Путешествие - Travelling. Руденко Т.П. - 31 стр.

A                                                                               on my garden and occasionally having to drive very carefully on icy roads
                                                                                early in the morning. Before I went to Canada I had never experienced the
                          Weather Reports                                       blizzards and snowdrifts that can paralyse a whole city in less than an hour.
       Weather reports are often misleading. They report what happened          They had to close roads and airports completely because the cars were
yesterday or the day before and not what is going to happen today.              skidding out of control and the snow was a meter deep.
       I remember one Sunday in autumn that was spoilt because of the
weather report in the newspaper. “Heavy rains and thunderstorms today,” it                                   ****************
said and we had to give up our outing and we stayed at home all day wait-              When I went on a package tour to China last year we were unlucky
ing for the rain to start.                                                      to experience a spell of close weather. They said they had not had such a
       In the morning the sun was shining brightly and there was not a          heat wave for the last four years. The sweat was pouring out of us. I could
cloud in the sky. People passed our house on their way to the country.          hardly breathe; I wished it would rain to cool us down a bit. Most people in
Looking out of the window at them we thought that they would get wet to         our group could not stand such stifling heat. So we had to sit in the shade or
the bones and smiled to ourselves. At twelve o’clock we began to wonder         be inside air-conditioned buildings every afternoon and could go out only
when those heavy rains were going to come. “They’ll come in the after-          in the evening or early in the morning.
noon”, we said to each other. And when the afternoon was almost gone and
no rain came we were sure it would catch fresh-air fans on their way home.
                                                                                2. What weather conditions do you consider ideal for your Dream holi-
The next morning we read that it was going to be a fine warm day and we
                                                                                   day? Explain why.
went out without our raincoats and umbrellas. Half an hour later it began to
rain heavily and a cold wind blew so that we came home with bad colds
                                                                                3. Now look at the weather maps from the USA Today and read the
and had to go to bed.
                                                                                   weather forecast given for different areas of the world. With your
                                                                                   partner(s) discuss the best place to go on holiday. Give as many rea-
B                                                                                  sons for your choice as possible.
       The day we arrived in Prague it started drizzling. And it kept raining
for several days in the row while we were there. To make it even worse the
temperature fell down to only plus 7 degrees Celsius. So you can imagine
how frustrated we were! To go that far and not to be able to enjoy the
beauty of one of the nicest cities in the world! The weather spoilt our stay
there and could have ruined the whole trip if not for absolutely fantastic
two weeks of sunshine and pleasant warmth in Karlovi Vari which made so
much difference.

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      My first experience of real winter weather was when I went to
Northern Canada. I was used to the sort of snow that falls in London, which
quickly turns into brown slush with all the people walking on it. In fact,
most of the time I was in London, it didn’t really snow properly, it was
mostly sleeting. Apart from that, British winters meant a bit of white frost

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