5. Expanding On Topic – talking about natural disasters
Choose several questions among the given questions and discuss them with your partner.
(Use the phrases learned in speaking sections if you want)
1. What is a disaster?
2. Have you ever been in a disaster?
3. What kind of disasters is common in your country?
4. What can you do to prepare in advance for a disaster?
5. How mu
collapses
as the happy couple passes. They then brake at a story-
book bridge over a bubbling brook. With dark nonchalance,
Father and Mother each grab an end of the carriage and
heave it upward.
4 EXT. THE CARRIAGE--NIGHT 4
swirls in the air and splashes down into the small river.
Right side up, the carriage gently rides the tranquil
rapids out of the park area. It bobs through an open
sewer tun
stop next to him. He
squints up at --
TWO MEN. Matching suits. Their features unremarkable and
blandly threatening in the way of FBI agents and auditors.
AGENT 1
Are you Jake Sully?
JAKE
Step off. You몶re ruinin몶 my good mood.
AGENT 2
It몶s about your brother.
CUT TO:
INT. MUNICIPAL CREMATORIUM - NIGHT
DOWN-ANGLE on a large rectangular cardboard box. HANDS ENTER
FRAMEpulling open the top to
collapse in a heap.
Everyone at the fair, including the puppets, looks up.
UNFORGETTABLE JUGGLER
Leonardo, che pazzo.
The juggler shakes his fist up to a swish pan that swings
up toward a smoking window of the awesome castle...
INT. ROOM OF THE GOLD MACHINE
where the charismatic LEONARDO DA VINCI laughs down at
him. Da Vinci wears a pair of very early, very cool sun-
glasses with his trademark be
box of
EXPENSIVE CIGARS, which she offers to Lachaise and Bond.
LACHAISE
It wasn몶t easy, but I retrieved the
money. No doubt Sir Robert will be
pleased to see it again.
The efficient Cigar Girl brings the briefcase to Bond,
setting it in his lap and opening it up...inside is a good
deal of CASH in pound sterling.
LACHAISE
In the current exchange rate, minus the
fees, of course, and certain
unfo