3. Talking About the Unit Five

4. Talking Face to Face and Being All Ears Trying Your Hand Maintaining a Sharp Eye

5. Section Ⅰ Talking Face to Face  Questions:  How’s the weather today?  Do you have a habit of watching the program “ Weather report”?

6. Suggested answers:  It’s nice/ sunny/windy/rainy… ① I like this program. Because weather report can make people have a clear conception of every day’s weather. So it is convenient for people to go outside.

7. Language Points:  ⑴ converting F to C is “ C=5/9 (F-32)  converting C to F is “ C=9/5F+32  ⑵ chance n. 运气，机会，可能性  by chance 碰巧，偶然  take a/the chance 碰运气  there is a chance 有。。。的可能

8. Listen and Decode Listen and Respond Listen and Read Listen and Match Listen and Conclude Listen and Complete Listen and Judge Being All Ears Being All Ears

9. Section Ⅱ Maintaining a Sharp Eye Passag e Ⅰ Is it going to be a fine day  Text-related Information Text-related Information  Intensive Study Intensive Study

10. There are two different systems of temperatures that are used in weather forecasts. There is the Celsius system (°C), which is the one used in most countries. Another name for this system is centigrade. In Western countries the Fahrenheit system (° F) is also used. 0 °C equals 32 ° F and 100 °C equals 212 °F. The Celsius system is always used in weather forecasting, but because many Westerners are more familiar with Fahrenheit, temperatures are very often given in both ways. And please note temperatures are always given in degrees (plural form). For example, 0 degrees. Text-related Information 2.The Celsius System and the Fahrenheit System

11. 1. (Para. 2 ) It will be cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers… 明天多云，局部地区有阵雨。 “with” structure further explains the part of the weather that precedes it. Difficult Sentences

12. 4. (para. 4)There is a cold front from Canada moving down through the western states. 来自加拿大的冷锋下行经过西部各州。 Post modifier. “There be+ n.+participle phrase” structure is often used in a weather forecast. There are some students coming from the south. FOR EXAMPLE Difficult Sentences

13. 而且我们计降雪会在明天某时从加拿大南下到东部各 州, 可能于明晚某时到达纽约地区。. 6. (Para. 6)...and we expect that snow activity to move down from Canada into the eastern states sometime tomorrow, probably reaching the New York area sometime tomorrow night. She has been in University of Utah for half a year, surely enjoying the academic atmosphere. present participle used as an accompanying adverbial of move down FOR EXAMPLE Difficult Sentences

14. Important Words  look like : seem to be, seem as if 看起来像 是 …  continue v. remain, stay, keep doing something and do not stop, 持续，维持，继 续 Eg.If the situation continues for one more month, workers will probably go on strike.  currently adv. At the present time, at the moment 目前，当前

15. Important Words  1. wind up : cause to be finished 结 束，办完  2. think about: consider seriously before making a decision; think of 考虑， 思考  eg: We are thinking about going to France for our holiday but we haven ’ t decided for certain.

16. Trying Your Hand Applied Writing Sentence Writing

17. Applied writing Read and Simulate Simulate and Create

18. 1. Read the following three samples of weather report and learn to write your own. A weather report: It’s hot and sunny in Miami today, with the temperature of about 90 °F. It’s going to be cloudy and cool tomorrow, about 70 °F. Read and Simulate Read and Simulate SAMPLE 1 SAMPLE 1

19. 样例 1/ 天气预报： 今天，迈阿密天气晴朗炎热，气温大约为 90 华氏 度。明天多云，天气凉爽，温度约为 70 华氏度。 Sample1 Read and Simulate Read and Simulate

20. Here is the weather forecast: Tomorrow it’s going to be fair in New York; the temperature will be about 15 ℃. In Madrid it is going to rain and it will be 20 ℃. The weather in Moscow is going to be cloudy; the temperature will be about 3 ℃. London will be 10 ℃ and wet. Zurich will be sunny and cold; the temperature is going to be 0 ℃. Sample 2 Read and Simulate Read and Simulate

21. Write a weather report in English according to the information given in Chinese. Simulate and Create Simulate and Create 市区天气： 今天多云转少云，北风 5~6 级减弱到 4~5 级，最高 气温 1 ℃, 最低气温 -4 ℃。预计大连地区明后两天 少云，风力不大，气温变化不大。

22. Simulate and Create Simulate and Create Weather outlook for the urban area: It’ll be cloudy today, and later turn to partly cloudy, with the north wind.The high will be one degrees Celsius and the low four degrees below zero. It is expected to be partly cloudy in the next two days. The winds will be calm with little change of the temperature. KEY

23. Sentence Writing Simple Past and Present Perfect  Simple Past( 一般过去时态 ) 过去时态的 基本用法：表示过去时间发生的行为或 存在的状态，通常与表示过去时间的状 愈连用，如 : ago, last, yesterday, the day before yesterday, etc.eg: a) He went to Europe three years ago.

24. Sentence Writing  Present Perfect ( 现在完成时态 ) 1) 现在完 成时态的基本用法：现在完成时态表示行为 或状态在过去已经发生或存在，但其产生的 后果或造成的影响至今依然存在。  Eg: a) We ’ ve known each other for about two years.  b) His mother has been ill since last month.

25. Exercises  Correct the errors in the following sentences.  They didn't see each other since September.  In the last three months, Robert trained more than twenty new employees.  He never has had a problem with his boss.  She has worked at the cafeteria since nine months.  Did you ever take the telephone orders before?