Cover of the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter Video 4 - The greenhouse effect for the textbook Outcomes Upper-Intermediate - Student's Book with authors Hugh Dellar and Andrew Walkley from National Geographic Learning

Question

Watch the first part of the video (0.00-2.26). Find out which of the events in Exercise 1 happened in the following places.

Answer

  1. The area was hit by floods – the worst in 40 years, over an area as large as France and Germany combined.
  2. There was a drought followed by forest fires, after the hottest summer on record. Over 50,000 dead.
  3. A heatwave was followed by floods, which covered 20% of the country! Five thousand miles of roads and railways were washed away.
  4. A record winter, with cold and snow following a heatwave – one of the warmest summers on record.
  5. A blizzard stopped rush hour traffic.