Weeks 6-7: Hows the weather?

Describing weather
1.- Sarah is on holidays in Australia. Read the e-mail that she sent to her sister. Try to identify the
expressions used to describe the weather. Send your answers to your facilitator via Comunicados.
Dear Sarah,
I left Sydney yesterday. I was very lucky because the weather was great. It rained a little bit on Thursday, but
the rest of the week it was rather sunny. Temperatures were not really high. It was warm during the day and
cool in the evening. I really enjoyed it. Now Im in Melbourne with my Australian friends. They told me that
this week has been cold, but the weather forecast predicts good conditions for the next days.
And hows everything in New York? Are you still freezing?
Love,
Jane

2.- Now, take a look at the pictures and write the word that best describes the weather in each one. Make a
table similar to the one below the pictures, write the answers there and send it via Comunicados to your
facilitator:

There is

fog
snow
mist
fog
Its
frost
wind
a storm
a hurricane
a thunderstorm

Verbs: to rain, to snow,

warm / hot
cool/cold/freezing
windy
sunny
cloudy
rainy
foggy
dry
humid

to blow, to freeze, to fall,

to shine

The sun has shined since the beginning of the week.

Temperatures were low/high yesterday.
-Hows the weather today?
-Its rainy

1. ____________________

2. ____________________

3. ____________________

4. ____________________

5. ____________________

6. ____________________

Present perfect
Structure:
HAVE / HAS + Past participle

USES OF PRESENT PERFECT

Past participle for regular Verbs: -ed

work
worked
play
played
clean
cleaned
start
started

dance
arrive

danced
arrived

Past participle for irregular verbs

(see the list in next page):
I have been in New York city three times.
She has had a lot of troubles recently.
They have never seen their father.

Action started in the past which continues up

to the present:
It has rained for about 2 days .
We havent seen the sun since last Friday.

Action in the past with a result in the present:

Robert has just had an accident because of the rain.
(so he is in the hospital)
Talk about experiences:
Have you ever seen the snow fall?
I have never experienced a hurricane.
Present perfect is often used with adverbial
expressions such as: already, yet, just, since, for,
ever, never, so far, up to now, not yet and lately.

Interrogative form:

Negative form:

Have you finished your work?

Have the children gone to bed?
Where have you been?

I havent seen you for ages!

Scientists havent found a cure for AIDS.
It hasnt rained since April.

Short answers:
Have you finished your work?
Has she ever been to London?

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Yes, I have.
No, she hasnt.

Present perfect and past simple

1.- After reading the explanation above, take a look at the uses of past simple in week 3.
2.- Now, see the explanation on-line and do the exercises:
eclecticenglish.com

Explanation.

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ego4u.com-Interrogative form

Exercises.

Irregular verbs
1.- Learn the irregular verbs from the following list.
You will find their pronunciation in the link below.

verbos_irregulares.blogspot.mx

Task Wk6
Write an e-mail for a Canadian
student
that
you
met
at
university. In your e-mail, you
have to:
a) tell your friend what you
have done since he went
back to Canada, one month
ago.
b) describe the weather in
Xalapa during the last week.
c) ask your friend at least 3
questions to get news from
him.
Use present perfect tense in your
e-mail as much as possible.
Upload your Word file in EMINUS
in the Archivos section weeks 67
Carpeta
/
Facilitador.
Label
your
activity
as
Act6_yourname_yourlastname.

Infinitive
begin
break
bring
build
buy
come
do
drink
eat
fall
find
fly
forget
get
give
go
have
hear
know
leave
lose
make
meet
pay
put
read
ring
say
see
sell
sit
sleep
speak
stand
take
tell
think
win
write

Simple past
began
broke
brought
built
bought
came
did
drank
ate
fell
found
flew
forgot
got
gave
went
had
heard
knew
left
lost
made
met
paid
put
read
rang
said
saw
sold
sat
slept
spoke
stood
took
told
thought
won
wrote

Past participle
begun
broken
brought
built
bought
come
done
drunk
eaten
fallen
found
flown
forgotten
got
given
gone
had
heard
known
left
lost
made
met
paid
put
read
rang
said
seen
sold
sat
slept
spoken
stood
taken
told
thought
won
written