writing - CONNECT PRIMARY 5 Term 1 - خامس ابتدائي

UNIT 6 1 LESSON 4 WRITING Read. What extreme weather in England is the writer describing? Check (✓) the correct photo below I was at school with my classmates. Then it started to get dark. We went outside. Then I saw the... and it was very frightening. It was a very big, wide, black cloud. As it came near us, it was getting bigger and it was twisting around. We could see things in it, like doors and bits of houses! When it was closer, it got even wider and darker. The next day, we found out that the... hurt a lot of people, and destroyed many homes and other buildings. b 98 2 Find out! Check your answers with your teacher 1 Does this extreme weather event often happen where you live? 2 What does it look like? What happens? 3 3 How do people try to protect themselves against it? Read another account of an extreme weather event. The words in bold are wrong. Can you correct them? One day, my family and I were driving through the desert to visit my cousins. After twenty minutes, I loked out of the window and saw a sandstorm. Soon, there were a lot of sand in the air outside the car and it was very difficult to sea. We closed all the windows, but it was now very dark. There was other cars on the road. Were they going to hit us? I was really scared. My father moved the car off the road and we stopped. We didn't see some more cars on the road, but the sandstorm moved very slowly. Then, suddenly, it moved. away. We saw the son again and drove on through the desert!

5 4 Write an account of an extreme weather event in your notebook. Use your ideas from Exercise 2 to help you. Write 30-40 words 25 Work with a partner. Read each other's accounts and say what you think Read the tips for keeping safe in extreme weather. Match them to the correct group a keeping safe in extreme heat: 1, b keeping safe in a sandstorm: 2, UNIT 6 2 3 Drink lots of Wear a scarf water, even if you don't to protect your face. feel thirsty. Try to spend time in cool buildings with air- conditioning. 4 Stay inside so the sand can't get in your mouth. Open the windows when there's a cool wind. Don't go outside. If you must go outside, stay in the shade. Eat small, light meals. 8 If you're driving, try to get to the side of the road so you can stop your car. If you're at home, make sure your windows are shut so no sand can get in. 10 11 12 Wear light, cool clothing. Cover your head and Turn off air- conditioning to face as much stop the sand as possible. coming in. Work with a partner. Choose one group from Exercise 6 each, and write more tips. Then share them with your partner 99