I. Listen to the video in the upper left-hand corner of the site http://news.yahoo.com/video/tech-15749651/24532243 and make up sentences with the following:

A containing vessel= контейнер

To be breached= быть сломанным, поврежденным

Apparently =очевидно

To exercise the Chernobyl option= применить план действий как при Чернобыле

That sounds like a drastic option=звучит как радикальная мера

To put on standby= привести в состояние готовности

Concrete=бетон

To sandbag = защищать мешками с песком

To be caught flatfooted= быть пойманным врасплох

To leak out radiation= пропускать радиацию

The point of no return= точка невозврата

Unprecedented=беспрецедентный

To cluster together= собираться вместе

To avalanche= усиливаться в геометрической прогрессии, лавинообразно

To spike= резко возрасти

To spread= распространять(ся)

To melt down=расплавиться

Iodine=йод

A dome=купол

To be at microscopic levels

A threat to=угроза чему-либо

Answer the questions: 1. Who is Micheo Kaku? 2. What point does he make about the disaster? 3. To what extent is the situation in Japan similar to that of Chernobyl, in his view? 4. What does he advise the Japanese government to do? 5. What peculiarity of Japanese nuclear power plants does Joseph Cirincione point at? 6. What worries him about the fourth reactor? 7. What problems do the Japanese have with water levels? 8. How is the Japanese government reporting on the situation? 9. What shortages are they facing? 10. What threat does the disaster pose to the US?

Then make a summary of the episode in about 15 sentences using the active words above.

 

II. Read the text in the page http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/wl_nm/us_japan_quake and write out 10 new phrases.

Then make up 7 questions and prepare answers to them.

Retell the article in short.