Grammar: Seven linking verbs in Farsi connect the subject to other parts of the sentence. By the end of this section, students will be able to recognize and use them correctly in complex sentences.
Reading: The students will read a short text about different types of natural disasters and paraphrase it using the new grammar: حوادث طبیعی
Listening: Earthquakes annually claim numerous lives and cause extensive damage to infrastructure. How do they occur, and what measures can we take to protect ourselves?: زلزله چیست، چطور ایجاد میشود و چطور میتوان از گزند زمین لرزه در امان ماند؟
Conversation topic: Have you ever been affected by a natural disaster?
Homework:
- Monologue: describe a natural disaster. You should mention: how does it happen? How can people protect themselves during this? How can it be prevented or reduced? (Talk for at least five minutes).
Vocabulary:
| Persian | Transcription | English |
| زیانبار | ziyānbār | |
| منشاء | manša' | |
| زلزله | zelzele | |
| سیل | seyl | |
| طوفان | tufān | |
| گردباد | gerdbād | |
| سونامی | sunāmi | |
| تگرگ | tagarg | |
| بهمن | bahman | |
| رعد و برق | ra'd o barq | |
| تغییرات | taƴyirāt | |
| خشکسالی | xošksāli | |
| آتشفشان | ātašfešān | |
| عملکرد | 'amalkard | |
| خسارات | xesārāt | |
| قربانی | qorbāni | |
| بررسی | barrasi | |
| آماری | āmāri | |
| حادثه ثانویه | hādese-ye sānaviye | |
| با آنکه | bā ānke | |
| عملیات | 'amaliyyāt | |
| پیش‌گیرانه | pišgirāne | |
| استحکام | estehkām | |
| بند | band | |
| سد | sad | |
| آوار برداری | āvārbardāri | |
| اصولی | osuli |