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Unit 3 - Exercise With Keys

This document provides exercises to practice vocabulary related to natural disasters. The first exercise asks students to identify the type of disaster described in example sentences. The second creates a word-class table to fill in verbs, nouns referring to things/ideas, and nouns referring to people related to disasters. The third has students determine whether disaster situations in headlines seem to be getting better or worse. The fourth fills in gaps in sentences with vocabulary words referring to victims, survivors, refugees, casualties, dead, and wounded.

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Unit 3 - Exercise With Keys

This document provides exercises to practice vocabulary related to natural disasters. The first exercise asks students to identify the type of disaster described in example sentences. The second creates a word-class table to fill in verbs, nouns referring to things/ideas, and nouns referring to people related to disasters. The third has students determine whether disaster situations in headlines seem to be getting better or worse. The fourth fills in gaps in sentences with vocabulary words referring to victims, survivors, refugees, casualties, dead, and wounded.

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Lengua Inglesa I

Module 2 - Unit 3 - Exercise

1) What type of disaster are these sentences about?


Example: The lava flow destroyed three villages.  volcano.

1. The earth is cracked and vegetation has withered.


2. The tremor struck at 3.35 p.m. local time.
3. People had boarded up shops and houses during the day before, and stayed
indoors.
4. Shelling and mortar fire could be heard all over the town.
5. Witnesses said they saw a fire-ball fall out of the sky.
6. People were stranded in the upper floors and sometimes on the roofs of their
homes, unable to move about.

2) Complete the missing items in this word-class table, using a dictionary if


necessary. Where there is a dash (-), you do not need to write anything.

Verb Noun: thing or idea Noun: person


explosion -
survivor
Injure
Starve
erupt -
3) In these headlines, say whether the situation seems to be getting worse or
better, or whether a disaster has happened or has been avoided/prevented.

4) Fill the gaps with a suitable word from the list below.

dead, wounded, casualties, victims, survivors, refugees,

1. Another 50 people died today, yet more ………. of this terrible famine.
2. The government has agreed to allow 3,000 ………. trying to escape the civil
war to enter the country.
3. It was the worst road accident the country has ever seen, with over 120
……….
4. A: Were there any ………. when the ship sank? B: I'm afraid not.
5. The ………. and ………. were simply left lying on the battlefield; it was a
disgrace.

See keys below…


Keys:

Source: Michael McCarthy and Felicity O’Dell, English Vocabulary in Use, Cambridge University
Press, 10th printing 2008.

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