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Exercise 2. Answer the following questions.
1) Is the climate of Britain different from that of the north-western part of the
European mainland?
2) Why do English people always seem to be talking about the weather?
3) What do Englishmen usually start talking about when they meet?
4) What are the three things that chiefly determine the climate of England?
5) What is the weather like in Britain in winter?
6) What does the cold winter wind bring?
7) Which months are marked by most snow?
8) Which is the driest season in Britain?
9) What is the weather like in Britain in spring?
10) Are thunderstorms common in summer?
11) What is the weather like in Britain in autumn?
12) Why is the climate of the British Isles mild?
13) How does the North Atlantic Drift influence the weather of the British Isles?
Exercise 3.
Find answers to the following questions in the text.
1) Who is supposed to have created the image of Great Britain as that of a wet
foggy land?
2) What do the mild winters mean?
3) Why had Britain’s climate got such a bad reputation?
4) What does “parky” mean?
5) What affects British weather in winter?
6) Where can snow fall as late as June?
7) Which countries get most rain in summer?
8) Where is the rain heavier?
9) Where do great floods occur?
10) What is Indian summer?
11) Why do English people find it difficult to convince foreigners that England
is not always covered with a thick blanket of fog?
12) What is a “twister”?
13) Do heavy snowfalls occur in Great Britain?
Exercise 4.
Find factual information in the text to prove that.
1. The climate of Great Britain is more or less the same as that of the north-
western part of the European mainland.
2. There are many jokes about the English climate.
3. It is hard to say that England has typical weather.
4. Winters in England are not so cold as in Russia.
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