S2: A helicopter is flying to the volcano, when suddenly the volcano erupts. The ash and boiling rocks rush into the air hundreds of metres high. Luckily, the helicopter is not near the volcano, or it will be melt.

T: Picture 2?

S3: The volcano is erupting. The lava is flowing slowly down the mountain. A volcanologist is collecting lava with a special tool. He wears special clothes. It seems very dangerous to work there.

T: How about Picture 3?

S4: After an eruption, a crater formed. A woman volcanologist is making records and collecting information. She also wears special clothes to protect herself.

T: These pictures are about the most frightening experience of three vocanologists. They tell us their stories. Please listen and write their names under the pictures.

Get the students to listen to the tape for the first time and finish Exercise 1. Then check the answers with he whole class.

Ask the students to read the questions in Exercise 2 before listening. Then play the tape, stop the tape after each person has spoken. Listen to the tape again if the students cannot write down the answers.