Teaching Objective
In "Talking Face to Face", learn how to talk about the weather.
In "Maintaining a Sharp Eye", master the key words and structures and learn how to get or give information about weather conditions for the daily activities or arrangement through passage I & passage II.
In "Trying Your Hand", become knowledgeable on how to write a short passage to tell a story or about an event related to the picture given.
Teaching Procedures
Section I Talking Face to Face
1.Warm- up:
Expressions of greetings and responses to greetings：
a. What a beautiful/lovely/awful/terrible day!天气真好/糟糕呀！
There is not a cloud in the sky.天空万里无云。
It’s not too hot and not too cold.天气不冷也不热。
The heat is killing me!热死我了！
I hate to work in hot weather.我讨厌在热天工作。
The hot weather makes me lazy.天气让我发懒。
When are we getting warmer weather?什幺时候天气能转暖？
b. I’m going to wear my heavy coat.我得穿上我的厚大衣。
Are we going to get much snow this winter?今年冬天雪会多吗？
It’s usually warm in New York in the spring.纽约的春天通常很温暖。
What’s it like outside?外面天气怎么样？
I don’t mind the heat.我不在乎天气热。
I can’t stand it. It’s freezing!我受不了了，冻死了！
2. Introduction of the samples of weather report and learn how to write one.
3. Practice the two dialogues in Follow the Samples
4. Practice dialogues according to the given tasks
5. Exercises
第四十二讲
Talking about weather forecast
Lead-in: Warm-up
1. Do you often listen to weather forecast? Why or why not?
2. What’s the use and importance of a weather forecast?
Read and translate Sample 1.
Lead-in: Read and translate
Sample 1
Good morning. This is the local weather report. Today will be cool and partly cloudy, with a chance of rain this afternoon. At 7:00 a.m., the downtown temperature was 62 F. Thank you for calling. Have a nice day!
Weather forecasts and weather reports
Information about the weather that’s likely to come is called a weather forecast, though it’s often included with information about recent weather in a weather report. As you could expect, there are local and national weather reports on television and radio during the day and in the evening, and in local and national newspapers, too. You can also get weather reports by phone (dial 121 in China). Even if you don’t understand everything, reading or listening to weather reports will give you some idea of what the weather is going to be like.
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.
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.
Some terms in weather reports
Describing the weather (nouns)
Sunshine, haze, drizzle, shower, downpour, storm, thunder, lightning, thunderstorm, breeze, gust of wind, gale, hurricane, fog, mist, frost, hail, dew, ice, snow, sleet, slush, snowstorm, blizzard, snowdrift
Describing the weather (adjectives)
Bright, fine, fair, cloudy, overcast, dull, rainy, hot, warm, mild, cool, chilly, freezing, calm, windy, strong, dry, damp, humid, wet, stuffy, close
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.
Applied writing: Weather report
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.