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
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.)
+ 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.
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”