Natural disasters

Today we started the new lesson it was “Natural disasters/News stories”. First of all, teacher showed us this video.

                               


                              source : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0YOXVlPUu4

After finished the video teacher told us that worked in group of five described about this video that who, where, when and result. In my group we described that “In this video shows us about natural disaster. It was Tsunami. This disaster happened in Japan on 2011. In this video the water was getting high. People were screaming and shouting. After that the waves were bigger and bigger. The waves came over the wall. A lot of water destroyed houses and cars. I think it was terrible event” and then sent the representative of each group to present it in front of the class.

Afterwards, teacher let us thought the words about natural disaster and wrote it on the board.

                 Today we have learned a lot of vocabularies as follows

Evacuate (v): to move people from a dangerous place to somewhere safe.

Disaster (n): (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty.

Terrible (adj): very unpleasant or serious or of low quality.

Damage (v): to harm or spoil something.

Overflow (v): When a liquid overflows, it flows over the edges of a container, etc. because there is too much of it

Destroy (v): to damage something so badly that it cannot be used.

Casualty (n): a person injured or killed in a serious accident or war

Death toll (n): the number of people who die because of an event such as a war or an accident

Fatality (n): a death caused by an accident or by violence, or someone who has died in either of these ways.

Downgraded (v): to reduce someone or something to a lower rank or position, or to cause something to be considered less important or valuable.

We got new lesson hand out from teacher. There are new stories and questions of each story. Teacher let us to read and wrote the summary by ourselves and answered the questions.

The strategies that I used today were skimming, scanning, guessing words meaning from the context and finding the references.

                                                  

I thought it was a good lesson because I will got the news not only Thailand but also around the world. It made me know what happening in our world.

In my opinion this lesson was quite difficult for because there are difficult vocabularies so i solve the problem by look out the meaning in dictionary   and I have to describe it in English but I will practice more and more. I’m sure I can do it. Bye Bye