day 52when the weather goes wild
unit 8 · our planetwhen the weather goes wild
Tell a news story about a storm or a fire and react to it.
today’s words
- la catastrophe · disaster
- l'éclair · flash of lightning
- l'incendie · fire (large)
- souffler · to blow
- glacer · to freeze, to chill
- la fumée · smoke
- couler · to flow; to sink
- le pompier · firefighter
- exploser · to explode
- détruire · to destroy
- la ruine · ruin
- survivre · to survive
- la victime · victim
- répandre · to spread
- envahir · to invade, to flood into
- l'atmosphère · atmosphere
- éclairer · to light up
- le rayon · ray; shelf, department
- la foudre · lightning (that strikes)
sentences
- Il y avait des éclairs, et la foudre a frappé l’arbre. · There was lightning in the sky, and it struck the tree.
- Le vent soufflait fort et l’eau coulait dans la rue. · The wind was blowing hard and water was running in the street.
- Un incendie a envahi le quartier, et la fumée était partout. · A fire spread through the neighbourhood, and smoke was everywhere.
- Les pompiers sont arrivés très vite ; il n’y a eu aucune victime. · The firefighters arrived very quickly; there were no victims.
- L’orage a détruit le pont ; la nouvelle s’est répandue vite. · The storm destroyed the bridge; the news spread fast.