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Unit 1 Language Practice

This document is a language practice unit focused on weather terminology and grammar. It includes exercises on completing sentences with appropriate weather-related words, choosing the correct words in context, using present simple and continuous tenses, and correcting grammatical mistakes. The content is designed to enhance understanding of weather phenomena and improve language skills.

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Unit 1 Language Practice

This document is a language practice unit focused on weather terminology and grammar. It includes exercises on completing sentences with appropriate weather-related words, choosing the correct words in context, using present simple and continuous tenses, and correcting grammatical mistakes. The content is designed to enhance understanding of weather phenomena and improve language skills.

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UNIT 1: LANGUAGE PRACTICE

The weather
1 Use one word from the box to complete each sentence.
blizzard drought hurricane storm
1 If an area suffers a drought, all the land is dry and it is hard for people to have
enough water for all the things in their daily life.
2 On a dark night, the sound of thunder and the sight of lightning filled the sky during a
terrible _______________.
3 A _______________ is recognised on satellite as a huge moving wind-pattern and
on the ground as very strong winds and hard rain.
4 During a _______________ it is best not to drive or even go outside your house. The
snow blowing in fast winds can make it very hard to see anything.

2 Choose the correct word in each sentence.


1 During the hurricane the wind/windy speed got up to 100 kilometres an hour.
2 Hurricanes generally occur in warmer countries and include heavy rain/snow fall.
3 Before a storm, the sky will usually be cloudy/cloud.
4 A long period of foggy/dry weather can lead to drought.

Present simple and present continuous


3 Write the verb in brackets in the correct tense in each example.
Many people 1(feel) feel that currently global warming 2(change) ___________________
the weather in almost every country in the world. The number of floods in northern Europe
3(increase) _______________________, while at this time droughts and forest fires
4(happen) _______________________ much more frequently in southern Europe.

Scientists 5(see) _______________________ similar patterns of change all around the


world. However, others do not agree and point out that weather patterns always 6(change)
_______________________ from year to year, and that people always 7(worry)
_______________________ about the weather.

4 Identify and correct the mistakes in the following sentences.


1 Scientists are believing that global warming causes great environmental damage.
Scientists believe that global warming causes great environmental damage.
2 Today the weather is very bad. Right now, it rains a lot.
________________________________________________________________________
3 Nowadays, many people is moving to countries with fewer weather problems.
________________________________________________________________________
4 Do the temperature rising in most countries?
________________________________________________________________________

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