🎯 Objectives
- Learn common English adjectives to describe the weather.
- Practice asking and answering: “What’s the weather like?”
- Connect weather vocabulary to images, sounds, and real-life feelings.
🎥 Instructions
- Watch the video carefully.
- Pay attention to the people describing the weather.
- Listen to the audio and connect with images.
Dialogue Practice
Example 1
Chuck: It’s cloudy and damp.
📝 Damp = slightly wet.
Example 2
Diana: Brisk.
Dave: It’s brisk. It’s cool. Yeah.
Diana: Yeah, brisk. Wonderful.
📝 Brisk = invigorating; crisp; exhilarating.
Example 3
Steve: It’s a beautiful day in New York. It is cool and it is crisp. It is autumn.
📝 Crisp = similar to brisk, refreshing air.
Example 4
Ghia: OK. Well, it’s really overcast and cloudy and it’s a bit crisp and a little windy. But it’s pleasant.
📝 Overcast = sky covered with clouds.
Example 5
Colin: Now? Dull and grey.
Chris: Cold.
📝 Dull and grey = dark, rainy, with no sunshine.
Example 6
Eric: Weather? Breezy. Bright. Sunny. Very nice. Very healthy.
📝 Breezy = pleasantly windy.
Example 7
Minda: The weather is beautiful today. It’s a little cool. It’s dry and it is a little breezy and sunny.
📝 Breezy = light wind. Windy = stronger wind.
Example 8
Sandra: It’s nice. It’s not too cold and it’s not too warm. It’s pleasant.
Example 9
Anthony: Sunny. Mild. Not too hot. Not too cold.
📝 Mild = gentle, pleasant weather.
Example 10
Gabriella: Chilly. Windy.
📝 Chilly = almost cold.
Example 11
Peter: Cold and windy.
Example 12
Lisa: Very sunny. Warm.
Example 13
Stuart: Very cold. Windy. Not very nice.
Example 14
Paul: It’s raining.
🔑 Key Vocabulary Recap
- Damp = slightly wet
- Brisk / Crisp = cool, invigorating
- Overcast = very cloudy
- Dull and grey = dark, rainy
- Breezy = light wind
- Windy = strong wind
- Chilly = almost cold
- Mild = pleasant, not extreme
- Pleasant = nice, enjoyable