of the plates that make up the earth's surface. The movements cause vibrations to pass through and around the earth in wave form.

Volcanic eruptions, rock falls, landslides, and explosions can also cause a quake. The greatest danger of an earthquake comes from falling buildings and structures and flying glass, stones and other objects.
Earthquakes

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Floods
A flood occurs when a body of water rises and overflows onto normally dry land. Floods occur most commonly when water from heavy rainfall, from melting ice and snow exceeds the carrying capacity of the river system, lake, or ocean into which it runs.
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