1. Vocabulary on devastated places
Earthquake
● Struck: (Past simple & past participle
of strike) —> To cause a person or
place to suffer severely from the
effects of something very unpleasant
that happens suddenly.
● Wrecking: to destroy or badly damage
something
● Aftershocks: a smaller earthquake
following the main shock of a large
earthquake.
● Magnitude: The magnitude of an
earthquake is a measure of how strong or violent it is.
● Tremor: A slight earthquake (= sudden, violent movement of the earth’s surface)
● Wounded: injured, especially with a
cut or hole in the skin
● Devastation: damage and destruction
● Damage
● Emergency
● Humanitarian assistance:
● “Everybody is (...) freaked out and shaken”
● Chaos: a state of utter confusion or disorder; a total lack of organization or order.

2. Hurricane​:
● Storm
● Explosion
● Rebuilding aftermath
● remade the landscape
● Destruction
● Grief
● flooded tunnels
● Accidents
● Trees ​smashed: ​violently break
(something) into pieces.
● storm ​slogged: ​hit (someone or
something) forcefully and typically
wildly
● rain and high winds
● disaster declarations
● the ​scope​ of the damage: scope =
range
● wilderness​ of fallen trees and power
lines: wilderness= uninhabited
● tragedy and survival
● water rushed in
● buildings that ​crumbled​: break or fall
apart into small fragments, especially
as part of a process of deterioration.
● rain and ​relentless​ wind: relentless =
intense
● storm knocked out the electricity.
● Evacuation
● River was flooded in the storm
● Railroad had not restored power
● Extensive damage

3. Tsunami
● Unstoppable walls
● permanent changes to the geography
of the región
● Waves of 98 feet
● swallowing up villages
● widespread destruction.
● sundered
● staggering
● struck
● prompting a swifter evacuation
● rumble off
● swept away
● slammed into
● damaged
● Destroyed
● disaster
● smashed
● sucked out to sea
● natural disasters
● Volcanic eruption
● Pummeled
● Hitting
● sped
● meltdown
● swamped