Exercise 1.

Watch the video ‘Hurricane Matthew Strikes Haiti’

again and fill in the gaps with the missing words:

1) Good evening and we begin tonight with the __________ hurricane and
its _______________ already.
2) Look at the size of this storm on ___________.
3) … a massive amount of rain. _____________ filling the streets.
4) The new track just in showing the hurricane coming even closer to the
American _____________.
5) Tonight the most powerful hurricane to hit Haiti in more than 50 years is
causing _________ and ________.
6) Winds continue ___________ across the island.
7) This man making the dangerous decision to cross raging __________.
8) This bridge connecting the southern part of the island to the capital city
________ while this river threatens to destroy...
9) After the earthquake thousands of people built their homes here on this
_______.
10) The real ________ now with all this rain ________.
11) Another danger _________ like this one caught on camera.
12) The storm _________ has already destroyed this home.
13) It’s gonna take at least a week _________ electricity to this area.

Exercise 2. Watch the video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=1B9oA0txL2k) and fill in the gaps with the missing words:

1) The number of __________ disasters has increased five-fold in the past

50 years.
2) An event linked to weather climate or _________ has killed __________
people every day since 1970.
3) As the ___________ hurricane Ida _________ Louisiana.
4) The scientists say the rise has been ___________ by climate change.
5) As humans have continued to warm the planet through the use of
_____________.
6) In Germany and Belgium earlier this summer ___________ rain saw
towns and villages ____________.
7) Almost half of all the death that have ____________ in disasters over the
last 50 years have been __________ water and climate-related
_________.
8) The economic ___________ is also grown far more severe.
9) The good news is that the number of people being killed by ________,
________ and _________ has ___________ significantly.
10) The WMO says this is due to improvements in early
____________ that give people more time to move away from
___________.
11) However much woks ___________ to be done as only half the
world’s countries ___________ have adequate warning networks in
place.
12) Every year we get reports from different groups of scientists
saying one thing or another about a _______ or about more __________.
13) They find quite a significant pattern here as you’ve been hearing.
There are _________ such ___________ over the last 50 years,
___________ people have lost their lives.
14) The economic ________ is growing hugely ___________ times
more than it was in 1970s.
15) And most of those people who died in these different disasters
have been living in ________ countries, in _________ countries.
16) So there’s some very clear and ________ message is coming up in this
report for politicians and for world leaders contemplating how to
_________ the _________ of climate change.