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" WHATEVER THE WEATHER..."

I. Put these words under four categories: verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs.

to rain, snow, hot, warm, foggy, rainy, to snow, to pour, awful, to clear up, to cloud over, cloudy, cool, dreadful, fog, frost, to freeze, to influence, lovely, marvellous, to melt, rain, snowy, a storm, stormy, sunny, sunshine, terrible, wet, wind, windy, careful, a condition, dangerous, to sound, changeable, dry, to forecast, a forecast, an icicle, a raincoat, a region, safe, a sign, a temperature, to weather, cold, rarely, to blow, fast

II. Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. It is sometimes ___________ in autumn.

a) clouding over
b) wet
c) pouring
d) sunshine

2. There is __________ today.

a) fog
b) raining
c) foggy
d) rains

3. There is often __________ in summer.

a) rain
b) rainy
c) rains
d) raining

4. It is often _________ in November.

a) snow
b) snows
c) snowing
d) snowy

5. It rarely _________ in spring.

a) freeze
b) freezes
c) freezing
d) frosty

6. There is rarely ________ in December.

a) sunshine
b) shines
c) shining
d) shine

7. There are often ________ in autumn.

a) storm
b) stormy
c) storms
d) stormy and windy

8. Look! It is __________.

a) cloud over
b) melts
c) clearing up
d) freezes

9. If it ________ this evening cars won’t be able to drive fast.

a) freezes
b) will freeze
c) freezing
d) freeze

10. Many people will have a headache if there _____ a storm.

a) will be
b) was
c) is
d) are

III. Match the weather forecast and possible activity.

The Weather Forecasts

1. It will be sunny and warm.
2. The weather will be wonderful. It is going to be sunny and very hot with the temperatures 25–30 above zero.
3. It will be cloudy and rainy all day. The temperatures are 12–14 above zero.
4. It is going to snow. Cloudy but no winds. The temperatures are 5–8 below zero.

Activities

a) A beautiful day to walk about the city and to take pictures.
b) It will be a perfect day for skiing.
c) You can lie in the sun and swim in the sea.
d) Don’t forget your umbrella.

IV. Read the text.

It Never Rains but It Pours…

As you might expect, English has a lot of colloquial expressions to do with the weather. Here some of the more popular ones.
If you feel under the weather you don’t feel very well, and if you make heavy weather of something, you make it more difficult than it needs to be. Someone with a sunny disposition is always cheerful and happy, but a person with his head in the clouds does not pay much attention to what is going on around him. To have a place in the sun is to enjoy a favourable position, and to go everywhere under the sun is to travel all over the world. Someone who is under a cloud is in disgrace or under suspicion, and a person who is snowed under with work is overwhelmed with it. When you break the ice, you get to know someone better, but if you cut no ice with someone, you have no effect on them. To keep something on ice or in cold storage is to reserve it for the future and to skate on thin ice is to be in a dangerous or risky situation. If something is in the wind, it is being secretly planned, and if you have the wind up, you become frightened. To throw caution to the winds is to abandon it and act recklessly, but to see how the wind blows is to find out how people are thinking before they act. If you take the wind out of someone’s sails, you gain the advantage over him or her by saying or doing something first. To save something for a rainy day is to put some money aside for when it is needed. To do something come rain or shine is to do it whatever the circumstances. Finally, everyone knows that it never rains but it pours, that problems and difficulties always come together. But every cloud has a silver lining – every misfortune has a good side.

VOCABULARY:

disgrace немилость
suspicion подозрение
overwhelm переполнять; зд. завалить,перегружать (работой)
cold storage хранение в холодильниках
reserve откладывать
caution осторожность
abandon отказываться от
recklessly безрассудно
circumstances обстоятельства
lining подкладка
misfortune неудача

Now see whether you can complete these sentences with one of the expressions about weather.

1. Nobody knew anyone else at the party, and it took a long time to __________.

2. Susan’s a happy child – she’s got a very ____________.

3. You don’t look very well. Are you ________.

4. I’m too busy to come out tonight – I’m ___________.

5. Don’t talk to Tom about religion or you’ll be ____________.

6. John’s been ___________ at work, ever since the money was stolen.

7. Let’s see _____________ before we decide what to do.

8. Sam’s idea is a good one, but I think we ought to ___________ until we’ve got more money.

Answers:

II. 1. b; 2. a; 3. a; 4. d; 5. b; 6. a; 7. c; 8. c; 9. a; 10. c (a)

III. 1. a; 2. c; 3. d; 4. b

IV. 1. break the ice; 2. sunny disposition; 3. feeling under the weather; 4. snowed under with work; 5. skating on thin ice; 6. under a cloud; 7. how the wind blows; 8. keep it on ice

By Youdif Boyarskaya,
Moscow, School No. 814