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UNIT

Vocabulary 1
3 Complete the words in the sentences.
Weather
The temperature is 44˚C. There is a
1 Find and circle eight weather words in the h e a t w a v e.
wordsnake. 1 It’s 22˚C. It isn’t hot or cold. It’s w _ _ _.
blizzard cloudy damp dry hailstones 2 It’s dry today. It isn’t r _ _ _ y.
heatwave thunder warm 3 My house is d _ _ _ because it’s near the sea.
4 Listen to the t _ _ n _ _ _! A storm is coming.
to n e st h u n d udywarm
ils er yclo 5 It was wet before, but it’s s _ _ _ _ now. It’s a
ha zz
r beautiful day.
p
bl

ard m
i

heatwaveda 6 Drive slowly. It’s difficult to see because it’s a


f _ _ _ _ day.
2 Label the pictures with the words in the box. 7 The h _ _ _ s _ _ _ _ s fell from the sky during
the blizzard.
foggy icy rainy snowy stormy
sunny wet windy
4 Label the pictures with the words in the box.
autumn spring summer winter

wet 1 f
spring 1 s

2 s 3 s

2 a 3 w

4 w 5 i

5 Complete the answers so they are true for you.


1 What’s the weather like today?
Today, it’s .
6 r 7 s 2 What was the weather like yesterday?
Yesterday it was .
LOOK! 3 What’s your favourite weather?
We use weather nouns after a / an / the. I like it when it’s .
Can you hear the wind? 4 What’s your favourite season – spring,
There was a blizzard yesterday. summer, autumn or winter?
We use weather adjectives alone or with My favourite season is .
nouns.
It’s windy. It’s a windy day.

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pulse basics
UNIT

Vocabulary 2
3 Circle the correct words.
Natural disasters
1 Label the pictures with the words in the box.

avalanche drought earthquake famine


flood hurricane landslide tsunami
volcano wildfire

tsunami 1 f The tornado / drought was strong. It


destroyed many houses.
1 There was an earthquake / avalanche on
the mountain yesterday. Luckily, nobody was
skiing there.
2 v 3 e 2 There is a drought / tsunami. Many rivers and
lakes don’t have any water.
3 People died in the famine / landslide. There
wasn’t any food.
4 They cooked food under the trees and started
a flood / wildfire.
4 h 5 a
5 We can’t drive on that road. There was a
landslide / hurricane.
6 There was a big earthquake / tornado in San
Francisco in 1926. The ground moved.

6 d 7 w 4 Read the sentences and circle the correct


answers.
Scientists are worried about the … in Sicily.
They think it is going to erupt again.
a) volcano b) earthquake c) avalanche
8 l 9 f
1 After heavy rain, there is a … in the north of
2 Find the words from exercise 1 in the wordsquare. England. People are protecting their homes
from the water.
E A R T H Q U A K E R A a) famine b) flood c) tornado
N V A S K D R H C R E L 2 In Ethiopia there was no rain last year or this
year. Now there is a … and people don’t have
D A S U V O Q L N O V A
water.
R L T N E R X P C I O N a) tsunami b) hurricane c) drought
O A H A M V A N Q U L D 3 Last night in Spain there was a small … .
Thousands of people felt the ground move.
U N T M F A M I N E C S
Luckily there was no serious damage.
G C R I A M P T I N A L a) earthquake b) avalanche c) wildfire
H H U R R I C A N E N I 4 There was a terrible … in Greece last year. It
burned for three days and destroyed many
T E R C A N E F L O O D
trees.
H A B I W I L D F I R E a) avalanche b) wildfire c) flood

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