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6 Answers 50. Registered office: Jumps Farm, Durton Lane, Broughton, Preston, Lancashire. PR3 5LE. 1 Topical Resources Ltd. Subject to Topical Resources LICENCE TERMS available at: Back to Contents Theme 1 Weather Playscript The Weather Forecast urse Sarah: All about castles, bathe in the sea and of co Andy and Sarah were learning ber to children are of their enjoy an ice-cream. Please remem the weather in School . As part tect advised to wear lots of sun tan cream to pro project they decided to write a have a long ecast. your skin! playscript for a TV weather for lie in and get This is what they wrote. up late. This Andy: Tomorrow the weather in the be a good day for doing jigsaws, l be ve ry icy.

7 Yo u wil l wil l north of England wil games, making things or Andy: Tomorrow the weather in d ga rde ns pla yin g bo ard wake up to all the trees an er to Scotland will be very cold. There will be a thi ck fro st. Ro ad s an d going on your computer. Rememb vised covered in indoors to keep yourself nice and lots of snow and all schools are ad be ve ry da ng ero us an d sta y pavements will to close because of this. travel dry! so all children are advised not to to School . Sarah: All children are advised to go out Andy: Tomorrow the weather in the ar. It and have snowball fights. There will also l be a wo nd erf ul da y for so uth of England will be nice and cle Sarah: This wil be too hot or too cold.

8 It will not be opportunities to build igloos, go of the lov ely fro sty wil l no t u must taking photographs . All schools will be open as sledging and skiing. However, yo go od da y for be we t or icy ts to scenes. It will also be a wrap up warm with gloves and ha by an usual. ! making slides and, if supervised make sure you don't get frostbite ls. adult, skating on ponds and cana report Sarah: All children are advised to sure Andy: Tomorrow the weather in rro w the we ath er in Wa les to School in good time and make y with Andy : To mo Northern Ireland will be very sunn we t. It wil l rai n all da y an d they have done their homework will be very high temperatures all day long.

9 Sc hools k of flo od s in so me are as . es pecially if they have a spelling or hot! there will be ris will be closed because it will be so tables test to look forward to! Because of this, all schools will be go to closed. Sarah: This will be an ideal day to sand the seaside where you can build 2 Topical Resources Ltd. Subject to Topical Resources LICENCE TERMS available at: Section B. Back to Contents Theme 1 Weather Playscript 1 Who was learning about the weather? The Weather Forecast Section A. 2 Why were the schools advised to close' in Scotland? Choose the best word or group of words to fit the passage and put a ring around your choice. Andy and Sarah wrote their own script for a weather forecast.

10 They said the weather in 3 Why were children advised not to travel to School ' in the north of England? 1 Scotland Nothern Ireland Northern England Wales would be very cold. The weather in 4 Why would children need to be supervised by an adult before 2 Scotland Nothern Ireland Northern England Wales skating on ponds and canals'? would be very hot and the weather in 3 Scotland Nothern Ireland Northern England Wales 5 How do you think the children in Wales would feel about being would be very icy. All schools in these areas would be stuck inside all day because of the rain? 4 open busy closed quiet because of the weather. In 6 How do you think the children in the south of England would 5 Scotland Southern England Northern England Wales feel if they knew other schools across the country were closed?