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Unit 7 Lesson 5
The shake and the quake
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read a text from a national daily for understanding and inferencing
• read to understand and infer meanings to frame sentences
• done a gap-tilting exercise
• written short accounts
A Have you ever experienced an earthquake-? Tell your partner about it. Have you seen earthquake disaster on TV? Describe what you have seen.
B Read the following text about a danger chat we may be unaware of.
Quake alarm for city buildings
How safe will the buildings in the city of Dhaka be in the event of an earthquake? I Experts give no straight answer to this question, but call for taking adequate precautions to minimise losses. That Bangladesh lies in the active earthquake j zone is not unknown to Bangladeshis. Alarmed by the recurrence of quakes ! during recent years, experts have called for the development of an earthquake resistant building code that ail buildings should follow as mandatory.
There are two schools of experts regarding earthquakes. One school comprising of engineers and geologists is of the view that the recurrence of quakes in recent years should be taken as a signal for a major earthquake. Another school comprising of similar categories of experts, however, believes that the concern should not be amplified, because although there are a number of fault lines in the geographical area comprising Bangladesh, none of them is active enough to pose a major threat. Yet none of the schools rules out the possibility of a major quake and the dangers that might be associated with it. The Rajdhani Unnayan Kariripakhya (RAJUK), responsible for a planned development of the city believes that an earthquake resistant building code should be developed to reduce the losses.
Work in pairs to answer the following questions.
1 Are people in Bangladesh aware of earthquakes? How do you know?
2 Why are experts paying more attention to the issue of earthquakes in recent times?
3 How do the two schools of thought differ?
4 What do 'fault lines' mean?
5 What precautions would you suggest as safety measures against earthquakes in Dhaka city?
Fill in the gaps with appropriate words.
Experts are divided in Dash opinion as regards earthquakes Dash Bangladesh. Some
think that Dash occurrence of earthquakes in Dash years is a warning. Others are of Dash that though there is the Dash of a number of Dash in the area covering Bangladesh, Dash are not active enough to Dash serious earthquakes.
C Work in pairs to frame sentences using the following words. Try to bring out the
meaning of the words in your sentences. Exchange your sentences with another pair and check them.
1 experts: _________________________________________________________
2 adequate: _________________________________________________________
3 minimise: _________________________________________________________
4 precaution: ________________________________________________________
5 recurrence: ________________________________________________________
D Work in pairs and write 6-10 sentences describing the after-effects of an earthquake which you may have seen in pictures published in newspapers or shown on TV.
Focus:
Skills.
Speaking,
reading,
writing. Functions.
Describing, predicting.
Grammar/Structure.
Modals- might, should.
Vocabulary.
adequate, precaution, geologist, resistant, code.
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Unit 7 Lesson 5
The shake and the quake
Objectives: By the end of the lesson you will have
• read a text from a national daily for understanding and inferencing
• read to understand and infer meanings to frame sentences
• done a gap-tilting exercise
• written short accounts
A Have you ever experienced an earthquake-? Tell your partner about it. Have you seen earthquake disaster on TV? Describe what you have seen.
B Read the following text about a danger chat we may be unaware of.
Quake alarm for city buildings
How safe will the buildings in the city of Dhaka be in the event of an earthquake? I Experts give no straight answer to this question, but call for taking adequate precautions to minimise losses. That Bangladesh lies in the active earthquake j zone is not unknown to Bangladeshis. Alarmed by the recurrence of quakes ! during recent years, experts have called for the development of an earthquake resistant building code that ail buildings should follow as mandatory.
There are two schools of experts regarding earthquakes. One school comprising of engineers and geologists is of the view that the recurrence of quakes in recent years should be taken as a signal for a major earthquake. Another school comprising of similar categories of experts, however, believes that the concern should not be amplified, because although there are a number of fault lines in the geographical area comprising Bangladesh, none of them is active enough to pose a major threat. Yet none of the schools rules out the possibility of a major quake and the dangers that might be associated with it. The Rajdhani Unnayan Kariripakhya (RAJUK), responsible for a planned development of the city believes that an earthquake resistant building code should be developed to reduce the losses.
Work in pairs to answer the following questions.
1 Are people in Bangladesh aware of earthquakes? How do you know?
2 Why are experts paying more attention to the issue of earthquakes in recent times?
3 How do the two schools of thought differ?
4 What do 'fault lines' mean?
5 What precautions would you suggest as safety measures against earthquakes in Dhaka city?
Fill in the gaps with appropriate words.
Experts are divided in Dash opinion as regards earthquakes Dash Bangladesh. Some
think that Dash occurrence of earthquakes in Dash years is a warning. Others are of Dash that though there is the Dash of a number of Dash in the area covering Bangladesh, Dash are not active enough to Dash serious earthquakes.
C Work in pairs to frame sentences using the following words. Try to bring out the
meaning of the words in your sentences. Exchange your sentences with another pair and check them.
1 experts: _________________________________________________________
2 adequate: _________________________________________________________
3 minimise: _________________________________________________________
4 precaution: ________________________________________________________
5 recurrence: ________________________________________________________
D Work in pairs and write 6-10 sentences describing the after-effects of an earthquake which you may have seen in pictures published in newspapers or shown on TV.
Focus:
Skills.
Speaking,
reading,
writing. Functions.
Describing, predicting.
Grammar/Structure.
Modals- might, should.
Vocabulary.
adequate, precaution, geologist, resistant, code.