Listen to a description of two famous natural disasters. Answer the questions.
1 What four types of natural disaster are mentioned? In 79 AD - and ; In 1755 and .
2 Where did they occur? In and .
Listen again and complete the sentences with words from the description.
1 Mount Vesuvius erupted nearly years ago.
2 A Spanish engineer Pompeii in 1747.
3 The volcanic ash preserved Pompeian life as it was in AD .
4 Immediately after the Lisbon earthquake, there was a .
5 Buildings burned and disappeared into the .
6 They rebuilt the city with buildings that could resist .