What is the weather like today? The weather is fine.

 

Degree, below, above, sunrise, sunset, thunderstorm, lightning, snow-storm, snow-fall, snowflake, snowdrift, icicle, freeze, rime, hoar-frost, melt, rain, hail, mist, rain-bow, dew, shower, drizzling, humidity, precipitation, Indian summer, weather forecast, fall, bloom, mud, cloud, fog, gust, overcast, bare, bud, puddle, dry, wet, cool

1. Form adjectives corresponding to the nouns:

wind, rain, snow, fog, dust, frost, sun, cloud, storm, gust

2. Write a short text about the seasons using the sentences given below. Sort out the sentences according to the seasons. Pay attention to different structures of the sentences:

There are four seasons in the year — spring, summer, autumn and winter.

In Spring the days get longer. …

In Summer the sun shines brightly. …

In Autumn the days get shorter. …

In Winter the sun rises late and sets early. …

 

It is warm. It is hot. It is frosty. It is cool. It is rainy. It is snowing. It is drizzling. It is sunny. It is cloudy. It is dry. It is wet. It is dusty. It is windy. It is muddy. It is slippery. It is foggy.

The sky is cloudless. The sky is grey. The wind is strong and gusty. It is calm. The weather is nasty. The grass is green. The sky is overcast. The trees are yellow. The trees are bare. The temperature is 25 degrees above zero. The temperature is 10 degrees below zero.

There are buds on the trees. There is snow on the ground. There are a lot of pretty flowers. There are icicles on the roofs. There are snowdrifts everywhere. There is a rain-bow in the sky. There are many puddles on the ground. There is ice on the lakes.

The ground is covered with hoar-frost. The grass is covered with dew. The snow is melting. The temperature is falling. The grass is beginning to shoot. The flowers are blooming. Snow crunches under your feet. Icicles hang from the roofs. The rime sparkles. It looks like rain. The flowers have faded. It thunders. It lightens.

 

4. Transfer the sentences into Past and Future:

1. It is cloudy. 2. There is snow on the ground. 3. The rain is heavy. 4. The wind is strong. 5. There are puddles on the road. 6. The snowdrifts are deep.

 

5. Insert: some, any, no

1. The sky is blue. There are … clouds. 2. Are there … puddles on the road? 3. It is wet and there are … puddles. 4. It is wet but there are … puddles. 5. There isn’t … ice on the river. 6. Is there … snow on the ground? 7. It is warm. There is … snow on the ground.

 

6. Insert: a lot of, many, much:

1. How … seasons are there in a year? 2. There are … clouds in the sky. 3 Is there … snow on the ground? 4. We can see … flowers in summer. 5. Are there … buds on this tree? 6. How … snow has fallen this year?

8. Match a word with its definition:

drizzle	drops of water appearing due to difference of night and morning temperature
puddle	without any leaves
rain	covered with clouds
fog	less thick than fog
climate	turning into water
dew	a heavy fall of rain
shower	thick water vapour which is dif­ficult to see through
mist	thin continuous rain
overcast	weather conditions of a place or area
hail	water falling in drops from the clouds
bare	a small dirty pool of rain water on a road
melting	small, hard balls falling with rain

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The weather forecast

I remember a holiday of mine being completely ruined one late autumn by our paying attention to the weather report of the local newspaper: "Heavy showers, with thunderstorms, may be expected today."

So we gave up our picnic and stayed indoors all day, waiting for the rain. And people passed the house as joyfully and merrily as could be. The sun was shining and not a cloud was seen. By twelve o'clock, with the sun pouring into the room, the heat became quite oppressive, and we wondered when those heavy showers and occasional thunderstorms were going to begin. "Oh! They'll come in the afternoon, you'll find," we said to each other.

At one o'clock the landlady came in and asked if we were going out, as it seemed such a lovely day. "No, no," we replied. "We don't mean to get wet - no, no."

And when the afternoon was nearly gone, and still there was no sign of rain, we tried to cheer ourselves up with the idea that it would come down all at once. But not a drop ever fell, and it finished a grand day, and a lovely night after that.

The next morning we read that it was going to be a warm, fine day, much heat. We put on light things and went out. Half an hour after we had started, it began to rain hard and a bitterly cold wind began to blow. The weather is a thing that I never can understand.

(after Jerome K. Jerome)