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7a Α. Discuss.

• How do you feel when you read about natural disasters in the news?

B. Read the news article and choose the best headline a, b or c.
Then listen and check your answer.
a. HINGSWORTH DESTROYED BY WILDFIRES

b. FISHING CLUB HELPS SAVE HINGSWORTH RESIDENTS

c. HINGSWORTH RIVER CAUSES FLOODS

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Hingsworth was hit yesterday by the worst one of the ishing club members. She asked
lood in the town’s history. Although small him to come to the bathroom window on the
loods are common in the area, yesterday’s irst loor with his boat and he did. In total,
was especially bad because of last summer’s the club members helped get twenty-seven
wild ires. Huge lames destroyed the forest people out of their homes. ‘Although it was
area around the town and new trees weren’t extremely hard work, we were happy to help
planted. As a result, the heavy rain that fell our community,’ said Fred Gray, the club’s
caused the nearby river to over low. By late president. They managed to get everyone
evening, most of the streets were covered in out of the town because the club members
water. and rescue teams worked well together.

The local authorities told residents to After twenty-four hours of heavy rain, part of
evacuate their homes. However, when rescue the bridge over Hingsworth river collapsed.
teams arrived, the water was too high, and However, luckily, no one was hurt and no
it was di icult for the teams to reach many other buildings were destroyed. After a
homes on foot quickly. Fortunately, one of di icult year with wild ires and yesterday’s
the biggest and most popular ishing clubs is lood, the town mayor, Bill Jones, was
in Hingsworth. All members of the club used grateful everyone worked together to help
their own boats to help the rescue teams. the town after these disasters. ‘First, we
need to plant new trees,’ he said. Hopefully, a
One resident, Ruth Harrington, was saved by disaster like this will never happen again.

note
C. Look at the highlighted words in the text and match them because + subject + verb
with the dictionary entries a-e. because of + noun
a. (adverb) much more than usual The school trip was cancelled because
1. lame b. (verb) to leave a building/place it started raining.
because it is dangerous to stay The school trip was cancelled because
2. heavy
there of the rain.
3. resident c. (noun) the hot bright gas that you
see when something is burning tip
4. evacuate Look up unknown words in a
d. (noun) a person who lives in a dictionary. There, you can ind a
5. extremely place lot of useful information about a
e. (adj.) in large amounts word: pronunciation, word class
(noun, verb, etc.), meaning and
82 example sentences.

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