Natural disasters/News stories

         22  August 2016, the teacher let us watched a video about natural disaster, tsunami in  Japan. After watching it,the teacher asked us to work in a group of 5 people and described about the video at least 10 sentences.

source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YOXVlPUu4

and this was a paragraph that my group wrote.

'In this video,it showed us about disaster. It was tsunami. This disaster happened in Japan on 2011.In this video the water was getting high.People were screaming and shouting. After that the wave came,The waves were getting bigger and bigger. The water could overflew the wall. A lot of water destroyed houses and cares.I think it was a terrible event.'

After finished writing we had to sent the representative of each group to present it and I was the representative of my group.

source :http://www.collegetimes.com/college-life/ten-tips-make-college-presentation-memorable-44302

After that teacher asked us to search vocabularies about natural disaster and wrote them on a white board.

 i wrote the word 
" Drought " (N.) 
A prolonged period of abnormally low rainfall, leading to a shortage of water




Today I had learnt many vocabularies and learn how to pronounce them in correctly.
evacuate /ɪˈvakjʊeɪt/  

(V.)  :Remove (someone) from a place of danger to a safer place:

terrible /ˈtɛrɪb(ə)l/ 

( Adj. )  : Extremely bad or serious 

damage /ˈdamɪdʒ/ 

(N.) : Physical harm that impairs the value, usefulness, or normal function of something

(V.)  : Inflict physical harm on (something) so as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function 

overflow /əʊvəˈfləʊ/

(V.)  : (Especially of a liquid) flow over the brim of a receptacle

destroy /dɪˈstrɔɪ/

(V.)  : End the existence of (something) by damaging or attacking it 

village /ˈvɪlɪdʒ/

(N.)  : A group of houses and associated buildings, larger than a hamlet and smaller than a town, situated in a rural area

eruption /ɪˈrʌpʃ(ə)n/

(N.)  : An act or instance of erupting

casualty /ˈkaʒjʊəlti/

(N.) A person killed or injured in a war or accident

death toll /dɛθ  təʊl/ 

(N.) he number of deaths resulting from a particular cause

fatality/fəˈtalɪti/

(N.) An occurrence of death by accident , in war, or from disease
downgrade /ˈdaʊnɡreɪd/

(V.) Reduce to a lower grade, rank, or level of importance

the strategies that I used for reading were skimming, scanning, finding the references and guessing words meaning from the context.


In my opinion, i thought this lesson was  good as it made me knew what is happening  around the the world but it was pretty difficult for me because there were many difficult vocabularies but I could solve the problem by finding them in dictionary and asking my friends. I had a lot of  in class. See you next week.

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