Стр.44-45 Модуль 3 ГДЗ Starlight Баранова 7 класс
1. Listen to and repeat. Which of these weather conditions are common in your country in: winter? spring? summer? autumn?
| Weather | Conditions |
|---|---|
| SNOW & ICE | blizzard/snowstorm, hail, sleet |
| WIND | tornado, gale, breeze |
| RAIN | storm, flood, heavy rain, shower |
| SUN & CLOUDS | sunshine, sunny spells, light clouds, heavy clouds |
| TEMPERATURE | boiling hot — $$35\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$; hot — $$25\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$; warm/mild — $$15\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$; chilly/cold — $$0\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$; freezing cold — $$-20\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$ |
a) Look at Matt’s blog. Where is Matt? Why do you think he’s there? What is it like there? Listen and read the blog entry to find out.
Matt of the Antarctic — My Year in Antarctica
Week 1 — My Antarctic adventure begins!
Hi, everyone! Well, here I am at the scientific research station in Antarctica, the coldest, windiest, and driest continent in the world! It’s summer right now, so the weather is quite “mild” — it’s $$0\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$ today! There are still a lot of gales, though, and of course, the sun never sets in the summer, which is really weird! Despite the freezing cold, the scenery and wildlife here are incredible. There are seals everywhere and yesterday I saw a humpback whale.
Everyone is warning me about the winter here! The temperature will drop to about $$-40\,^\circ\mathrm{C}$$ and the sun won’t rise at all. There will only be 20 of us and we won’t have any visitors for 7 months. It’ll be difficult, but at least I’m going to be very busy. As a marine biologist, I’m going to study the way marine wildlife adapts to extreme temperatures. I’m also going to do a survey of the threatened Emperor Penguin. I can’t wait to start!
Tomorrow, all the newcomers are going on a survival course for a week with ski-doos and sledges. We’re going to camp in the snow and learn things like what to do if we fall down a crevasse*. I hope there won’t be a blizzard like the one we had on my first day here. Well, bye for now! I’ll tell you all about the course when I’m back at the research station next week.
Matt
* Crevasses are deep cracks in the ice, sometimes covered by snow!
b) Read and decide if the statements are T (true) or F (false).
- Summers in Antarctica are warm.
- You can see the sun at night in the summer months in Antarctica.
- There is no wildlife there.
- There’s no sun during the winter.
- Matt is on a business trip to Antarctica.
- It’s Matt’s first time in Antarctica.
- The survival course lasts a week.
- Matt is going to stay there for a month.
- Complete with: humpback, drop, sets, research, marine, survival, freezing.
- Match the underlined words in the text to their opposites: set, common, hottest, boiling hot, shallow, idle, wettest, ordinary, intense.
- Choose the correct word. Check in your dictionaries.
- Fill in the gaps with the verbs in brackets in the correct tense. Explain your choices. Check in the Grammar Reference.
a) What did you know about Antarctica? What did you learn about it from the text? Make notes, then tell the class.
b) Think! Imagine you are one of the newcomers. You are back from the survival course. Send an email to your English friend. Write what you did and how you liked it. Read it to your partner or the class.
- ICT Collect information about Antarctica, then present it to the class. Use this link: https://go.prosv.ru/7KsLAN.
1. F — Summers in Antarctica are not warm; they are quite mild, about 0°C.
2. T — In summer, the sun never sets.
3. F — There is wildlife there: seals and a humpback whale.
4. T — In winter, the sun won’t rise at all.
5. F — Matt is there as a marine biologist, not on a business trip.
6. T — It is his first day there, so it’s his first time in Antarctica.
7. T — The survival course lasts for a week.
8. F — Matt is going to stay there for a year, not a month.
