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Draw a plan of the house and label it. Prepare a short presentation to the class. Do some illustrations or print out some images from the Internet.

Have a class vote for the best house.

Has your house got brick walls, glass windows, a roof and a front door? Read about these houses. They haven’t!

Aslak lives in the North of Canada. Sometimes he lives in a normal north Canadian house. But he is a hunter, and he often goes on long hunting trips. Then he makes an igloo out of the snow and the windows out of ice. It doesn’t have a front door – it has a tunnel instead.

Coober Pedy in South Australia is very hot. Sometimes the temperature there is over 50 degrees Celsius. That’s where Janet lives. You can’t see her house because she lives underground. It’s not so hot there. She has a living room, a kitchen, a bathroom and a bedroom but no windows, no roof, and the walls are rock!

Hashim lives in Malaysia. His house is above the ground, not on it. It’s got windows but there isn’t any glass in them. Malaysia is a very hot country and Malaysians like the air to blow through their houses.

Is your house typical of your country? Describe it!

13. Project task. Use the Internet or encyclopedias to search for “weird houses” e.g. igloo, clay-walled hut, cave, caravan, etc. Bring a printout and description to the next class. Prepare a short presentation.

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WEATHER

1.When would you expect to see a rainbow? Role-play the dialogue.

- What’s the weather like in Omsk?

- Lovely! It’s 28 degrees and sunny! And what was the weather like in Washington?

- It was rather hot, about 25 degrees.

2.Match the words and the pictures (pic. 6, a – 6, r):

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3. Look at the photos and ask your partner about the weather. Ex. - What’s the weather like in Surgut?

-It’s freezing and windy.

-Is it always this cold in autumn?

-No, yesterday it was cool and foggy.

-______________________________ .

A breeze is a fairly strong wind. It’s not as strong as a gale.

Fog is much thicker than mist. It’s often misty in the mornings in the mountains.

Drizzle is a very fine rain.

If it is overcast, it is very dull.

Wintry showers is used on weather forecasts to mean a little snow. Unusually hot weather is called a heatwave.

4. Match the sentences on the left with the related sentences on the

8.There was the most awful storm. g) We had a bit of a heatwave.

h)It was very wet.

5.Put the following adjectives into the correct pattern below:

lovely miserable beautiful horrible fabulous glorious terrible foul

What ………/………/………/………weather! It hasn’t stopped raining all day.

What ………/………/………/………weather! Let’s go down to the beach!

6. Look at the photo of Siberia (pic. 7). What’s the weather like? Do you like living in Siberia? Why \ Why not?

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