Talking About the Weather

🎯 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

  1. 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.

Scene of clouds over a farmhouse with light rain.

📝 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.

A couple together in crisp air. Crisp means the same as brisk.

📝 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 means cloudy, basically, so we see more clouds, but lower in the sky.

📝 Overcast = sky covered with clouds.

Example 5

Colin: Now? Dull and grey.
Chris: Cold.

Dull and grey here refers to the color rain and relative darkness.

📝 Dull and grey = dark, rainy, with no sunshine.

Example 6

Eric: Weather? Breezy. Bright. Sunny. Very nice. Very healthy.

We can tell it's breezy thanks to the arrows which indicate the direction of the wind, with a large sun for 'sunny'.

📝 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.

The 3 weather adjectives are represented by 3 words, dry in the desert, with a big sun, and a lady with an umbrella about to break in the wind.

📝 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.

To illustrate the adjective 'pleasant' we have a man relaxing pleasantly in the sun with a thermometer showing pleasant temperatures.

Example 9

Anthony: Sunny. Mild. Not too hot. Not too cold.
📝 Mild = gentle, pleasant weather.

Example 10

Gabriella: Chilly. Windy.

Chilly: A man dressed warmly and for windy, a cloud figure blowing air.

📝 Chilly = almost cold.

Example 11

Peter: Cold and windy.

Icicles indicate it's cold.

Example 12

Lisa: Very sunny. Warm.

Just the sun shining brightly

Example 13

Stuart: Very cold. Windy. Not very nice.

Example 14

Paul: It’s raining.

A cloud releasing rain.

🔑 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

“What’s the weather like today where you are?”

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