CLIL session on Geology in USA within the subject History in a bilingual programme

1. San Andreas Fault

3. • California has had big, catastrophic earthquakes in recent history.
• 1906, San Francisco
• 1971, Los Angeles
• 1989, San Francisco
• 1994, Los Angeles

4. In 1906, San Francisco burned to the ground
as a result of an earthquake.

5. In 1971, the Los Angeles area experienced a big
earthquake. My father’s relatives from Canada
were visiting when the earthquake occurred. They
never came back to California.

6. 1989, San Francisco. My uncle had driven under
this bridge a few hours before it collapsed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KtxCcS7NN
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7. 1989, San Francisco

8. 1989, San Francisco

9. In 1994, the Northridge Earthquake struck the Los
Angeles area. My grandparents lived down the block
from the epicenter. They said it felt like a bomb went off.
My mother was pregnant with me, and my parents and
siblings experienced the earthquake.

10. Yosemite

11. At the end of the Ice
Age, a glacier broke
off due to warming
temperatures and
created Yosemite
Valley.

12. Vocabulary
• Big
• Catastrophic
• To Collapse
• To drive
• Struck (past tense of
strike)
• To live down the block
(or street)
• Bomb went off
• Glacier
• Break off
• Warming
• Ice Age