Weather Report, Table & Graphs

Standard Competency :

Expressing meaning in short functional text and monologue form of narrative, explanation and discussion in the context of daily life to access knowledge.

Basic Competency :

Revealing the functional meaning of the text and the official unofficial accurately, fluently and acceptable in the context of daily life and involves speech acts, to discuss the possibility.

Indicators :

Students are able to:

1.     Identify the ways to describe weather report, tables, graphs and diagram

2.     Get specific information from the weather report, tables, graphs and diagram.

3.     Write simple paragraph (text being learned) from the information provided in the weather report, tables, graphs and diagram given.

Weather  report :

The text is a weather report or weather forecast in spoken form. A weather report is a prediction of weather.

The weather is predicted through application of the principles of physics and meteorology.

Weather report usuallu find in : television , radio , newspapers and BMG office.

A weather report is a bit technical as compared to other report writing you have been practicing earlier. You need to choose words and phrases correctly and present the information gathered in the language of meteorologists.

Expressions used in a weather report :

•         A high of twenty degrees.

•         A low of -25.

•         20 percent chance of snow.

•         Mainly sunny.

•         Sunny with cloudy periods.

•         Above/below average temperatures.

•         A few flurries.

•         5-day forecast.

•          Temperatures are going to drop/dip/plunge (go down quickly).

•         Temperatures are going to rise/soar/climb (go up quickly).

•         A 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  

•      Dry

•      Windy    

•      Snow  

•      Thunder

•      Mist    

•      Blizzard  

•      Fog 

•      Hurricane

•      Overcast 

•      Wet

Example Weather report Text :

Hello , Good morning. This is Erick with local weather report.  It will be foggy this morning in almost all parts of town , followed by slight showers. However , the showers will not last for a long time. By early afternoon it will be cloudy until late afternoon , followed by heavy rain with thunder storm in the evening into the night. Thank you.

Table :

Table presents facts and figures in compact form. There are several things that we need to pay attention to. They are, the table title, row or column labels, information given in individual cells and information given within rows and columns.

Steps we need to do to read the table:

1.     Observing the table title

2.     Observe the columns in the table

3.     Found significant differences in the data, either the highest, lowest and average

4.     Draw conclusions from the data presented in the table

Example:

NAME	CLASS	SCORE
JENNIE	A	70
THOMAS	B	80
RICK	B	75
JASON	C	90
JESSICA	D	85
JUSTIN	B	60

Graph is a visual concise means of presenting information.

There are basic kinds of graphs :

1.     Bar Graphs

2.     Line Graphs

3.     Circle or Pie Graphs

Graphs usually find in : clinic , BPS office , Library .etc

1.     Bar Graphs

Bar graphs is a type of graphs which contains labeled horizontal or vertical bars showing a piece of information and an axis. The numbers along the side of bar graph compose the axis. This is also called as a histogram, bar graph is useful when there is a numerical comparison.

 

2.     Line Graphs

A line graph is a way of representing two pieces of information, which is usually related and vary with respect to each other. This is useful when comparisons are needed.

3.     Pie Graphs

Circle graphs (sometimes called pie or circle chart) are used to show the parts that make up a whole. They can be useful for comparing the size of relative parts.