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YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions.
1 What do you see in the photo?
2 What is unusual about this photo?
3 Do you like hot or cold weather?

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WATCH AND LISTENPREPARING TO WATCH
ACTIVATING YOURKNOWLEDGE

PREDICTINGCONTENT USINGVISUALS

1 Work with a partner. Discuss the questions.
1 How many seasons are there in your country?
2 Does it rain often? When does it rain?
3 What are the most famous deserts in the world?
4 What is the weather in a desert like?
2 Look at the photos from the video. Write T (true) or F (false) next tothe statements. Correct the false statements.
1 A desert is dry.
2 It does not rain often in a desert.
3 There are several deserts on Earth.
4 A desert is flat.

GLOSSARY

climate (n) the weather of a particular place
equator (n) an imaginary line around the centre of the Earthinch (n) a unit of measure, about 2.5 cm (centimetres)
spin (v) to turn round and round

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3Watch the video. Circle the correct answers.
1 A desert is very hot / not very hot in the summer during the day.
2 A desert has / does not have a lot of water.
3 There are / There are not different plants in a desert.
4 Hot air comes from near the equator / the desert.

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4Watch again. Choose the correct answers.
1 The Sonoran Desert is in.
a North Africab the Middle Eastc North America
2 In the summer, the temperature in the Sonoran Desert can reacha 122 °F (50 °C)
b 22 °F (−5 °C)
c 112 °F (44 °C)
3 There are more deserts like the Sonoran desert in.
a South America, Japan and North Africab the Middle East, India and North Africac Taiwan, India and North Africa

5 Write the words from the box in the gaps.
carefuldifficult

1 It is2 There is little
3 Many4 People need to be

UNDERSTANDINGDETAIL.

MAKING INFERENCES

fruits and vegetables rain
to live in a desert.
in a desert.
do not grow in a desert.
in a desert.

DISCUSSION
6 Work with a partner. Discuss the questions.
1 Is there a desert in your country? What is the desert’s name?
2 How is the climate different in a desert?
3 Do you want to live in or near a desert? Why / Why not?

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LISTENING 1
PREPARING TO LISTENUNDERSTANDING
KEY VOCABULARY

1 You are going to listen to a talk about different seasons. Before you listen,use the words in the box to complete the sentences below.
cold (adj) having a low temperatureautumn (n) the season of the year between summer and winterhot (adj) having a high temperaturesnow (n) soft, white pieces of frozen water which fall from the skyspring (n) the season of the year between winter and summer
temperature (n) how hot or cold something isweather (n) the temperature or conditions outside, for example,
if it is hot, cold, sunny, etc.
1 The sun is very.
2 Brrr! I’m. I need my hat and jacket.
3 Theis beautiful! It’s white and clean. This is my favourite
kind of.
4is between winter and summer.
5 It’snow. The trees are red and orange and it’s almostwinter.
6 Theis -34.4 °C (degrees Celsius). Let’s stay inside.

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2 Work with a partner. Discuss your answers.
Describe the weather in your country.
What is your favourite season? Use the words in the box above tohelp you.

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Predicting content using visuals
Visuals can be photos, pictures, graphs or tables. Use visuals to help you
understand the topic and important ideas.

3 Look at the photos and answer the questions.
1 These photos are all from the same place. Do you want to visit
this place? Why / Why not?
2 Which photo shows hot weather?
3 Which photo shows a beach (an area next to water with sand or smallstones where people like to sit)?
4 Which photo shows cold weather?
5 What season can you see in each photo?
6 What’s the temperature outside in each photo?
abcd

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PRONUNCIATION FOR LISTENING
Sentence stress

SKILLS

We stress important words in a sentence. Important words can be:• nouns: Dubai, July, Canada, lot, snow, winter, places• adjectives: hot, sunny, cold
• verbs: (but not be): has, getDubai’s hot in July.
Canada has a lot of snow in winter.
We get snow when it’s cold here.
42.1 Listen to the sentences and …
• underline the nouns.
• circle the adjectives.
• highlight the verbs (but not be).
1 Take a look at the photos.
2 They are all from one place.
3 There’s a beautiful beach next to a big lake.
4 It’s winter and there’s a mountain.
5 It’s hot and there’s sand.

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2.2 Listen again. Write the missing words in the gaps.
1 It’s aday in summer.
2 There’s lots of.
3 It’s also very.
4 You can see it’s.
5 The temperature is a little cold and the trees change colour toand.
is welcome in Hokkaido.
6 After the cold weather,
7 The weather is, so the flowers grow.

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2.2 Listen to a talk about a place with four seasons. Look at thephotos in Exercise 3. Which photos does the teacher talk about?

2.2 Listen again and check your answers.

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DISCUSSION
8 Work in groups.
1 Choose a photo, but do not say which one.
2 Take turns talking about your photo. Use the phrases in the box.
3 Listen to the other students and guess the photo.
Take a look at this photo. What can we see?
It’s … hot, cold.
This season is … summer, winter, autumn, spring.
There’s a … beach, lake.
There’s … snow.
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1

2.3 Listen and write the seasons from the box in the gaps (1–6).
autumn spring summer winterthe dry season the rainy season

1 Canada gets a lot ofsnow in.

2in Washington, 3in London isDC begins in June.
from March to May.
It gets very hot.
There are a lot ofbeautiful flowers.

, the trees 5 In Korea, Japan and China, 6
in Brazil begins
4 Inchange colour fromin May. There is not a lot
begins in Junegreen to orange or red.
of rain.
and ends in July. It getsvery wet.
2 Write countries or cities in the gaps (1–5). Then work in pairs. Read yoursentences to your partner.
winters are very cold.
1 In
2 There is a rainy season in.
3is very hot in the summer.
4 There is a dry season in.
5 In, there is a lot of rain in the spring.

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WEATHER
3 Match the pictures (1–6) to the words for weather in the table.
1

2

3

4

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adjective

sun

sunny

snow

snowy

windwindy

rain

rainy

cloudcloudy

stormstormy

4 Circle the correct word.
1 I’m happy when it’s sun / sunny.
2 There’s a big, black cloud / cloudy in the sky.
3 I have a hat for when it’s rain / rainy.
4 We get a lot of storms / stormy in April.
5 There’s a lot of snow / snowy here in winter.
6 It’s very wind / windy today!
5 Are the sentences in Exercise 4 true for you? Discuss your answers witha partner.
6 Complete the sentences about the weather in your city. Use words fromthe table in Exercise 3. Then work in pairs. Read your sentences to a partner.
today.
1 It’s2 There’s a lot ofin spring.
3 In summer, it’s.
4 It’sin autumn.
5 In winter, it’s.

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COLOURS
7 Write the correct number (1–7) next to the colours.
orangeredgreen
whiteyellow
blueblack
7

16

2

5

3

4
8 Work with a partner. Ask and answer the questions in the box
about the words and phrases below.
What colour is … ? It’s … / It can be … or …
What colour are … ? They’re … / They can be … or …
1 water
2 snow

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3 trees
4 sand5 clouds
6 your family’s car

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