Unit 9. Natural disaters

Teacher: Nguyen Thi Nhi
Monday, March 13, 2017
UNIT 9: NATURAL DISASTER
Lesson 1: Getting started - Listen and read
Unit 9: Natural Disaster
Snowstorm earthquake volcano typhoon
typhoon
volcano
earthquake
snowstorm
1. Getting started
Thuy is talking to her grandmother.
Thuy: Grandma, it’s the weather forecast on TV.
Grandma: Can you turn up the volume, Thuy?
Thuy:     Yes, Grandma.
Weatherman: Here is tomorrow`s weather forecast. Ha Noi and areas to the north will be sunny. Ha Noi will have temperatures between 23°C and 27°C. It will be raining along the coast of Thanh Hoa. The south-central coast can expect thunderstorms.
Hue will experience temperatures between 25°C and 30°C. There will also be thunderstorms over the central highlands.
Areas around the Cuu Long Delta can expect clouds during the day. Ho Chi Minh City’s temperatures will be between 27°C and 35°C.
Thuy: That’s all, Grandma.
Grandma: Thank you, dear. What are you doing?
Thuy: I’m preparing for a picnic with some old friends of mine.
We heven’t met since we left school. We’re going to a park on
the other side of the river.
Grandma: Don’t forget to bring along a raincoat.
Thuy: But Grandma, the forecasts says it’ll be sunny.
Grandma: I never trust weather forecasts.
Thuy: You don’t miss a single one TV, do you?
Grandma: But I like watching them, dear.
Thuy: Alright Grandma, I’ll bring a raincoat just in case. I hope my friends wont’s laught at me.

2. Listen and read:
- Weather forecast (n):
Dự báo thời tiết
- Temperature (n):
Nhiệt độ
- Celsius (n):
Độ C
Ex: 17°C (seventeen degrees Celsius
- Highlands (n):
Vùng cao
- Experience (v):
Trải qua, chịu đựng
- Expect (v):
Đón nhận
- Thunderstorm (n):
Bão có sấm sét và mưa to
a. Vocabulary:
Weather forecast
Temperature
Celsius
Highlands
Experience
Expect
Thunderstorm
Nhiệt độ
Đón nhận
Độ C
Dự báo thời tiết
Vùng cao
Bão có sấm sét và mưa to
Trải qua, chịu đựng
Note: Future simple to talk about the weather forcast:
Ex: - Ha Noi will be sunny.
- Ha Noi will have temperature between 23°C and 27°C.
Thuy is talking to her grandmother.
Thuy: Grandma, it’s the weather forecast on TV.
Grandma: Can you turn up the volume, Thuy?
Thuy:     Yes, Grandma.
Weatherman: Here is tomorrow`s weather forecast. Ha Noi and areas to the north will be sunny. Ha Noi will have temperatures between 23°C and 27°C. It will be raining along the coast of Thanh Hoa. The south-central coast can expect thunderstorms.
Hue will experience temperatures between 25°C and 30°C. There will also be thunderstorms over the central highlands.
Areas around the Cuu Long Delta can expect clouds during the day. Ho Chi Minh City’s temperatures will be between 27°C and 35°C.
Thuy: That’s all, Grandma.
Grandma: Thank you, dear. What are you doing?
Thuy: I’m preparing for a picnic with some old friends of mine.
We heven’t met since we left school. We’re going to a park on
the other side of the river.
Grandma: Don’t forget to bring along a raincoat.
Thuy: But Grandma, the forecasts says it’ll be sunny.
Grandma: I never trust weather forecasts.
Thuy: You don’t miss a single one TV, do you?
Grandma: But I like watching them, dear.
Thuy: Alright Grandma, I’ll bring a raincoat just in case. I hope my friends wont’s laught at me.

b) Fill in each blank with one word or phrase from the dialogue.
Thuy’s Grandmother wants her to …………the volume on TV because she wants to listen to the…………………….
It will be …………..along the coast of Thanh Hoa.
The ………………………will experience thunderstorms.
Ho Chi Minh City will ………………………between 27°C and 35°C.
Although Thuy’s grandmother doesn’t trust …………forecasts, she likes…………………..
turn up
weather forecast
rainy
central highlands
have temperatures
weather
watching them