Part II A Weather report

A. You are going to hear a weather report. Write down every word as a dictation. It will be read three times. In the first reading, you will hear the whole report from beginning to end. In the second reading, you will hear a pause after each sentence or just part of a sentence. During the pause, you must write down what you have just heard as quickly as possbile. You can check what you have written with the third reading.

Tapescripts:

Now the weather report. It’ll be mainly clear. In the day the high will be 15 degrees. At six o’clock the temperature was 8 degrees, the humidity 46 percent. Tomorrow’s forecast is not very promising. We can expect cloudy, cold, windy weather. The temperature will drop to 5 degrees in the morning. It’ll get warmer in the afternoon with a high temperature of 10 degrees. In the evening there’s a good chance that we’ll get some rain or snow. The temperature in the evening will drop to 0 degrees.

B. You are going to hear a National Weather Service forecast for the Chicago, Illinios area. Pay special attention to the temperatures. Fill in the following chart with information about temperatures from the report. Note that where there is a dash(--), there is nothing to write. All the time periods mentioned in the report have been filled in for you.

Time Temperature (℉)
10 p.m. Lakefront:76
 Midway:76
 O’Hare: 74
 Lows Hights
Tonights Lower 70s ---
Tomorrow --- Upper 80s
Tomorrow night Middle 60s ---
Tuesday --- Around 90
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday Upper 60s 90 to 95

C. Now try this: listen to a more authentic version of the weather report. Pay more atttention to the other features of the weather. Take notes on the chat below. Note that where there is a dash (---), there is nothing to write.

Time Weather Description Humidity Wind Barometric Pressure
10 p.m. --- 66% calm 30.08 and rsing
Tonight Cloudy, widely scattered showers --- Light and variable 
Tomorrow Sunny, warm --- South winds, five to ten miles per hour ---
Tomorrow night Fair --- --- ---
Tuesday Sunny, hot Humid --- ---
Wednesday Fair --- --- ---
Thursday Fair --- --- ---
Friday Cloudy, thunderstorms ---  

Tapescripts:

Good evening. Here is the National Weather Service forecast for the Chicago area. The 10 p.m. temperature: Lakefront 76 degrees, Midway 76 degrees, O’Hare 74 degrees. Relative humidity 66 per cent. The winds are calm. The barometric pressure thirty point oh eight and rising.

Tonight partly cloudy, some widley scattered showers. Lows in the lower 70s and light and variable winds.

Tomorrow partly sunny and very warm. Highs in the upper 80s, south winds five to ten miles per hour.

Tomorrow night fair, with lows in the middle 60s.

Tuesday hot and humid and mostly sunny, highs around 90.

The extended forecast through Friday: hot, with daily highs 90 to 95 and daily lows in the upper 60s.

Fair Wednesday and Thursday.

Partly cloudy, chance of thunderstorms on Friday.

Repeating the 10 p.m. temperature: Lakefront 76, Midway 76, O’Hare 74. Thank you for calling.