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UNIT 4 CLIMATE AND WEATHER
INTRODUCTION ● What is the weather like today? ● What was the weather like yesterday? ● What will the weather be like tomorrow? These three questions are the most common among people round the world, dont you think so? Speaking about weather we mean blue skies, puffy white clouds, torrential rains with hail force winds, flashes of lightning; or snow gently falling on the ground. But if we open an English dictionary we find out that the weather is the state of the atmosphere at any given time everywhere on Earth; it varies from place to place, day to day, season to season. The long-term look at the weather in a place or region, the averaging of rainfall, the maximum and minimum temperatures is called climate.
4.1 The list of common weather words is very long and we start with some nouns and adjectives. Check your understanding.
And now you can use a dictionary to help you. ► Hot weather close / stifling hot and uncomfortable, you can hardly breathe boiling / scorching very hot (e.g. boiling day) warm pleasantly hot mild gentle (winter) weather, when it is not very cold humid the air is hot and wet drought a long period of time without rain ► Cold weather cool pleasantly cold chilly a little cold freezing extremely cold sleet a mixture of snow and rain frost a coat of ice blizzard a storm with a bit of snow and strong winds slush dirty half-snow, half-water (in the streets) snowdrift a deep bank of snow ► Wet weather to drizzle to rain a bit with very, very small drops of rain to pour to rain a lot shower brief fall of rain torrential rain heavy rain light rain little rain the Monsoon a rainy season hail / hailstone pellets of frozen rain falling from the sky overcast very cloudy and dark thick fog dense fog mist light fog damp not dry; slightly wet flood overflow of water on a place usually dry; great outpouring ► Windy weather strong wind powerful wind breeze gentle pleasant wind gale very strong wind thunderstorm a storm with thunder and lightning hurricane a typhoon
► Look at these three ways of talking about the weather.
● Put the words into the correct column: sunny / sun / hot / snows / snow / snowy / wind / windy / cold / cool / cloud / cloudy / warm / foggy / fog / humid / wet / drizzle / flood / floods / storm
4.2 Match each word with a word from the box.
thunder torrential down heat hail snow gale
4.3 Complete the scales which get stronger from left to right. a) .. → wind → .. → .. → hurricane b) boiling → .. → warm → .. → .. → cold → .. c) damp → .. → pour down → .. → ..
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