Page 77 - Prime Time 1-5 Leaflet

Breaking news
Vocabulary: world events, volcanoes, accidents &
injuries, types of TV programmes, rare weather
phenomena, disasters
Grammar: present & past tenses (revision); past
perfect & past perfect continuous; quantifiers
Everyday English: deciding what to watch on TV
Intonation: echo questions
Phrasal verbs: back, call, carry
Word formation: compound adjectives
Writing: an imaginary experience of yours; an
interview; a story
Culture Corner: Hurricane Katrina: The tragedy of
New Orleans
Curricular (Geography): Tsunamis
Vocabulary
World events
1 Listen and say.
ñ technological invention
ñ volcanic eruption
ñ huge tropical storm
ñ mine collapse
ñ earthquake
ñ tsunami
3 Listen to extracts from
two news reports. Which
of the events in the
headlines is each about?
2 a) Look at the events in the
pictures and complete the
sentences with: hit, rescued ,
launched, caused , erupted.
b) Match the events in Ex. 1
to the pictures (A-E).
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In 2011, a 9.0 earthquake 5) ................... Japan
followed by a huge tsunami that killed
thousands of people.
E
O VER TO YOU!
Close your books and
say a few things you
remember about the
events that have
happened in the 21st
century so far.
In 2002, the Microsoft Corporation
1) ................... the first ever tablet PC.
In 2005, Hurricane Katrina 3) ...................
massive flooding and loss of life in New
Orleans, USA.
In 2010, 33 men were 2) ...................
from a collapsed mine in the Atacama
Desert, Chile.
In 2010, the Eyjafjallajökull volcano
in Iceland 4) ................... and
people had to evacuate.
D
C
B
A