Talk about the Weather
English in Use | Vocabulary | Speaking
English in Use
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How to talk about the weather in English using a video lecture and some self-test questions to help you learn. This lesson also looks at some English idioms related to weather and will help with your listening skills and your pronunciation. If you want to learn how to talk about the weather in English, you need to do this lesson.
The weather in Britain is so changeable 1 that you can never know what it's going to do. | Frank McKinney Hubbard said: Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation . | Complete this famous quote from Oscar Wilde. | Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative . | Item: Match | raining cats and dogs: raining heavily | come rain or shine: whatever the weather | under the weather: feeling unwell | put the wind up: worry a lot | weather the storm: survive difficulties | right as rain: feeling well | When the weather is very wet, we say that it's lovely weather for ducks. | Here is a typical sentence heard in the UK during summer. | I promise that come rain or shine we are going to have a barbecue today. | This old adage about the weather: Red sky at night, shepherds delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor's warning | A barometer is an ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having. | It had been raining cats and dogs and I got soaked through . After a while I began feeling under the weather so I went to bed to weather the storm . My illness really put the wind up me but after a few hot toddies I saw that my fears had been a storm in a teacup and I was soon feeling right as rain again.
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