3. Look at the photos and ask your partner about the weather.

Ex. - What’s the weather like in Surgut?

• It’s freezing and windy.

• Is it always this cold in autumn?

• No, yesterday it was cool and foggy.

A breeze is a fairly strong wind. It’s not as strong as a gale.

Fog is much thicker than mist. It’s often misty in the mornings in the mountains.

Drizzle is a very fine rain.

If it is overcast, it is very dull.

Wintry showers is used on weather forecasts to mean a little snow.

Unusually hot weather is called a heatwave.

4. Match the sentences on the left with the related sentences on the right:

It was sunny and very hot. We had a lot of rain. It snowed on and off. It was very windy. It was dull and cloudy. We had some light rain. It was a bit foggy. There was the most awful storm.

We had thunder and lightning. There were a few wintry showers. It was quite misty. It was very overcast. There was a bit of drizzle. There was quite a breeze. We had a bit of a heatwave. It was very wet.

5. Put the following adjectives into the correct pattern below:

lovely miserable beautiful horrible fabulous glorious terrible foul

What ………/………/………/………weather! It hasn’t stopped raining all day.

What ………/………/………/………weather! Let’s go down to the beach!

6. Look at the photo of Siberia (Pic. 7). What’s the weather like? Do you like living in Siberia? Why \ Why not?

Pic. 7

7. Read what Victor says about the weather in Siberia. Put one of these adverbs in each sentence:

always even never normally often sometimes still usually

Here in the most parts of Siberia the winter is ___________¹⁾ very long and freezing! Rain turns to snow in November and the snow doesn’t _____________²⁾ disappear until May. The temperature is ____________³⁾ about - 25 degrees centigrade, but it’s ______________⁴⁾ much colder. When it’s – 35 degrees children can’t go to school, but adults __________⁵⁾ go to work! We wear a lot of warm clothes: socks and boots, sweaters, hats, and fur coats. All the houses have central heating so it’s __________⁶⁾ cold inside. In winter, we close all the windows to stop the wind from getting in, and we don’t open them again until spring.

In spring it’s a little warmer, but it rains a lot, and we hardly ever see the sun. The weather is terrible and there are a lot of huge puddles. When the temperatures fall below zero the roads become icy. In summer it’s __________⁷⁾ about 25 degrees, but the weather’s very changeable. One day it’s 30 and the next day it’s chilly – about 10. A day can start warm and dry but end cool and humid. People say that the weather was _________⁸⁾ colder in the past. They think it changed after Chernobyl.