FORM 1 UNIT 3 WEATHER

Master weather news! Read articles, listen to reports, write your own stories, and act out dialogues.

THEME:-HEALTH AND ENVIRONMENTTOPIC:- WEATHER (ACTION ORIENTED TASK)SKILLS:- INTEGRATED SKILLS( READING,LISTENING,WRITING,SPEAKING) At the end of the lesson,students should be able to:-i) read and match three headlines with the correct articlesii) answer 5 questions on WHOiii) listen to a weather report and write seven missing wordsiv) write the answers by completing the five phrases from a news storyv) create a new dialogue and act it out IN THE NEWS-NEWSPAPER ARTICLES It's so cold here at the moment.Do you prefer hot or cold weather?I definitely prefer hot weather.What about you? STEP 1: READ1. Match the headlines with newspaper articles 1-3. 2. Read the articles again and answer the questions. Write your answers in the space provided below. 1. Who said he had fun in a difficult situation?2. Who won something?3.Who felt happy when she heard some news?4.Who plans to spend some money?5.Who didn't expect to have a holiday/ STEP 2: LISTEN3. Listen to a weather report. Complete the missing words and phrases.Today it is very cold in Scotland,the north and south of England, and in (1) WalesScow is falling and there is deep snow lying in some parts of the country. It is more than (2)one and a half metres deep in some places. There are blizzards in the south of England.The heavy snow has made conditions on the roads very (3) dangerous and many(4) trains are not running. Some roads are blocked by snow,while other roads are very(5) icy . The police have asked people not to travel by car if their journey isn'timportant. Twenty people spent the night in a local (6) sports centre when blizzards on the M25 motorway closed the road.The weather will (7) get better tomorrow, but it will remain very cold until the weekend. 4. Listen again. What have the police asked people to do? Write your answer in the space provided. REACTING TO NEWS 5. CLICK THE LINK TO LISTEN TO THE DIALOGUE. 5 a Complete the text based on the dialogue. Hi Chris! Guess what happened (1) last night during the storm.I don't know, what happened?Well, I was watching TV when I heard a loud noise.What was it?A huge tree fell down in our (2) street! It fell in our garden. No way! That's (3) terrible news. Was anybody hurt?No, luckily everybody was OK. We were all inside because of the awful weather.Great, I'm really pleased about that.Well, I've got some good news too! A reporter from the local TV station came and interviewed us about what happened. I'm going to be on TV (4) tonight.Wow, that's (5) amazing! I'm definitely going to watch it. 6. Listen again and repeat. Practise your intonation. STEP 3: WRITE7 . Write a news story. Use your own ideas based on exercise 1. You may use the questions and phrase given below.What happened?When did it happen?Why did it happen?How did it happen?That's.............................................! STEP 4: COMMUNICATEPREPARE AND PRACTISE A NEW DIALOGUE WITH A PARTNER(SIBLING BOTH PARTS.USE YOUR NOTES FROM EXERCISE 7 TO HELP YOU.WRITE YOUR DIALOGUE IN THE SPACE BELOW.ONCE DONE, CLICK THE VOICE RECORD BUTTON TO RECORD YOUR DIALOGUE..