Talk about Weather

Warm-up

• What is the weather like today?

• Do you often watch the weather forecast on TV?

Vocabulary

1. Instantaneous state : Trạng thái xảy ra ngay lập tức

2. Aggregate : Tích tụ

3. Arid : Hoang mạc

4. Foggy : Có sương mù

5. Equalize : Cân bằng

Reading

Weather is the day-to-day state of atmosphere and pertains to short term changes in conditions of heat, moisture and air movement. Weather results from processes that attempt to equalize the differences in the distribution of net radiant energy from sun. In other words, the instantaneous state of atmosphere can be called as weather. It is usually expressed as fine, fair, foggy, cloudy, rainy, sunny or windy weather. It is aggregate of atmospheric conditions involving heat, moisture and air movement. In other words, the totality of weather over a large area is known as climate. It is expressed as marine, continental, arid, semiarid, humid or desert climate.

Answer the questions

•  What is the passage about?

•  What is the weather?

Discussion

• What do you think about the weather in your country?

• According to you, what is the ideal weather? Why?

• Have you ever been through the harsh weather?

• Do you think that weather forecast is important? Why?