Oil spill disaster

Oil spill disaster

Vocabulary: Slick problems

Grammar: Active voice & Passive voice

Function: Expressing feelings and ideas I think/ In my opinion,Language Features and Functions

Speaking : To answer the question about the story.

Reading : To read for comprehension and answer.

Writing : To write and share the opinion about the story

Language Skills

Match the words to their definitions. 1. spilla. a substance that can make people or animals ill or kill them 2. environmental if they eat or drink it 3. disasterb. to (cause to) flow, move, fall or spread over the edge or 4. explosion outside the limits of something 5. poisonc. the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something 6. barrierd. equipment for a special purpose 7. bane. an object like a fence that prevents people from moving 8. rig forward from one place to anotherf. relating to the air, water and land in or on which people, animals and plants liveg. to forbid (=refuse to allow), especially officially an unexpected event, such as a very bad accident, a flood or a fire, that kills a lot of people or causes a lot of damage

Vocabulary TestAnswer1. b2. f3. h4. c5. a6. e7. g 8. d Spill (v.)

The milk was spilt on the floor by my children. VocabularyEnvironmental (adj.)

Everyone should be aware of environmental issues.VocabularyDisaster (n.)

Tsunami in Japan is one of the worst natural disasters.VocabularyExplosion (n.)

The explosion of nuclear plant in Japan was occurred in 2011. VocabularyPoison (n.)

He drank some poison because he had a lot of problems.VocabularyBarrier (n.)

Please show your ticket at the barrier.VocabularyBan (v.)

Some films were banned in many countries.VocabularyVocabularyRig (n.)

There are various kinds of rigs in factories.Pre-readingWhat problems can people cause for animals that live in the sea?

Do you think the sea near your country is clean or dirty?How can we help to keep the sea safe and clean?

Savannah Jackson lives in the town of Bon Secour, Alabama, on the coast of the USA near the Gulf of Mexico. Many people in Bon Secour need the sea for their work. Some are fishermen; Savannahs family catches wild shrimp. On 20 April 2010 Savannah saw some bad news on TV. There was an explosion on Deepwater Horizon, a big oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico.Oil spill disasterThe explosion killed eleven people and damaged the rig. Oil spilled out of the ground into the sea. BP, the company who owned the rig, could not stop the oil coming out. They couldnt stop it for three month! Four hundred and sixty thousand tonnes of oil went into the water killing thousands of birds and poisoning the sea. The oil spell was an environmental disaster. Fishing was banned in more than 200,000 square kilometres of the Gulf of Mexico. Like many other people, the shrimp fishermen of Bon Secour couldnt make any money. Cleaning up the oil became a big and important job.Oil spill disasterBP and the American army put a barrier around Deeppwater Horizon. They wanted to stop the oil from getting to the coast. The barrier was more than 55 kilometres long, but it didnt stop the oil. Savannah and her friends also wanted to help. Savanah cleaned the oil off birds. Some of her friends cleaned the oil off the beaches. Cleaning up the oil spill will cost millions of dollars, and will take many years.Oil spill disasterSavannahs family will have to wait a long time before they can catch their shrimp again.Oil spill disasterVocabulary

A1. oil2. explosion3. beach4. spilled5. environmental disaster

Post-readingVocabulary

B1. making sick2. something which stops people3. hurt or broken4. the area of a country where the land meets the sea5. not allowed

Post-readingIn other words

A2 - To describe an environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

B1. Paragraph 22. Paragraph 33. Paragraph 1

Post-readingGeneral understanding1. T2. T3. F4. FPost-readingIn detail1. Savannahs family catches wild shrimp.2. It was on 20 April 2010.3. In the Gulf of Mexico.4. Three months.5. 460,000 tonnes.6. They cleaned the oil off birds and the beaches.7.Because the American army wanted to stop the oilfrom getting to the coast.8.Because the oil spilled into the sea.

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