Учебное пособие по темам "SEASONS AND WEATHER" и "TIME". Волошина Г.Н - 20 стр.

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cool - chilly - cold - icy - bitter
Exercise 3. Match the nouns with adjectives to make common phrases.
Pattern: heavy rain, heavy snow, etc.
Nouns: rain Adjectives: heavy bitter
wind biting chilly
fog strong cloudy
snow fresh brisk
sky thick drizzling
air thin hot
cold piercing
bright southerly
clear swirling
chilly misty
clean drenching
Exercise 4. Find the word with the strongest meaning in each of these groups of
words.
1) unpleasant - bad - beastly - wretched - nasty;
2) breeze - squall - gust - storm - hurricane;
3) cold - chilly - cool - frosty - freezing;
4) downpour - rain - shower - drizzle;
5) stuffy - warm - close - sultry - hot;
6) waterfall - flood - stream - whirlpool;
7) splendid - glorious - fine - pleasant - nice;
8) haze - dimness - fog - mist - smog.
Exercise 5.
Match each word with a word below.
1) thunder 2) torrential 3) down 4) heat 5) hail 6) snow 7) gale
stones drift storm warning rain wave pour
Exercise 6.
Fill the gaps with suitable words from the additional vocabulary.
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 ... 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 ... . Apart from that, British
winters mean a bit of white ... on my garden and occasionally having to drive
very carefully on icy roads early in the morning. I had never experienced the ...
and ... that can paralyze the whole city in less than an hour and close roads com-
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