Talking about the weather (2) презентация

Session 2
Section III
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage Ⅰ

Passage Ⅰ
Is It Going to Be a Fine Day

Warm-up questions
1. What’s the weather like today?

Something about Celsius and Fahrenheit:
In weather forecasts we usually use two different measurements of temperature to describe the weather.
Warm-up questions
2. Do you know the difference between
Celsius and Fahrenheit?

One is Celsius (℃) and the other is Fahrenheit (℉). 0℃ equals 32℉ and l00℃ equals 2l2℉. Western people are more familiar with Fahrenheit measurement.
Warm-up questions

Reading of the passage
Is It Going to Be a Fine Day
passage

Para.1: Which city’s weather condition is
mentioned in the first paragraph?
Reading comprehension
Para. 2: What’s the weather going to
be like tomorrow in Chicago?
Answer the following questions
according to paragraphs.

Para. 3: What’s the weather condition
in Los Angeles?
Reading comprehension
Para. 4: How is the weather expected to
be on the weekend in Colorado?

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

Reading comprehension
Pick up the words and expressions describing weather conditions used in the passage.

shower
wind
snow
storm
rain
Reading comprehension
shower wind
snow
storm rain
cloudy freezing fair
windy cold sunny clear
scattered showers, freezing point, cold front, snow activity,
thirty-mile-an-hour winds
B. Adjectives:
C. Phrases:
A. Nouns:

hicago
iami
Reading comprehension
Fill in the table with the information in Passage Ⅰ.

os Angeles
enver
Reading comprehension

etroit
oronto
Reading comprehension

ontreal
ew York
Reading comprehension

Useful words and expressions
see or describe (a future happening) in advance; be expected to be
It is predicted to be cold and windy
through the weekend.
a. be predicted to

Useful words and expressions
in the process of going or coming
The weatherman says that colder
weather is on its way.
b. on one’s way

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Exercises
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.
Key to Ex. 6:

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

Exercises
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.
Key to Ex. 6:

Assignments
1. Translate the first three
paragraphs of Passage I into
Chinese.
2. Preview Passage II and the
exercises.

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!

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.

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.