IELTS Speaking Daw Thuzar Latt (M.

A English)

IELTS Speaking Vocabulary: Weather

Temperatures:

• boiling hot: an expression to describe a very hot weather.

The last summer was boiling hot, the average temperature reached 40 degrees!
• mild: warm and pleasant. The weather in my country is mild in spring.
• warm
• chilly: cold.
It's chilly today, so I think you should wear a coat.
• freezing cold: very cold.
I wanted to go ice skating on the New Year day, but it was freezing cold and I decided to stay
home.
• degrees Celsius: used to measure the temperature.
In the autumn, the average temperature here is 15 degrees Celsius
• to go below zero: to become negative (about temperatures).
The temperature often goes below zero in the winter.

Cloudy weather:
• gloomy: weather with dark clouds and dull light.
Personally, I don’t like gloomy weather. It makes me feel depressed.
• clear: without clouds.
I adore clear weather, when there are no clouds on the sky.
• to clear up: when clouds and rain disappear
After a long rain, it finally cleared up.

Rainy weather:
• to be drenched (to the skin): to be completely soaked with water
I forgot to take an umbrella and was drenched in the rain.
• gentle rain: light rain.
• drizzle: a light rain that falls in very small drops.
It often drizzles in the morning.
• downpour: a heavy fall of rain
What a downpour! We are drenched to the skin.
• to pour down: to rain heavily
I like rainy weather. When it pours down, we sit at home with my family, talk and drink hot tea.
• humid: containing a high amount of water
In my country the climate is generally cold and humid, especially in the north.

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Snowy weather:

• snow-covered: covered with snow. In the winter my family and I go skiing to the snow-covered
hills of Switzerland.
• heavy snow: when a lot of snow falls. Children went to school in spite of the heavy snow.
• frosty: cold. Continental climate implies hot summers and frosty winters.
• snowstorm: large amounts of wind and snow. I don’t like winters because of frequent
snowstorms.
• hail: when small balls of ice (hailstones) fall from the sky. After the hail, we found hailstones
that were the size of golf balls!

Windy weather:
• high wind = strong wind.
In the autumn strong winds are quite frequent.
• breeze: a nice gentle wind
I don’t usually like windy weather, but a light breeze from the ocean makes me happy.
• wind chill factor: when the wind makes the air feel colder than the real temperature
In my hometown it’s very windy in the winter. And though the temperature rarely goes below
zero, with wind chill factor it feels like minus 10!

Sunny weather:
• sunshine: the heat and light of the sun
I love summertime because of the long days and bright sunshine.
• dry: with no rain
Summers in Turkey are often hot and dry.
• heat stroke (sun stroke): a serious heat illness because of being too long in hot weather
It’s often boiling hot in my city in the summer and a lot of people suffer from heat stroke.

Other vocabulary:
• a spell of good weather: a period of good weather
After a three-day spell of rainy weather, there was a spell of sunny weather.
• changeable weather: weather that often changes
In my country the weather is very changeable, periods of hot weather can be followed by heavy
rains or even snowstorms!
• mild climate: a climate without extreme weather conditions
• smog: a cloud of pollution.
My town is so polluted that I don’t see stars at night because of thick smog!
• forecast: a prediction of how the weather will change
Although the forecasts predicted a mild winter, the January was freezing cold.

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Part – 1 A

1. What kind of weather do you like most?

2. What is the weather like in your hometown?
3. Do you like the weather in your hometown?
4. Do you prefer dry or wet weather?
5. What do you like to do when the weather is really hot?

Part – 1 B

6. What is the climate like in your country?

7. Does the weather effect people’s lives in your country?
8. Do people change in the summer?
9. Is there any type of weather you really don’t like?
10. Does bad weather ever effect transport in your country?

Part 2

Tell me about the weather in your city. Describe your favourite season or time of the year.
You should say: You should say:
What the weather is usually like in the different When this time is
seasons What the weather is like at that time
Whether people often discuss the weather in your What you usually do at this time
town or city And explain why it is your favourite time of the year.
What people think of the weather in your town or city
And say whether you think the weather in your town or
city is better or worse than in other places.

Describe a day when you thought the weather was Describe an occasion when the weather prevented
perfect. you from doing something.
You should say: You should say:
• where you were on this day • When it was?
• what the weather was like on this day • Why it prevented your activity?
• what you did during the day • What you did?
and explain why you thought the weather was perfect • And explain how you felt about it?
on this day.

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Part 3 A

1. What do people wear in different weather?

2. How have people’s attitudes to the environment changed in your country?
3. How will we solve environmental problems in the future?
4. How will we produce energy in the future?
5. Do you think government will make climate change a higher priority in the future?

Part-3 B

1. How do the different seasons affect the lifestyles of people in your country?
2. How do different seasons affect the way people feel?
3. How does the climate of a place affect the kind of buildings that are built there?
4. Do you think fighting global climate change is a governmental responsibility or the
responsibility of individuals?
5. Many people prefer the winter season over the rainy or summer season. Why is it?