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PW. Complete the dialogue using the expressions. Act it out.

a) terrible
e) inform
i) I am sorry
b) tornado
f) damage(s)(2)
j) matter
c) warning
g) imagine
k) deadly (fatal)
d) at the bottom
h) central point
l) to speak

Vagif: You know Samira, how lucky I’m to stay alive after that (1)... day.
Samira: What happened? What was the (2)...?
Vagif: Oh, a horrible (3)...! You can’t (4)... how dangerous it is and what 5)... it can cause.
Samira: How did it happen? Did they inform people about it? Was there any (6)...?
Vagif: Oh, no. But they usually (7)... people beforehand by radio or TV.
Samira: I wonder how tornadoes happen, what shape and (8)... results they have.
Vagif: Tornadoes appear as a cloud which moves in circles round the (9)... . They have the shape of a pipe which are narrow (10)... and wide at the top.
Samira: You know, it’s very horrible to hear it. And what about the (11)...?
Vagif: It caused a lot of damages. I don’t want (12)... any more about it.
Samira: (13)..., Vagif.

GRAMMAR FOCUS EXCLAMATORY SENTENCES

Use an exclamation point/mark at the end of exclamatory sentences.
Sample:

• What a wonderful idea she has!
• How wonderful the idea is!
• What a terrible tornado it is!
• How terrible the tornado is!
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GW. Correct the exclamatory sentences paying attention to Grammar Focus.

1. What wonderful day it was!
2. How dangerous is a drought!
3. How careful are we!
4. What lucky they are!
5. How extreme weather we have today!