UNIT 2 Clear or Cloudy
Part I Getting ready A:
1.Freezing point 2.Relative humidity 3.Calm
4.Barometric pressure 5.Wildly scattered 6.Shower 7.lows 8.Variable
9.Thunderstorm 10.Cold snap B.
1.the freezing point of water is 0 or 32 2.The boiling point of water is 100 or 212 3.The normal body temperature is 37 or 98.6
4.The temperature on a warm spring day is 15 or 59 5.The temperature on a hot summer day is 35 or 95
C:This is NYBA. We'll report on weather around the world. Here in New York, it's 7:10. the temperature is a warm 30 degrees. The sun is shining. In Auckland, New Zealand, it’s 11:10, it's cloudy, and the temperature is a cool 7 degrees Centigrade. In Beijing, the time is 7:10 in the evening, it’s clear and the temperature is 19 degrees. The time While in Calcutta is 4:40 p.m. It’s raining in Calcutta, but it's not cold. The temperature is 33 degrees. Honolulu time is 1:00 a.m. It’s warm and windy. The temperature now is 30 degrees. Melbourne, Australia time now is9:10 p.m. it's clear and the temperature is 10 degrees Centigrade. In Mexico City, it’s 5:10 in the morning, it’s raining in Mexico City. The temperature at 5:10 is 24 degrees. The time now in Moscow is 2:10 p.m. It’s a sunny 26 degrees. Paris time is 12:10 in the afternoon. The sky is clear and it's 27 degrees. In San Francisco, the time now is 3:10 in the morning. Skies are cloudy and the temperature is 21 degrees. Sao Paulo, Brazil time now is 8:10 a.m. it's raining in Sao Paulo. the temperature is 14 degrees.
Part II A weather report
Now the weather report. It’ll be mainly clear. In the day the high will be 15 degrees. At six o'clock the temperature was 8 degrees, the humidity 45 percent. Tomorrow's forecast is not very promising. We can expect cloudy, cold, windy weather. The temperature will drop to 5 degrees in the morning. it'll get warmer in the afternoon with a high temperature of 10 degrees.in the evening there's a good chance that we'll get some rain or snow. the temperature in the evening will drop to 0 degrees
B & C:
Good evening. Here is the National Weather Service forecast for the Chicago area. The ten
p.m. temperature: Lakefront 76 degrees, Midway 76 degrees, O’Hare 74degrees.Relative humidity 66 per cent. The winds are calm, the barometric pressure thirty point oh eight and rising.
Tonight partly cloudy, some widely scattered showers. Lows in the lower 70s and light and variable winds.
Tomorrow partly sunny and very warm, Highs in the upper 80s,south winds five to ten miles per hour.
Tomorrow night fair, with lows in the middle 60s
Tuesday hot and humid and mostly sunny, highs around 90.
The extended forecast through Friday: hot, with daily highs 90 to 95 and daily lows in the upper 60s
Fair Wednesday and Thursday
Partly cloudy, chance of thunderstorms on Friday
Repeating the ten p. m temperature: lakefront 76,Midway 76,O'Hare74. thank you for calling
Part III At bus stop
Woman: Oh, I wish that bus would come! my feet are freezing. Man: Have you been waiting long?
Woman: It feels like hours---but I suppose I’ve only been here ten minutes or so. Man: That's long enough in this weather. this is awful. I hate winter'
Woman: So do I. And this morning the sun was shinning and they were predicting light rain Man :I’ve been calling the weather report all day since it started to snow. They're still predicting one or(to)two inches but we've got at least three inches already, My shoes are full of snow Woman: Well, that's typical. Remember last year when they predicted four inches of snow and we ended up with four feet?
Man: I wasn't here last year. but we had the same thing in Detroit. We were supposed to get a little rain one night, but when we woke up, guess what? there were six inches of snow on the ground and it was still coming down hard. I didn't go to work that day
Woman: Well ,if it's really bad, I won't go in to the office tomorrow---I'll work at home. Man: What kind of work do you do?
Woman: I'm an attorney, My office is around the corner.
Man: Oh, that's where I’ve seen you before. I work in the same building----in that travel agency off the lobby.
Woman: Oh, of course
Man: And I’ve seen you walk by several times, stop in and have cup of coffee sometimes Woman: I wish i had a cup of coffee right now
Man: Well, listen, we’re standing right in front of a donut shop, why don't i get some coffee and bring it out for us.
Woman: That sounds wonderful,----Oh, look, there's the bus. thanks anyway. Man: That's okay, Another time---Boy, am I glad to see that bus! Statements:
1.The man has been waiting longer than woman. 2.Both the woman and the man hate winter
3.There are more than three inches of snow on the ground 4.They are in Detroit
5.The woman's office is not far from the bus stop 6.Sometimes they have coffee together
7.They're standing in the front of a doughnut shop. 9.The bus comes exactly when they get their coffee.
10.The man doesn't know whether he is glad to see that bus or not.
Part IV More about the topic: is Earth Overheating?
Evidence shows that over the past 160 000 years there has been a close correlation between global average temperature and the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
In 1800,before the Industrial Revolution began to take full effect, the carbon dioxide level was about 280ppm,By the 1890's the carbon dioxide level had risen to perhaps290ppm.Today,according to analyses of air samples, the level is more than 350ppm. 25 per cent higher than the 1800 level.
At the same time, Scientist have noted that the global average temperature is steadily rising. Since the 1980's ,most summers have been unusually hot, in fact, the six warmest year since 1901 have occurred in the past two decades, and 1988 saw the century's highest global average temperature. the 1988 heat wave focused public attention on a possibility that had worried scientists for some time---the possibility of a disastrous rise in Earth's temperature. Scientists tell us that it is the burning of coal, oil, and other fuels that has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Factories account for 29 per cent of the carbon dioxide added by the burning of fuels; electric power plants,28 per cent; motor vehicles,27 per cent; and heating equipment for homes and business,16 per cent.
As Stephen Schneider, a climatologist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research puts it, \is often said that we do not so much inherit the world from our forebears, but rather we borrow it from your children .it is increasingly urgent that we act to prevent our debt from growing out of control.
Part V Memory test: Weather Forecast
A:Announcer:....and now for the weather forecast. Tomorrow will be another cold day generally in all parts of the country, with maximum temperatures of five degrees above zero. Around London and the southeast of England it will be a dry day, with some sunshine on the southeast coast in the afternoon. In the southeast the morning will be sunny, but during the afternoon it will be cloudy, with some rain on the southeast coast. the north of England and Scotland will be very cold and windy all day. While on the northeast coast of Scotland there will probably be some snow during the evening...Well, that's the weather outlook for tomorrow. And that's all from me. Good night. B:
Newscaster:...and that's the end of the news. Now we'll go over to the weather center for the weather forecast for the whole of the United Kingdom.
Weatherman: Good evening, Due to the depression lying off the north England and the high in the south of England, tomorrow's weather will be variable across the country. Starting ,then ,in the southwest, it'll start cool and become warm with long periods of sunshine. Around London