Flood (2007)

Film summary

Timely yet terrifying, Flood predicts the unthinkable. When a raging storm coincides
with high seas it unleashes a colossal tidal surge, which travels mercilessly down
England's East Coast and into the Thames Estuary. Overwhelming the Barrier, torrents
of water pour into the city. The lives of millions of Londoners are at stake. Top marine
engineers and barrier experts Rob, his ex-wife Sam and his father Leonard Morrison,
have only a few hours to save the city from total devastation. A real probability in a real
location. It is not a question of if, but when London floods.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0790665/

Main charactes

Rob Morrison

Samantha 'Sam' Morrison

Prof. Leonard Morrison

Patricia Nash

Deputy Prime Minister Campbell

Vocabulary

Flood: the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land

forecast: to make a statement about what will happen in the future based on information
available now
tide (adj. tidal): sea level. (high/low tide)
Surge: a sudden increase in something, in this case, the flow of water. (Storm surge)
Wave: a disturbance on the surface of a liquid body, as the sea or a lake, in the form of
a moving ridge or swell.
Current:
Body of water
Gale: a strong wind
tidal gauge: equipment used to measure sea level. Readings/figures: information from
that equipment.
Barrier: a wall, pile of sandbags, etc., that prevents water from entering.
=tidal defence system.
Sluice gate: a gate that can be opened or closed to control the flow water along a pasaje.
Closure: the action of closing something.
Flow: a movement of water
Overflow:(of a river or body of water) flooding the land next to it
override/overwhelm (the barrier): to defeat with a lot of power or force
change/alter course/direction… heading North/South etc
Disaster: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
Damage: the occurrence of a change for the worse
Devastastated: badly damaged or destroyed
catastrophe
warning: alert
Casualty: someone injured or killed in an accident
Fatality: the quality of being able to cause death
body bags:
rescue: free from harm or evil
evacuate: to cause to leave a place because it is not safe
save lives
survivors: someone or something that still exists after and event that could have killed
or destroyed them
resources: outnumber resources
blackout: power cut
sink: fall or descend to a lower place or level
relief : money, food, medicine etc. that is given to help people in places where there has
been a natural disaster, war,
relocate: to move someone or something to another place
sudden/suddenly

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vocabulary

Activities

A) Before watching the film

Z W G C D V H K E B W T C L V
M E K B R U L T O O G S Y B X
F R J N D J A B J F E A K A E
P A O B E U C S E R G C P R R
X Y T T C D Z R T F R E C R L
S N C A S U A L T Y U R C I G
B R V V L Y O O W E S O I E G
E E O L T I Q G D O L F W R C
W L N V I P T I Z V C G A T E
C W A R I B T Y U L B I Z J G
D N F T N V V W O F H F X S C
G X T E P C R S P O A Q Y A L
X O Y O H P U U U L V T G M P
X O R A X R W Z S M S F C F R
G J K D E U B T H D R W E A V

BARRIER – CASUALTY – CLOSURE – EVACUATE – FATALITY –

FORECAST - GATE – RESCUE – STORM – SURGE – SURVIVORS - TIDE
Across
1 the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto land
3 (of a river or body of water) flooding the land next to it
4 the action of closing something
6 a wall, pile of sandbags, etc., that prevents water from entering.
7 a sudden increase in something, in this case, the flow of water.
8 alert
9 sea level

Down
1 a movement of water
2 to cause to leave a place because it is not safe
5 someone injured or killed in an accident

B) After watching the film

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