Unit 7
Lesson 1
Student’s Book pages 56-57
Weather and climate
Before reading
1. What is the climate like at the North and South Poles? What is it like on the Equator? Why do you think these places have different climates?
At the North Pole the climate is very cold and dry. At the Equator, it is hot and wet. These places have different climates because they get different amount of sunlight during the year.
2. Read the words in the box. Where in the world can you experience these types of climates? Check the meaning of any words you don’t know in the Activity Book Glossary or in a dictionary.
Answers:
Polar: North and South Poles (the Arctic and the Antarctic)
Tundra: Russia, North America
Mountain: the Alps, the Himalayas, the Andes, the Atlas Mountains, the Rockies, the Caucasus, the Great Dividing Range, the Pyrenees
Temperate: Europe, the USA, parts of South America
Desert: North Africa (Shara), southern Africa (Kalahari, Namib) central Australia, China, Chile (Atacama), Mongolia (Gobi), Mexico, western USA, Saudi Arabia, etc.
Monsoon: India, South-East Asia
Tropical: South America, South-East Asia.
3. Read and listen to the article about different climates. Which climate do you live in? How has pollution affected it?
Suggested answers:
Jordan’s rainfall per year is about 20 cm so it is classified as a desert climate. The weather is hotter in Jordan due to pollution.
Comprehension
4. Read and listen to the article again. Answer the following questions.
Answers:
1. Suggested answer: Some plants and animals adapt to a certain climate, but not to another. For example, penguins can be found in the South Pole and not in Jordan.
2. The article mentions eight types of climate. Jordan has a hot, dry desert climate.
3. Students’ own answers
4. Suggested answer: A monsoon climate causes danger to people because it might result in floods.
5. What type of climate does each of these sentences describe? Refer to the information in the article to help you decide.
Answers:
1. monsoon.
2. cool temperate.
3. tundra.
4. tropical.
5. desert.
Unit 7Lesson 2Student’s Book page 57GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR: Defining relative clauses
6. Complete the sentences with who, whose, which, when or where.
Answers:
1. which.
2. who.
3. whose.
4. where.
5. when.
7. Join the following sentences using the relative pronouns in brackets.
1. Climates affect the plants and animals. The plants and animals live there. (which).
2. The man told me that there would be a storm this weekend. The man was reading a newspaper. (who).
3. Russia is a country. Its climate is dry and very cold, with short summers. (whose).
4. North Africa is a place. There is a desert climate in North Africa. (where).
Answers:
1. Climates affect the plants and animals which live there.
2. The man who was reading a newspaper told me that there would be a storm this weekend.
3. Russia is a country whose climate is dry and very cold, with short summers.
4. North Africa is a place where there is a desert climate in North Africa.
Speaking
8. Work in pairs, Student A and Student B. Give your partner definitions of the words in your list from the box on the right using defining relative clauses. Your partner guesses the word.
Students’ own answer .