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A VACATION ABROAD
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
minus
degrees
- 50 C
(minus five degrees)
Weather
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.

cloudy
cold
cool
dry
fine
humid
rainy
snowy
sunny
warm
wet
windy
While- listening
16
10
cool; dry
6. Paris
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
20
22
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?
B: It will be and
A: How about the temperature?
B: The low will be and the high degrees.


Weather: dry and windy
Temperature: - the low 20
- the high 26


Sydney

16
10
cool; dry
6. Paris
15
8
windy; cloudy
5. New York
32
24
warm ; dry
4. Bangkok
7
- 3
humid ; cold
3. London
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.
Practice
Picture drill
Example exchange

* Bao/ forget/ homework
+ What is Bao always doing?
He is always forgetting his home work.
Production
Find someone who....
* Example exchange
S1: What is Mai always doing?
S2: She is always going to school late.
Mai is always going to
school late
Homework

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.
In Sydney, it will be.....

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