A2 Weather Part 5: Weather
Lesson 85 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
- copy
- The result of copying; an identical or nearly identical duplicate of an original.
- โThey discussed copy during the lesson.โ
- dear
- High in price; expensive.
- โThey discussed dear during the lesson.โ
- dogs
- Feet, from rhyming slang dog's meat.
- โThey discussed dogs during the lesson.โ
- garden
- An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- โThey discussed garden during the lesson.โ
- host
- One which receives or entertains a guest, socially, commercially, or officially.
- โThey discussed host during the lesson.โ
- housing
- The activity of enclosing something or providing a residence for someone.
- โThey discussed housing during the lesson.โ
- inc
- .
- โThey discussed inc during the lesson.โ
- journal
- A diary or daily record of a person, organization, vessel etc.; daybook.
- โThey discussed journal during the lesson.โ
- labor
- .
- โThey discussed labor during the lesson.โ
- leadership
- The capacity of someone to lead others.
- โThey discussed leadership during the lesson.โ
- length
- The distance measured along the longest dimension of an object.
- โThey discussed length during the lesson.โ
- lucky
- Favoured by luck; fortunate; having good success or good fortune.
- โThey discussed lucky during the lesson.โ
- neither
- Not one of two; not either; not one or the other.
- โThey discussed neither during the lesson.โ
- onto
- Arriving upon or on top of (speaking of a physical or metaphorical movement).
- โThey discussed onto during the lesson.โ
- patient
- Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
- โThey discussed patient during the lesson.โ
- possibly
- ;
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- prove
- To demonstrate that something is true or viable; to give proof for; to bear out; to testify.
- โThey discussed prove during the lesson.โ
- rare
- Very uncommon; scarce.
- โThey discussed rare during the lesson.โ
- setting
- The time, place and circumstance in which something (such as a story or picture) is set; context; scenario.
- โThey discussed setting during the lesson.โ
- software
- Encoded computer instructions, usually modifiable (unless stored in some form of unalterable memory such as ROM).
- โThey discussed software 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.
What does 'copy' mean?
What does 'dear' mean?
What does 'dogs' mean?
What does 'garden' mean?
What does 'host' mean?
What does 'housing' mean?
What does 'inc' mean?
What does 'journal' mean?
Write a sentence using 'copy'.
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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