This document discusses various ways that people deal with and handle hot weather. It provides examples of common methods like using mini-fans, box fans, air conditioning, fanning oneself, staying inside, lifting one's shirt, putting one's head in the freezer, seeking shade, and dipping one's feet in water. The document asks questions about personal preferences for different cooling techniques and experiences handling heat.

1. How people
deal with
hot weather

2. What is “the heat”? What is “handle”?
The heat = hot weather
To handle = to deal with / to control something
E.g. “She knows how to handle naughty children.
She punishes them.”
E.g. “He knows how to handle the hot weather.
He doesn’t go outside and he uses a fan.”

3. How do you handle the heat?
What is another way to ask this question?
Q1: How do you handle the heat?
Q2: How do you deal with the heat?
Q3: How do you stay cool?
Q1 = Q2 = Q3
A1: I handle the heat by staying inside my apartment.
A2: I deal with the heat by staying inside my apartment.
A3: I stay cool by staying inside my apartment.
A1 = A2 = A3

4. 1. How do you handle the heat?
2. How do you handle the cold?
3. How do you handle spicy food?
4. How do you deal with the rain?
5. How do you deal with stress?
6. How do you deal with rude people?

5. How people handle the heat
1. There are many ways to handle the heat.
2. Some people have different ways to handle
the heat than other people.
3. Now we will talk about the ways that I
have seen.

7. Mini-fans!!
1. These small mini-fans are super popular
now
2. Do you like these fans?
3. Do you think these fans are necessary?
4. Do you think these fans are “green”
enough?
5. Are old people stronger than young people?

8. Box Fan

9. Box Fans
1.Do you have a Box fan in your
apartment?
2.Do you prefer to use A/C or fans?
Why?

10. What is she doing?

11. She is fanning herself!
1.Do you fan yourself a lot?
2.Do you think fanning yourself is
effective?
3.When I fan myself I get hotter and
more tired.

12. What is this?
This is air-conditioning

13. Air-conditioning
1. Window units are old style air-conditioning.
2. Many people have modern A/C (wall)units now.
3. What kind of A/C unit do you have? Old style
(window) or new style (wall)?
4. Sometime I feel A/C water fall on my head while
I’m walking on the street. How about you?

14. Do we really need A/C?

15. What is this man doing?
1.He is handling the heat by lifting up his
shirt.
2.Is this common in HK?
3.Do you like to do this?
4.Usually men do this right? Especially
older men.

16. Where is his head?

17. His head is in the freezer.
1.Did you do this when you were
young?
2.Do you do this now?

18. The tree can give you ______ from the sun!shade

19. SHADE!
1.Shade means a place with no sun.
2.What things can give you shade?
3.What places have a lot of shade
usually?

20. What is this lazy guy doing?

21. Just stay inside!
Do you stay inside
sometimes if it’s too
hot outside?

22. What is she doing?

23. She is dipping her feet in the water
1. If you don’t want to jump in the water, you can dip
your feet in the water.
2. This helps me to stay cool. If my feet are cool, then
my body feels okay.
3. How about you? Do you like dipping your feet in the
pool or the ocean?

24. What is this place called?

25. This is a waterpark
1.Do you like going to the waterpark?
2.Which waterparks have you been to?