Why it it useful to learn weather vocabulary? We use weather as one of our topics for small talk so it is essential that you know what people are talking about and can participate. Moreover, knowing weather vocabulary will help you understand reading activities and exam exercises. Here you will learn 12 pieces of vocabulary for 4 different areas of weather – storm, snow, wind and rain. Of course, there are
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Imagine you are reading an article, story or exam reading paper and the main character is walking home, watching their feet kicking the *____ as they walked, and listening to the sound it made. If we put *tightly packed snow, we would visualise white thick snow and the sound would be a crunching noise. But if we insert *slush we would visualise an almost grey, melting wet unpleasant snow and the watery sloshing sound. The overall effect would be different. Now we see that using a more defined word than snow can change our comprehension and if you don’t know those words you can miss a lot.
The Duke was dead! A Sherlock Holmes story with 10 phrasal verbs to learn.
What’s the easiest way to learn phrasal verbs?Useful vocabulary for the story. The Sherlock Holmes story Video. The story written down to save and review the phrasal verbs later. The 10 phrasal verbs and their synonyms. Your turn to practice.
I have a bad cold this weekend. So since I can hardly speak I-m going to recommend a great video from a different English teacher on you tube.
Kim Griffiths English 