Section IV
Trying Your Hand

Applied Writing
Read and Simulate

Read the following three samples of weather report and learn to write your own.

Sample 1


A weather report:
It's hot and sunny in Miami today, with the temperature of about 90℉. It's going to be cloudy and cool tomorrow, about 70℉.

 
Sample 2


Here is the weather forecast:
Tomorrow it's going to be fair in New York; the temperature will be about15℃. In Madrid it is going to rain and it will be 20℃. The weather in Moscow is going to be cloudy; the temperature will be about 3℃. London will be 10℃ and wet. Zurich will be sunny and cold; the temperature is going to be 0℃.

   

Sample 3


Now the weather report for today and tomorrow:
It's foggy in the morning and it'll be clear and fine this afternoon. Tomorrow will be overcast with drizzle. Today, the high will be 12℃. Tomorrow the low will be 6℃.

Learn to Write Your Own.                                          Now you try. I’m sure
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Simulate and Create (1)
Write a weather report in English according to the information given in Chinese.


市区天气：
今天多云转少云，北风5~6级减弱到4~5级，最高气温1℃, 最低气温-4℃。预计大连地区明后两天少云，风力不大，气温变化不大。

Key
Weather outlook for the urban area:
It’ll be cloudy today, and later turn to partly cloudy, with the north wind .The high will be one degrees Celsius and the low four degrees below zero. It is expected to be partly cloudy in the next two days. The winds will be calm with little change of the temperature.

Simulate and Create (2)

Translate the following English weather forecast into Chinese.

Now the weather report. It'll be mainly clear today. In the day the high will be 15 degrees. Tomorrow we can expect cloudy, windy, cold weather. The temperature will drop to 5 degrees in the morning. It'll get warmer in the afternoon with a high temperature of 10 degrees. In the evening there's a good chance that we'll get some rain or snow. The temperature in the evening will drop to 0 degrees.

Key
现在是天气预报时间。今天天气以晴为主，白天最高温度15度。 预计明天多云、有风， 气温较低。明天上午气温将降至5度，下午气温回升，最高气温10度；傍晚时分有雨或雪，气温降至0度。

 

 

 

Simulate and Create (3)

Qustion 3: Fill in the passport with your own personal information, using the data bank in the Workbook for reference:


P  CHN  148442749
Name in full                                                 

Sex:       Profession:              Marital status:             

Date of birth: 1965. 07. 20 　Place of birth:                       

Date of expiry:                                                 

Identity card No.
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