XIV, Ask as many questions on the text as possible: weather forecast

Two men were travelling in a very wild part of America. One day they met an old Indian who was sitting near his tent. He was smoking. The Indian was a hunter and knew everything about the forest and the animals living in it and many other things. He could also speak English rather well.

“Can you tell us what weather will be like during next few days?” asked one of the travellers.

“Oh, yes”, answered he. “Rain is coming and wind. Then there will be snow for one or two days, but then the sunshine will come again and the weather will be fine.”

“These old Indians know more about world than we with all our knowledge of physics, mathematics and other sciences.” "Tell me”, asked he,“How do you know all that?”

The Indian answered: “I heard it over the radio”.

15. Learn the poems by heart:

Thirty days have September,

April, June and November,

All the rest have thirty-one,

Excepting February alone,

And that has twenty-eight days clear And twenty-nine each leap year.

THE WIND

Oh, I want to know:

What does the wind do?

Where does the wind go?

Mother, when it does not blow?

No one can tell me,

Nobody knows,

Where the wind came from,

Where the wind goes.

The past indefinite tense grammar exercises

1. Put the following verbs in the Past Indefinite Tense:

to be, to predict, to blow, to get, to drop, to clear up, to freeze, to hear, to expect, to come, to have, to look, to change, to know, to ask, to leave.

2. Put the Infinitives in brackets in the necessary tense-form:

1. There (to be) a heavy snow last night. 2. It (to be) cloudy in the morning. 3. I (to be) wet through. 4. The weather (to be) glorious yesterday. 5. The weather (to look) nice so I (to leave) my umbrella at home. 6. It was raining cats and dogs in the morning but soon the weather (to improve). 7. Last summer we (to have) plenty of sun­ny days.

3. Agree or disagree with the following statements. Begin your sentences with: You are quite right or You are not quite right, Vm afraid:

1. Last summer we swam and sailed a lot. 2. It was stuffy yesterday. 3. It was chilly in the morning. 4. The weather looked fine when I was going out. 5. The weather forecast for today was “rain the whole day”. 6. The tem­perature at night dropped from +15 °C to +8 °C.

4. Make up sentences using the following words:

1. Hopeful, the, forecast, was, weather. 2. Weather, the, like, was, what, yesterday? 3. Coming, thunderstorm, is,

1. 4. Dogs, is, raining, and, it, cats. 5. May, the weather, yet, milder, get. 6. The, you, forecast, do, weather, tomor­row, know, for?

5. Refer the following sentences to the Past using adverbial modifiers of time: yesterday, last week, last winter, last autumn, the day before yesterday:

• 1. The weather is changeable today. 2. I am wet to the skin because it is raining cats and dogs. 3. There is a

strong wind today. 4. The roads are icy in winter. 5. The weather is warm and humid this autumn and we go to the forest to pick mushrooms. 6. There are many puddles in the streets after the rain.

6. Ask questions to have the following answers:

1. The snow began to melt in March. 2. The rainfall came on last night. 3. It was a spring weather yesterday.

4. Suddenly a thunder broke out. 5. Last year we had a severe winter. 6. After the thunderstorm we saw a rainbow in the sky. 7. The morning was so dark and cloudy. It looked like rain.

7. Answer the following questions. Begin your answers with: as far as I know (наскільки мені відо­мо); in my opinion (на мою думку); I think/I believe (я гадаю/я вважаю); if I'm not mistaken (якщо я не помиляюся); in short/to be short (коротше кажучи); as for me (щодо мене); as far as I am concerned (щодо мене):

1. What was the weather yesterday? 2. What was the temperature of air yesterday? 3. What is the weather forecast for today? 4. What kind of weather do you like?

4. What is the most common weather in your region in summer (winter, spring, autumn)?

8. Change the following sentences into the Passive Voice according to the model:

Model: They expected a hurricane yesterday — A hurricane was expected yesterday.

1. They observed a rainbow in the sky after a thunder­storm. 2. Suddenly we heard a roll of thunder. It looked like rain. 3. They expected a hard rain yesterday. 4. The hurricane broke the tree. 5. In June we spent much time outdoors. 6. It snowed hard last winter and children often made snowmen.

9. Translate into English:

1. Погода сьогодні мінлива. 2. Вчора було хмарно і слизько. 3. Злива. 4. Минула зима була сувора. Темпе­-

ратура падала до —ЗО °С. 5. Яка вчора була вологість повітря? 6. Який прогноз погоди на сьогодні? 7. Не було схоже на дощ, і я залишив парасольку вдома.