Урок 30. Weather
Предмет: Английский язык, 8 класс

Lesson 30

Weather

In this lesson

you will read and talk about the weather and climate
you will practise idioms related to the weather

Ключевые слова: Climate, drizzle, frost, cool, cloudy, degree, melt, mild, misty, pour, rough, shower, equatorial zone, tropical zone, temperate zone, arctic zone, cool, humid, windy, rain, sunshine, temperature, warm, hot.

Речевой материал: weather, climate

Основное содержание урока

There are four main climatic zones on our planet: equatorial zone, tropical zone, temperate zone and arctic zone.

Great Britain is in the temperate zone. The climate here is usually described as cool, temperate and humid. Winters are usually mild. It seldom snows heavily in winter, snow may come but it melts quickly, the frost is rare. Then comes spring. It brings warm, bright sunshine, green grass and flowers. Still the weather is very changeable in the UK. It can be sunny, windy, misty or rainy. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say “It’s raining cats and dogs”.

The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain. If people don’t know what talk about they talk about the weather.

Тренировочные задания

1.

Match the words with their meanings.

tropical zone	арктическая зона
equatorial zone	климатические зоны
temperate zone	умеренная зона
arctic zone	экваториальная зона
climatic zones	тропическая зона

2.

Put the letters in order to make up words.

сmateli
hweerat
teramrepetu
snenshui
ihdum

3.

Write the translation of the words below.

fog
drizzle
boiling hot
heavy rain
cloudy

4.

Match the words to make up phrases.

tropical	breeze

weather	climate

temperate	temperature

high	zone

light	forecast

5.

Complete the sentences with appropriate word.

Consequently it is very difficult to predict or forecast the ______.
It’s ______ cats and dogs.
Winter temperatures below 10 ______ are rare.
Snow may come but it ______quickly.
The ______ says it's going to rain tomorrow.

6.

Match the idioms to their definitions.

to feel under the weather
to save up for a rainy day
on cloud nine
a bolt from/out of the blue
save it for the future when you may need it
not feel well
something that surprises you very much because you were not expecting it to happen
extremely happy

7.

Choose the correct word.

Sometimes there is heavy/hard rain.
Yesterday it was pouring/watering all day.
It was boiling/warming hot, so we all jumped into the lake.
I don’t feel the heat until it’s about forty degrees/rates Celsius outside.
I think I’ll take the dog for a walk. It’s only drizzling/howling now.

8.

Complete the text with the corresponding words (wet, cool, weather, climate, weather forecast).

The _______ in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be _______. The morning may be warm and the evening may be _______. Every daily paper publishes a _______. Both the radio and television give the weather forecast several times each day. British people say: “Other countries have a _______, in England we have weather.”

Контрольные задания

Вариант 1

1.

Match the words.

heavy	zone

boiling	temperature

weather	forecast

sunny	weather

average	rain

equatorial	hot

2.

Read the text and choose the right options.

The weather depends/influences/keeps/relies on the season and the climate of the country. England has a rather mild/light/quite/kind climate. Autumn is a watering/rainy/drizzling/ pouring season, the weather is mostly dull. In winter the air is wintry/frosty/cold/hard, large snowflakes slowly fall to the ground, rivers and lakes are frozen. By the end of the winter the temperature rises and the snow begins to disappear/melt/pour/clear. Nature awakens from its long winter sleep. After spring the summer comes. But the weather is irregular/various/changeable/inconstant in summer.

3.

Fill in the missing word.

There are four main ________ zones on our planet.

Average ________ is 12-13 degrees above zero (Celsius) here.

The ________ is influenced by many factors.

Sometimes it ________ but it will melt in the warm sun.

But the weather is very different, and we can know about tomorrow weather from ________.

Вариант 2

1.

Match the words.

average	hot

heavy	weather

equatorial	zone

sunny	forecast

boiling	temperature

weather	rain

2.

Read the text and choose the right options.

The weather depends/influences/keeps/relies on the season and the climate of the country. England has a rather mild/light/quite/kind climate. Autumn is a watering/rainy/drizzling/ pouring season, the weather is mostly dull. In winter the air is wintry/frosty/cold/hard, large snowflakes slowly fall to the ground, rivers and lakes are frozen. By the end of the winter the temperature rises and the snow begins to disappear/melt/pour/clear. Nature awakens from its long winter sleep. After spring the summer comes. But the weather is irregular/various/changeable/inconstant in summer.

3.

Fill in the missing word.

Sometimes it ________ but it will melt in the warm sun.

But the weather is very different, and we can know about tomorrow weather from ________.

Average ________ is 12-13 degrees above zero (Celsius) here.

The ________ is influenced by many factors.

There are four main ________ zones on our planet.