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This document contains a listening exercise about weather and climate for English language learners at a pre-intermediate level (A2-B1). It includes 8 dialogues asking about current weather conditions using words like sunny, rainy, snowy, cloudy, windy. It also discusses global warming, defining it as an increase in world temperatures caused by too many greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trapping heat. Effects of global warming may include more extreme weather events in the future like floods, storms and heat waves. Most countries signed an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases but the US rejected it.

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Activity 14 PDF

This document contains a listening exercise about weather and climate for English language learners at a pre-intermediate level (A2-B1). It includes 8 dialogues asking about current weather conditions using words like sunny, rainy, snowy, cloudy, windy. It also discusses global warming, defining it as an increase in world temperatures caused by too many greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide trapping heat. Effects of global warming may include more extreme weather events in the future like floods, storms and heat waves. Most countries signed an agreement to reduce greenhouse gases but the US rejected it.

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GENERAL ENGLISH · VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT · PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)

WEATHER
AND CLIMATE

2 The weather

Listen to the dialogues and put each dialogue number under the correct picture.

Audio

1. 2. 3. 4.

5. 6. 7. 8.

Now complete the dialogues with the words. Some words are used more than once. Listen to the
dialogues again to check your answers.

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PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)

WEATHER AND CLIMATE

clear lightning overcast raining(x3) snowing(x2) cloudy cold(x3)


hot snow storm warm sunny(x3) windy
A: What’s the weather like today?
Dialogue 1
B: At the moment, it’s quite warm .
2
A: Is it ?
3
B: It’s quite , but it’s also a bit cloudy .

Dialogue 2
A: What’s the weather like?
5
B: It’s at the moment.

Dialogue 3
A: What’s the weather like?
7
B: Oh, it’s hot and right now.
A: Are there any clouds?
8
B: No, the sky is completely .

Dialogue 4
A: What’s the weather like?
B: Well, it’s pretty cold right now.
10
A: Is it ?
11
B: Err let me just check...Yes, it’s .

Dialogue 5
A: What’s the weather like?
12
B: It’s very right now.
A: Is it cold ?
B: Yes, it’s quite cold .

Dialogue 6
A: What’s the weather like?
15
B: It’s completely at the moment.

Dialogue 7
A: What’s the weather like?
17 18
B: Well, there’s a storm right now. I can see . And it’s heavily.

Dialogue 8
A: What’s the weather like?
19
B: Well, it’s at the moment. And there’s some snow .

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PRE-INTERMEDIATE (A2-B1)

WEATHER AND CLIMATE

3 Role play
Video
Watch the video. For each video clip, take turns to ask and answer about the weather like in the
dialogue on Page 2.

4 Global warming

Complete the conversation below with the following questions.

How will the weather change in the future? What is global warming?
What are governments doing about this problem? What are greenhouse gases?

Jin: What is global warming?


Mario: This is the increase in the temperatures around the world.
Jin: What is the cause of global warming?
Mario: Well, scientists believe that humans are responsible. We produce too many greenhouse
gases.
2
Jin:
Mario: These are gases like CO2 (carbon dioxide). A high concentration of greenhouse gases means
that heat from the sun cannot escape and the climate becomes warmer.
3
Jin:
Mario: It is difficult to say, but we can expect more extreme weather conditions like floods, storms
and heat waves.
4
Jin: It sounds serious.
Mario: Well, most countries signed the Kyoto Protocol in 1997. They agreed to produce fewer
greenhouse gases. But in 2001, the USA rejected the agreement.

Now complete the definitions below with the words in bold:

1. (verb): get away from a closed area

2. (noun): very large amounts of water on dry land

3. (noun): periods of unusually hot weather

4. (verb): the opposite of ‘accept’

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