Natural disasters, vocabulary, elementary

3. Exercises
60.1 What problems can you see in the pictures?
1 strike 4 ______________
war 7 ______________
hurricane
car crash
2 ______________ earthquake
5______________ 8______________
traffic jam
flood
3 ______________ forest fire
6 ______________ 9 ______________
snowstorm

4. 60.2 Write down the natural disasters in A and the names of places they
have happened.
Hurricane - Florida
snowstorm - Alaska
forest fire - Australia
earthquake - Japan
flood - Bangladesh

5. 60.3 Write down all the problems in B that you have in your country and the
places where you have them.
We have poor people in big cities, hungry people in big
cities, homeless people in the capital, unemployed
people in the north, too many people in the capital,
traffic jams in big cities, car crashes on main roads,
strikes in some factories. Fortunately, we don't have
any wars.

6. 60.4 Put all the words on the opposite page into groups in any way that
seems appropriate to you. You may use as many groups as you wish.
hurricane, snowstorm, flood - problems because of the weather
earthquake, car crash - things get smashed
forest fire, pollution, traffic jam - they make the environment
dirty
poor, unemployed, hungry and homeless people - too many
people
strike, war - problems caused by government and politics

7. 60.5 Fill the gaps with a word from the opposite page.
1 Cars make air pollution worse in towns.
2 Their wages were very low so the workers
went on __________ .
strike
3 My great-grandfather died in the First World
__________
War
4 Jack had a __________ last year but
car crash
fortunately no-one was hurt.
5 Japan often has __________ and Siberia
earthquakes
often has __________ .
snowstorms
6 When people are __________, they
homeless
sometimes have to sleep on the streets.