Vocabulary
| noun | adj | verb | e.g |
| wind | windy | blow | It’s windy today. It blows heavily. |
| sun | sunny | shine | It’s sunny today. The sun is shining. |
| rain | rainy | rain | It’s a rainy day. It’s rainy today. It rains a lot in ShangHai in Summer. |
| cloud | cloudy | ||
| snow | snowy | snow | |
| storm | stormy lightning |
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| fog | foggy |
homonym: sun, son, song, soon; # sun, son发音完全相同
temperature, degree, minus, Celsius;
| very hot | very cold | |||||
| boiling | hot | warm | mild | cool | cold | freezing |
mild: moderately warm of soft in taste.
snowy: of or like snow.
rainy: in or on which rain is falling.
sunny: bright with sunlight, exposed to or warmed by the sun.
windy: having wind or exposed to the wind.
stormy: of or affected by storms.
cloudy: of the sky covered with cloud; overcast.
warm: of or at a comfortably high temperature.
Language covered
- Talking about different types of weather
- Describe the weather in China
- Discussing what we do on different days
Useful expressions
- It’s very cold and stormy.
- It’s quite sunny and hot.
- It’s mild but windy.
- What’s the weather like?
- What’s the weather like today?
- What’s the weather like in China?
hot, sun, shining, sunny
The sun is shining today.
It is sunny /hot/sunny and hot/ today.
The earth needs the sun.
The weather is great today. It’s nice and sunny.
wind, windy, blowing
The wind is blowing today.
It will be windy tomorrow.
The strong wind will come from the south.
raining, rain, rainy
It is raining hard today.
It will rain tomorrow.
It will probably be rainy for the whole day tomorrow.
cloud, cloudy
I hope it won’t be cloudy tomorrow.
Look at that cloud.
cold, snow, snowy, snow
It will snow tomorrow.
The weather will be snowy next week.
The snow will come from the north.
The temperature will be very cold – 5 below freezing.
It is + adj /+ doing(Ving)/.
Discussion points
- How do people talk about different types of weather?
- What’s the weather like in China?
- What’s the weather like today?
- What do you wear in a rainy day? I usually wear a raincoat in a rainy day.
Weather forecast
Good afternoon and welcome to the weather forecast.
Let’s take a look at the weather outside now.What’s it like? Well, it’s raining and cloudy in southern China while northern China is cold and clear(no cloud). The sun is shining, but it’s very cold here in the North!
The temperature is 25 degrees in the southern China and only 15 degrees in North.What will the weather be like tomorrow?
Well, it will be rainy in the morning in Beijing and windy in Tianjin.
In the afternoon, Beijing will be cloudy.
Tianjin will see rain turning to snow and quite windy, with winds coming from the North-East.That’s the weather forecast for this afternoon. Have a good day!