Module 3 The Violence of Nature-Writing

Period 4 Writing about a violent natural event

■Goals

●     To learn to write about natural events

■Procedures

Step 1: Talking about the worst natural disasters since 2000

Gujarat, India, 2001: earthquake (20,000 dead)

El Salvador, 2001: earthquake (850 dead)

Afghanistan, 2002: earthquake (2,500 dead)

Algeria, 2003: earthquake (2,266 dead)

Asia, 2003: SARS (744 dead, mostly in China)

Andhra Pradesh, India, 2003: Heat wave (1,300 dead)

France, Spain and Italy, 2003: Heat wave (50,000 dead)

Bam, Iran, 2003: earthquake (26,300 dead)

Al-Hoceima, Morocco, 2004: earthquake (571 dead)

Haiti and Dominican Republic, 2004: rains (2,400 dead)

Philippines, 2004: typhoon (1,000 dead)

China, 2004: floods (1,300 dead)

Southeast Asia, 2004: tsunamis caused by 9.0 earthquake (111,000 dead in Indonesia, 31,000 in Sri Lanka, 10,700 in India, 5,400 in Thailand, 68 in Malaysia, 82 in the Maldives, 300 in Myanmar and 150 in Somalia, including 1,500 Scandinavian tourists, and dozens of Germans, Italians, Dutch, etc)