This English lesson provides vocabulary and phrases to describe bad weather, its effects, and related situations, ranging from informal colloquialisms to formal terminology.
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Well, hello and welcome to this
English lesson about bad weather.
Thankfully, it has stopped raining,
but earlier today it was raining.
And today, overall,
it's just bad weather.
In English, when we say
it's bad weather, we mean
it's raining or snowing.
When we say it's good weather,
we usually mean it's
nice and sunny and warm.
But right now we're having
a little bit of bad weather.
If I was to use other words
to describe this weather
in English, I would say
it's a miserable day, but.
Or it's a gross day,
or it's a crappy day.
That would be an informal way
to describe the weather.
The weather like this.
I also might add out there
or out here to the end.
I might say, it's
miserable out there today.
It's miserable out here today,
it's crappy out here today,
it's crappy out there today.
Or it's gross out here today,
it's gross out there today.
It all depends on where I am
at the moment, because
I'm actually out here.
I would use here
in all those examples.
But anyways, welcome to this
English lesson about bad weather.
I've actually been waiting for
a, day like this where we have
some bad weather, so I could make
this English lesson for you.
So I mentioned a few ways to
informally describe the weather,
but how would you formally
describe weather like this?
If you were watching the news,
the weather forecast, they would
probably say, we're having adverse
weather conditions.
It's quite a mouthful.
Adverse weather conditions.
You might read the forecast and it
might say, tomorrow there will
be adverse weather conditions
in the morning, please
leave early for work.
Another phrase we might use to talk
about the weather formally,
is to simply say that we're going
to have inclement weather.
Now, I pronounce the word
inclement the American way, even
though I'm Canadian, I think
the British way is inclement.
I shouldn't even try to pronounce
things like a British person,
but when you say you're
going to have inclement weather,
it means the same thing.
If you have adverse weather
conditions or inclement weather.
It means it's going to be raining,
it's going to be snowing, maybe.
And, it might even involve
a little bit of wind and it might
even be really, really cold.
So adverse weather conditions.
A very formal way to describe bad
weather and inclement weather,
another way to formally
describe bad weather.
So sometimes when you have bad
weather, bad things happen.
The first thing I want
to describe to you is
to be caught in the rain.
When you are caught in the rain,
it simply means that there were
clouds in the sky, you were
walking, and then it started
to rain while you were walking.
So maybe you drive into
the parking lot at work and as you
get out of your car, it starts
to drizzle a little bit.
And then as you walk
to the building, you get
caught in the rain.
It starts to rain really,
really hard, and you
get caught in the rain.
And then there's a couple
ways to describe what
just happened to you.
You could go into your place of
work and say, I got drenched.
Or you could say, I got soaked.
So when you are in the rain,
when you get caught in the
rain, and when your clothes
are, basically all wet, you
could say, I'm drenched or I'm
soaked or I got drenched or I
got soaked.
So when you describe weather
and the actions that can
happen, you can get caught
in the rain, you can get drenched,
and you can get soaked.
You might be wondering, though,
what kind of things can happen to
you if it's snowing instead
of raining. Well if you're
driving in your car, you could go
in the ditch or you could go off
the road.
When there's a lot of snow on
the road, sometimes it gets packed
down and it almost turns to ice
and it's very, very slippery.
It's very, very slippery.
Sorry, I'm, for some reason
having trouble
pronouncing my words today.
So when the road is slippery,
you could lose control.
That means your car isn't going in
the direction you want it to go.
And then you could go in the ditch
if you're out in the countryside.
Or you could simply go off
the road if you are in the city.
So what happens when it snows?
Sometimes the roads
are treacherous.
Sometimes you lose control,
sometimes you go in the ditch,
sometimes you go off the road.
But what might happen if
you're not in a car?
Maybe you're just walking
along and the sidewalk is
a little bit slippery.
You might slip and fall.
Sorry, I didn't actually
slip and fall there.
That was probably a bad idea.
What if I had actually
slipped and fell?
I might have hurt myself,
and I might have broken my camera.
But anyways, maybe you're walking
on a surface that is slippery.
Maybe there's a lot of snow
and ice on the sidewalk.
And then there's always
the potential that you
might slip and fall.
Sorry, I forgot
to explain the difference.
When you slip, that's
when your feet slide.
And then when you fall, it means,
your whole body goes
down and hits the ground.
I was supposed to explain
that when I explained
the phrase slip and fall.
So the first thing
you do is you slip.
The second thing you do
is you fall.
So, as many of you know,
the Toronto Blue Jays, my
favorite baseball team, just
lost the World Series.
And I thought maybe I should
talk a little bit about
bad weather and sports
in this English lesson as well.
In sports, when it starts to rain,
sometimes they have
to stop playing for a little bit
and we call that a rain delay.
So if they're playing a baseball
game or a football game or
soccer game and they're only
half done and it starts to rain,
they might pause, and have a
rain delay and wait for the rain
to stop.
And then if the rain doesn't
stop, they might say
the game is rained out.
When something is rained out, it
means it started, it started
to rain during the event or during
the game, and eventually they
decided to not finish it.
The game is rained out.
And other things can be
rained out as well.
If you're going to an outdoor
festival or a fair and it starts
to rain, you might want
to go on social media to check
if it has been rained out.
So if a sporting
event starts and they have
to pause due to the rain,
it's called a rain delay.
And if they decide to stop,
playing altogether, we would
say the game is rained out.
Well, hey, thank you so much
for watching this little
short English lesson.
Maybe it's medium length.
Maybe this is a medium length
English lesson about bad weather,
about inclement weather,
about adverse weather conditions.
I hope you were able to learn
some new English words and phrases
that you can use
in your next English conversation.
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see you next week
with another English lesson.
Bye.
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