UNIT 3B: STORMY WEATHER

LISTENING COMPREHENSION

PRE-LISTENING ACTIVITY:

Aims: To understand vocabulary related to the weather.
Skills: Reading comprehension/Oral interaction.
Description: Classifying weather-related vocabulary into mild or extreme.
Classify the following words and phrases into the different columns. Use a dictionary, if necessary.
Drizzle – storms – mist – a hurricane – showers – clear skies - flooding – winds of 80 mph – tornados – a heat-wave – lightning - gloomy weather - rain cats and dogs – smog – dense fog –persistent rain – an Indian summer – light breezes - temperatures of over 30 degrees C – bright sunshine – grey skies – thick cloud – a frost.
MILD WEATHER EXTREME WEATHER

LISTENING ACTIVITY:

Aims: To understand the main information and details in a weather forecast.
You will listen to two on-line TV weather forecasts (of Oregon, and the British Isles).

Listen to the first part of a TV weather forecast for the British Isles and fill in the gaps with the appropriate words or expressions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQtV2NPYcIc&feature=related).

WEATHER FORECAST FOR THE BRITISH ISLES
Let´s just take a recap of the __________ __________ (1) we had on Sunday. _____________ (2) was the top temperature in Scotland. Birmingham had just short of 14 hours of _____________(3). It wasn´t quite so great down towards the Southwest. There was more ________ (4) around here though with some __________ __________(5) for Torquay.
Definitely, I think, a better looking morning here this morning. Some sunshine across most of the __________(6) of England. For England and __________(7) in general, a__________(8) start, some patchy outbreaks of rain through the morning .Scotland and ____________ (9) definitely getting the best of today´s sunshine. Hopefully, they´ll send us a little bit further south too, into northern England and __________ (10) through the afternoon. But then, that squeezes __________ __________ (11) further south, so for the south coast a ___________ ____________ (12) and the rain arriving here towards the evening.
And wherever you are today, even if you keep the sunshine, it´s going to be a __________ __________ definitely (13) than yesterday. Northerly __________ (14) setting into all parts of the UK. The biggest contrast, probably coming in across______________(15); after that 21 degrees yesterday, just ____________(16) degrees today, really will be a disappointment!
__________ _________ (17) today probably 15 or 16 towards the south coast… but here things getting greyer and __________ (18) as the day wears on…
Now the cloud in the south will ship out of the way, though, over night tonight leaving __________ (19) spells behind. That then, though, means quite a wide spread __________ (20), so God knows… beware.