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Series 1
- Study English S1 Ep1: Electronic Crime
- Study English S1 Ep2: Vitamin D
- Study English S1 Ep3: Company Growth
- Study English S1 Ep4: Rising Dollar
- Study English S1 Ep5: Global Warming
- Study English S1 Ep6: Greenhouse Gases
- Study English S1 Ep7: Enviro-Loo
- Study English S1 Ep8: Crocodile Tourism
- Study English S1 Ep9: ADHD
- Study English S1 Ep10: Solar House
- Study English S1 Ep11: Events in the past
- Study English S1 Ep12: Carbon Cycle
- Study English S1 Ep13: Under the sea
- Study English S1 Ep14: Junk DNA
- Study English S1 Ep15: Sea Floor
- Study English S1 Ep16: DVT
- Study English S1 Ep17: Water and ageing
- Study English S1 Ep18: Salinity
- Study English S1 Ep19: Weather report
- Study English S1 Ep20: Torres Strait
- Study English S1 Ep21: Watching Birds
- Study English S1 Ep22: Finance Report
- Study English S1 Ep23: Octopuses
- Study English S1 Ep24: Perfect Siesta
- Study English S1 Ep25: Copyright
- Study English S1 Ep26: Classification
Study English S1 Ep19: Weather report
In this episode we will listen to numbers and practise saying and spelling them.
Transcript
Hello. I’m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English, IELTS preparation.
Today we’re going to listen to a ‘weather report’.
We’re going to listen for numbers, and practise saying and spelling them.
Listen to the weather in Sydney.
Good morning. It looks like being another glorious summer day in Sydney.
Temperatures will range from a minimum of 16°C in Richmond and 17°C in the city, with maximum temperatures reaching the high 20s, with 29 in Richmond and 27 in the city by early afternoon. This summer promises to be the warmest since 1987. The average minimum for this time of year is 15°C and the average maximum is 22°C.
Humidity will be high again today, ranging from 80-90% across the metropolitan area, and possibly for the next 5 or 6 days.
Sunrise will be at 5.45 am and the sun will set at 7.43 pm. The next full moon will be on December 9th.
For those interested in fishing and surfing, windy conditions will prevail all day with winds gusting from the southeast from 10-15 knots, then easing to 10-11 knots by late afternoon. Swells along all Sydney beaches will range from 1 – 1.5 metres.
早上好。 好像是悉尼另一个闪耀的夏日。
气温最低的范围是里士满的最低16°C和城市的最低17°C,最高温度达到20摄氏度,到午后,里士满的最高温度为29摄氏度,城市的最高温度为27摄氏度。 预计今年夏天将是1987年以来最热的一年。一年中这个时候的最低平均温度为15°C,最高平均温度为22°C。
今天的湿度将再次很高,整个大都市地区的湿度将在80-90%之间,并且可能在接下来的5或6天内。
日出将在5.45 am,太阳将定在7.43 pm。 下一个满月将在12月9日。
对于那些喜欢钓鱼和冲浪的人来说,大风天气将全天盛行,东南风阵风从10-15节,然后在下午晚些时候降至10-11节。 悉尼所有海滩的潮汐范围在1至1.5米之间。
So counting and numbers are a very important part of language. You need them to talk about how much things cost, what you earn, telephone numbers, visa cards, passports, addresses and dates.
Being able to listen for and understand numbers is an important academic skill.
There are some conventions you need to learn, and you’ll need to do a lot of practice listening for and saying numbers.
Let’s get started.
Listen to these pairs of numbers:
‘13, 30’,
‘14, 40’,
‘15, 50’,
‘16, 60’.
Now you try these ones:
‘17, 70’,
’18, 80’,
’19, 90’.
They sound very similar. You’ll need to listen carefully so you don’t get these mixed up.
Temperatures will range from a minimum of 16°C in Richmond and 17°C in the city.
Humidity will be high again today, ranging from 80-90% across the metropolitan area.
The temperature in Richmond is ‘16 degrees Celsius’.
The humidity is ‘80 – 90%’.
Did you hear these numbers correctly?
If you don’t understand what someone’s said, ask them to repeat, and stress the key syllable.
‘And that will be 16 dollars.’
‘Did you say sixTEEN, or sixTY?’
Usually the first syllable in a number is stressed.
‘16, 60’
Notice that it is the final ‘n’ in teen that you have to be careful with.
