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A2 Weather Part 10: Weather

Lesson 90 of 10 in this unit.

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๐Ÿ“– Reading Passage

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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.

๐Ÿ“˜ Vocabulary

20 words from this lesson

pioneer
One who goes before, as into the wilderness, preparing the way for others to follow.
โ€œThere are many Japanese restaurants in New York.โ€
prepared
Disposed, willing, ready (to do something).
โ€œThey discussed prepared during the lesson.โ€
reference
A relationship or relation ( something).
โ€œThey 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.
โ€œThey discussed religion during the lesson.โ€
somewhere
In an uncertain or unspecified location.
โ€œThey discussed somewhere during the lesson.โ€
stated
Expressed in a statement; uttered or written.
โ€œThey discussed stated during the lesson.โ€
strategy
The science and art of military command as applied to the overall planning and conduct of warfare.
โ€œThey 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.
โ€œThey discussed web during the lesson.โ€
wine
An alcoholic beverage made by fermenting grape juice, with an ABV ranging from 5.5–16%.
โ€œThey 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.
โ€œThey 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.
โ€œThey discussed audience during the lesson.โ€
bay
A body of water (especially the sea) contained by a concave shoreline.
โ€œThey 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.)
โ€œThey discussed blog during the lesson.โ€
closer
Within a shorter distance.
โ€œThey discussed closer during the lesson.โ€
core
, an essential part of a thing surrounded by other essential things.
โ€œThey discussed core during the lesson.โ€
rate
The worth of something; value.
โ€œWe 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.
โ€œThey discussed description during the lesson.โ€
dropped
allowed to drop or fall.
โ€œThey discussed dropped during the lesson.โ€
excellent
Having excelled, having surpassed.
โ€œThey discussed excellent during the lesson.โ€
exist
to be; have existence; have being or reality
โ€œThey discussed exist during the lesson.โ€

๐Ÿ“ 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.

1

More than 90 percent of visits to a ___ page are from search engines.

2

What does 'assembly' mean?

3

What does 'prepared' mean?

4

What does 'reference' mean?

5

What does 'religion' mean?

6

What does 'somewhere' mean?

7

What does 'stated' mean?

8

What does 'strategy' mean?

9

Write a sentence using 'assembly'.

10

Summarize the passage in two sentences.

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