情景英语口语100主题 080the weather天气

beginner
A: i went shopping without my umbrella yesterday morning.
B: yesterday morning was beautiful i thought the sunning was going to continue.
A: so did i. that's why i didn't take my umbrella.i got cold in the rain in the afternoon.it was raining cats and dogs.
B: i know. i could not believe it when i got hit by that storm.it was pouring with rain all afternoon.
A: we really have some mysable weather sometime¹.i wish i would live somewhere which were sunning all year round.
B: if it was sunning all year round there would be drought².you probably would not like it either.
A: i guess you are right. maybe i just wish the weather could be a little more predictable.
B: the weather forecasters are not good at predicting³ the weather would be like.our weather is so changeable⁴.


intermediate⁵
A: what's the weather like in your city?
B: in the summer it gets very hot.the temperture is between often 37 and 40 centigrade⁶.when it is hot we often get rains.the winters are drier.
A: the summer tempreture ususally often reaches about 20 or25 in my city.the rain falls mostly in the winter.and we often get snow.
B: what are the temperatures in winter? in my city it is about 15 or 20 degrees.
A: in winter temperture often falls to zero at night temperture can be below that.the streets are often icing in the morning.with high such tempertures you must get some thunderstorms.
B: yeah, we do. in the middle of summer there can be found storms every day ususally in the afternoon. i heard your city has a lot of fog, is that true?
A: we do have a few fog days in winter.but i would not say we have a lot of fogs.the sky are usually clearly in your city, are they?
B: yes, they are. like i said we have thunderstorms.but each one usually last a few hours.then the skys are clear again.
A: have you ever had snow in your city?
B: my grandmother said there was snow once when she was a child.but my parents and i never see it outside of my city.
A: the river in my city sometime freeze over.people go ice-skating on it.on summer people go boating⁷ on the river.but few people go swimming because it is not very clean.
B: as you know, my city is on the coast.the water is also not clean.but people still go swimming all year around.i perfer to sand bath on the beach when the weather is hot in sunning.

1 sometime   

adv.将来某一时候；改天

参考例句：

• He came sometime last month.上个月某个时候他曾经来过。
• It will happen sometime and somewhere.有朝一日这总会在什么地方发生的。

2 drought   

n.旱灾，干旱，久旱

参考例句：

• The plants are growing in again,despite the drought.尽管干旱，植物又长出来了。
• The ground is as hard as stone after the drought.长期干旱后土地硬得就像石头一样。

3 predicting   

预言，预测，预示( predict的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• a reliable method of predicting earthquakes 预报地震的可靠方法
• Political commentators are predicting that the minister will have to resign. 政治评论员预言这位部长将会辞职。

4 changeable   

adj.易变的，变化无常的

参考例句：

• The weather here is quite changeable.这儿的天气变化无常。
• He has a changeable character.他性格多变。

5 intermediate   

adj.中间的，居间的，中级的；n.中间体，媒介物

参考例句：

• This country is now at an intermediate stage of development.这个国家目前正处于发展的中间阶段。
• Gray is intermediate between black and white.灰色介于黑色和白色之间。

6 centigrade   

adj.分为百度的，摄氏的

参考例句：

• The temperature in this room is twenty degrees centigrade.这个房间里的温度是摄氏20度。
• It's at 10 degrees centigrade.气温是10℃。

7 boating   

n.划船

参考例句：

• They were fond of boating.他们喜欢划船。
• The lovely river itself was ideal for fishing and boating.这条美丽的河流本身就宜于钓鱼和划船。