LET’S TALK ABOUT WEATHER

SEASONS: Winter Spring Summer Autumn

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

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

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.

Put these words in the correct columns Fine weather Nasty weather

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

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 ……………………………………………………….

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

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

Look at the thermometers and say what temperature they show.

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

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

Say what temperature was in different cities three days ago. Rome + 5 Madrid + 8 Edinburgh - 7 St. Peterburg-18 Moscow - 14 London + 2 Paris + 1 WashingtonD.C.0 Cardiff + 11

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.

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

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.

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 10.00 o’clock. There’s no wind and the morning is ……….lm. We can ……..t a ………..orm in the afternoon.

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.

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