新编实用英语综合教程1Unit5Ourweatherandclimate

Unit Five Our Weather and Climate

Section I& II Listening and Speaking

Talking Face to Face

I Warm-up Questions

1. Do you often listen to a weather forecast? Why or why not?

2. What’s the use and importance of a weather forecast?

II Class Activities

1. The students read the Mini-Talks after the teacher, and then try to recite

them within five minutes in pairs.

2. Students discuss in groups, summarizing the words, phrases and

sentences frequently used according to the following topics with the

help of the teacher. The students speak out the sentences under the

guidance of the teacher, paying attention to the pronunciation and the

intonation.

1) Sentences for a weatherman to present weather forecasts:

(1) Good morning. This is the local weather report.

(2) Here is the national forecast.

(3) Now let’s look at the weather across the country.

(4) Rains will be expected tomorrow from the south to the north.

(5) Snow is going to continue through tomorrow in this area.

(6) The weatherman says that frost is on its way.

2) Sentences for talking about weather changes:

(1) It’ll be mild, and later turn to partly cloudy, with the southeast wind.

(2) Today will be cool and partly cloudy, with a chance of rain this afternoon.

(3) Tomorrow will be overcast with drizzle.

(4) In the evening there’s good chance that we’ll get some snow.

(5) Today is a cloudy and cool day with a low of 12 degrees.

(6) The weather will change overnight with a high temperature of zero

degrees.

3) Sentences about weather for starting a conversation:

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(1) What’s the weather like today?

(2) What is the weather report?

(3) What’s the temperature?

(4) What’s it like outside?

(5) Will it be a nice day?

(6) Lovely day, isn’t it?

(7) What do you think of the weather here?

3. Act-Out Activities

1) Students read the sample dialogues after the teacher, trying to imitate the

teachers pronunciation and intonation.

2) Ask the students to read the sample dialogues in pairs. Then categorize the

expressions for asking questions about the weather and describing the

weather conditions.

4. Do Exercises 5 and 6 in pairs.

Being all ears

Ⅲ. Learning Sentences for Workplace Communication

1. Warm–up:

Give the students a few minutes to read through the printed materials for

each listening item in Listen and Repeat, Listen and Match. While listening,

students should try to remember the meaning of each of the sentences and

pay more attention to the key words.

fairly 相当地 mild 温和的，暖和的

2. Key to Listen and Match:

1-f, 2-h, 3-i 4-j, 5-g, 6-c, 7-e, 8-d, 9-a, 10-b

Listen and Respond

Key: 1-D 2-C 3-B 4-D 5-A 6-D

3. Handling a Dialogue:

Script:

Li Hong: Hi, Pat! Why didn’t you go to the party last night?

Pat: Because it was so cold and rainy.

Li Hong: That’s too bad! It was a really good party. Hey, why don’t we go out

for a walk this afternoon, Pat? I need some exercise.

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Pat: Go out for a walk? But its so cold out.

Li Hong: Cold out? What’s the temperature?

Pat: About 13℃.

Li Hong: 13℃? That’s not cold. Just wait until winter.

Pat: Why?

Li Hong: Well … it snows a lot and sometimes it’s very cold. Last winter it

was 7 degree below zero for three weeks. And it was windy, too.

Pat: That sounds awful!

Li Hong: It wasn’t all that bad. The sun was out almost every day.

4. Understanding a short Speech / Talk

Key: 1. tourist cities 2. beautiful

3. too cold in winter 4. plenty of sunshine

5. the sea 6. thousands of

7. from both home and abroad

8. at the best time of year

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Unit Five Our Weather and Climate

Section III Trying your hand

I. Sample Analysis

1. The teacher summarize briefly the format and language used in weather

forecasts.

2. 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. 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.

II. Simulated Writing

1. The students read and translate the two sample weather forecasts into

Chinese.

Useful words and expressions for describing weather:

1) to rain all day 全天有雨

2) to be sunny / fine / cloudy / rainy / hot / cool

天气将会是阳光充足、晴、多云、有雨、很热、凉爽

3) to be going to warm up / clear up 天气要转暖/放晴

4) quite a warm day with temperature around 24℃

天气很暖和，气温在24度左右。

5) the weather outlook 天气情况展望

6) sunny / bright → clear →partly cloudy → cloudy → dull

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阳光充足 晴朗 局部有云 多云 阴

7) freezing → cold → cool → mild → warm → hot

冰冷 冷 凉爽 温和 暖和 炎热

8) the low / the high 最低气温/最高气温

9) variable → southeast wind 风向不定→东南风

10) calm → light → moderate → strong → gale

无风 微风 风力不大 大风 强风

2. Do Exercises 2 and 3 in groups.

III Grammar points

Simple Past and Present Perfect(过去时态与现在完成时态)

1. Simple Past （一般过去时态）

1) 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语连用，如ago, last, yesterday, the day before yesterday, etc.

e.g. He went to Europe three years ago.

