Vocabualary practice
Match the English weather words with their Ukrainian equivalents.
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1. dew |
a) мороз |
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2. forecast |
b) легкий вітерець |
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3. blizzard |
c) повінь |
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4. thunderstorm |
d) роса |
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5. hurricane |
e) засуха |
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6. earthquake |
f) блискавка |
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7. humidity |
g) злива |
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8. breeze |
h) імла, серпанок |
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9. rainbow |
i) гроза |
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10. shower |
j) прогноз погоди |
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11. frost |
k) вологість |
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12. flood |
l) заметіль, завірюха |
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13. lightning |
m) ураган |
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14. mist |
n) землетрус |
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15. drought |
o) райдуга, веселка |
Change the given statements so that they will mean the opposite.
Model: We are having rough weather. – We are having calm weather.
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weather is really nasty today.It’s ten degrees below zero.
The roads are dry today, it’s not dangerous to drive.
The sky is clear.
The weather will keep fine.
It was a bright day.
It’s 30 degrees in the shade.
There is a bad fog in the mountains.
The weather is windless today.
The frost is going to kill all the flowers in the garden.
Complete the sentences, as in the model.
Model: The Nile is a river.
The Atlantic is …………………………………………...
The Alps are ……………………………………………..
The Sahara is ………………………………………….....
The Amazon is ……………………………………….......
The Mediterranean is ………………………………….....
The Bahamas is ………………………………………......
Africa is ……………………………………………….....
Crete and Corsica are ………………………………….....
Everest is he highest ………………………..in the world.
Michigan and Erie are two of the great …………………
Match the words and their definitions.
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1. forecast |
a. the amount of rain, snow etc. that falls |
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2. precipitation |
b. rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls to / condenses on the ground |
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c. weather conditions of a place or area |
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d. a light gentle wind |
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e. thick water vapor which is difficult to see through |
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f. water falling in drops from the clouds |
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g. small dirty pool of rain water |
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h. water vapor at or near the earth’s surface, less thick than fog |
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i. a heavy fall of rain |
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j. rain in small fine drops, thin continuous rain |
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k. conditions over a particular area, at a specific time with reference to sunshine, temperature, rain and so on |
Fill in the gaps with the words from the box.
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atmosphere / fog / evaporate / hail / rainfall / shower / frost / windless / gale / thunder / lightning / damp / blistering / mild / humidity |
The radio has given a _________ and icy warning for car drivers tomorrow.
________ is frozen rain drops which fall as little hard balls.
The day was ________, without moving clouds.
The sun will ________ the water.
He could hear ________ over the hills.
The _______ in the air makes my old bones hurt.
The _______ in the room was hot and smoky.
The _______ has been measured and found higher than ever.
The annual _______ there is only four centimeters.
Yellow _______ filled the streets and hid the daylight.
He was out too long in the _______ heat of the sun.
It has been a _______ winter this year.
A great flash of ________ lit the night sky.
The old tree was blown down in a ________ .
I went out and was caught in a ________ .
Translate the following dialogues in English.
- Дощ іде?
- No, it isn’t. It has stopped raining.
- Думаю, погода зміниться.
- I think so.
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- Сьогодні мороз?
- Так, 15 градусів нижче від нуля.
- Не забудь одягти шубу.
- Iwon’t.
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- Погода чудова, чи не так?
- Так. Дуже тепло і сонячно.
- Let’s go for a walk.
- Я не проти.
Read and translate the following dialogues into Ukrainian.
A:What’s the weather like?
B:I don’t know. I just woke up.
A:Why don’t you look outside?
B:Okay. It looks like rain.
A:Why do you say that?
B:The sky is gray.
A:Is it raining right now?
B:No.
A:How do you know?
B:The street isn’t wet.
A:I have to go shopping today.
B:You’d better take an umbrella.
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A:What beastly weather! It is simply pouring!
B:My Grandma used to say that it was raining cats and dogs. Such a funny phrase!
A:It is. But I’ve got wet through.
B:I’ve seen on Internet that there will be a heat spell later this week.
A:Oh, I don’t mind the rain. It is quite pleasant to walk with a good raincoat on. And good Wellington boots, of course.
B:And you call this July! Where is the summer?
A:Oh, we had it last Thursday after dinner.
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Sally:I think a drought has set in. It hasn’t rained a drop for months.
Ethan:I think so, too, but didn’t it rain last month?
Sally:It did rain last month, but the rainfall was only half the monthly average.
Ethan:Oh. That bad?!
Sally: That’s right. It’s really bad. I’m really concerned though not panicked yet.
Ethan:I don’t blame you. The pastures have browned out even before the summer hasn’t arrived.
Sally:Yeah, and the soil has been baked so hard that the plow can’t even break the soil.
Ethan:Looks like it’s going to be an ongoing thing that would get worse each day.
Sally:Yeah. If it doesn’t rain, it’s going to get critical.