Talking about the weather (3)

1.

Unit 5
Talking About the Weather

2.

New Practical English I
Session 3
Section III
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Section IV
Trying Your Hand
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3.

New Practical English I
Passage Ⅱ
British People Like
Talking About the Weather
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4.

New Practical English I
Warm-up questions
1. Do you know something
about the weather
conditions in Britain?
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5.

New Practical English I
Warm-up questions
2. How do English people usually
start their conversations? Why?
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6.

New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
British People Like
Talking About the Weather
passag
e
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7.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Find out the topic sentences and
summarize the main ideas
for each paragraph.
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8.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 1
The topic sentence:
The first sentence.
The main idea:
Weather in Britain is changeable.
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9.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 2
The topic sentence:
The first sentence.
The main idea:
Some British customs are related
to the weather there.
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10.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 3
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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New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Para. 4
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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12.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
Fill in the blanks and then read aloud.
The climate in Britain is very c_________.
hangeable
ainy w_____
indy
Sometimes it can be c___,
old r____,
unnyall in the same day. Generally, it
and s____
ains a lot, especially in the north and the
r____
west. Most of the time, the weather is quite
m___―
never too h___
ild
ot nor too c___.
old In
summer, it is usually w____.
arm
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13.

New Practical English I
Reading comprehension
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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14.

New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
a. depend on
(1) change according to
(2) need someone or something
for help or to be able to
do something
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New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
a. depend on
Whether we’ll go out for a walk
depends on the weather.
Don’t always depend on your parents
since you are an adult now.
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New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
b. variable
changeable; not steady
various
variety
varied variable
Many people know that the weather in
Britain is ____________.
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New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
c. be reluctant to do
not willing to do;
slow to act
He is very reluctant to accept the
fact that his sister has married a
foreigner.
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18.

New Practical English I
Useful words and expressions
say or do sth. to make
people feel more relaxed
d. break the ice
Sometimes talking about the
weather is a way of breaking the
ice between strangers.
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19.

New Practical English I
Section IV
Trying
Your Hand
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20.

New Practical English I
Applied writing: Weather report
Sample analysis
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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New Practical English I
Applied writing: Weather report
Sample analysis
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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22.

New Practical English I
Applied writing: Weather report
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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23.

New Practical English I
Applied writing: Weather report
Sentences used to describe weather:
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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24.

New Practical English I
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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25.

New Practical English I
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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26.

New Practical English I
Sentence Writing:
Simple past and present perfect
Sample snalysis
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.
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New Practical English I
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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New Practical English I
Exercises
Key to Ex.6.
4. We have never spoken to each other
since we quarreled last time.
5. Turn down the TV a bit. The weather
forecast hasn’t begun yet.
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29.

New Practical English I
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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30.

New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
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.
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New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
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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32.

New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
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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New Practical English I
Reading of the passage
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.
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