Thursday 1 November 2012

BRACE YOURSELVES!


BBC NEWS
29 October 2012
Millions of residents of the northeast of the United States are bracing themselves for the arrival of Hurricane Sandy.
President Obama has urged residents of low-lying areas to heed warnings to evacuate their homes.
Experts are predicting Hurricane Sandy could be bigger than anything seen in the eastern states of America in decades.
David Shukman reports on a weather system that is already being referred to as a 'super storm'.

Listen to this piece of news and see if you were right when predicting which words might appear in the text: floods?  gale-force winds?  swamp?  disaster? death toll? storm? ...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-20128931

What category is hurricane Sandy?
Why is it considered "extremely unusual"?
What effect is "the mass of cold air coming from the Artic" having on the hurricane?
The weather has forced the financial market __________________________________

Photocopy from 30th October_Tsunami:https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THSzR1aV9pa3JreE0

Photocopy from 30th October_Sunset Park_exercises:  https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THVVJJang4bEJSS1k
Sunset Park_Key to exercises: https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B_Nb3d84W0THMHo1eHFzMGt6TjA

 

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