Sabtu, 24 November 2012

Weather Report and Table and Graph

The text is a weather report or weather forecast in spoken  form. A weather report is a prediction of weather. Weather report usually find in a newspaper, on the radio or television.The weather is predicted through application of the principles of physics and meteorologi.
Expressions used in a weather report :
ØA high of twenty degrees.
ØA low of -25.
Ø20 percent chance of snow.
ØMainly sunny.
ØSunny with cloudy periods.
Ørecord high/low.
ØAbove/below average temperatures.
ØA few flurries.
Ø5-day forecast.
ØTemperatures are going to drop/dip/plunge (go down quickly).
ØTemperatures are going to rise/soar/climb (go up quickly).
ØA warm/cold front is moving in (air from another region is arriving).

Name Of Weather :
Sunny  
Warm  
Hot
Mild    
Cold  
Freezing
Cloudy    
Foggy  
Smoggy
Rainy  
Wet  
Dry
Windy    
Snow  
Thunder
Mist    
Blizzard  
Fog
Hurricane  
Overcast  
Breeze

Weather report text :
  
Welcome to the Five O’clock News. My name is Margaret. I’m going to give you the
three-day weather forecast for Los Angeles.
The weather is unusually wet today. Heavy rain and snow may cause serious flooding.
The clouds are going to go away tomorrow. The day after tomorrow should be clear and
sunny.


Table and Graph

Table
Each table present facts and figures in compact form.
When we reading a table, there are several things that we need to pay atention to. They are, the table title, row or column labels, information given in individual cells and information given within rows and columns. Example table :





Graph
Graphs is a visual, concise means of presenting information.
There are three basic kinds of graphs, they are Bar graphs, Line Graphs, and circle graphs or pie graphs.
Example Graph:
 


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