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English in this lesson you'll learn
words and phrases to talk about the
weather in English after you watch don't
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for the lesson let's go it's sunny the
sun is shining it's bright
it's humid the air feels heavy it's
sticky it's too hot there's a heat wave
to talk about the weather in English you
often use it plus an adjective before
you hurt some examples including it's
sunny it's humid and it's too hot you
can use B in different forms to talk
about the past or the future for example
it was sunny yesterday it will be sunny
tomorrow it has been sunny recently you
also heard there's a heat wave this is
another common pattern to talk about the
weather
use there is or there are plus a noun
there's a strong wind it's windy there's
a gentle breeze there's a thunderstorm
there's a lot of lightning sometimes you
can use it with a continuous verb to
talk about the weather it's raining hard
it's pouring down it's hailing it's
snowing lightly it's snowing heavily
it's raining lightly it's a little wet
outside if you use a continuous verb you
can also make it past for example it was
raining hard all day yesterday it was
snowing lightly when we left to talk
about the future you can use a future
continuous verb but it's more common to
use will or going to plus an infinitive
for example it's going to pour down soon
they say it will snow heavily at the
weekend it's overcast there's a lot of
cloud it's a gray day there's one more
common pattern you can use it'sa day and
add an adjective before day you heard
it's a gray day you could also say it's
a cloudy day or it's a bright day the
forest is misty in the morning it's a
foggy day there's some fog but it's not
too thick fog and mist are similar but
not the same do you know the difference
fog is basically cloud which is at
ground level mist is caused by water
droplets in the air they're similar but
fog is generally thicker and lasts
longer mist is thinner and normally
disappears fast many places are misty in
the morning but the mist disappears as
the Sun comes up there are some light
clouds it doesn't look like rain if you
hear it looks like rain what will the
sky look like it looks like rain means
that it's likely to rain very soon so
this
guy is probably overcast with lots of
heavy dark clouds there isn't a cloud in
the sky it's perfectly clear
if you describe the weather as clear you
mean that there are few or no clouds you
also mean that the air is clear there is
no mist or fog or haze or anything
similar if it's clear you can see a long
way it's icy the river has frozen over
if you live somewhere cold rivers lakes
and other bodies of water might freeze
over freeze over means they freeze on
top but there's still liquid underneath
if it's really cold the river might
freeze solid
if the river has frozen solid the whole
thing is ice there is no liquid water
there's a blizzard you can hardly see
ten meters a blizzard is a kind of storm
to count as a blizzard you need heavy
snow and strong winds at the same time
the recent rain has caused severe
flooding in some areas the floods have
caused millions of euros of damage heavy
rain can cause floods or flooding
flooding is a gerund but it's often used
as a plain noun in the sentence as you
saw you could say floods or flooding the
hurricane is approaching the coast it is
predicted that the typhoon will make
landfall in the next 24 hours the storm
will bring gale force winds
with gusts up to 80 km/h there are
different words for strong winds and
storms a gale is defined by the wind
force on the Beaufort scale there are
different definitions but anything above
a specific strength is a gale what about
hurricanes and typhoons do you know the
difference hurricanes and typhoons are
both powerful tropical storms but they
start in different places hurricanes
form in the Atlantic Ocean while
typhoons form in the Pacific that's all
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