Natural disasters - les 1

• Engels
• MBO
• Studiejaar 2

Theme 3

Natural Disasters

Listening

Listening Exam

First we watch the video. You can take notes. 

Make sure you try to find the answer to the questions below. 

Answer the questions after the video.  

Questions 

1. Since when has the output of CO2 started to increase?

2. In the last 15 year the UK has become....

3. Australia has more...

Since when has the output of CO2 started to increase?

1. 2000
2. 1985
3. during the Industrial Revolution
4. when the cities became bigger

In the last 15 years the UK has become......

1. drier and hotter
2. wetter and hotter
3. stormier and hotter
4. only hotter

Australia has more

1. droughts and bush fires
2. flooding and heatwaves
3. torrential rain and storms
4. heatwaves and bushfires

Listen and answer

Listen to the eyewitness report. Write a short summary. Make sure to include a description of: 

- who they are

- what they were doing 

- what they saw

- how they survived

                                                                       What do you think happened?

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Discuss

1. Have you ever experienced a natural disaster? If so, what was it like?

2. Have you ever seen a natural disaster reported on television? If so, which?

3. Do you think there is anything you can do to avoid a natural disaster?

Wish, complaint, regret

A. Expressing a wish, a complaint or a regret  

There are three distinct types of  I wish / if only  sentences: 

1. Wish, wanting change for the present or future  

2. Regret 

3. Complaints

Expressing a wish:

Form: 

If only / I wish + simple past  

Example: 

If only I knew how to use a computer. (I don’t know how to use a computer and I would like to learn how to use it) 

Use:  

• To express a wish in the present or in the future.  

• The simple past here is an unreal past.  

• When you use the verb to be the form is “were”.  

Example: 

I wish I were a millionaire! 

Expressing regret:

Form:  

If only / I wish + past perfect           (had + voltooid deelwoord)

Example: 

If only I had woken up early. (I didn't wake up early and I missed my bus.) 

Use: 

• To express a regret. 

• The action is past. 

Complaining:

Form: 

I wish / if only + would + verb  

Example: 

I wish you wouldn't arrive so late all the time (I'm annoyed because you always come late and I want you to arrive on time) 

Use: 

• To complain about a behaviour that you disapprove.  

• Expressing impatience, annoyance or dissatisfaction with a present action. 

topic set - weather

tornado = tornado

hurricane = orkaan, cycloon

tropical storm = tropische storm , bij voorbeeld tyfoon

boiling hot = bloedheet

forecast = voorspelling

freezing cold = ijkoud

poured = gieten (regen)

drought= droogte

damp, humid = vochtig (klam)