1 Did you hear what happened in the news? 2 What happened? 3 It was a huge earthquake in South America. 4 Really? 5 Yeah, they say it was an 8.0 on the Richter Scale. 6 What does that mean? Is that bad? 7 Yes, that’s a very strong earthquake. 8 Did anyone get hurt? 9 They say many buildings collapsed. It is possible that many people could have died. 10 That is terrible. 11 Yeah it is.