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3. Oh, yes, yes. I have been in a natural disaster. I forget what year but Hurricane Yuniki in
Hawaii, but I lived on Ohau so we got the eye of the hurricane so it wasn‟t like harsh at all.
In fact, I remember when it hit, I remember telling my parents, I wanted to go out and fly a
kite because it looked so nice outside, so it wasn‟t really that bad of an experience for me.

4. Yes, I have. I‟ve been in a fire. A really big one actually. It was just very scary. There
was just smoke everywhere, and I couldn‟t see anything. My eyes were hurting. I was
choking, and I really thought I was going to die, but I was rescued by an old | man passing
by.
5. OK, have I been in a natural disaster? Well, I‟ve actually seen one happen while I was
driving, and this was along the coast. It was in December 2004 I think, there was a big
landslide during a the raining season in Los Angeles, and while I was driving I actually saw
it, and then I didn‟t know what was damaged, but it was all over the news, and then it was
bad.

6. Yeah, actually, I was staying with friends in Norway and we were camping and we got
hit by a blizzard and it was really frightening, but luckily I was with some big Viking
Norwegian guys, and they knew exactly what to do, because I didn‟t. It was really ... you
couldn‟t see anything. It was so white and the snow was so heavy and it actually hurt quite
a lot, and it didn‟t help that it was absolutely freezing.

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2 Decide if the statements below are true (T) or false (F).
2 1. The bomb explosion occurred right in the writer‟s place. ..................
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2. The hurricane was a very bad experience to the writer in paragraph 3. ..................
3. The writer in paragraph 4 couldn‟t breathe for a while in the fire. ..................

4. The landslide in paragraph 5 was not really noticeable. ..................
5. The writer in paragraph 6 felt very cold when the blizzard occurred. ..................

D. SPEAKING

XI Work in groups of four. In the space below, list as many kinds of natural disasters as
possible. Then define them.

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