Read to the extracts of the texts and define what disaster is described proving your answer with the key-words. (Прочитать описание природного явления и написать что это.) Concept Checking: What should you do?
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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1)In Great Britain there are three main types of educational institutions: primary schools, secondary schools and universities.

2)I’ll see that everything is properly packed and put into store.

3)London airport is unique in its layout. All passenger and control buildings are in the center of the airport.

1)My mother is afraid of rats.

2)At the end of the street she turned  the corner, walked to  the bus stop and began waiting for the bus.

3)She complained of feeling bad and could not answer  the questions of the teacher.

1)Who created Mickey Mouse?  - Кто создал Мики Мауса?

2)When I was about fifteen years old, I  enjoyed playing football.  - Когда мне было около 15 лет, я любил играть в футбол.

3)He knows several foreign languages.  - Он знает несколько иностранных языков.

4)The Babylonians of 1800 B.C. hammered out their messages on stone tablets.  - Вавилоняне 1800 г. до нашей эры писали письма на каменных скрижалях

5)I passed my entrance exams successfully a few days ago. - Я успешно сдал вступительные экзамены несколько дней назад

Some people think so (1) highly of the seven-day week. They say it is a real monument to (2) __astronomical_ knowledge. Other people call the seven-day week illogical, but are people always (3) __logical_? Maybe this illogicality makes life more (4) __interesting_ for us. So who is right? Let’s have a look at some (5) __historical_ events. The early West (6) _ historians had a four-day week. The ancient (7) ___Romans had an eight-day week. Do you know why? That was a period of time between their markets. Other cultures had (8) _different__ views. The (9) __Chinese_ had a cycle of fifteen days, the (10) ___Egyptians ten. It was the (11) ___astrologists of Mesopotamia who first used the seven-day week. They decided to have one day for each of the most (12) _important__ objects in the sky – the Sun, the Moon and five major planets people can see.