H4 - Unit 9: The Great Outdoors

H4 - Unit 9: The Great Outdoors

The great outdoors

What do you like about
being outdoors?

World Knowledge quiz

Do you know which country has a 'Door to Hell'? How about the population of India? Test your world knowledge!

1. How many stars are there on the flag of China?

1. 2
2. 5
3. 7
4. 1

2. In which country is there a natural gas pit nicknamed the ‘Door to Hell’ that has been on fire since 1971?

1. Turkmenistan
2. Afghanistan
3. Azerbaijan
4. Kyrgyzstan

3. Which celebrity was carried by their minders along the Great Wall of China?

1. Lady Gaga
2. Harry Styles
3. Justin Bieber
4. Selina Gomez

4. Which country has more lakes than the rest of the world combined?

1. Finland
2. Canada
3. Sweden
4. Australia

5. Which country has the world's highest waterfall?

1. Venezuela
2. Kenya
3. Vietnam
4. Canada

6. What is the population of India?

1. 870 million
2. 1 billion
3. 1.2 billion
4. 2 billion

7. Which country has the longest coastline in the world?

1. Russia
2. Indonesia
3. Canada
4. Australia

8. The Great Barrier Reef is off the coast of which country?

1. New Zealand
2. South Africa
3. The Maldives
4. Australia

9. Which country has the greatest number of active volcanoes?

1. Japan
2. Philippines
3. Indonesia
4. Italy

10. Can you guess the distances between these two cities? London & New York?

1. 33.465 miles
2. 6,546 miles
3. 965 miles
4. 3,465 miles

11. On what continent would you find the world’s largest desert?

1. Africa
2. Antarctica
3. Asia
4. South-America

12. Which language has more native speakers?

1. English
2. Spanish

Unlucky nr 13. Which country has to most natural disasters?

1. Vietnam
2. USA
3. Vanuatu
4. Guatamala

What do you know about natural disasters?

Natural disaster list

Pair/Group Discussion

1. Where is it common for natural disasters to occur? Do they happen in your country?
   
2. Which countries don’t tend to have natural disasters? Why do you think that is?
   
3. What can people do to avoid being affected by natural disasters? Are you prepared for a natural disaster? If so, how? If not, what could you do to prepare?
4. Why do natural disasters appear to affect poor people more than rich people?
   
5. Why do people live in areas affected by natural disasters?
   
6. What is the best way to help people who have been affected by natural disasters?
   Is it better to donate money to a disaster response charity, or food and clothes
   directly to people who have been affected by a natural disaster?

1. Where is it common for natural disasters to occur? Do they happen in your country?

2. Which countries don’t tend to have natural disasters? Why do you think that is?

3. What can people do to avoid being affected by natural disasters? Are you prepared for a natural disaster? If so, how? If not, what could you do to prepare?

4. Why do natural disasters appear to affect poor people more than rich people?

5. Why do people live in areas affected by natural disasters?

What is the best way to help people who have been affected by natural disasters?

6. Is it better to donate money to a disaster response charity, or food and clothes directly to people who have been affected by a natural disaster?

Video

You are going to watch a video by BBC News called
“Weather disasters over past five decades 'have increased five-fold'.”

While you watch the video, answer the questions on the following slides

Watch the video here:

Multiple choice

1. While many deaths from natural disasters can be blamed on climate change, what is improving?

a) flood defences                b) insurance claims                         c) disaster management

2. What has been growing rapidly due to natural disasters?

a) the number of casualties              b) the economic impact                     c) the number of refugees

3. Where did Hurricane Ida cause damage and destruction?

a) Florida                  b) Louisiana                  c) Mississippi

4. By how much has the economic impact increased since the 1970s?

a) five times                     b) s ix times                       c) seven times

Sentence completion

5. The number of people killed by storms, floods and droughts has decreased by ................... over the past 50 years.

6. Approximately ................... of the countries in the world do not have systems in place to give them early warnings of natural disasters.

7. There have been ...................  water, weather and climate related disasters in the last five decades.

8. Most people who have died in water, weather and climate related disasters lived in ...................  countries.

Short answer

9. Where were the COP26 climate negotiations held?

10. When did the three of the biggest storms over the last 50 years occur?

11. Over which US state did Hurricane Harvey drop millions of tons of water?

12. Providing early warning systems is a challenge for whom?

Answers

1. c
2. b
3. b
4. c
5. two thirds
6. half
7. 11.000/11 thousand
8. poorer/developing
9. Glasgow
10. 2017
11. Texas
12. Political leaders in richer countries

Unit 9 exercises:

Now that you've had some introduction, work on the following exercises in your Open World book:

• p 120-121: Reading 1-5, Reading and Use of English 1-4
• p 122: Speaking parts 3&4, ex 1-2