Unit Objectives
The Weather

Activities and vocabulary centered around the theme of weather and driving conditions.

  
Real or Hypothetical?

Practice the difference in meaning and structure between sentences that describe real possibilities, and those that describe hypothetical ones.
Hypothetical Language

Learn the structure necessary in English for describing hypothetical situations.
Listening Speaking Grammar
9-1 The Best and Worst Weather

Several people describe what they consider to be their favorite kind of weather. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary.

9-2 Suit Yourself

A listening activity based on a dialogue about weather predictions. Activity reinforces student comprehension of first and second conditional grammar.
9-1 Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

9-2 Class Discussion
Class discussion activity.
9-3 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

9-4 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

9-5 Speaking Pairs

Students prompt each other in order to elicit sentences in the first conditional.

9-6 Finish My Sentence

Students work together and create sentences that contain time clauses about the future.

9-7 Table Speaking

Group speaking activity for students practice second conditional sentences. 

9-8 What Would You Do If...?

Students ask and answer hypothetical questions.

9-9 Opposite of the Truth

Students practice making sentences in the second conditional to describe the opposite of the truth.

9-10 Questions

Students gain practice making questions in the first and second conditional.
9-1 The First Conditional & Time Clauses

Students practice describing the future with two-clause sentences.

9-2 The Second Conditional

Students practice using the second conditional to describe hypothetical situations.

9-3 First & Second Conditionals

Students practice the difference between the two structures.
Reading Use of English Writing
9-1 Worst Places to Drive

Students read descriptions of three places in the world with extreme driving conditions. Activity also serves as a review of Grammar 9-2.
9-1 What's the Weather Like?

Students work with a partner and predict the missing words in four short dialogues about the weather. 

9-2 Traffic Land

Students research weather conditions using live traffic cameras from different locations within the US and enter organized findings into provided tables.

9-3 Weather around the World

Students research weather in various parts of the world and then ask and answers questions about their findings.

 
9-1 Run-On Sentences & Comma Splices

Students learn how to identify and avoid run-on sentences and comma splices in their writing.

9-2 Articles

Students learn two rules for proper use of articles and then apply the rules in an exercise.

9-3 Paragraph

Students write paragraphs about likely or unlikely hypothetical situations related to earlier research from Use of English 9-2.
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