Презентация "Weather idioms"

Weather Idioms

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• with clouds of small drops of water in the air, making it difficult to see things in the distance

• change from hard, frozen state to softer state

• hot, uncomfortable, you can hardly breathe.

• hot and dump, make you sweat a lot

Misty

Thaw

Stifling

Humid

Heatwaves

• very hot and dry period

• a sudden very heavy rain

• very cloudy

• a light wind

Pour down (verb) / downpour (noun)

Overcast

Gentle breeze

High wind

• Strong wind

• stormy wind

• extremely high and dangerous wind

Gale

Hurricane

Make up your own situations with the idioms

Phrasal verbs connected with weather

• Break through - if the sun breaks through (the clouds), it starts to appear from behind the clouds

• Brighten up - the sky becomes lighter and the sun starts to shine Cloud over - the sky becomes covered with clouds Clear up - it stops being rainy or cloudy Warm up - to become warmer Cool down - to become cooler

• Find definitions of the following phrasal verbs and use them in context:

• Comment upon the idioms involving 'clouds' or 'sky‘
• 1) Every cloud has a silver lining.
• 2) once in a blue moon
• 3) on cloud nine
• 4) Blue skies
• 5) To have one's head in the cloud
• 6) Pie in the sky
• 7) A cloud on the horizon
• 8) Under a cloud

• BEAT DOWN
• ROLL IN
• BLOT OUT
• FOG/MIST/STEAM UP

Weather Proverbs

• "Thunder in the morning, all day storming Thunder at night is the travelers delight."

• "Red Sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning."

• "When your joints all start to ache, rainy weather is at stake.“

• "When the stars begin to huddle, the earth will soon become a puddle."

• 1) Translate these proverbs. Do you believe in them?

• Find 4 more proverbs about the weather.

• 1) Rain before seven, fine before eleven (rain before seven, clear by eleven).
• 2) It never rains but it pours.
• 3) Any port in a storm.
• 4) Words are but wind.
• 5) Oaks may fall when reeds withstand the storm.
• 6) Save it for a rainy day.
• 7) After rain comes fair weather.
• 8) After a storm comes the calm.

Do these proverbs have the direct or indirect meaning?

Make up the story with as many idioms, phrasal verbs and topical vocabulary on the subject “Weather” as you can in the form of the presentation . Have your story illustrated with pictures.