Translation:
Important structures
白天最高温度达到35摄氏度。 夜间温度应该在零度以上。
The maximum daytime temperature reached 35 °C. The nighttime temperature should be above freezing.
Question
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What’s your favorite weather? What kind of weather do you dislike? Do your moods change with the weather?
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What’s the weather like in the city where your university locates? Compare it with that in
B: It seldom rains in my hometown. So I always get excited when it rains. This is my favorite weather. I don’t know why you don’t like it. Raining does not mean you can’t go out.
Listening In
C: What natural disasters are related to climate?
How’s the weather today?
OBJECTIVES
1.Knowing some words and structures relate
2.toUnwdeeartshtearnding and talking about weather
3. Talking about some topics related to weather.
A: But it doesn’t appear after each rain.
B: It does appear sometimes. And I’d like to see everything washed clean in the rain, including the air.
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A: Oh. It’s raining. Why do we have to have such poor weather on Sunday?
B: Really? It’s raining? Oh, what lovely weather!
A: Lovely? What makes you think it’s lovely? I’ve planned to go to the park. But now I have to stay in the dorm the whole day.
Brainstorm
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A: Look at the following picture and say the words for the objects on the picture.
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B: What words and expressions can you In
A: But it’s so inconvenient. I don’t want to get all wet.
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B: Don’t you think walking in the rain with a beautiful umbrella in your hand is something romantic?
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My university is in Beijing. Beijing has a continental monsoon climate with clear-cut seasons. Spring is dry and windy. Summer is hot and humid. Autumn offers the best weather, with generous sunshine. In winter, the city is severely affected by freezing winds from Siberia. The weather here is totally different with that in my hometown, which is warm throughout a year. What’s more, it rains a lot, especially in summer and autumn. And it rarely snows in winter.
your hometown.
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I like rainy weathers a lot. Everything is washed clean when it rains. And the air gets really fresh after the rain. I don’t think my moods change much with the weather, as the weather in my hometown does not vary a lot throughout a year.
A: Never think so. We have plenty of rain here throughout the year. I never feel excited. And I seldom go out when it rains.
B: How about the rainbow? It’s beautiful, isn’t it?
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A: I just feel it’s a pity that we have to stay in the dorm on Sunday.
B: Why not going for a walk in the rain? Come on. You’ll see how beautiful the world becomes when it rains!
What a downpour! How the wind howls!
Q uestion:
Important Words and Expressions
Make yourself be familiar with the following expressions and learn to use them:
Cultural Tip
Listening In
Talking about the weather is a neutral topic of conversation with people you don’t know well; for example, when you’re waiting for a bus or sitting in a doctor’s office.
In the United States, Fahrenheit is still the scale for measuring temperature. On the Fahrenheit scale, water freezes at 32 and boils at 212. On the Celsius scale, water freezes at 0° and boils at 100°. On the Fahrenheit scale, normal human body temperature is 98.6°.
Q uestion:
Important Words and Expressions
Translate the following words into English.
常温 恒温 空气温度 水温
room temperature constant temperature air temperature water temperature
think of as related to the weather?
Warm; cool; hot; freezing; frosty; sweltering; sunny; clear; shining; scorching; bright; mild; wet; dry; humid; foggy; misty; windy; gale; gust; breezy; hurricane; rainy; stormy; lightening; downpour; shower; storm; cloud; torrential rain; flash flood; flood; thundershower; snowy; blizzard; sleet; hail; cloudy and gray; hot and sticky
Role-play
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Create dialogues with your partner based on the following situations and act them out.
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It’s a cool and rainy day. Trapped indoors by the downpour, you feel rather annoyed. But your roommate is rather excited. He/she says it’s the exact weather he/she loves. You argue with him/her about the inconvenience caused by the rain while he/she describes all kinds of fun coming with the rain.