Unit 7
Lessons 3+4
Student’s Book pages 58 and 59
Audioscript
The weather and climate affect the way you dress, the food you eat, and the place where you live. The weather can create huge waves at sea and shape the Earth around us. Plants and animals around the world have adapted to weather conditions that they live in. For example,polar bears in the Arctic have thick fur to protect them from cold.
The atmosphere which surrounds Earth is like a giant blanket of air. The weather is something that is happening at the moment in the atmosphere. The weather is also affected by things that happen thousands of kilometres away.
The weather creates many of the world’s worst disasters, such as droughts, which cause crops to die and animals to starve, and floods, which cause widespread destruction. However, thanks to modern science, weather forecasts are now fairly accurate worldwide.
Today, though, world climates are changing faster than ever before. This is the result of global warming, which is caused by a build-up of greenhouse gases, the world will become hotter, and extreme weather will become more common.