This document appears to be a questionnaire about disasters administered to students of Tandaay Nationalized High School in Nabua, Camarines Sur. The questionnaire contains 18 multiple choice or short answer questions about disasters, including what types of calamities affect families most, what causes disasters, preparedness levels before, during and after disasters, and ways to lessen the effects of calamities. It will be used to assess student knowledge and preparedness regarding natural hazards and disasters.

1. Questionnaire
Tandaay Nationalized High School
Nabua, Camarines Sur
Name: ________________________ Sex: ______
Address: ______________________ Age: ______
Direction: Put a check inside the box which corresponds to your answer. Be honest in answering
each question.
1. Who among the following are most prone during calamities?
Children Youth Adult
2. Have you already experience the effects of disasters?
Yes No Maybe
3. What kind of calamities affects your family most?
Typhoon Flood Fire
Earthquake Tsunami Landslide
4. What causes disasters?
Climate Human activities Location
5. Where is your horse located?
Near a coast lines

2. Near a mountain
Higher place
Near river or sea
None of these
6. Where is the danger during typhoon?
In the seas and air
In coastlines
In land
All of these
7. When should you be most prepared?
Before the typhoon come
During the typhoon
After the typhoon
8. For you, what fact or can best help minimize the effects of calamities?
Disaster preparedness
Proper guidelines and reports of the government agencies
Repairing those damage things that the dealer may encounter
9. What should you always have during typhoon?
Radio, Flash light
Thick clothes, lacks and rain coats
Water and food supply for a few days
10. What is the meaning of storm signal no.3?

3. Storm expected within 36 hours
Storm velocity is between 61 k ph and 100 k ph
11. What did you feel during disaster?
Calm Shouting Panic
12. Are you already prepared before, during and after disaster?
Yes No Maybe
13. What will you do when disaster comes?
Stay calm
Listen to radio for the latest news/events
Evadale of necessary
14. Does your family already oriented by any kinds of drill that will help lessen the effect of
calamities?
Yes No Never
15. Is your house is ready to cope in times of disaster?
Yes No Maybe
16. For you, are five a friend or an enemy?
Friend Enemy Both
17. What can you do to lessen the effect of calamities here in our barangay?
Plant more trees
Use and enrich our natural resources
Avoid burning plastics

4. Always prepare and inform during disaster
18. Give at least 3 reasons why your family and even barangay experienced the effect of
disaster?
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5. Tandaay High School
Nabua, Camarines Sur
S/y 2011-2012
A Research Paper
On
“How to Reduce the Effect of Calamities in Barangay Gorong-Gorong”
Submitted to:
Ms. Wilma O. Tangilon
Name of Teacher
In Partial Fulfillment of the English Requirements for the English IV
By:
Ruby Rose Sto. Domingo
Myra Laya
Michelle Guazon
Elisa Basagre
Jose Jake Nuñez
Edemar Oares
Summy Lozano

6. Approval Sheet
Upon the recommendation of English IV, this research paper entitled “How to reduce the
calamities in Barangay Gorong-Gorong” has been prepared and submitted by Ruby Rose Sto.
Domingo, Myra Laya Michelle Guazon, Elisa Basagre, Jose Jake Nuñez, Edemar Oares, and
Summy Lozano, is hereby approved in partial fulfillment as a requirement of the subject.
Submitted to:
Ms. Wilma O. Tangilon

7. Dedication
We want to dedicate the success of this research paper to the following persons:
-To the survivors of the calamities especially typhoons and floods that hit our community.
-to our friends who really believe in our capacity and at the same time to those always here to
support us this project.
-To our honored teachers who teach as all the things that we need to learn. Especially to Ma’am
Wilma Tangilon, who serve and help us realize what education is.
-To our brothers and sisters, who became one of our inspirations in making this paper reached
success.
-To my dear and beloved parents who support us morally and financially and serve as the model
and inspirations to pursue this research.
-And above all, to our almighty God, who gave us knowledge, wisdom and skill to develop this
paper

8. Acknowledgement
I would like to extend our deepest gratitude and thanks to those in one way who
contribute to the success of this project.
-To our teacher in English IV, Ms. Wilma O. Tangilon, who help and challenged as in
making our project well.
-To our dear and beloved parents who have their undying efforts and time including their
guidance morally and financially. For providing all the things we need in making this
project a complete one.
-To our friends and classmates who also inspires and support us positively.
-And above all to our Almighty God who gives us strength, power, wisdom and know
ledge doing this activity especially on the time of our weaknesses and shortcomings.
-The Researchers-

9. Relevance of the Study
Life is important. That’s why we should give time and important to the study about this
problem. We need to become aware of what’s the fact out of our studies. Through studying the
cause and effect of calamities we can be able to evaluate and lessen the effect of this in different
aspect of life. Through also this, we can be able to gather ideas and knowledge that will help us
into self realization.
Learning more about this problem can help us on how to attain our safer and better life.
Being disaster prone country is an additional issue that’s why we suffer great effect of calamities.
Our of studying this we can formulate our now conclusion and analyze the different factor that
may rise on it. In analysis if we succeed to lessen the effect of calamities in this Barangay we can
say that Gorong-Gorong is a disaster ready Barangay.

10. Objectives of the Study
This is all about the calamities suffered in the Barangay Gorong-Gorong. The study is
being done in order to further realize the following objectives.
1. Identify the cause and effect of calamities in barangay Gorong- Gorong.
2. To enhance the life of the community people through solving the problem.
3. To understand and analyze the factors contributing calamities.
4. To formulate recommendation that will support and solve the problem experience
by the constituents.
5. To identify what factors affect the barangay most.
6. To give information on how to lessen the effect of calamities.

11. Definition of Terms
Calamities - disaster
-a state of great damage and distress
Typhoon - a hurricane originating over tropical waters in western
Tsunami - on extensive and of very destructive ocean war caused by a submarine earth quake
Flood - an unusually swage flow or rise of water
Fire - a burning mass of fuel, as in a fireplace
Climate – temperature of once place
Coasts lines - the contour or boundary of a coast
Food Supply - is the family everyday use supplying of food
Prone - delicate
Minimize - to reduce to the smallest amount or degree

13. Introduction
God created us with a specific purpose in mind, and if we align our plans with his, we will
experience peace and contentment.
As of now, we are experiencing a lot of changes, changes that brought by the unsteward
people of our nation. Though God gave us the beauty of the world still we cannot give thanks
and importance to his creature. That’s the first reason while we are suffering the effect of
different calamities. As we go on to the new horizon of our modernized country, we are facing
the disastrous effect of this especially to the community of barangay Gorong- Gorong .So make
the world the best of it because if it is destroyed we are the first to cope with it.