What’s the weather like in your country or your city?
Does the weather affect your mood?
Do you like rainy days?
What is your favourite season?
Do you like winters?
Part 2: Long Turn (Cue Card)
Describe your favourite weather.
You should say:
What the weather is like
Why you like it
Where you can experience such weather conditions
Part 3: Discussion
Does air pollution affect the weather?
Do you think that weather affects people’s behaviour?
Vocabulary
Temperatures:
boiling hot:an expression
to describe a very hot weather.The last summer was boiling hot, the average temperature
reached 40 degrees!
hot
mild: warm and pleasant.The weather in my country is mild in spring.
warm
chilly: cold.It'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
temperature.In 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 light.Personally, 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
disappear.After 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 drops.It often drizzles in the morning.
downpour: a heavy fall of rain.What 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.
humid: containing a high amount of
water.In my country the climate is generally cold and
humid, especially in the north.
Snowy weather:
snow-covered: covered with snow.In the winter my family and I go skiing to the
snow-covered hills of Switzerland.
heavy snow: when a lot of snow
falls.Children went to school in spite of the heavy
snow.
frosty: cold.Continental climate implies hot summers and frosty
winters.
snowstorm: large amounts of wind and
snow.I don’t like winters because of frequent
snowstorms.
hail: when small balls of ice
(hailstones) fall from the sky.After the hail, we found hailstones that were the
size of golf balls!
Windy weather:
high wind = strong wind.In 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 temperature.In 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 rain.Summers in Turkey are often hot and dry.
heat stroke (sun stroke): a serious
heat illness because of being too long in hot
weather.It’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 weather.After a three-day spell of rainy weather, there was a
spell of sunny weather.
changeable weather: weather that often
changes.In 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 pollution.My town is so polluted that I don’t see stars at
night because of thick smog!
forecast: a prediction of how the
weather will change.Although the forecasts predicted a mild winter, the
January was freezing cold.
