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Page 56.
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Before you read.
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Exercise A.
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Vocabulary.
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Adjectives of severity.
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Read and listen.
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Now listen again and repeat.
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Mild Moderate Severe Deadly
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Catastrophic Page 56 Reading Read and listen.
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Earthquakes Earthquakes are among the deadliest natural disasters, causing the largest numbers of casualties,
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the highest death tolls, and the greatest destruction.
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In 1556, in China, the deadliest earthquake in history killed 830,000 people.
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But many other earthquakes have caused the deaths of more than 100,000 people, and it is not unusual even in modern times for an
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earthquake death toll to reach 20,000 to 30,000 people with hundreds of thousands left homeless and with countless injured.
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The floodwaters of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, which killed over 200,000 people, were caused by a catastrophic earthquake.
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There are four factors that affect the casualty rate and economic impact of earthquakes.
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magnitude, location, quality of construction of buildings, and timing.
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Magnitude.
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The magnitude, or strength, of an earthquake is measured on the Richter scale,
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ranging from 1 to 10 with 10 being the greatest earthquakes over 6 on the Richter scale are often deadly
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and those over 8 are generally catastrophic causing terrible damage
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location a severe earthquake
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that is located far from population centers does not cause the same damage as a less severe one
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that occurs in the middle of a city.
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As an example, in 1960, the strongest earthquake ever recorded, 9.5 magnitude on the Richter scale,
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struck in the Pacific Ocean near the Chilean coastline, destroying buildings, killing over 2,000,
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and injuring another 3,000 in regional cities near the coast.
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If this quake had struck a city directly, it would have been catastrophic, and hundreds of thousands might have been killed.
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Similarly, in Alaska in 1964, a magnitude 9.2 quake hit an area with few people,
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and the death toll was 117.
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Quality of Construction
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Modern building construction techniques can lessen the death toll
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and economic impact of a moderate earthquake that would otherwise cause severe destruction of older-style buildings.
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In 2010, a terrible earthquake in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, caused the destruction of a tremendous number of the city's buildings, mostly due to poor construction.
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In contrast, an even stronger earthquake later that year in Chile caused less destruction because of that country's use of earthquake-resistant construction.
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Timing Finally, the time of occurrence of an earthquake can affect the number of deaths and casualties.
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Earthquakes that occur in the night, when people are indoors, usually cause a greater death toll than ones that occur when people are outdoors.
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Thank you.

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Vocabolario e note di pronuncia per questa lezione

Questa lezione di conversazione di livello B2 si basa sul video “Top Notch 3: Unit 5: Lesson 3: Describe natural disasters”. Le parole che ritornano più spesso: earthquake, magnitude, toll, construction, catastrophic. Questo video contiene 38 frasi e 407 parole da ripetere con lo shadowing. Il parlato dura 3:53. Chi parla lo fa lentamente, circa 105 parole al minuto, quindi c’è tempo per imitare ogni suono. Solo il 76% delle parole rientra nelle 3.000 più comuni dell’inglese, quindi il lessico è impegnativo.

Vocaboli chiave di questo video

Le 15 parole più avanzate del video, con pronuncia e significato:

ParolaPronunciaSignificato
earthquake sostantivo/ˈɝθkweɪk/terremoto, sisma
magnitude sostantivo/ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/vastità, magnitudine
casualty sostantivo/ˈkæʒu.əlti/ferito
injure verbo/ˈɪn.d͡ʒɚ/ferire, danneggiare
quake verbo/kweɪk/tremare
adjective sostantivo/ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/aggettivo
tsunami sostantivo/(t)suːˈnɑːmi/tsunami, maremoto
indoors avverbio/ɪnˈdɔɹz/dentro, al chiuso
severity sostantivo/səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/severità
occurrence sostantivo/əˈkɜɹ.əns/occorrenza
vocabulary sostantivo/vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/vocabolario
locate verbo/ˈloʊˌkeɪt/localizzare
countless aggettivo/ˈkaʊntləs/innumerevole, incalcolabile
tremendous aggettivo/tɹɪˈmɛndəs/formidabile, tremendo
mild aggettivo/ˈmaɪld/delicato, delicata

Pronuncia a cui fare attenzione

  • Parole lunghe — attenzione all’accento: catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, severity /səˈvɛɹ.ə.ti/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

I suoni difficili per chi parla italiano:

  • Consonante finale — senza aggiungere una vocale dopo: earthquake /ˈɝθkweɪk/, magnitude /ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/, catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, quake /kweɪk/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/
  • /æ/ — più aperta della “e”: magnitude /ˈmæɡnɪtjuːd/, catastrophic /ˌkætəˈstɹɑfɪk/, casualty /ˈkæʒu.əlti/, adjective /ˈæd͡ʒ.ɪk.tɪv/, vocabulary /vəˈkæb.jə.lə.ɹi/

Come esercitarsi con questo video

  1. Ascolta tutto il video una volta senza parlare e annota le parole che non conosci.
  2. Fai shadowing frase per frase a velocità normale, ripetendo ognuna finché il tuo ritmo coincide con quello di chi parla.
  3. Registrati e confronta con l’originale, facendo attenzione a parole come earthquake, magnitude, casualty.

Cos'è la tecnica dello Shadowing?

Shadowing è una tecnica di apprendimento delle lingue supportata da studi scientifici, originariamente sviluppata per la formazione dei traduttori professionisti e resa popolare dal poliglotta Dr. Alexander Arguelles. Il metodo è semplice ma potente: ascolti un audio in inglese di madrelingua e lo ripeti immediatamente ad alta voce — come un'ombra che segue il parlante con un ritardo di solo 1–2 secondi. A differenza dell'ascolto passivo o degli esercizi di grammatica, lo shadowing costringe il tuo cervello e i muscoli della bocca a elaborare e riprodurre simultaneamente i modelli di discorso reale. La ricerca dimostra che migliora significativamente la precisione della pronuncia, l'intonazione, il ritmo, il discorso connesso, la comprensione dell'ascolto e la fluidità del parlato — rendendolo uno dei metodi più efficaci per la preparazione alla prova di speaking dell'IELTS e per la comunicazione reale in inglese.

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