TOPIC: WEATHER
Temperatures:
• boiling hot: an expression to describe a very hot [Link] last
summer was boiling hot, the average temperature reached 40 degrees!
• hot
• mild: warm and [Link] weather in my country is mild in spring.
• warm
• chilly: [Link]'s chilly today, so I think you should wear a coat.
• freezing cold: very cold.I wanted to go ice skating on the New Year day,
but it was freezing cold and I decided to stay home.
• degrees Celsius: used to measure the [Link] the autumn, the
average temperature here is 15 degrees Celsius
• to go below zero: to become negative (about temperatures).The
temperature often goes below zero in the winter.
Cloudy weather:
• gloomy: weather with dark clouds and dull [Link], I don’t like
gloomy weather. It makes me feel depressed.
• clear: without clouds.I adore clear weather, when there are no clouds on
the sky.
• to clear up: when clouds and rain [Link] a long rain, it finally
cleared up.
Rainy weather:
• to be drenched (to the skin): to be completely soaked with water.I
forgot to take an umbrella and was drenched in the rain.
• gentle rain: light rain.
• drizzle: a light rain that falls in very small [Link] often drizzles in the
morning.
• downpour: a heavy fall of [Link] a downpour! We are drenched to
the skin.
• to pour down: to rain heavily.I like rainy weather. When it pours down,
we sit at home with my family, talk and drink hot tea.
Windy weather:
• high wind = strong [Link] the autumn strong winds are quite
frequent.
• breeze: a nice gentle wind.I don’t usually like windy weather, but a light
breeze from the ocean makes me happy.
• wind chill factor: when the wind makes the air feel colder than the real
[Link] my hometown it’s very windy in the winter. And though
the temperature rarely goes below zero, with wind chill factor it feels like
minus 10!
Sunny weather:
• sunshine: the heat and light of the sun.I love summertime because of
the long days and bright sunshine.
• dry: with no [Link] in Turkey are often hot and dry.
• heat stroke (sun stroke): a serious heat illness because of being too
long in hot [Link]’s often boiling hot in my city in the summer and a
lot of people suffer from heat stroke.
Other vocabulary:
• a spell of good weather: a period of good weather. You can use other
adjectives instead of "good" to describe [Link] a three-day spell of
rainy weather, there was a spell of sunny weather.
• changeable weather: weather that often [Link] my country the
weather is very changeable, periods of hot weather can be followed by
heavy rains or even snowstorms!
• mild climate: a climate without extreme weather conditions.
• smog: a cloud of [Link] town is so polluted that I don’t see stars at
night because of thick smog!
• forecast: a prediction of how the weather will [Link] the
forecasts predicted a mild winter, the January was freezing cold.
PART 1.
What's the weather in your country?
Does the weather affect your mood?
Do you like rainy days?
What is your favourite season?
Do you like winters?
PART 2.
Describe your favourite weather. You should say:
• What the weather is like
• Why do you like it
• Where you can experience such weather conditions.
PART 3.
Does air pollution affect the weather?
Do you think that weather affects people's behaviour?