Unit Objectives
The Weather

Activities and vocabulary centered around the theme of aviation weather.

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.

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Listening Speaking Grammar
9-1 The Best Weather

Several people describe what they consider to be the best and worst weather in their country. Listening activity contains several words from unit vocabulary.

9-2 Weather Lesson

A listening activity based on lecture about weather. Activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

9-3 Suit Up!

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 Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

9-3 Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

9-4 Speaking Pairs

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

9-5 Finish My Sentence

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

9-6 Table Speaking

Group speaking activity for students practice second conditional sentences. 

9-7 What Would You Do If...?

Students ask and answer hypothetical questions.

9-8 Opposite of the Truth

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

9-9 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 Incredible Weather

Students read and answer comprehension questions based on descriptions of three places in the world with extreme weather. 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 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 a paragraph about weather and seasons in their part of the world.

Vocabulary

a bit

airshow

average

awful

be supposed to

biplane

bird strike

Celsius

conversion

crosswind

cool

cool down / off

cover

damp

degree

deviate

dew point

drop

dust

executive

Fahrenheit

foot

freezing

humid

humidity

hangar

ice

increase

land

lightning

mainland

mechanic

mild

miserable

native

On the Job Training (OJT)

pattern

possibility

phraseology

practice

pre-flight

rainstorm

ramp

remote

report

runway

soaked

strike

stroll

stuck

sun

sunrise

take-off

temperature

terminal

thunderstorm

turbulence

turbulent

unknown

Visual Flight Rules (VFR)

weather

weather forecast

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