‘teen’, ‘ty’
But, of course, when you’re listening for numbers, you can often work out the correct amount by the context. Try to always be aware of what seems right, even if you didn’t quite hear properly.
Pronunciation of years can sometimes be difficult as well.
Listen to the clip.
This summer promises to be the warmest since 1987.
‘1987’. ‘NINEteen EIGHty seven’.
Notice where the stress comes.
‘NINEteen NINETY nine’.
Let’s practice some more:
‘2001, two thousand and one’;
‘1932, nineteen thirty two’;
‘2040 twenty forty’, or perhaps this will be read as ‘two thousand and forty’. I guess we’ll have to wait and see!
Notice 40 is spelt ‘forty’, not like ‘four’ and ‘fourteen’.
OK, now let’s look at temperatures.
Temperatures will range from a minimum of 16°C in Richmond and 17°C in the city,
Temperatures will range from 16 degrees Celsius.
We write that as ‘16 degrees Celsius’, with a capital C. If it was in Fahrenheit, we’d write ‘16 degrees Fahrenheit’, with a capital F. But in Australia, we use Celsius.
So when giving a temperature range it is written ‘16-17°C’, or ‘16 to 17°C’.
These are both read out the same way. Notice that the ‘to’ is unstressed.
‘16-17 degrees Celsius’.
Now we’re going to listen to a different weather report.
Look at it written, and see if you can work out what should be written in the blanks.
Here is the weather report for Sydney today, Tuesday 14th November.
The sun will rise at 5:15 and set at 6:45.
The minimum temperature for metropolitan Sydney will be 13, rising to a maximum of 30 degrees Celsius.
Humidity today promises to be high at 70-80 per cent
OK, let’s have a look at that.
‘The weather report for Sydney today, Tuesday the 14th November.’
She said: ‘Tuesday the 14th November’.
‘The sun will rise at 5:15 and set at 6:45.’
‘The minimum temperature for metropolitan Sydney will be 13, rising to a maximum of 30 degrees Celsius.’
‘Humidity today promises to be high, 70-80 per cent’
How did you go with that?
Remember, pronouncing final consonants will help considerably in hearing and understanding numbers. This is very important so that listeners understand what you say.
Listen to the pronunciation of numbers here.
Humidity will be high again today, ranging from 80-90% across the metropolitan area, and possibly for the next 5 or 6 days.
She says five or six days.
By linking final consonants with the first vowels of the following word, your speech will be much clearer.
We say:
‘5 or 6’
‘7 and 8’
‘9 or 10’.
OK. Now let’s listen for some times.
Sunrise will be at 5.45 am and the sun will set at 7.43 pm. The next full moon will be on December the 9th.
She says: ‘sunrise will be at 5:45 am’.
‘Sunset will be at 7:43 pm’.
Notice the way we say the time. We say the ‘hour’ and then the ‘minutes’ as a whole number, and we add ‘am’ for morning, ‘pm’ for afternoon.
‘5.45am, five forty five am’
‘7.43pm, seven forty three pm’
But there are a number of different ways of saying the quarter hours.
We have:
‘7am or 7 o’clock’,
‘7.15 or quarter past 7’,
‘7.45, or quarter to 8’,
‘7.30, half past seven’.
Now let’s listen to some more of the weather report.
For those interested in fishing and surfing, windy conditions will prevail all day with winds gusting from the southeast from 10-15 knots, then easing to 10-11 knots by late afternoon.
Notice that she says ‘for those interested in fishing and swimming’.
‘Interested’ here is a past participle, but it’s used as an adjective.
English verbs have 2 sorts of participles, ‘present’ and ‘past’.
So the regular verb ‘to interest’ has ‘interesting’, ‘interested’.
‘bore boring bored’
‘tire tiring tired’
‘excite exciting excited’
When we want to say how we ‘feel’ about something, we can use the past participle.
‘I am interested in science.’
‘I am bored with reading.’
‘I felt tired after that walk.’
But when we’re describing the ‘qualities’ of a person or thing, we use the present participle.
‘Science is interesting.’
A good way to remember these is to make sure you always write a table with the past and present participles together.
You’ll notice that the present participle usually ends in ‘–ing’, and the past participle ends in ‘–ed’. But, of course, there are always irregular verbs to watch out for as well.
And that’s all for Study English, today. Hope you keep practising those interesting participles. They should keep you interested!
See you next time, bye bye.
Study English S1 Ep19: Weather report Study Notes
Study English S1 Ep19: Weather report Activity Sheet
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