Online Class Notes (Jesse)

My hometown Zhengzhou has encountered severe flood from yesterday , which has been caused by a torrential downpour. There are lots of factors contributes to this flooding, but global warming caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall.

Images on social media showed the entire street is submerged , 12 people died from the flood.The whole city now is cut off electricity and drinking water because of the damages from the flood.

There are fears that a dam closer to Zhengzhou is about to collapse as it was damaged by recent storms.

Last night an unverified videos on social media that hundreds of passengers in flooded subway carriage with water reaching above their shoulders.

Now Zhengzhou has already sent out armies with multiple transportation tools to save people who are stuck underground.

My hometown Zhengzhou has encountered severe floods from yesterday , which has been caused by a torrential downpour. There are lots of factors contributing / which contribute to this flooding, but global warming caused by climate change means / causes extreme rainfall.

Images on social media showed the entire street is submerged , and 12 people have died from the flood. The whole city now is cut off from electricity and drinking water because of the damages from the flood.

There are fears that a dam closer to Zhengzhou is about to collapse as it was damaged by recent storms.

Last night unverified videos on social media showed that hundreds of passengers in flooded subway carriages with water reaching above their shoulders.

Now Zhengzhou has already sent out armies with multiple makeshift transportation methods to save people who are stuck underground.

Vocabulary

break someone’s head – hurt someone’s head 

in an insanely rate – at a rapid rate / at an insane rate

mental breakdown
eg. he’s having a mental breakdown

financial backbones – to be in a good financial situation / to be well off / they’re pretty well off 

drainage system
eg. the city usually has better drainage than other places

makeshift – sth you use / make to use temporarily in place of the real thing

we have had a lot of rainfall this year

there’s no signal – there’s no sign 

when it started raining less / when they rain became lighter

bathhouse – cousin went here

bushfires – the “forest fires” in australia

sparcely populated < > densely populated

determinated – determined 

Grammar

continuing raining – continuously raining
eg. it has been continuously raining for days

different with me – different to / from me