Exercise 3. Retell the main idea of the listened text.

Exercise 4. Discuss on the given situation.

On the 12th of March, 2010, a small village of Kyzylagash in Aksu district of Almaty province was almost completely wiped out. The catastrophe caused a lot of casualties and damages to local people.

How can we prevent such kind of disasters? What should people do in such situations? What does our government do in order to help?

Exercise 5. Read the text and translate the 1^st paragraph.

Hell and High Water

The last few years have been the worst period on record for environment disasters and experts are predicting far worse to come.

Here is how to become a disaster statistic. Move to a shantytown on an unstable hillside near a tropical coast. Crowd together as more and more people arrive. Wait for the world to get a little warmer. More evaporation means more rain, which means the slopes will get progressively more waterlogged. One day, the land will turn to mud and the neighbourhood will begin to go downhill. Literally. And if the slope is steep enough, the landslide will accelerate to more than 200 miles an hour. Peter Walker, of the international federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, has seen it all too often. “First, your house has been washed away. Second, the land that you farmed has disappeared. Third, the other bits of land you might have been able to farm are now useless.

In the last decade, floods, droughts, windstorms, earthquakes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions and forest fires have become increasingly common. There has been disastrous flooding in Asia, Africa, Central and South America and

Oceania. Even prosperous Europe has suffered and large areas of France, Britain and Germany have all been under water. Storms have been getting worse everywhere too, with a growing number of hurricanes hitting the US, the Caribbean and Central America. Drought has affected large areas of Sub-Saharan Africa for years and many other zones are becoming drier. For example, the Yellow River, once notorious for flooding the Chinese landscape, failed to reach the sea at all on 226 days in 1997. A number of nations have already been in armed conflict over water, and drought in the West of the US has resulted in enormous forest fires.

Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes have always been a threat in certain parts of the world. A volcanic eruption virtually wiped out the small Caribbean island of Montserrat in 1997 and there have been serious earthquakes in Greece, Turkey and El Salvador. The quake that rocked the small Central American country of El Salvador in 2001 came as the people were still rebuilding their houses and recovering from 1998's Hurricane Mitch. So why is nature beginning to turn on us? One answer is overpopulation. Population of the world is growing at the rate of 10, 000 people an hour, 240, 000 every day, nearly 90 million a year, with most of the growth in the developing world.

Exercise 6. Answer these questions.

1.What is the attitude of the journalist towards the future?

2. Who is most likely to be a victim of natural disasters?

3.Why are there now more hurricanes, floods and droughts?

Exercise 7. Disasters: What would you do? Complete this table.

Exercise 8. A FORMAL LETTER/E-MAIL. Complete the letter with the more formal expression from each pair of phrases in the list.

Another thing/ Secondly

The first problem was / Firstly

Best wishes/Yours faithfully

I expect to receive/ You must send me

I know/1 can accept

Please write soon/1 look forward to hearing from you

I am writing to complain about/1 am really angry about

10 Hampton Road

Leeds

LS42QT

May 17th 2001

UK Airtours

1231 Oxford Street

London

W16AG

Dear Sir/ Madam,

1----------------my recent flight with your airline.

The flight was UK789 from Leeds to Budapest via Frankfurt on May 13th 2001.

2----------------, the flight, which should have taken off at 10.00 a.m., was delayed until 1.00 p.m. Although

3-------------the delay was not your fault, we were

not given any information until 12.00 p.m.

4---------------, during all this time we were not

offered any refreshments. Thirdly, because of the delay, I missed my connection to Budapest. This meant that I missed a vital meeting, which was the whole reason for my trip to Budapest. Finally, your staff both at Leeds airport and on the plane itself were extremely rude and unhelpful.

I filled in a complaints form when I finally arrived in Budapest, which you may already have received, and

5------------- a full refund for the price of my ticket.

6-------------in the very near future.

7 -------------

Marion Wheeler (Ms)

1.Choose the right variant.

a) Who did wrote “A brief history of time”?

b) Who wrote “A brief history of time”?

c) Who did write “A brief history of time”?

d) Who does write “A brief history of time”?

2. Choose the right indirect question.

a) Where does she live?

b) Could you tell me where she lives?

c) Do you know where she does live?

d) Do you know where live she

3.Choose the right variant. Give synonym of the word “disaster”:

a) fortune

b) catastrophe

c) adventure

d) chance

4.Choose the right variant: “A mass of snow, ice and rock that falls down the side of a mountain” means…

a) cyclone

b) windstorm

c) flood

d) avalanche