Nature Attack!
Lightning
1. What is happening in the picture?
2. How can lightning be dangerous?
3. What can you do to protect a lightning strike?
A. Vocabulary in Context: Listen to the text and complete
these sentences.
lightning bolts
1. There are millions of ______________ every day.
amaze
2. A sky with lightning can _________
you.
frightened
3. Many people are ____________
when they see
lightning because it is dangerous.
injured
4. When lightning strikes people, they can be _____
or die.
exploding
5. Thunder sounds as if fireworks are __________.
protects
6. A lightning rod ____________
buildings from
lightning strikes.
shelter
7. In a storm, you should find ____________
from the
bad weather.
attract
8. Tall buildings _____________
lightning strikes.
lightning bolt
protect
amaze
attract
injured
shelter
explode
frighten
1. make someone or something want to come
there attract
2. bright flash or light you see in the sky during
the storm lightning bolt
3. stop someone or something from being
harmed protect
injured
4. hurt
5. blow apart, like a bomb explode
6. building or place where you are safe from
shelter
harm
7. surprise greatly amaze
8. make afraid frighten
Read the article
Reading Comprehension
A. Listening/Looking for the Main Ideas: Circle the letter
of the best answer.
1. Lightning _________.
a. is not dangerous
b. kills only men
c. kills and injures many people
d. happens about 100 times a day
2. Lightning ________________
a. and thunder happen at the same time
b. is as hot as the surface of the sun
c. comes after thunder
d.is hot air exploding
3. Lightning often strikes ___________________
a. Americans
c. tall men
b. tall buildings
d. New York City
B. Looking for Details: Use complete sentences
1. How many people die from lightning in the United States
and Canada every year?
One hundred people die from lightning in the United States and Canada
every year.
2. Why do we see lightning before we hear thunder?
You see lightning frist because light travel faster than sound.
3. Why is it not a good idea to touch metal when there's
lightning?
Because metal attracts lightning.
4. Which building in New York City gets hit by lightning
500 times a year?
The Empire State building in New York City gets hit by
lightning as 500 times a year.
B. Vocabulary in New Context:
1. What is something you can wear or carry that protects you from
the rain?
2. What kind of weather situation frightens you?
3. What modern invention amazes you?
4. You are in the country, and it starts to rain.
Where can you go for shelter?
5. What is something that can explode?
6. In what situation can a person be injured?
7. What kind of place attracts you for a
vacation?
C. Vocabulary Building: Complete these sentences with the
correct part of speech of the words given.
to amaze
to frighten
to attract
amazing
1. What an __________________story!
attraction
2. The castle is the main ______________________of
the city.
fright
3. I had a ____________________when I saw him
unexpectedly.
attractive
4. There’s an _____________________woman at the
party.
amazement
5. He looked at us in _________________
6. We had a ____________________experience
on the
frightening
plane.
Writing Exercises: Find the mistakes
In the United States, the States with the
greatest number of deaths
from Nonth
Texas
lightning are Florida ,texas,and north
Carolina. Avoid these states,
especially in June, which is the worst
month for lightning. The other bad
months are august, July,april and
April ,
September. August