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Hello everybody. Welcome back to my channel. Unit 4: Extreme Weather. Today we are starting a review of a new topic: Extreme Weather. Vocabulary: Extreme Weather, page 24. Before we jump in, don't forget to subscribe to my YouTube channel, hit the like button, and join our sponsor community. As a sponsor, you'll get access to lesson reviews, step-by-step explanations for the workbook and grammar book, plus extra help to get ready for the final. So, are you ready? Let's get started with our lesson. About you, what kinds of weather do you like or dislike? What kinds of weather do you like and dislike? So personally, I like warm, sunny weather and I dislike very cold, stormy, and rainy weather. How do you or your family check the weather forecast? How do you and your family check the weather forecast? We usually check the weather forecast on our phones or on a weather app. What is the weather usually like at this time of year where you live? Um, what is the weather usually like? At this time of year, where you live? So at this time of year, it's usually cool and cloudy. It can also be rainy and windy because the following questions too. Try to answer these questions as well. About you. And now we are moving on to vocabulary: Extreme Weather. Look at the photos. Let's look at the photos. What is happening in each one? What is happening in each photo? And which do you think is the scariest and why? And what is the scariest and why? Well, let's describe A. Forest fire. There is a wildfire. B. There is a flood. A flood. The streets are full of water. C. There is a snowstorm and it's snowing heavily and people are walking in deep snow. D. There has been an earthquake. Buildings and houses have been badly damaged. I think an earthquake is the scariest because it can happen suddenly and destroy buildings. Buildings can collapse. Okay. So, listen to four people talking about extreme weather and match each person to a photo. Let's listen to four people who are talking about the weather, about extreme weather. Yes. And we will match each person to a photo. So there are four pictures and people. Speaker one: Imagine the center of New York stopped in its tracks by a snowstorm. The city had a power cut, too. You know, no electricity for a while. I don't know whether this was because the wind blew so hard or if it was the type of snow that fell. Speaker two: My family used to live just outside the Australian city of Canberra. On that day, there was a storm. It was so hot and dry. Then we had a lightning storm and that's what started the fire. And with it, a fire tornado. Awesome to watch, but really scary, too. I'll never forget it. Speaker three: I live in a fishing village in Cornwall, which is in the southwest of Britain. We've had plenty of bad weather, so we all know what to do in case of a flood. Last week, so much rain fell that the river rose two meters above normal. It poured for hours. We watched the dirty water flow along our street as it flooded our village. Speaker four: There was a big earthquake a few years ago. The earth shook and then the roads opened up and lots of buildings fell down. Since then, we have had smaller ones and lots of them. It can be pretty scary, but now everyone knows what they have to do. Okay. So the first speaker, um, so told us about a snowstorm, the second about a forest fire, about a fire tornado. Yes. The third speaker told us about a flood and the fourth one about an earthquake. Okay. So now we have to listen again and complete the sentences with the words from the boxes. While I was listening, I already tried to look through some of it, of course. Well, now we will listen one more time. So, we have the words: earthquake, flood, lightning, snowstorm, tornado. Verbs: blew, fell down, flowed, poured. Yes. Rose. Shook. Let's listen again. Speaker one: I'd heard the weather forecast the previous evening. They predicted some snow, but no one expected the amount we got. Imagine the center of New York stopped in its tracks by a snowstorm. The city had a power cut, too. You know, no electricity for a while. I don't know whether this was because the wind blew so hard or if it was the type of snow that fell. Speaker two: My family used to live just outside the Australian city of Canberra. On that day, there was a storm. It was so hot and dry. Then we had a lightning storm and that's what started the fire. And with it, a fire tornado. Awesome to watch, but really scary, too. I'll never forget it. Speaker three: I live in a fishing village in Cornwall, which is in the southwest of Britain. We've had plenty of bad weather, so we all know what to do in case of a flood. Last week, so much rain fell that the river rose two meters above normal. It poured for hours. We watched the dirty water flow along our street as it flooded our village. Speaker four: There was a big earthquake a few years ago. The earth shook and then the roads opened up and lots of buildings fell down. Since then, we have had smaller ones and lots of them. It can be pretty scary, but now everyone knows what they have to do. Ok, speaker one. The speaker talked about the snowstorm. So, the first speaker is talking about a snowstorm or blizzard. So, there was no power in the city possibly because the wind blew so hard. There was no electricity or power in the city, maybe because the wind blew so hard. Speaker two: there was a lightning storm. There was what? A storm with lightning, a lightning storm. The speaker saw a fire tornado. And the speaker saw a fire tornado. Speaker three: There was a flood where the speaker lives. So, there was a flood where our speaker lives. There was so much rain that the river rose by two meters. There was so much rain that the river rose by two meters. It poured for hours. It poured for hours. Dirty water flowed along the street. Dirty water flowed along the street. And speaker four: The speaker experienced a big earthquake a few years ago. The speaker experienced a big earthquake a few years ago. The ground shook violently. Yes, the ground shook very violently. And many buildings fell down. Many buildings fell down. Good. So now let's match some of the words in exercise three to the meanings. So, rained a lot. Rained a lot. Flood. Well, it's flood, right? Yes. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, ten, eleven. Rained a lot. When wind moved and made currents of air, when the wind moves, it blows. It creates air currents. Bright light that you see in the sky during a storm. Well, that's lightning. Okay, let's write it in here somewhere. Lightning. Snows very heavily, a snowstorm. When it snows very heavily. A large amount of water covering an area in a way that is a problem. A large amount of water. Flood. A large amount of water. Flood. An extremely dangerous wind that moves in a circle. Tornado. Moved quickly from side to side, shook. To shake, increased in level. So, rose. Maybe water? Maybe not just water. Yes. Increased in level. To rise in level. So what are the infinitives of "blew"? Blow. Fall down. Fall down. Rose, rise and shook, shake. That's quite a strange question. Yes. In the end form, so discuss the question. So what should you do in case of a flood, fire, and earthquake? Okay. So flood. So we have to move to a safe, higher place and follow emergency instructions. Fire. We should leave the building quickly, stay low if there is smoke, and call the emergency services; earthquake. Drop, cover, and hold on. So stay away from windows and heavy objects. Two. What was the last extreme weather event in Ukraine? What was the last extreme weather-related event? Well, unfortunately, in Ukraine, it's not related to the weather, but to someone's sick mind. Yes. Well, okay. So one of the most recent significant weather events was heavy rain and strong winds in late September 2024, just a couple of days ago on the 24th of September, so bad weather caused power cuts in more than 600 settlements in eight regions of Ukraine. Have you ever been in an extreme weather eve
