51the weather天气

51—— the Wheather

Beginner

A: I went shopping without my umbrella yesterday morning.

B: Yesterday morning was beautiful,

I thought the sunny spell was going to continue.

A: So did I. That's why I didn't take my umbrella.

I got cold in the rain in the afternoon. It was raining cats and dogs.

B: I know. I could not believe it when we got hit by that storm.

It was pouring with rain all afternoon.

A: We really have some miserable weather sometimes.

I wish I would live somewhere which were sunny all year round.

B: If it was sunny all year round there would be a drought.

You probably wouldn’t like it either.

A: I guess you are right.

Maybe I just wish that the weather was a little more predictable.

B: The weather forecasters are not very good at predicting what the weather

will be like.Our weather is so changeable.

Words ＆ Expressions

1. Spell 1. (一段)工作时间： They worked for long spells in the fields.

2. 一段时间;(某种天气的)一段持续时间

We're expecting a spell of sunshine. 我们盼望一段晴朗的天气。

We finally got a sunny day after the long raining spell.

Let's stop and rest for a spell. 我们停下来歇会儿吧。

2. rain cats and dogs 下倾盆大雨

We seldom have rains. But when it has one, it rains cats and dogs.

3. get hit by storm 遭遇暴风雨

ice storm 冰雹

4. pour (雨)倾盆而降: The rain poured steadily down. 大雨不停地倾盆而下。

pour with rain 下倾盆大雨 Don't go outside, it's pouring now.

5. miserable [ˈmizərəbl] a. 痛苦的；糟糕的；悲惨的；极差的

miserable weather 糟糕的天气

a miserable performance 一次蹩脚的演出

I had a miserable day. I lost my job, my house, and my wife.

How can I keep a family on such a miserable wage?

我怎么靠这点可怜的工资养家?

6. drought [drａut] n. 旱灾,长期干旱

The crops died during the drought. 久旱无雨期间,庄稼都枯死了。

Intermediate

A: What's the weather like in your city?

B: In the summer it gets very hot. The temperture is often between 35 and 40 centigrade. When it is hot we often get rain. The winters are drier.

A: The summer tempretures ususally reach about 20 or 25 centigrade in my city.

The rain falls mostly in the winter. And we often get snow.

B: What are the temperatures like in winter?

In my city they are about 15 or 20 degrees.

A: In winter tempertures often fall to zero, at night tempertures can be below that.

The streets are often icing in the mornings.With such high summer tempertures you must get some thunderstorms.

B: Yes, we do. In the middle of summer there can be thunderstorms every day ususally in the afternoon. I heard that your city has a lot of fog, is that true?

A: We do have a few foggy days each winter. But I would not say we have a lot of fog. The skys are usually clear over your city, aren’t they?

B: Yes, they are. Like I said we have thunderstorms.But each one usually only last a few hours. Then the skys are clear again.

A: Have you ever had snow in your city?

B: My grandmother said that there was snow once when she was a child.

But my parents and I have only seen it outside our city.

A: The river in my city sometime freezes over. So people go ice-skating on it.

In summer people go boating on the river. But few people go swimming because it is not very clean.

B: As you know, my city is on the coast. The water is also not very clean, but people still go swimming in it all year around. I perfer to sand bath on the beach when the weather is hot and sunny.

Words ＆ Expressions

1.Thunderstorm: A thunderstorm is a storm in which there is thunder and lightning

and a lot of heavy rain.

2.fog [f'ɒɡ] When there is fog, there are tiny drops of water in the air which

form a thick cloud and make it difficult to see things.

foggy [ˈfɔgi] 有雾的 That was a foggy morning. 那是个有雾的早晨。

3. freeze over [ˈfriːzˌəuvər] (使)冰封 The pond froze over. 池塘已被冰覆盖

freeze over: If something freezes over, it becomes covered with a layer of ice or other frozen substance.

flash freeze 速冻(食品)

3.coast [k'oʊst] The coast is an area of land that is next to the sea.

4. beach [b'iːtʃ] A beach is an area of sand or stones beside the sea.

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