1. Unit 5 Talking About the Weather

2. Session 2
Section III
Maintaining a Sharp Eye
Passage Ⅰ

3. Passage Ⅰ
Is It Going to Be a Fine Day

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Reading comprehension
Fill in the table with the information in Passage Ⅰ.
Forecast area
Cities
Weather conditions
The city with the lowest temperature
C_____
32℉; raining; scattered
showers
The city with the highest temperature
M____
78℉; clear; sunny
hicago
iami

14. Reading comprehension
The cities in the west
San Francisco
showers
L________
little above 70℉; fair
San Diego
fair
D_______
38℉; windy and cold
os Angeles
enver

15. Reading comprehension
The cities in the east
Dallas
48℉; cold
D________
43℉; from rain to snow
T________
41℉; from rain to snow
etroit
oronto

16. Reading comprehension
The cities in the east
M_______
storm
N_______
snow
ontreal
ew York

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

28. Exercises Key to Ex. 6: 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.

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

30. Exercises Key to Ex. 6: 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.

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

32. 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!

33. 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.

34. 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.

35. Reading of the passage
Good weather across the south. Clear skies in Miami, and they're going to enjoy a sunny seventy-eight degrees in that town this weekend, so if you're thinking about a vacation, now's time to do it. Back to Chicago. Once again, continuing rain tonight through Sunday. Current temperature, thirty-eight degrees. And that winds up our weather report for this evening. This is Dave Spellman. Have a good night, and if you're going out, don't forget your umbrella.