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Weather Vocab

The document discusses various weather conditions and phenomena: 1) It describes different types of precipitation including drizzle, rain, showers, and thunderstorms. 2) It lists weather-related adjectives that are commonly formed by adding "-y" like "sunny" and "foggy". 3) It provides information on wind speeds ranging from breezes to gales and hurricanes, and discusses temperature ranges from boiling to freezing.

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Weather Vocab

The document discusses various weather conditions and phenomena: 1) It describes different types of precipitation including drizzle, rain, showers, and thunderstorms. 2) It lists weather-related adjectives that are commonly formed by adding "-y" like "sunny" and "foggy". 3) It provides information on wind speeds ranging from breezes to gales and hurricanes, and discusses temperature ranges from boiling to freezing.

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Weather

A Weather conditions
' - - - - --
Notice that it is very common to form adjectives by adding '-y'.

noun adjective noun adjective


sun sunny wind windy
cloud cloudy ICe ICY
fog foggy shower showery
heat hot humidity humid

It was very cloudy in the morning, but then the sun came out (= appeared) in the afternoon.
The accident happened in thick fog (= bad fog) on the motorway.

BRain
'-------
For light rain (= raining a bit) we can use drizzle, e.g. It was cloudy with a bit of drizzle.
For heavy rain (= raining a lot) we often use pour, e.g. It's pouring (with rain) outside.
Rain for a short period of time is a shower, e.g. We had several showers today - some
quite heavy.

C Temperature thermometer
' - - - - --

boiling hot warm not very warm cold freezing


•
(= very hot) (also chilly) (= very cold)

A: How hot does it get in the summer?


B: It can reach about 35°. (= 35 degrees)
A: How cold does it get in the winter?
B: It often goes below O. (= zero)

D Wind

a breeze a wind a strong wind a gale a hurricane


A breeze is gentle and pleasant; a hurricane is over 100 km per hour and can be dangerous.
It was a hot day but there was a gentle breeze. Her hair was blowing in the wind.
The trees were damaged in the gale last night. The hurricane destroyed many buildings.

E
' - - - - -- '
Thunderstorms
A period of very hot weather is sometimes called a heatwave, and
it often ends with a thunderstorm. First it becomes very humid
(= when the air feels wet), then you get thunder and lightning, and
finally very heavy rain. Afterwards, it is often cooler and feels fresher.

90 English Vocabulary in Use (pre-intermediate & intermediate)


Exercises

44.1 Identify the weather conditions in these pictures.

1 ........................................................... 2 ........................................................... 3 .......................................................... .

4 ........................................................... S ........................................................... 6 ...........................................................

44.2 Fill the gaps with a suitable word.


1 We had really thick ..................................... this morning.
2 When it's hot, you still get a lovely ..................................... off th~ sea.
3 I hope we don't get any more thunder and .....................................
4 We had a heavy ..................................... of rain this morning, but it only lasted a few minutes.
S The hurricane completely ..................................... the village. There's nothing left.
6 It's quite hot when the sun ..................................... out.
7 What's the ..................................... today? It feels much colder than yesterday.
8 They said it was ten degrees below ..................................... in New York yesterday. That's too
cold for me.

44.3 True or False? (If a sentence is false, change it to make it true. )


1 When it's foggy you need sunglasses. fo.lse. (Whefl ir)S fu~ JOu CW\)r SeQ. J~ vJell.)
2 It gets quite chilly in the desert in the evening.
3 Thunder makes a noise.
4 Lightning can kill people.
S A shower is a type of wind.
6 If it is humid, the air will be very dry.
7 Heavy rain means that it is pouring with rain.
8 It often pours with rain in the desert.

44.4 Complete this text with suitable words.


An important influence on Japanese weather is the wind. During the summer it
(1) ..................................... from the Pacific, causing (2) ..................................... and humid weather,
but in winter, the north-westerly (3) ..................................... from Siberia are very cold and it
(4) ..................................... heavily on the mountains in the north-west. The south-eastern parts
receive cold dry air. Between June and mid-July, there is a period of very wet weather when
the rice fields get the water they need. After that, there is less heavy rain , but the air is still
(5) ..................................... . Autumn, however, is drier and usually very ple·asant.

Write a paragraph about the weather in your own country, or a specific part of your
country, e.g. your own region. Try to use as many words as possible from the opposite page.

English Vocabulary in Use (pre-intermediate & intermediate) 91

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