Nicaraguan landslide kills 14

Working on the vocabulary. Match the columns

a volcano	casualties
during the famine people	injured
an earthquake	shakes the city
the land suffers	erupts
a tornado	damaged
people can be	the dead and the wounded
thingscan be	sweeps the island
during the accident there can be	draught
during the war there can be	starve
during the battlethere are	victims (those who suffer the results of the disaster)

Working on the vocabulary. Working on word formation.

noun	verb	adjective
mud
evaporation
		shanty
	erupt
poverty
		overpopulated
flooding
starvation
destruction
deforestation

Here is some information about the earthquake in Armenia. Match the beginning of the sentence with the correct second part.

1. The earthquake struck at 11.41.am
2. Snow fell during the next few days
3. At first it was thought 55,000 people had died
4. As soon as the news of the tragedy had been broadcast,
5. A plane carrying humanitarian aid crashed
6. Restoration of the affected area began
7. A government official promised the town would be rebuilt

1. when trying to lend.
2. as the people of Spitak, Armenia, were busy with their morning work.
3. by the end of the following year.
4. two weeks after the earthquake.
5. but later the figure was put at 25,000.
6. which made rescue operation difficult.
7. aid worth millions of dollars began to pour in.

Text1

Earthquake rocks northern Japan. Friday, September 26, 2004

TOKYO, Japan -- An earthquake measuring 8.0 hit the northern Japanese island of Hokkaido early Friday, thousands forced to evacuate. The strongest quake anywhere in the world this year.

Another temblor of similar intensity less than two hours later. Multiple aftershocks felt. Residents on the eastern side of Hokkaido urged to evacuate.

CNN Tokyo Bureau Chief Rebecca MacKinnon said no deaths reported. Japan's national broadcasting agency, reported 236 hurt.

An estimated 41,000 people forced to evacuate their homes and 16,000 residences blacked out, The Associated Press reported.

Text 2

Prague citizens evacuate as flood tide nears.

Prague residents began to evacuate parts of the historic Czech capital before yesterday. The worst flood in over a century hits the city.

Prague authorities order the evacuation of up to 50,000 people after days of rainfall filled rivers in the south of the central European country and killed seven people.

Torrential rains also hit neighboring Germany and Austria and, the death toll from European reaches 70 in a week.

Water overflows the Vltava's banks and the rain continue to fall.

Water may rise to one to two meters in some residential areas.

Text 3

Nicaraguan landslide kills 14.

Rescuers have found the bodies of 14 victims of a landslide that buried eight mountain villages in central Nicaragua.

Authorities fear the death toll to rise to 50.

Rescuers looking for survivors after a landslide in central Nicaragua.

Rising rivers and the destruction of roads prevent the emergency workers from arriving immediately, and are brought to the area by helicopter.

Nearly affected 1,400 people from the communities leave for the nearest town of Rio Blanco but a spokesman reports many people still missing.