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Listen + What is the weather like today?. + Have you ever listened to the weather forecast on TV or on the radio?. + Do you think it’s necessary to listen to the weather forecast?. Pre-

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Lesson 3 - Listen (Page 115)

- Language focus 3 (120)

I Listen

I Listen

+ What is the weather like today?

+ Have you ever listened to the weather forecast on TV or on the radio?

+ What does it often tell you about?

+ Do you think it’s necessary to listen to the weather forecast? Why/ Why not?

+ What do you know about the low and the high temperature?

(It refers to the lowest and the highest temperature)

Pre- listening

Write the words related to the weather.

Words related to the weather

centigrade Warm

- 50 C (minus five degrees)

Temperature

Low: minus five degrees (Centigrade) (- 50 C), zero degree (00 C), three degree (30 C), etc

High: twenty- two degrees (Centigrade) (220 C), thirty degrees (300 C), thirty- two degrees (320 C), etc

While- listening

15

8 windy ; cloudy

5 New York

32 24

warm;

4 Bangkok

7

- 3

; cold

3 London

22

15

dry ; windy

2 Tokyo

26

20

dry; windy

1 Sydney

High Low

Weather City

Temperature

Listen to the weather reports Then fill in the blanks in the table with the information you hear

humid

dry

Post- listening

Ask and answer about the weather and temperature using the

information in the table

Role play

A: What is the weather like in today?

Weather : dry and windy

Temperature : - the low 20

Sydney

16

10

cool; dry

15

8

windy ; cloudy

32 24

warm ; dry

7

- 3

humid ; cold

22

15

;

2 Tokyo

26 20

;

1

High Low

Weather City

Temperature

windy

dry

dry windy

Sydney

* Modal sentences:

Form : S + be + always + V ing

Use : To express a complaint

II Language focus 3 (120)

(Bao is a very lazy student He is always getting bad marks)

+ What is Bao always doing?

 He is always forgetting his homework

+ What are these students always doing?

 They are always playing chess

Picture drill

Example exchange

+ What is Bao always doing?

He is always forgetting his home work.

Find someone who

* Example exchange S1: What is Mai always doing? S2: She is always going to school late Name going to school late talking in the class sleeping in the class video gamesplaying bad marksgetting eating in the class Mai



Mai is always going to

school late

1 Write it up, use the information in the table to write a weather report, beginning with:

Here is today’s weather forecast’ for the international travelers.

2 Practice speaking with “Be + always + V ing”