t your partner put down. Discuss the criteria which you use while choosing the information .. Before the students start reading the text they are supplied with questions, true or false statements, multiple-choice items or matching items. They should read the text and find the right answer for the tasks.two minutes to noon on 1 September 1923, the great clock on Tokyo stopped. Tokyo Bay shook as if a huge rug had been pulled from under it. Towering above the bay the 4,000 Mount Fuji stood above the deep trench in the sea. It was from this trench that the earthquake came, at a magnitude of 8.3 on Richter scale.sea drew back for a few moments. Then, a huge wave swept over the city. Boats were carried inland, and buildings and people were dragged out to sea.The tremors dislodged part of the hillside, which gave way, brushing trains, stations and bodies in the water below. Large sections of sea-bed sank 400 metres; the land rose by 250 metres in some places and sank in others. The causalities were enormous, but there were also some lucky survivors. The most remarkable was a woman who was having bath in her roon at the Tokyo Grand Hotel. [6, p.174] to the text:
. What time did the earthquake start? Time did it finish? p>. Did it start: a) in the mountains?) In the sea?) In the city?) In the desert? p>. Beside each statements write T (true), F (false) or DK (do not know)) Parts of the sea became deeper.) A hillside slid down onto the city.) Most people died by drowning.) The Ground Hotel survived the earthquake. [6, p.175]. Match the sentences and the pictures which are given below with the right paragraphs from the text. Put the sentences in the right order .. Remove all the verbs, or pronouns, or adjectives from the short part of the text and ask them to fill in the gaps. They should guess the missing word from the story context. The missing words may be given in box, or may not.is estimated that in the last two thousand years the world has lost more than a hundred species of animals. The similar number of species of birds has also become extinct. The real significance of ............. figures, however, lies in ............. fact that almost tree quarters ......... ..... all the losses occured .............. the past hundred years ............... as a direct result .... ......... mans activities on this ............ It is essential for .......... whole process of evolution ....... ...... the extinction of certain ........... should occur over a ............. of time [12] .. Read the text below. Copy and complete the chart about either Terry Fox or Steve Fonyo. :: Of start of run: at start of run: covered: of money raised:
Answer the following questions.
1 Where did Steve Fonyo begin and end his run?
How many differences can you find between Steve Fonyo and Terry Fox? Fox was a college athlete who lost a leg due to bone cancer. At the age of 21, on a cold February ...
