Unit 15
Comparing weather and seasons

海外生活/日常溝通
Oversea life /Daily communication

BRAIN STORM

Share your ideas with your teacher and try to make sentences.

What kind of weather do you like? Do you have a favorite season?

VOCABULARY

Repeat  these  sentences  after  your  teacher.

1. warm (adj.) 溫暖
Your house is so warm inside.
你的房子裡面好暖和。  

2. fall  (v.) 秋天
The leaves will wither during fall.
葉子在秋天會枯萎。 

3. hot (adj.) 熱
Is it hot outside?
外面很熱嗎? 

4. weather (n.) 天氣
I stopped smoking cigarettes 3 months ago.
我三個月前停止抽煙。 

5. degrees (n.) 度
Are we degrees colder today?
今天我們度數涼嗎? 

6. cold (adj.) 冷
Come in, it’s cold outside.
進來,外面很冷。 

7. winter (n.) 冬天
I cannot wait for Christmas and Winter!
我等不及聖誕節和冬天! 

8. season (n.) 賽季
Next month is the start of the fall season.
下個月是秋季的開始。 

Dialogue

Read the dialogue aloud with your teacher.

Is New York always so warm in the fall?
紐約秋天總是那麼暖和嗎?

No. But we had a very hot summer and it’s still warm into September! What’s the weather like in Tokyo?.
不。但我們度過了一個非常炎熱的夏天, 九月仍然很暖和!東京的天氣怎麼樣?

It’s a bit cooler than New York. It’s around 70 degrees.
比紐約涼快一點。大約70度

That’s nice. Does it get very cold in the winter?
那很好。冬天會很冷嗎?

The coldest it gets is 30 degrees. I heard New York gets really cold.
最冷的是30度。我聽說紐約很冷。

Yes. And it snows a lot, too.
是的。雪也很多。

My favorite season is spring because it rains. I love how much it rains in April.
我最喜歡的季節是春天,因為下雨了。我喜歡四月下多少雨。

What’s the temperature like at that time?
當時的溫度怎麼樣?

It’s around 60 degrees.
大約60度

It’s the same here, except our rainy season is in June.
這裡也一樣,除了我們的雨季在六月。

Let's Practice

Make it right.

A : _________.
B : The coldest it gets is 30 degrees.

1.Does it get very cold in the winter?
2.Does it ever get cold
in the summer?

A : What’s the temperature like at that time?
B : ________.

1.It’s around 60 degrees.
2.It’s a few degrees.

Is New York always so ____ in the fall?

1.weather
2.warm

Does it get ____ cold in the winter?

1.very
2.much

Is   fall?   New   York   always   the   in   so   warm

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Does   winter?   it   the   get   very   cold   in

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DISCUSSION

Make a conversation with your teacher.

1.What is your favorite thing to do when it is Sunny?
2.What is your least favorite weather?
3.What is your least favorite season?