Unit map @ Vocabulary Weather Describing temperature Natural disasters Verbs of movement Inthe etreet Climate change Word suite Phrasal verbs @Crammar ‘Comparative adjectives Supetiative adjectives too /enough Wiistaning Cyewitnese @Reading Giliders inthe storm Speaking Photo comparison @Wweiting An article @ Culture 4 The English language gi a @ Vocabulary Builder page 19 © crammar Builder page 130 © Grammar Reference page 131 wptask page 42 sit our plonet Vocabulary Weather Ican describe the weather. 4 What shape is a fitidop before it starts falling? -@ & é . @ 2 What makes the sound of thunder? @ weleud & iain tig 3 You se lightning and then hear thunder six seconds later. How far away isthe OF? a 2km b 3km 4 You only get fog) weather when @ the airis cold. b itis fairy. © youure neat theocean. 5 You only get al when cq itis Windy, b there are SHOFATESUAS. ¢ thereis no SURSHI my 6 In what direction does an ‘east jwinid’ blow? @ towards Uieeust > B towards the west © By 7 What is the maximum time a snowtlake takes to reach the ground? @ aminute & fiverninutes © twenty minutes anhour 8 When you are facing a rainbow, the Sis always @ infrontofyou. behind you € tooneside 48 PL 49 4S PF DE 2¢ DL sONcUy2 VOCABULARY Complete the table with the highlighted ‘words from the quiz in exercise 1. What do you notice about the way the adjectives are formed? ors Verb ered Bierce Noun Perea) RECYCLE! afew, alittle, not much /many,a ot of "+ Remember: we use a few, not many or a lot of with plural + (countable) nouns. a few thunderstorms We use a little, not much or a lot of with uncountable alittle snow 3 SPEAKING In pais, ask and answer the questions (1-4) below. Use words and phrases from exercise 2 and the words below. Describing temperature Isminusten, It's 35 degrees (Celsius). It’s below zero, It's freezing / cold / cool / mild / warm / hot / sweltering. 1. What is the weather ike today? 2. What isi usually like in December? 3. What sit usually like in August? 4 Doyou prefer rainy, snowy or icy weather? Why? T a 4 isten to five weather reports (1-5). Match three of them with the photos (A-C). 1 2 3 4 5 y cloudy rain clouds = 7 5 Read the Recyclel box. Then listen again and a ety Ty complete these sentences from the weather reports. * hail | fail storm Report = . 1 it's 10°C and there's ‘everywhere. _ 2 We're expecting this afternoon, 5 flash of lightning Report 2 mist misty 3 There's on the ground « 7 rin * 4 Thereisn't but the wind is blowing the snow shower | showery rain shower Ane face : Report 3 snovr_| snowy _Inow 5 There's on the grass after a cold night. = stormy ‘thunderstorm 6 There aren't inthe sky, 7 sunny | (thesun) | ® Report 4 shines 7 There in people's gardens . thundery | to thunder | clap /crash of. 8 There's on the pavements, | rarer Reports a zi 9 There were andit was windy too. {hewina 10 Now ther nd the ind central ron 6 In pairs, invent a weather report. Use the prompts below tohelp you planit. «What type af weather? ‘© Temperature? = What can you see? (snow ie, clouds, ete) 7 SPEAKING Present your weather report to the class. Here in Birmingham, there's strong ‘wind blowing from the north, Unit4 ou poet CIGrammar Comparison Ian make comparisons. 11 SPEAKING Work in pairs. Do you know what a shooting staris? Compare your ideas. 2 Read part of the text. Check your ideas from exercise 1 3 Complete the table with comparative adjectives from part 1 of the text. Bend small 1 er large 2 “sr early 3 y>-ier big * eres | ponerful eee far (no rules) 4 Read the Learn this! box. Then find examples of each rule (a-d) in part 1of the text. LEARN THIS! Comparative forms GF # We use than to make comparisons Greece's hotter than the UK We use not as... as to make negative comparisons. Iniont-aswarm as yesterday ¢ We use as...as to say two things are equal. 2 hot ae Athen. We use far or much to make a compatison stronger. Libyais tar/ much hotter than Canada, 5. Read the Look out! box. Complete part 2 of the text with the comparative farm af the worde in brackets, ‘2 Grammar Builder48 page 130 LOOK OUT! little ess J Some quantifiers also have comparative forms, < few=fewer much / anymore 6 Complete the sentences with the correct form of the words in brackets. 11 My brothers often fight, but Tom fe much atronger than Nathan (Tom /much / strong / Nathan) so he usuelly wins 2 Delhiis bigger than Mexico City but {it not as /large) Tokyo. 3 The Chelyabinsk explosion _ (enuch / small) tan the Tunguska Event 4 Occasionally, hail stones can (be / big /as) tennis balls! 5 Ahurricane anordinary storm, ETD i+ our plone ‘double consonant +-er (much / powerful) Part {Una clear night, you can often see meteors ~ space rocks ~as they fall towards the Earth, Each rockis smaller than an apple, but they look as bright as starsin the night sky, 50 people call them'shooting stars: Larger meteors are much rarer, but their effects are far more spectacular, In 2013, a meteor exploded in the sky above the city of Chelyabinsk in Russia. he explosion was more powerful than the 1945 Hiroshima atomic bomb, butits effect. was not as devastating as the bomb because the meteor exploded much further from the ground. Scientists compared the Chelyabinsk meteor to an eater - and far bigger — explosion: the Tunguska Event. Parez ‘The Tunguska Event of 1908 was? (far) from a city so? (few) people saw it, but twas much : (powerful than the one in Chelyabinsk. t destroyed more than 80 milion trees inthe Siberian forest, soit's lucky it was not * (close) to atown or city. The night sky became (bright) than normal for a few days. and people a hundred kilometres away could read a newspaper outdoors even at midnight Most scientists believe it was a meteor explosion, but there aresome* (unusual) theories too. Perhaps it waca UFO! Write questions beginning Which... ? Use the comparative form of the adjectives. 1 dangerous / a blizzard /a thunderstorm /? Which ie more dangerous, ablzzard ora thunderstorm? 2 beautiful / snowflake / rainbow /? 3 holiday venue / good / the mountains / the beach /? 4 city / get /little snow / Warsaw / Moscow /? 5 foryou personally temperature /bad/ 5°C/35°C/? 6 type of weather / frightening / hall / lightning /? 7 country /rainy /Spain / England /? 8 inyour country / month /hot / July / August /? SPEAKING Work in pairs. Ask and answer the questions in exercise 7, Do you agree with your partner? Which is more dangerous, a blizzard ora thunderstorm? | think a bizard is more dangerous. What about you? ‘agree. /| don’t agree. think thunderstorm is more dangerous.