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- 1 Listen to the sounds and look at the pictures. What comes to mind?
- 2 a) Look at the pictures. Which shows:
flooded streets?
trees swaying in the wind?
a car under a fallen tree?
power lines on the ground?
- b) Read the title. What do you think Sandy is? How are these sentences related to the texts?
- 3 Read the diary entries and choose the right answer A, B, C or D.
1 The writer woke up because of
- 2 While they were in the basement they felt
- 3 The writer was relieved that
- 4 The author's purpose is to
- 4 Read the texts again and answer the questions.
1 Why did the family go to the basement?
- 2 What effect did Sandy have on the town?
- 5 Fill in the gaps with a verb: sway, blowing, shake, smash, wailing, clear up, shiver, survive.
1 The sirens of the emergency services were ______ very loudly.
- 2 Everyone worked together to ______ the streets after the storm.
- 3 The trees started to ______ in the wind.
- 4 The wind was ______ hard.
- 5 Harry used a rock to ______ the window.
- 6 The earthquake caused the walls to ______.
- 7 We were lucky to ______ such a huge storm!
- 8 Emma started to ______ because she was cold.
- 6 Replace the words in bold with the following words: bang, shocked, luckily, cried, relieved, hurt, safe, rubbish.
1 No one was injured in the hurricane.
- 2 "It's an earthquake!" she shouted.
- 3 There was a loud noise outside my window.
- 4 There was litter all over the street.
- 5 She looked scared and she was crying.
- 6 We felt calm when the storm was finally over.
- 7 They were protected from the storm in the basement.
- 8 Fortunately, the hurricane didn't cause much damage to the area.
- 2 bang
- 3 wind
- 4 lines
- 5 emergency
- 8 a) Read the diary entries again and put the events in the order they happened.
- b) THINK Imagine you were a reporter. Use the events in Ex. 8a to tell the class what happened from your point of view.
- 9 Think of a disaster in your country or in other countries. Write how it was similar/different to the one in the text.