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January 13, 2011

Water surges leave death, destruction

Dear NI1 students, listen to the news in Australia in English. Australia continues to grapple with its worst flooding in decades, as the number of missing climbs. This video from the CNN was published on Monday 11th, but apparently floods today are going to get worse today!!!



Answer the following questions. Write down your answer in the comentario, please!

1. Answer the following questions:

A.
How many people have died?
B.
Has the weather improved recently.
C.
What happened to the house in the video?
D.
What happened to the three people on top of the car roof?
2. Listen again and complete the gaps.
  1. A scene of _________________ devastation at least 4 people died here.
  2. Thousands of people spent the night _____________.
  3. This family ______________ in desperation.
  4. What this bad weather is doing is ___________ our search and rescue efforts.
  5. The river is called Sunday Creek. It’s an ______________ sea.
  6. Emergency chiefs went much further: this could be called ______________ .
  7. We have a _____________ and ________________ situation.
  8. Given the circumstances, we hold great concerns for many of those people who are ___________________ for in this region.
  9. The rain isn’t _____________ up.

4 comments:

carlos N1 said...

1A. 4 people died so far but it could be 6.

1B. No, the weather hasn´t improved.

1C.The roof was covered by the water so you can see the water mark on the roof.

1D. I didn´t understand what the journalist said because speak too fast.


2a. utter.
2b. stranded.
2c. waves.
2d. threatening.
2e. Inland.
2f. inland instance tsunami.
2g. grim and desperate.
2h. unaccounted
2i. letting up

Anonymous said...

A. Four people have died but it could be six.
C. The house' roof in the video was covered by the water.
D. They have been waitting for rescue efforts.

a. utter
c. wavwes
e. inland
f. tsunami
g. grand and desperate
i. letting up

NI1 Isabel

Eva G. said...

A. Four people. But it could be six.
B. No, it hasn´t
C. First, the house was into the water. The next day it was into the mud.
D. They desapeared down of the river.


a. under devastation
b. ?
c. waves
d. ?
e. inland
f. inland tsunami
g. grim and desperate
h. ?
i. ?

Anonymous said...

A. It will be six.
B. The bad wheater continues.
C. Water is lower and mud invades it.
D. It's training helicopter's rescue, but there's a lot of noise to understand what happened.

a. utter
b. ?
c. waves
d. hampering
e. inland.
f.described as nicknamed instance tsunami.
g. ? & desperate
h. unaccounted
i. letting up
Jesus M.