Стр.16-17 Модуль 1 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 8 класс

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1f Disasters

Vocabulary & Reading

1 a) Read the headlines and complete: CLOSED DOWN, WASHES AWAY, RUNNING WATER, UNDERSEA, STRIKES, FORCE, EVACUATED.

Listen and check. Say the headlines in your language.

MASSIVE 1) UNDERSEA EARTHQUAKE 2) STRIKES OFF THE COAST OF JAPAN

10-METRE TSUNAMI 3) WASHES AWAY HOUSES & CARS

4) FORCE OF JAPAN QUAKE MOVES ISLAND BY 2.4 METRES

NUCLEAR POWER STATIONS IN QUAKE I AREAS 5) CLOSED DOWN

HALF A MILLION JAPANESE 6) EVACUATED THEIR HOUSES & I 1.4 MILLION WITHOUT 7) RUNNING WATER

The Day the Earth moved

On 11th March, 2011, at 14:46 local time, an undersea earthquake struck off the northeastern coast of Japan. The force of the earthquake, the most powerful in Japan’s history, triggered a devastating tsunami. [1] The world faced a partial nuclear meltdown and the planet moved on its axis, shortening the length of every day by 1.8 milliseconds. It was a terrible national tragedy that the country will need a great deal of time to recover from.

In the days before the main earthquake, Japan had experienced quite a few foreshocks, some of which exceeded magnitude 7, but nothing could prepare the nation for the main shock, a magnitude 9 quake. It was strong enough to be felt hundreds of kilometres away in Tokyo, where buildings shook violently and many office workers ran out onto the streets terrified. [2] Much worse was yet to come as the authorities issued a tsunami warning.

Frantic residents headed for high ground, rooftops or upper floors of buildings. Soon after, a wall of water, 10 m high in some places, rolled across the Pacific Ocean and crashed into the coast. [3] One giant wave even crashed through an airport in Sendai, leaving 1,300 people stranded on the upper floors. The waters reached up to 10 km inland before heading back out to sea, now loaded with debris and leaving a swamp-like landscape of landslides and mud. TV viewers couldn’t believe their eyes as these scenes were broadcast around the world.

By this time, many areas were without electricity as pylons had crumbled, which caused a major disaster at Japan’s nuclear power stations. [4] The government immediately ordered an evacuation of hundreds of thousands of residents. Explosions rocked the plant as courageous technicians struggled to control the damage and prevent a nuclear meltdown.

Over the next few days, a large number of aftershocks continued to shake Japan, causing plenty of problems for rescue teams as they raced to find survivors. Several countries sent relief workers and the world held its breath while it waited to see how the tragedy would end. [5] Over 15,000 people died that day and thousands more were missing. Several amazing tales of survival came to the attention of the world’s press, though. A 4-month-old baby girl was pulled alive from the rubble four days after the earthquake. A man was found clinging to his rooftop as it was floating 14 km out at sea 2 days after the tsunami. And there was the Japanese student in California, desperate for news of her lost family, who found them on a YouTube news clip. It showed her sister holding up a sign and sending a desperately-needed message of hope across the world: “We all survived.”

b) Use the headlines to tell the class what you think happened in Japan in March 2011.

Check these words

strike, force, devastating, nuclear meltdown, axis, foreshock, exceed, shake, epicentre, authorities, warning, head for, roll across, crash into, loaded (with), debris, landslide, mud, pylon, evacuation, explosion, courageous, technician, struggle, aftershock, relief worker, desperate, collapse, rip apart, blaze, sweep away, inland, slam into

2 Write down three questions you would like to ask about this disaster then read the text. Can you answer your questions?

3 Read the text again. Five sentences are missing. Match each sentence (A-F) to a gap (1-5). There is one extra sentence.

A Closer to the epicentre, buildings collapsed, roads and railways were ripped apart and fires blazed.

В The evacuation zone around the nuclear power plant was soon increased to 20 km.

C Many thousands of people lost their lives and roads, buildings and entire villages were swept away.

D Sadly, there were hardly any survivors.

E Without power, the cooling system at the Fukushima No. 1 Plant failed.

F It washed away houses and cars and hurled ships far inland, carrying them along and slamming them into whatever lay in their path.

4 Match the highlighted words with their meanings: holding on tightly, panicked & frightened, broken into small pieces, started, incomplete, unable to leave, pieces of bricks, stones & other materials, very wet, violently threw.

Grammar

Quantifiers

5 a) Decide if the words are C (countable) or U (uncountable).

1 not any C/U, few C, many C, a few C, most C/U

2 not many C, some C/U, a lot of C/U, too many C

3 little U, too much U, very little U

4 not much U, lots of C/U, a little U

b) Choose the correct words. Explain your answers.

1 Were there any aftershocks after the earthquake?

2 Rescue workers found very few survivors in the rubble.

3 A lot of people lost loved ones in the earthquake.

4 There was only a little water left.

5 Most much people in the town didntaskt have any electricity after the earthquake.

6 There wasntaskt much hope of finding any survivors in the burning building.

6 Read the sentences. Which phrase is not possible in each sentence? Which can be followed by: a countable, uncountable noun? Find more examples in the text in Ex. 2.

1 There was a large amount of/а great deal of/a number of/ plenty of rain in the days after the earthquake.

2 He heard quite a lot of/quite a few/а little/ plenty of amazing survival stories after the disaster.

3 There were no/hardly any any/few survivors.

4 Much large number of/Several/A couple of nuclear power plants were damaged during the earthquake.

5 All/Several/Every/ Each of them had lost their homes.

7 Complete: the whole of, both, neither, either, none. Check in the Grammar Reference section.

1 Neither Anna nor Steve were in Japan when the earthquake struck.

2 Sadly, both the tsunami and the earthquake caused terrible damage.

3 The whole of the world was shocked.

4 Either we leave now or wait until they come.

5 Lots of people were in the building when the fire broke out, but fortunately none of them got hurt.

8 Make sentences based on the text using: the whole of, a large amount of, hardly any, most people, little hope, a few.

8 Put all possible questions (general, alternative, disjunctive, special) to this sentence from the text.

In the days before the main earthquake, Japan had experienced quite a few fore shocks.

Speaking & Writing

9 Think! Listen to and read the text. Imagine you were in Japan on the day of the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Where were you? What did you see and hear? How did you feel? In a few minutes, write a few sentences. You can use the headlines in Ex. 1a. Tell your partner or the class.

10 Draw a picture or find pictures to raise awareness of the victims of the disaster in Japan. Present it/them to the class.