She often came to see us when she was here.

2) 过去时态的其他用法，写作中要特别注意学习使用：

a. 在虚拟语气中使用一般过去式，表示不真实的假设：

e.g. If I were you, I would go immediately.

I would rather you sent out this letter right away.

b. 情态动词的过去式could, might, would, should有时不表示过去，而表示一种委婉语气。

e.g. Could you open the window for me, please?

Would you like some apples?

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2. 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。

e.g. We’ve known each other for about two years.

His mother has been ill since last month.

Have you returned the book?

The little girl has been to Japan twice.

2) 现在完成时态与非延续性动词“

英语中非延续性动词用于现在完成时态时，不能与由for引出的表示延续性时间的状语连用，这是我们使用现在完成时态经常犯的一个错误。试比较：

他去上海已经一个星期了。

误：He has left for shanghai for a week.

正：He left for shanghai a week ago.

3) 现在完成时态常用的时间副词状语

a. 表示频率的副词和副词just放在主要动词的前边。

b. still, never, ever这些副词与现在完成式连用时，still通常放在have或has之前，而never和ever放在have或has之后。

c. already 和 yet与现在完成式连用时，already通常用于肯定句中，yet用于否定句与疑问句中；already经常放在has/have之后，但也可置于句末，而yet则通常置于句末。

e.g. He has already sailed around the world twice so far.

He hasn’t had a serious accident yet.

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Unit Five Our Weather and Climate

Section IV Maintaining a Sharp Eye

I Warm-up Questions

1. How much do you know about the environmental problems of the world?

2. What actions can we take to prevent the earth from becoming even

warmer?

II Background information:

Climate Change and Global Warming:

Global warming is an average increase in the temperature of the

atmosphere near the Earth’s surface and in the troposphere, which can

contribute to changes in global climate patterns. Global warming can occur

from a variety of causes, both natural and human induced. In common usage,

“global warming” often refers to the warming that can occur as a result of

increases emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities.

III Language Points

1. (Para. 1) Climate change may be a big problem, but there are many

little things we can do to make a difference.

Analysis: May can be used to introduce concession in putting forward an

argument.

Translation: 气候变化可能是一个大问题，但是我们仍然可以做许多小事来影响它。

Example: The goal you set may be nice, but it is too difficult to reach.

2. (Para. 1) As we have learned, these greenhouse gases trap energy in the

atmosphere and make the Earth warmer.

Analysis: As is often used to introduce an indicator of the information source,

such as in as we have learned. Similar structures are: as the saying

goes, as everyone knows, as you know, as you put it, etc.

Translation: 如我们所知，这些温室气体把能量困锁在大气中从而使地球变暖。

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Example: As the famous Adidas ad goes: impossible is nothing.

3. (Para. 3) By turning off lights, the television, and the computer when you

are through with them, you can help a lot.

Analysis: By is followed by a gerund, introducing a prepositional phrase of

manner. Note, by is not necessarily always translated as “通过”。

Translation: 你用完电灯、电视或电脑就随手关闭，那你就是帮了大忙！

Example: You can save energy by sometimes taking the bus, riding a bike, or

simply walking.

4. (Para. 8) One of the ways to reduce the amount of greenhouse gases

that we put into the air is to buy products that don’t use as much

energy.

Analysis: Two that-clauses are used to serve as post-modifiers of nouns.

Note: in translation, the noun phrase products that don’t use as much energy

can simply be translated into “节能产品”, instead of “不消耗那么多能量的产品”。

Translation: 减少排放到空气中的温室气体的方法之一就是购买节能产品。

Example: Join a national or local environmental group that is fighting the

climate crisis every day.

IV Important words

1. trap v. store(energy, gas or water, etc.) so that it cannot escape 使困留在某处

e.g. A filter traps dust from the air.

The fabric of the clothes can trap body heat and keep you warm.

2. stand-by n. readiness for duty 待机，备用，待命

e.g. The soldiers are on stand-by, ready to leave any time.

Eggs are a great stand-by in the kitchen.

3. absorb v. take in, suck up (liquid, heat, knowledge, etc.) 吸收，吸取（液体、热量、知识等）

e.g. She absorbed greedily anything she can get a hold of in the

library.

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The material absorbs heat from the sun and releases it when

needed.

4. swell v. (number or amounts) grow bigger; expand 增加，增长

e.g. It took only less than half a year for the housing price to swell to

twice its original.

The population swelled during the mid-1970’s.

5. make a difference: to have an effect

e.g. As teachers, you must believe that you can make a difference to the

lives of your students.

6. through with : having finished or arrived at completion

e.g. You would be surprised to know the number of books he managed to

get through with.

7. take action: to do something

e.g. Travelers want the airlines to take action to make flying safer and more

comfortable.

V Exercises:

1. Group work for Ex. 2 and 3

2. Pair work for Ex. 4 and 5.

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