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Weather, heat waves and how often

Week 13 · Unit 6 What’s the weather like? (A): weather words, weather in Egyptian cities, a heat-wave story (reference only), adverbs of frequency, How often …? · 3 lessons
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Weather words and Egyptian cities

Connect Primary 5 Term 1, Unit 6: pp. 88–95
GoalSay the weather in four Egyptian cities and write short weather sentences.
New words
cloudy · with a lot of clouds in the skysunny · with the sun shiningwindy · with a lot of windrainy · with rain fallingrainbow · a curve of colours in the sky after rainstorm · very strong wind and heavy rain
Explanation

We use the adjectives sunny, cloudy, windy and rainy to say what the weather is like: What’s the weather like? It’s sunny. Egypt is a sunny country. Summer is hot and dry in most places, and Aswan is one of the hottest cities. Winter is cooler. Alexandria is next to the sea, so it is often windy, and it gets more rain than Cairo. Read the table. It shows the weather in four cities on one example day.

CityWeather on one day
Alexandriawindy and cloudy
Cairosunny
Aswanhot and sunny
Port Saidrainy
Worked examples
Hoda

Good morning! Here is the weather today.

Hoda

In Alexandria it is windy and cloudy.

Hoda

In Cairo it is sunny, and in Port Said it is rainy.

Hoda

Take an umbrella if you live near the sea!

Listen. Hoda reads the weather forecast on the radio at school.

Egypt has many kinds of weather. Summer is hot and dry, and Aswan is very hot. Winter is cooler. Alexandria gets more rain than Cairo, especially in winter. Sometimes there is a strong wind, and a sandstorm comes from the desert. In the mountains of Sinai it can snow in winter. After a little rain and sun, you can see a rainbow.

Read and listen to the text.
sunnycloudywindyrainy
Look. Say the weather for each picture.
Now you. Ask a grown-up: What’s the weather like today? Answer: It’s … .
Class activity

Weather reporter. The child is a weather reporter on TV. The grown-up chooses four cities: Cairo, Aswan, Alexandria, Luxor. The child draws a weather symbol for each city on paper and says: In … it’s … . Then change places.

Practice
1
Listen. What is the weather like?

…

2
Fill in: There is a lot of sun today. It is ___ . (sunny or cloudy)
3
Look. What’s the weather like?
4
True or false: Aswan is very hot in summer.
5
Writing: write three sentences about the weather in a city. Use sunny, windy, cloudy or rainy.