Task 2: Listen to the extracts of the texts and define what disaster is described. Extract 1. Cracks or weaknesses allow magma to rise up. Pressure builds up which, then, releases

suddenly causing the magma to explode. Magma that reaches the earth surface is called lava. This

molten lava eventually cools to form new rock.

Extract 2. This natural event causes dry land suddenly gets submerged under water. Some of them

occur suddenly, others take days or even months to build. The disaster may be caused by heavy

rainfalls when rivers flow over their banks.
Extract 3. It is caused by the shaking of the earth’s surface. It happens when two blocks of the earth

suddenly slip past one another, or break apart from each other as a result of tension caused by

prolonged energy build up.

Extract 4. It has uncontrolled spreading. It is usually started out of a lightning strike, or people

careless camping. They sometimes burn for days and weeks. They can destroy almost every organic

matter in the area.

Extract 5. It appears in cumulonimbus clouds. It looks like a rapidly violent rotating column of air.

It forms because of the collision between warm and cool air masses. It can cause lots of destruction.

It can uproot trees and raise houses, twirl and drag them into its “eye”.

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