1. hurricane

2. Earthquake

3. Can you list some other natural disasters ?
Have you ever considered how weak humans are compared with a volcano, hurricane or earthquake?
Can you list some other natural disasters ?

4. natural disasters flood sandstorm hurricane typhoon tornado earthquake
tsunami
landslide
snowstorm
drought

5. massive flooding during the 1998 summer

6. Tsunami

7. typhoon

8. drought

9. landslide

10. sandstorm

11. Heavy snowstorm

13. Volcano eruption

14. volcano-eruption 14

15. What do you know about volcano?
Do you know how a volcano erupts?

16. volcano-eruption Ash cloud Crater Lava
Boiling rock erupts from the crater;
the lava flows slowly down the mountain.
Magma chamber 16

17. types of volcanoes an active volcano an extinct volcano
a dormant volcano

18. More about the volcano 1. How is a volcano formed?
The rocks under the earth become hotter and hotter and erupt from the mountain. 18

19. Where is most possible for a volcano
to erupt?
Near the oceans.

20. 3. What types of volcanoes do you know?
An extinct volcano
An active volcano
A dormant volcano
Who will climb into a live volcano to take the temperature of the boiling rock inside?

21. What kind of things might a volcanologist do?
Collect and evaluate information about volcanoes. 21

22. Do you want to be a
volcanologist?

23. Working as a volcanologist.
What might be talked about?
An Exciting Job
Working as a volcanologist.

24. First Reading
What does a volcanologist do? Is the work important?
His work can help save many lives because people in the path of the lava can be warned to leave their home.

25. Read again and try to find out main ideas of each part.
The writer’s experience of watching the volcanic eruption
Part 1(Para 1-2)
Part 2(Para 3-4)
Part 3(Para 5)
The writer’s job and its importance
The reasons for the writer’s enthusiasm about his job

26. In Hawaii. Careful reading Part one (Para. 1- Para. 2)
Why is a volcanologist’s job important?
2) Where is Mount Kilauea?
3) The writer doesn't mind the occasional danger of his job because _____________________________.
It can warn people when the volcano is going to erupt and save many lives.
In Hawaii.
him and makes him feel alive
danger excites

27. What made the author realize that an eruption occurred?
Part two (Para. 3- Para. 4)
The lava can cover up or burn villages in its path. The rocks from the volcano usually don’t damage anything because no one lives near the crater.
Why is the lava that flows on Mount Kilauea more dangerous than the actual eruption?
What made the author realize that an eruption occurred?
What did the scientists do after the eruption ?

28. My bedroom became as bright as day
What made the author realize that an eruption occurred ?
The light was caused by the red-hot rocks and gas that erupted from the volcano.
my bed began shaking
a strange sound
My bedroom became as bright as day
red hot lava was fountaining hundred of metres into the air
an abosolutely fantastic sight

29. What did the scientists do after the eruption ?
put on white protective suits, helmets,
big boots
dropped as closed as possible to the crater
slowly make our way to the edge of the
crater
looked down into the red boiling center

30. Part two (Para. 3- Para. 4)
3. What does the writer mean by using “lucky” in the sentence “I was lucky enough to have a much closer look at it.”?
4. Why did the scientists have to get close to the volcano after it began erupting?
It was his first sight of an eruption.
It was the first time for him to watch the crater.
To get some lava for later study.

31. Part three (Para. 5)
What does the writer find impressive even after studying volcanoes for more than twenty years?
The author is impressed by the beauty of the eruption and also by its potential to cause great damage.

33. How does the writer think about his job?
Thinking
How does the writer think about his job?
Why?

34. Discussion
Do you think it is an occupation you would enjoy? Discuss your reasons with your classmates.