1. LET’S TALK ABOUT WEATHER

2. SEASONS:
Winter
Spring
Summer
Autumn

3. Weather adjectives and adverbs:
cold
cool
clear
bright
wet
hot
warm
dull
dry

4. Word Builder Nouns Adjectives cloud cloudy fog foggy sun snow rain
wind
frost
mist
ice

5. Choose the correct words
Drive carefully - it is very fog/foggy today.
I can see snow/snowy on the mountains.
There are lovely white clouds/cloudy in the sky today.
Don’t go out in the sun/sunny without a hat.
It’s wind/windy today.

6. Put these words in the correct columns
Fine weather
Nasty weather

7. COMPASS POINTS North, south, east, west
North east, south east, south west, north west

8. Listen to a British weather report
Listen to a British weather report. What is the weather like in these places?
Scotland ……………………………………………………….. North East …………………………………………………….. North West…………………………………………………….. Wales ……………………………………………………………. Midlands ……………………………………………………….. South East ……………………………………………………….

9. To shine (shone /shown)
Weather verbs:
To snow
To rain
To blow (blue/blown)
To shine (shone /shown)

10. Temperature: +10: It is 10 (degrees) above zero.
-10: It is 10 (degrees) below zero / It is 10 degrees of frost.
It is zero.

11. Look at the thermometers and say what temperature they show.

15. -WHAT IS THE WEATHER LIKE TODAY?
-Today is
windy but clear and sunny.
degrees below zero.
rainy and very cold and wet.

16. -WHAT WAS THE WEATHER LIKE YESTERDAY?
Yesterday it was
warm and windless.
frosty but sunny.
2 degrees below zero.

17. Say what temperature was in different cities three days ago.
Rome + 5
Madrid + 8
Edinburgh - 7
St. Peterburg-18
Moscow
London + 2
Paris + 1
WashingtonD.C.0
Cardiff + 11

18. Read and guess what underlined words mean.
You can see a rainbow in the sky when rain and sun come together.
There was an awful rainstorm yesterday. It rained hard and a strong wind was blowing.
A barometer is an instrument that helps to tell what presure and weather will be like.
There was a shower (a short rain) in the evening.
Weathermen collect information about weather.

19. Write down and learn some new words.
a weather forecast(n): The weather forecast says there will be rain.
to forecast(v): They forecast good weather at the weekend.
daily(adj): a daily newspaper, a daily forecast.
calm(adj): Today is calm day, very good for playing badminton- no wind and no sun.
A mist=a fog

20. misty, foggy(adj): a grey misty/a foggy morning
changeable(adj): The weather in April is always very changeable: it may be rainy in the morning and warm and sunny in the afternoon.
to look out for(v): Everyone looks out for the rain when there are dark clouds in the sky and very windy.
To expect(v): to expect visitors, to expect cold weather.

21. This is a page from weatherman’s diary with notes about the weather
This is a page from weatherman’s diary with notes about the weather. Complete it with new words.
5.30 a.m.
It’s very m……. but I think the ………t will clear before o’clock. There’s no wind and the morning is ……….lm. We can ……..t a ………..orm in the afternoon.

22. 9.30 a.m.
The ba…….. shows a high ………re. But as the weather is very …..ble here we should look …… for a show….. in the evening. Then we’ll be able to see a r… too.

23. 2.30 p.m.
There comes the rain. D……. rains are typical of August weather. So we, ………men, were right when we fo……. rains.