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Look at Module
What do you 7. What are we going to talk
usually/often/sometimes/never
What timeWhat
do your
are parents donow?
you doing
about? at weekends?
What time dodo you usually get
at weekends? up/go to bed?

clothes

seasons,
holiday
months,
activities
weather
 What season is it?

It’s winter!

What winter months do you know?

December
January
February
 What season is it?

It’s spring!

What spring months do you know?

March
April
May
 What season is it?

It’s summer!

What summer months do you know?

June
July
August
 What season is it?

It’s autumn!

What autumn months do you know?

September
October
November
What is your favourite season?

What is your favourite month?

 picking flowers?

playing in the
snow?

going swimming?

raking leaves?

What are the people doing? Present

Continuous
Match the sentences to the pictures.
 Read the proverb and listen to the
music. What images come to mind?

A wind from the south has rain in its mouth.

The wind is blowing. The sea is rough.

Present
Continuous

The family are sitting near additional

It’s starting to rain. the fireplace. information
 Choose a picture and
make true/false
statements about it.
Your partner corrects
In the false ones.
this picture there are
Theytwoare swimming.
children.

False. There are three

True.
children.
Present
Continuous

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сильный
to rain heavily
дождь

to
быть
be сытым
fed up with
ч-л

almost everyдень
почти каждый day

ненавидеть
to hate

мерзнуть
to freeze

в любом
anyway
случае

How many people

are online?
Where are they?
Read the text and answer the questions. What is the
weather like in
Scotland now?

What is Gus
doing in
Scotland?

Where is it
snowing?

What season is
it in Australia
now?
Translate. Give the synonyms to the following words:

always
сильный
to rain heavily
дождь

good, excellent love to

быть
be сытым
fed up with
ч-л
not to like
nasty almost everyдень
почти каждый day
from time to time
to go outside
ненавидеть
to hate

very warm мерзнуть

to freeze
happy
в любом
anyway
случае
Find phrases/idioms which mean:

I am tired of

It doesn’t suit
me.

How are you

doing?
What’s the weather like in Scotland, Switzerland,
Australia? Make notes, then tell the class.

in winter, it rains
all the time, it’s
Scotland
grey almost
every day

it’s freezing,
Switzerland
snowing

it’s hot,
Australia
very hot

how to make
notes
 It’s hot. It’s snowing.

It’s raining. It’s windy. It’s freezing/cold.

 It’s fabulous!

It’s cold.

It’s awful!

It’s a lovely/beautiful day!

It’s very hot.

It’s freezing!

It’s terrible!

It’s warm!
Choose a city and act out a short telephone conversation.

Dixon Anadyr
St. Petersburg

Moscow
Yekaterinburg Magadan
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnodar
Novosibirsk
Vladivostok
 Portfolio. Writing. A chat log.

Imagine you are in two different countries.

Write a chat log telling each other about
the weather.
 Workbook
Ex. 1. Write the names of the months, then complete the names of the
seasons.

M A R C H J U N E
A P R I L J U L Y
M A Y A UG U S T
P R I S U E

S E P T E M B E R D E C E M B E R
O C T O B E R J A N UA R Y
N O V E M B E R F E B R U AR Y
T M N N E R
Match these pictures to the sentences.

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