Weather Collocations: Discuss Weather like a Native English Speaker! Weather collocations for IELTS

hi everyone mina-san konnichiwa would you like to learn how to talk about the weather like a native speaker would you like to learn some essential weather collocations in English welcome to Jen's jugo my name is Jen and today I'm going to teach you several important call locations that you need to know to be able to talk about weather like a native speaker first let's review what a collocation is a collocation is a set group of words that go together naturally in English you can't replace one of the words or else this expression sounds strange to native speakers for example we don't say big rain we always say heavy rain heavy rain is a collocation big rain just sounds weird in English so you're going to learn a lot of weather vocabulary but very specifically weather call locations first let's talk about nice weather in English so if you have a beautiful bright sunny day there's no clouds in the sky you can say it is unbroken sunshine so unbroken sunshine the Sun is not interrupted by clouds and you can just enjoy we also have two specific collocations we can use for just enjoying sunlight they are to soak up the Sun or to soak up some rays ah if the Sun is really really bright we can say that it is strong Sun or if there's only a little bit of Sun we can say that it is weak Sun if it's really hot we might also say that it is scorching hot when it becomes really hot in some countries you will get moisture in the air so everything is hot and sticky and kind of gross that wet this when it's hot is called humidity it's very humid we will say we have strong humidity so strong humidity next I want to talk to you about some collocations with fog fog is the type of weather when there's tiny tiny bits of moisture in the air which make it difficult for you to see in front of you if there's only a little bit of fog and some fog here and maybe it clears up here and there's more fog here the collocation for that is patches of fog so it's only a little bit foggy you have patches of fog the opposite of that is if there's a lot of fog the collocation for that is thick fog or dense fog so thick fog or dense fog or sometimes people will specifically say a blanket of fog next let's talk about some car locations for rain I already mentioned that when it's raining a lot we say it is heavy rain heavy rain is an excellent collocation another collocation with the exact same meaning would be Turenne shil rain so if there's torrential rain there's even more rain than just heavy rain and we can also use the expression a torrential downpour it is a downpour a torrential downpour there is a lot of rain heavy rain when it rains a lot we can say that it is pouring rain sometimes people like to use the idiom it's pouring buckets meaning there's lots of rain thunder will rumble the food sound is the thunder and we specifically use the verb Rumble the under rumbled and lightning when it's zigzags across the sky hmm right the lightning flashes if the lightning zigzags across the sky and hits something made of metal then we can say the lightning struck so lightning strikes but if you just see it in the sky we usually say a flash of lightning if there's a tiny bit of rain that will then stop we call this a shower and if the showers start and stop and start and stop the collocation for that is scattered showers I hear this one a lot when I'm listening to the weather forecasts scattered showers and if we get wet by all of this rain there are two great collocations for that as well one is to be soaked to the skin or to be soaked to the bone you maybe forgot your umbrella so now you are super wet dripping wet soaked to the skin or soaked to the bone when it's raining you want the rain to stop right so you're going to look for a couple call locations you're going to look for the rain to let up or for the skies to clear up or you're going to look for a break in the clouds okay so those three expressions mean the rain is stopping a break in the clouds good I see the rain is going to stop him oh the rain has let up means the rain has finished or the sky has cleared up the rain is finished next some collocations connected to wind if there is a small bit of wind the collocation we will use is a light breeze light breeze has a positive feeling it's not too windy it's just light breeze [Applause] when the wind suddenly comes what we will call it is a gust of wind right so the wind came it was a gust of wind when the wind suddenly become stronger we will say the wind picked up or the wind is picking up and when the wind starts to become weaker we will say the wind is dying down three great verbs that will collocate with wind what the wind does in English the wind blows when you hear the wind making a little bit of sound we will say the wind whistles when the wind makes a lot of sound especially when it's super strong you can hear it banging against the windows we can say the wind is howling the wind blows the wind whistles and the wind howls those are great verbs that will colic ate with how the wind moves in English now some vocabulary to describe cold weather and snowy weather so if it is super super cold we would say it is bitterly cold haha bitterly cold outside today so when the temperatures start to go below zero but there's no snow yet we will call that moisture on the ground that freezes into white crystals Frost and the collocation for extreme frost is hard frost for snow if there is a little bit of snow falling they're called flurries and we use the specific call location light flurries light flurries means there's a little bit of snow but don't worry the opposite of light snow or light flurries is heavy snow so just like we had heavy rain lots of rain falling we also have heavy snow when the snow has just fallen and it's nice outside and you can look at the beautiful fallen snow we will call this fresh snow if you want to make snowballs or build a snowman the best type of snow is called snow so crisp snow is new snow that is a little bit hard so you can pack snowballs with it sometimes children in Canada refer to it as packing snow finally I want to talk to you about some vocabulary that you will often hear and that you should use to talk about disasters so natural disasters such as a hurricane a tornado a flood and earthquake things like that you might hear two specific words used in the news one is the disaster caused lots of damage to this country or the disaster devastated this country so both of these words are used to describe the destruction that has been caused by the disaster when a storm or tornado hurricane earthquake when these events happen there are two verbs that we will always use one verb is the storm hit this place or the storm struck this place hurricane durian hit the Bahamas in September 2019 and devastated the area so today you learned several useful collocations that you can use to discuss weather in English if you're interested in learning more about collocations or how to study them effectively you can check out a video I made about that over here or in the video description below I will also leave a link to a collocation playlist that I have made with other collocation lessons and now it's time for question of the day today's question is what kind of weather do you get the most often in your country let me know using collocations in the comments below thank you so much for watching this video if you found it useful please subscribe to Jen's Judeo so you don't miss any English lessons and give this video a thumbs-up Mina thank you combust na jaane

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Length: 11min 5sec (665 seconds)

Published: Fri Sep 27 2019