Listening Focus 3 Unit 5

a) Any weather that breaks a temperature record.

b) Weather that is different from what people are used to.

c) Weather that is always hotter or drier than usual.

d) Weather that causes damage to crops.

A the southern USA. 

B Britain. 

C Canada. 

D Mexico. 

a) Record high temperatures.

b) Tornadoes reaching the Mexican border.

c) Temperatures 20 degrees lower than usual.

d) Heavy rainfall in California.

a) Australia experienced its wettest January.

b) It had its coldest summer on record.

c) It had its driest ever January.

d) The temperature reached a record high in March.

A hot weather.

B dry weather.

C cold weather.

D wet weather. 

A increases in temperatures everywhere.

B changes in the type of weather different places get.

C richer countries becoming poorer.

D more extreme weather all over the world. 

a) The Pacific Ocean currents.

b) The Gulf Stream.

c) The Amazon rainforest.

d) The North Sea winds.

a) It could experience record droughts.

b) Britain could become hotter than ever before.

c) Britain could enter a new ice age.

d) The weather would stay the same as always.

A Britain’s weather won’t change.

B Britain will become much warmer.

C Britain will become much drier.

D Britain will become much wetter. 

a) The climate will get warmer and sunnier.

b) Global warming will cancel out the effects of Gulf Stream changes.

c) Britain will suffer fewer droughts and floods.

d) The rest of the world will not be affected by climate change.

A discuss ways that governments can fight climate change.

B listen to someone who has experienced extreme weather.

C decide whether extreme weather events are more common nowadays.

D criticise people who do not believe that climate change is caused by humans.