A2 Weather Part 2: Weather
Lesson 82 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
- stone
- A hard earthen substance that can form rocks; especially, such substance when regarded as a building material.
- โThey discussed stone during the lesson.โ
- strength
- The quality or degree of being strong.
- โThey discussed strength during the lesson.โ
- wild
- Untamed; not domesticated.
- โThey discussed wild during the lesson.โ
- window
- An opening, usually covered by one or more panes of clear glass, to allow light and air from outside to enter a building or vehicle.
- โThey discussed window during the lesson.โ
- winner
- One who has won or often wins.
- โThey discussed winner during the lesson.โ
- bag
- A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
- โThey discussed bag during the lesson.โ
- bet
- A wager, an agreement between two parties that a stake (usually money) will be paid by the loser to the winner (the winner being the one who correctly forecast the outcome of an event).
- โHis claim is that there is a close relation between birth order and personality.โ
- camp
- An outdoor place acting as temporary accommodation in tents or other simple structures.
- โThey discussed camp during the lesson.โ
- cast
- To direct (one's eyes, gaze etc.).
- โThey discussed cast during the lesson.โ
- christ
- .
- โThey discussed christ during the lesson.โ
- correct
- Free from error; true; accurate.
- โThey discussed correct during the lesson.โ
- dangerous
- Full of danger.
- โThey discussed dangerous during the lesson.โ
- ed
- edition
- โThe crowd filled the hall.โ
- extremely
- To an extreme degree.
- โThey discussed extremely during the lesson.โ
- firm
- A business partnership; the name under which it trades.
- โThey discussed firm during the lesson.โ
- handle
- The part of an object which is (designed to be) held in the hand when used or moved.
- โThey discussed handle during the lesson.โ
- improve
- To make (something) better; to increase the value or productivity (of something).
- โThey discussed improve during the lesson.โ
- indeed
- or truly.
- โThey discussed indeed during the lesson.โ
- leaves
- :
- โThey discussed leaves during the lesson.โ
- movies
- The cinema
- โThey discussed movies 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.
I tripped over a ___ and fell to the ground.
That TV station only broad___s movies.
Minutes of the previous meeting were accept___.
What does 'stone' mean?
What does 'strength' mean?
What does 'wild' mean?
What does 'window' mean?
What does 'winner' mean?
Write a sentence using 'stone'.
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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