Talking about the weather (2)

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Unit 5
Talking About the Weather

2.

New Practical English I
Session 2
Section III
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage Ⅰ
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3.

New Practical English I
Passage Ⅰ
Is It Going to Be a Fine Day
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4.

New Practical English I
Warm-up questions
1. What’s the weather like today?
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5.

New Practical English I
Warm-up questions
2. Do you know the difference between
Celsius and Fahrenheit?
Something about Celsius and Fahrenheit:
In weather forecasts we usually use two
different measurements of temperature to
describe the weather.
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New Practical English I
Warm-up questions
One is Celsius (℃) and the other is
Fahrenheit (℉). 0℃ equals 32℉ and
l00℃ equals 2l2℉. Western people
are more familiar with Fahrenheit
measurement.
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7.

New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
Is It Going to Be
a Fine Day
passag
e
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8.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Answer the following questions
according to paragraphs.
Para.1: Which city’s weather condition is
mentioned in the first paragraph?
Para. 2: What’s the weather going to
be like tomorrow in Chicago?
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New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 3: What’s the weather condition
in Los Angeles?
Para. 4: How is the weather expected to
be on the weekend in Colorado?
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10.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 5: What’s the weather like in
Montreal?
Para. 6: Which city is a good place for
you to enjoy a sunny weekend?
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11.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Pick up the words and
expressions describing
weather conditions used
in the passage.
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New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
C. Phrases:
scattered showers, freezing
point, cold front, snow activity,
thirty-mile-an-hour winds
A. Nouns:
shower
shower
wind wind
snow
snow
stormrain
storm
rain
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B. Adjectives:
cloudy freezing fair
windy cold sunny clear

13.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Fill in the table with the information in Passage Ⅰ.
Forecast area
Cities
The city with the
hicago
lowest
C_____
temperature
The city with the
iami
highest
M____
temperature
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Weather
conditions
32℉; raining;
scattered
showers
78℉; clear;
sunny

14.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
San
Francisco
os Angeles
L________
The cities in
the west San Diego
enver
D_______
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showers
little above 70℉;
fair
fair
38℉; windy and
cold

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New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Dallas
48℉; cold
etroit
D________
43℉; from
rain to snow
oronto
T________
41℉; from
rain to snow
The cities in
the east
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16.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
The cities in
the east
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ontreal
M_______
storm
ew York
N_______
snow

17.

New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
a. be predicted to
see or describe (a future
happening) in advance; be
expected to be
It is predicted to be cold and windy
through the weekend.
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New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
b. on one’s way
in the process of
going or coming
The weatherman says that colder
weather is on its way.
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19.

New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
c. unseasonably
(of the weather) not suitable
for the time of year
Shenyang is experiencing
unseasonably warm weather
this winter.
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20.

New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
d. wind up
cause to be finished;
come to an end
The cold weather is going to
wind up soon.
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21.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 5:
1. We predict good weather for several
days ahead though the temperature
may be rather low.
2. She has experienced quite a lot for
such a young age.
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22.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 5:
3. The chairman wound up his speech by
giving thanks to everyone present.
4. People across the country are hailing
for China’s successful bid for the
2008 Olympic Games.
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23.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 5:
5. The current global situation is
favorable to us.
6. They enjoy a 30-day paid holiday
every year.
7. Viruses can reach your computer in
various ways.
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24.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
1. It looks like that we are going to be
listening to all this nonsense
through the meeting.
It looks like that she is going to
feel depressed through the
month.
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25.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
2. The weather is expected to be
terrible through the weekend.
The economy is expected to be
slump through the year.
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26.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
3. He walked as far south as the river
and then stopped for a rest.
The desert stretches as far north as
the border.
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27.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
4. She made a hit in the performance,
her first success of the year.
She’ll never forget him, her first
love of the life.
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28.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
5. If you are thinking about a further
study, now’s the time to do it.
If you are thinking about buying a
house, now’s the time to do it.
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29.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
6. Back to the topic just now, once
again, that is only my personal
idea.
Back to study, once again, you
must work hard.
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30.

New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex. 6:
8. Have a good rest, and if you feel cold
in the room, don’t hesitate to turn on
the air-conditioner.
Have a nice sleep, and if you don’t feel
any better, come to see me again.
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31.

New Practical English I
1. Translate the first three
paragraphs of Passage I into
Chinese.
2. Preview Passage II and the
exercises.
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32.

New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
A weatherman is giving the weekend forecast on
the TV evening news:
...It's still raining here in Chicago, and it looks like
that rain is going to continue through the weekend.
It'll be cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers, and
the outlook for Sunday--more rain and colder. The
predicted high for tomorrow is forty-five degrees
Fahrenheit, and the temperature is expected to dip to
the freezing point tomorrow night with thirty-two
degrees. I'm afraid colder weather is on its way!
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New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
Now let's take a look at the weather across the
country. Showers are expected tomorrow down the
West Coast as far south as San Francisco. Fair
weather in the low seventies is predicted for the Los
Angeles area; fair in San Diego.
There is a cold front from Canada moving down
through the western states. Thirty-eight degrees in
Denver, Colorado, with thirty-mile-an-hour winds, and
it's expected to be cold and windy right through the
weekend. Dallas is experiencing unseasonably cold
weather--forty-eight degrees.
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New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
It is raining as far east as Detroit and Toronto, and
rain is going to continue through tomorrow, when it
may turn to snow. Currently , forty-three degrees in
Detroit, forty-one degrees in Toronto. And
temperature's dropping.
It's snowing heavily in Montreal, ladies and
gentlemen, its first storm of the season, and we expect
snow activity to move down from Canada into the
eastern states sometime tomorrow, probably reaching
the New York area sometime tomorrow night.
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New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
Good weather across the south. Clear skies in
Miami, and they're going to enjoy a sunny seventyeight degrees in that town this weekend, so if
you're thinking about a vacation, now's time to do
it. Back to Chicago. Once again, continuing rain
tonight through Sunday. Current temperature,
thirty-eight degrees. And that winds up our weather
report for this evening. This is Dave Spellman.
Have a good night, and if you're going out, don't
forget your umbrella.
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