SHOULD WE TAKE NATURAL HOLLYWOOD DISASTER MOVIES MOVIES MORE Natural disasters are SERIOUSLY? Over the past few extreme, sudden events decades, cultural works caused by environmental like movies provide an factors that lead to interpretative lens environmental, human and through which we can economic losses. Violent understand various natural disasters have issues. This means been a fact of human that movies have since the beginning of the helped shape the way . Human impacts we think about natural from natural disasters are disasters and it’s in not fully captured in WE CANNOT STOP NATURAL DISASTERS these films that mortality rates. Injury, BUT WE CAN ARM OURSELVES WITH average spectator can homelessness, and KNOWLEDGE: SO MANY WOULDN'T witness cautionary displacement can all have HAVE TO BE LOST IF THERE WAS ENOUGH tales about how we a significant impact on DISASTER PREPAREDNESS. treat the environment. populations. (PETRA NEMCOVA)

YOU KNOW WHO DOESN’T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH CHANGE DENIAL? HOLLYWOOD. CYCLONES NATURAL DISASTERS: FACTS Hurricanes, tropical cyclones, and are different names for the TORNADOES There are two basic types of same phenomenon: a cyclonic ALERT Tornadoes are violent, floods: river floods, when water system that forms over the . It An impact event is a collision rotating columns of climbs above the edges of a is caused by evaporated water that between astronomical objects. air which can blow at river and the river covers a comes off of the and becomes a Impact events have physical between 50 floodplain with water, and storm. It causes the to spin, consequences and have been and 300 mph, and flash floods, when a large and a hurricane is declared when this found to regularly occur in possibly higher. quantity of water rapidly spinning mass of storms attains a planetary systems, though the sweeps over an area. wind greater than 74 mph. most frequent involve , or and have minimal effect. An is the result of a sudden release of energy in the ’s crust that creates seismic waves. Earthquakes are VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS A recorded with a / seismograph. Put simply, a volcano is an opening in A pandemic is the rapid spread of a new The magnitude of an earthquake is the Earth’s surface. Usually found in a human influenza around the world. conventionally reported on the Richter mountain, the opening allows gas, hot Influenza happen when a new scale, with magnitude 7 causing serious and ash to escape from strain of a flu virus appears which can damage over large areas. Intensity of beneath the Earth’s crust. The most infect humans, to which most people have shaking is measured on the modified common cause of death from a volcano no immunity and which can transmit Mercalli scale. At the Earth’s surface, is suffocation. Volcanic eruptions can efficiently from human to human. Cholera, earthquakes manifest themselves by result in additional threats to health, bubonic plague, smallpox, and influenza shaking and sometimes displacement of such as floods, mudslides, drinking are some of the most brutal killers in the ground. water contamination and . human history. TASK 1 Healthcare professionals, government GUESS THE MOVIE In the aftermath of a massive earthquake in officials and everyday people find California, a rescue-chopper pilot makes a themselves in the midst of a pandemic TITLES! dangerous journey with his ex-wife across the as the CDC works to find a state in order to rescue his daughter. cure.______

NO ONE LIKES A IN REAL LIFE BUT DISASTER MOVIES ARE A FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT THAT WILL KEEP YOU ON THE EDGE OF YOUR SEAT. It tells the epic story of Milo, a slave A tropical hurricane from Bermuda This apocalyptic sci-fi thriller is following turned invincible gladiator who finds collided with a cold front from the Great the prophecy stated by the ancient himself in a race against time and the . Tragically, the crew of a fishing Mayan calendar, which says that the volcano. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a boat was lost in the midst of the world will come to an end on December 21, torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight fearsome storm. It tells the story of the 2012. When a global cataclysm thrusts the his way out of the arena in order to ship's brave and hard-working world into chaos, divorced writer and save his beloved as the once crew.______f a ther joins the race to ensure that magnificent Pompeii crumbles around humankind is not completely wiped him.______out.______

Global warming has arrived causing tornadoes to After discovering that an asteroid the destroy L.A., a tidal wave to wipe out New York and size of Texas is going to impact Earth in the northern hemisphere to freeze up. The movie less than a month, N.A.S.A. recruits a revolves around a climatologist named Jack, his misfit team of deep core drillers to save colleagues and his son trying to survive the super the planet. ______storm that is headed their way.______

Task 2 Task 4 Read the article "Should we take Hollywood disaster movies more Workbook Unit 5 seriously?" and answer the following questions. Listen and do the following: 1.Have you ever seen a natural disaster movie? Write about it. Exercises 1 (T 12) and 2 (T 13), p 42 2. Which do you find the most worrying? 3. Why did become extinct? Discuss possibilities. Task 5 4. What can be done to prevent natural disasters? Write about Michael Jackson’s “Earth Song” is about the damage possible preventive measures. humans have done to the earth through environmental 5. What can we do to help the victims of disasters? destruction and wars. As you watch the video: 6. What was the last natural disaster you saw on TV? Where did https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU, make a it happen? How did it affect people? list of the environmental threats referred to in 7. What are often the results of natural disasters? the song and write down "What have we done to the 8. Could the Internet be helpful in a case of a disaster? How world?". Could it be misused and how? Task 6 Task 3 Watch the movie trailer of Pompeii (2014) and discuss a) Watch the video "Big Idea 8: Natural Hazards Affect Humans": the following questions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n73qtEojP_Y and answer the questions related to natural disasters and their impact on the 2. What is the movie Pompeii about? world. 3. Did anyone survive in Pompeii? What are geoscientists continuing to find out? 4. Who is the leading character in the movie? When/ where/ / how/ why do natural disasters occur? 5. What two warnings happened ahead of time that either weren't heeded or weren't understood? b) Then match the word to the definition. 6. Which elements seemed realistic? Intensity Possibility of danger. Frequency A danger. Risk How often an event happens. Hazard The strength of an event.

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UNIT 5 - WHAT A DISASTER!

PART 1 - NATURAL DISASTERS

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