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A. Look at the picture and

discuss.

B. What’s the difference
between a hurricane,
a typhoon and a cyclone?
Watch the video and
check your answers.
C. Watch again and write T for True or F for False.
1. A hurricane is a kind of tropical storm.
2. Typhoons never occur in the Pacific Ocean.
3. Hurricanes usually occur in the second half of the year.
4. Hurricanes get their names before they become actual hurricanes.
5. The centre of a hurricane has the fastest winds.
6. Hurricane Katrina killed more than a thousand people.

D. Look at the picture E. Talk in pairs. Discuss the following.

below and tick the
correct statements. • What’s the worst storm you have experienced?
1. It was the third tropical • What other natural disasters can cause so much damage?
storm of the season.
2. It first appeared near the
equator.
3. It occurred in March.
4. It had winds of over .
74mph.
5. The eye of the storm was
100 miles wide.
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