Seek the first semester English Unit 6

-Cloudy .. (Shanghai) Cloudy.

(1) This is a common expression to ask about the weather. For example:

What's the weather like in Beijing now? Wh

Seek the first semester English Unit 6

-Cloudy .. (Shanghai) Cloudy.

(1) This is a common expression to ask about the weather. For example:

What's the weather like in Beijing now? What is the weather like in Beijing now?

It's old, but quiet and sunny. It's cold, but it's sunny.

The conventional sentence of this sentence pattern is: What's the weather like? A similar structure is: What's the weather like today? /What do you think of the weather today? /What will the weather be like tomorrow? When answering the weather, we often use "It is(was)+ adjectives indicating the weather".

② Cloudy adjective, meaning "cloudy day".

Adjectives of weather include sunny (sunny), windy (windy), rainy (rainy), snowy (snowy), wet (wet), dry (dry), cold (cold), cool (cool), warm (warm) and hot (hot).

1-What's the weather like today? What is the weather like today?

It is raining. It is raining.

②-What's the weather like in Wuhan? What is the weather like in Wuhan?

It's sunny and hot. It's sunny and hot.

2. What is Uncle Joe doing? What's Uncle Joe doing?

He is playing basketball. He is playing basketball.

(1) is making the present continuous tense, indicating the action being done at this time.

(2) In the present continuous interrogative sentence, am, is or are comes before the subject, and in the negative sentence, not comes after am, is or are.

What are you doing now? What are you doing?

I'm watching TV. I'm watching TV.

②-Are you playing computer games? Are you playing computer games?

Yes, I am. Yes.

She is cooking in the kitchen. She is cooking in the kitchen.

It is raining now. It is raining now.

Is it snowing in Moscow? Is it snowing in Moscow?

Now, we are in Egypt, walking in the desert. Now, we are in Egypt, walking in the desert.

(1)right now means "right now". For example:

The child is sleeping now .. The child is sleeping now.

(2) Walking in the desert is an adverbial of the present participle phrase. The present participle is used as an adverbial to indicate the time, reason, result, condition or accompanying situation. For example:

He accidentally left the sidewalk and was knocked down by a bus.

He accidentally left the sidewalk and was knocked down by a bus. (indicates time, which occurs before the predicate action and is placed at the beginning of the sentence)

He sat in an armchair, reading a newspaper.

He sat in an armchair reading a newspaper. (Table incidence)

Some people are taking pictures of the pyramids. Some people are taking pictures of the pyramids.

(1)are taking constitutes the present continuous tense.

(2) Taking pictures means "taking pictures", such as:

John likes taking pictures on the mountain. John likes taking pictures on the mountain.

Taking pictures of means "taking pictures of". For example:

He is taking pictures of a cat .. He is taking pictures of a kitten.