A2 Weather Part 10: Weather
Lesson 90 of 10 in this unit.
๐ Reading Passage
It rained all weekend in the small town of Brindle, and the two children of the Carter family felt bored. On Saturday morning, rain hit the windows so hard that they could not play football outside. Their mother suggested they build a tent in the living room using blankets and chairs. The children carried pillows, books, and biscuits into the tent and pretended they were explorers in a jungle. In the afternoon, their father taught them a card game that his grandmother had taught him. At first the rules seemed difficult, but after three rounds the children played well and laughed loudly. On Sunday the rain continued, so the family decided to bake a cake together. Each person had a job: the mother mixed the flour and eggs, the father heated the oven, the daughter added sugar, and the son watched the time. While the cake baked, they cleaned the house and listened to music on the radio. When the cake was ready, they drank hot chocolate and ate warm slices. The children said it was the best weekend in a long time, even though they never left the house. Sometimes bad weather brings a family closer together. In the end, small steady habits decide progress more than any single lesson, and learners who review a little each day keep what they study.
๐ Vocabulary
20 words from this lesson
- pioneer
- One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
- โThere are many Japanese restaurants in New York.โ
- prepared
- Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
- โThey discussed prepared during the lesson.โ
- reference
- A relationship or relation ( something).
- โThey discussed reference during the lesson.โ
- religion
- Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
- โThey discussed religion during the lesson.โ
- somewhere
- In an uncertain or unspecified location.
- โThey discussed somewhere during the lesson.โ
- stated
- Expressed in a statement; uttered or written.
- โThey discussed stated during the lesson.โ
- strategy
- The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
- โThey discussed strategy during the lesson.โ
- web
- The silken structure which a spider builds using silk secreted from the spinnerets at the caudal tip of its abdomen; a spiderweb.
- โThey discussed web during the lesson.โ
- wine
- An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
- โThey discussed wine during the lesson.โ
- arm
- The portion of the upper human appendage, from the shoulder to the wrist and sometimes including the hand.
- โThey discussed arm during the lesson.โ
- audience
- A group of people within hearing; specifically, a large gathering of people listening to or watching a performance, speech, etc.
- โThey discussed audience during the lesson.โ
- bay
- A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
- โThey discussed bay during the lesson.โ
- blog
- A website that allows users to reflect, share opinions, and discuss various topics in the form of an online journal, sometimes letting readers comment on their posts. Most blogs are written in a slightly informal tone (personal journals, news, businesses, etc.)
- โThey discussed blog during the lesson.โ
- closer
- Within a shorter distance.
- โThey discussed closer during the lesson.โ
- core
- , an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
- โThey discussed core during the lesson.โ
- rate
- The worth of something; value.
- โWe got three times as many people as we expected.โ
- description
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- โThey discussed description during the lesson.โ
- dropped
- allowed to drop or fall.
- โThey discussed dropped during the lesson.โ
- excellent
- Having excelled, having surpassed.
- โThey discussed excellent during the lesson.โ
- exist
- to be; have existence; have being or reality
- โThey discussed exist during the lesson.โ
๐ Grammar Notes
It plus be frames weather: it is rainy, it was windy. Past continuous sets background: rain was falling when we left. Future will predicts: it will clear by noon. Comparatives track change: colder than yesterday, the wettest week. Practice by labeling each sentence in the reading: underline the main verb, circle the time marker, and check that every they and it points to a named noun. Rewrite any three sentences in your own words while keeping tense and meaning intact. Theme: weather. Reading: The Rainy Weekend. As a final check, read the passage once more and label every verb for tense, every noun for countability, and every connector for function. Keep a short error log of your own recurring mistakes and review it before writing. This routine turns isolated rules into durable habits across all five hundred lessons.
Practice Exercises
Work through each exercise to complete this lesson.
More than 90 percent of visits to a ___ page are from search engines.
What does 'assembly' mean?
What does 'prepared' mean?
What does 'reference' mean?
What does 'religion' mean?
What does 'somewhere' mean?
What does 'stated' mean?
What does 'strategy' mean?
Write a sentence using 'assembly'.
Summarize the passage in two sentences.
More in this unit
- 81. A2 Weather Part 1: Weather
- 82. A2 Weather Part 2: Weather
- 83. A2 Weather Part 3: Weather
- 84. A2 Weather Part 4: Weather
- 85. A2 Weather Part 5: Weather
- 86. A2 Weather Part 6: Weather
- 87. A2 Weather Part 7: Weather
- 88. A2 Weather Part 8: Weather
- 89. A2 Weather Part 9: Weather
- 90. A2 Weather Part 10: Weather
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