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Unit 5 Talking About the Weather. Session 3. Section III Maintaining a Sharp Eye Section IV Trying Your Hand. Passage Ⅱ. British People Like Talking About the Weather. Warm-up questions. Do you know something about the weather conditions in Britain?. changeable. Warm-up questions. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Unit 5 Talking About the Weather
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Session 3
Section III Maintaining a Sharp EyeSection IV Trying Your Hand
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Passage Ⅱ
British People Like Talking About the
Weather
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1. Do you know something about the weather conditions in Britain?
changeable
Warm-up questions
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2. How do English people usually
start their conversations? Why?
Warm-up questions
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British People Like
Talking About the Weather
Reading of the passage
passage
passage
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Find out the topic sentences and
summarize the main ideas
for each paragraph.
Find out the topic sentences and
summarize the main ideas
for each paragraph.
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The topic sentence:
The first sentence.
The main idea:
Weather in Britain is changeable.
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Para. 1
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The topic sentence:
The first sentence.
The main idea:
Some British customs are related
to the weather there.
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Para. 2
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The topic sentence:
The first two sentences.
The main idea:
British people talk about weather frequently because it is interesting and changeable.
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Para. 3
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The topic sentence:
The last sentence.
The main idea:
Talking about weather is an easy
way for British people to begin their conversation.
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Para. 4
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The climate in Britain is very c_________. Sometimes it can be c___, r____, w_____ and s____ all in the same day. Generally, it r____ a lot, especially in the north and the west. Most of the time, the weather is quite m___― never too h___ nor too c___. In summer, it is usually w____.
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Fill in the blanks and then read aloud.
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Role play the situation.
A Chinese student is going to study
in Britain, and he is asking a British
student studying in China about the
weather conditions in Britain and
the British student happily
gives the information.
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Useful words and expressions
(1) change according to
(2) need someone or something for help or to be able to do something
a. depend on
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Whether we’ll go out for a walk depends on the weather.
Useful words and expressions
Don’t always depend on your parents
since you are an adult now.
a. depend on
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Many people know that the weather in
Britain is ____________.
b. variable
various variety varied variable
Useful words and expressions
changeable; not steady
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He is very reluctant to accept the
fact that his sister has married a
foreigner.
c. be reluctant to do
not willing to do; slow to act
Useful words and expressions
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d. break the ice
say or do sth. to make people feel more relaxed
Useful words and expressions
Sometimes talking about the weather is a way of breaking the ice between strangers.
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Section IV Trying
Your Hand
Section IV Trying
Your Hand
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Applied writing: Weather report
A weather report or forecast is a very
useful aid in our daily life. Knowing the
usual format for giving a weather
forecast helps us a lot in understanding
a weather forecast in English.
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Figures, measurement units, graphics, weather terms, and broken short passages are often used to forecast weather conditions. In general, the language used to forecast weather should be concise, clear, familiar and vivid.
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Sentences used to describe weather:
1. Tomorrow is going to be fair.
2. It’s foggy in the morning and it’ll be clear and fine this afternoon.
3. Tomorrow will be overcast with drizzle.
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4. It is expected to be partly cloudy in the next two days.
5. Tomorrow we can expect cloudy, windy and cold weather.
6. The wind will be light with little change of the temperature.
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Sentences used to describe weather:
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Exercises
Key to Ex. 2:
Weather outlook for the urban area:
It’ll be cloudy today, and later turn to be
partly cloudy, the highest temperature
will be one degrees and the lowest
temperature will be four degrees below
zero.
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Exercises
Key to Ex. 2:
It is expected to be partly cloudy
in the next two days.
The wind will be calm with little
change of the temperature.
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Sentence Writing: Simple past and present perfect
The simple past tense is used to prefer to
a past action that does not continue,
while the present perfect tense is used to
show actions which started in the past
and are still continuing, or actions which
happened in the past, but have
an effect till the present.
Sample snalysisSample snalysis
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Exercises
Key to Ex. 6.
1. The weather was terrible yesterday. In fact, it has been awful for several days.
2. She has worked in this office for 5 years.
3. I paid a visit to the Great Wall last year and had a very good time there.
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4. We have never spoken to each other
since we quarreled last time.
Key to Ex.6.
5. Turn down the TV a bit. The weather
forecast hasn’t begun yet.
Exercises
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1. Recite the first and the last
paragraphs of Passage II.
2. Read and learn by heart the
new words in Unit 6.
3. Prepare the speaking activities
in Section I of Unit 6.
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The most important thing to remember about the weather in Britain is that it often changes. You can wake up to a beautiful blue sky and then it starts raining during breakfast. Similarly, you may decide not to go for a picnic because it's too wet--then later it's fine. Because long periods when the weather stays the same day after day aren't very common in Britain, the kind of weather you get will depend not only on the time of year, but also on luck.
Reading of the passage
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The weather in Britain may explain a lot about what you find here. For example, the opportunities for people to meet outside depend a lot on the weather, so you won't see people meeting and spending time together outdoors as much as you do in warmer countries. This may give some visitors the idea that the British are not very friendly. The weather helps to explain eating customs too; a large hot breakfast, for example, is a good idea on a cold dark morning.
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Foreigners are often amused that the English spend so much time discussing the weather. An important reason for this is that the climate in Britain is interesting and variable. Because the weather changes frequently, there's always something to say about it, and this is probably the commonest way for strangers to start a conversation. At places like bus stop you might hear conversations start like this: 1st person: Lovely day, isn't it? 2nd person: Yes, isn't it.
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Then they may go on to talk about what the weather has been like recently or what it'll be like next. Another reason is that the British people are reluctant to converse about personal matters with people who are not friends. Mentioning the weather is also a useful way to greet someone you pass on the street; it's inoffensive to begin a conversation with someone you don't know at a social event. A comment on a nice day or a personal complaint about the rain is an easy way to break the ice.
Reading of the passage