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7 Watching the weather
OBJECTIVES
,1. Understanding a weather forecast.
fz. Getting acquainted with the kinds of comments typically made about the
weather in English.
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Tapescript thirty-mile-an-hour winds, and it's expected
to be cold and windy right through the
Narrator: "Unit 7 - ITatching the weather." weekend. Dallas is experiencing -
A weatherman gives the forecast on the TV unseasonably cold weather forty-eight
evening news. ITrite the predicted weather degrees.
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conditions for the weekend on the map'next It's raining as far east as Detroit and
to the name of the city. Toronto, and that rain is going to continue
through tomorrow, when it -iy turn to
Anchonuoman: . . . and that,s the Friday snow. Currently forty-three degrees in
night news. Now over to Dave Spellman for Detroit, forty-one degrees in Toronto. And
the weekend weather forecast. Dive, what temperatures dropping.
do you have in store for us this weekend? It's snowing heavily in Montreal, ladies
Weathermaz: 'V7ell, Linda, it's still raining and gentlemen, its first storm of the season,
here in Chicago, and it looks like that rlin and we expect that snow activity to move
is going to continue through the weekend. down from Canada into the easlern states
It'll be cloudy tomorrow with scattered sometime tomorrow, probably reaching the
showers, and the outlook for Sunday New York area sometime tomorrow night.
more rain and colder. The predicted high
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Good weather across the south. Clear
for tomorrow is forty-fiue degtees skies in Miami, and they,re going to enjoy a
Fah-renheit, but the thermomiter is expected sunny seventyright degrees in that town
to {ip to the freezingpoint tomorrow-night, this weekend, so if you're thinking about a
yith a- temperature of thirty-two degrees. vacation, now's the time to do it. Back ro
I'm afraid colder weather is on its way! Chicago. Once again, continuing rain
Let's take a look now at the weather tonight through Sunday. Curreni l
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across the country. Showers expected temperature, thirty-eight degrees. And that
tomorrow down the West CoaJt as far winds up our weather repo.t for this
south as San Francisco. Fair weather in the evening. This is Dave Spellman. Have a ii
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low seventies predicted for the Los Angeles good night, and if you'ie going out, don't ri
area; fair in San Diego. forget your umbrella.
There's a cold front from Canada moving
down through the wesrern srates. Thirty-.' '': ' RECORDING TIME: 2 min., 21 sec. ri
eight degrees in Denver, Colorado, with NUMBER OF SPEAKERS: 2 li