Unit Five Cliamate and Weather
1.B
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
1. A: Have you just come from Hawait? Those are beautiful flowers.
B: Thank you. Yes, I've just arrivd from Honolulu.
A: Honolulu! Now that's exciting! Palm trees, and hula danceing. I bet the weather's nice there now.
B: Oh, it's beautiful right now, It's always nice and hot in June and July, It's best time to vist.
A: So I hear, And it never rains, does it?
B: You'd be surprised! In fact, it rain quite a lot from November to February. So you go there during the winter, you should take a umbrella. I think the hotels keep quiet about the rain, they want to keep it secret.
2. A: Where to?
B: The San Francisco Hilton, please. It's cool,eh?
A: Well, San Francisco is usually cold in the winter, you know in Noverber, December, January. It's often very rainly, and it's sometimes...
B: But it gets very hot in the summer, doesn't it?
A: Not really, It's not really like the rest of California, It gets warm though in July and August. That's best time to vist. Uh,Oh, here comes the rain, just like in England.
B: That is right.
3. A: Where to, Sir?
B: The Egyptian Consulate, Please.
A: OKay, I saw film about Egypt on the TV a couple of weeks ago, It's really hot there, isn't?
B: Not all the time, It's only hot from about March to October, During...
A: Oh yeah, And how about the rest of the year?
B: Well, it's never really very cold, But it gets quite cool between November and February. I prefered Cairo in the winter myself, It's much more comfortable than in the summer, You should vist Egypt, come for a vacation! Ride around pyramids on a camel.
A: Mmm, Maybe.
4. A: Are you from Austualia?
B: Yes, I am from Melbourne, I've...
A: So the seasons are all upside down for you over here!
B: That's right, It's pretty cold and rainy during June and July.
A: Mm!
B: And you can eat christmas dinner in hot sunshine!
A: Yeah!
B: A lot of people go to the beach on Christmas Day for a barbecue!
2.A
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
It's pleasant 73 degree here. For those of you traveling tomorrow, Here is quick look at the weather for cities around the world. In Amsterdan it should be clear tomorrow with a high of 82 and a low of 70. Athens is also expected to be clear with a high of 80 and a low of 70. Bangkok will be cloudy with a high of 90 and a low of 75. We also expect BeiJing to be cloudy with a high of 96 and a low of 64. In Bogota you'll need your raincoats with rain expected and a high of only 56, At night the temperature go down to 48. It'll also rain ih Cairo, But much warm with a high of 93 and a low of 73. Dublin will be cloudy, as it often is at this time of the year, with a high of 75 and a low of 65. Istanbul will be clear with a high of 86 and a low of 70. While in Moscow the weather will be cloudy and on the cool side with temperature only reach a high of 66 and going down to 48 at night. If you don't want to hot weather, stay away from New Delhi where the temperture expect to reach a high of 112 under cloudy skies, and go down to a not very comfortable low of 80. For a beautiful day go to Warsaw where the skies will be clear and the temperature a pleasant 79 degrees going down to 59 in the evening. And that's it for weather around the world.
2.B
Listening, Following these instructions and doing these exsercises
A: And that is Friday night news, Now over to Dave Spellman for the weekend weather forcast. Dave, what do you have story for us this weekend?
B: Well, Linda, it's still raining here in Chicago, and it looks like the rain is going to continue through the weekend. It'll be cloudy tomorrow with scattered showers, and the outlook for saturday--more rain and cold, The predicted high for tomorrow is 45 degrees Fahrenheit, But the thermometer is expected to dip to the freezing point tomorrow night, with temperature 32 degrees, I'm afraid cold weather is on its way!
Let's take look now the weather cross the country. Showers expected tomorrow down the West Coast as far South as San Francisco, Fair weather in the low's 70 predicted for the Los Angeles area: fair in San Diego.
There is cool front from Canada moving down throuth the Western states, 38 degrees in Denver, Colorado, with 30-mile-an-hour winds, and it's expected to be cold and windy righ through the weekend. Dallas is expecting unseasonably cold weather-48 degrees.
It's raining as far east as Detroit and Toronto, and that rain is going to contiue through tomorrow, When it may turn to snow, Currently 43 degreess in Detroit, 41 degrees in Toronto. And temperatures dropping.
It's snowing heavily in Montreal, Ladies and Gentlemen, It's first storm of the season, and we expect that snow activity to move down from Ganada into the eastern states, Sometime tomorrow, probably reaching the New York area sometime tomorrow night.
Good weather across the south, clear skies in Miami, and they're going to enjoy a sunny 78 degrees in that town this weekend, so if you're thinking about a vacation, Now's time to do it. Back to Chicago. Once again, continuing rain tonight through saturday, Current temperature, 38 degrees. And that winds up our weather report for this evening, This is Dave Spellman, Have a good night, and if you're going out, don't forget you umbrella. |