0:00 Well, hello and welcome to this
0:01 English lesson about bad weather.
0:03 Thankfully, it has stopped raining,
0:05 but earlier today it was raining.
0:07 And today, overall,
0:08 it's just bad weather.
0:10 In English, when we say
0:11 it's bad weather, we mean
0:12 it's raining or snowing.
0:14 When we say it's good weather,
0:15 we usually mean it's
0:16 nice and sunny and warm.
0:17 But right now we're having
0:18 a little bit of bad weather.
0:20 If I was to use other words
0:22 to describe this weather
0:23 in English, I would say
0:25 it's a miserable day, but.
0:26 Or it's a gross day,
0:27 or it's a crappy day.
0:29 That would be an informal way
0:30 to describe the weather.
0:32 The weather like this.
0:33 I also might add out there
0:35 or out here to the end.
0:36 I might say, it's
0:37 miserable out there today.
0:39 It's miserable out here today,
0:41 it's crappy out here today,
0:42 it's crappy out there today.
0:44 Or it's gross out here today,
0:46 it's gross out there today.
0:48 It all depends on where I am
0:50 at the moment, because
0:51 I'm actually out here.
0:53 I would use here
0:53 in all those examples.
0:54 But anyways, welcome to this
0:56 English lesson about bad weather.
0:58 I've actually been waiting for
0:59 a, day like this where we have
1:01 some bad weather, so I could make
1:02 this English lesson for you.
1:04 So I mentioned a few ways to
1:06 informally describe the weather,
1:08 but how would you formally
1:09 describe weather like this?
1:11 If you were watching the news,
1:14 the weather forecast, they would
1:15 probably say, we're having adverse
1:18 weather conditions.
1:19 It's quite a mouthful.
1:20 Adverse weather conditions.
1:22 You might read the forecast and it
1:24 might say, tomorrow there will
1:25 be adverse weather conditions
1:27 in the morning, please
1:28 leave early for work.
1:30 Another phrase we might use to talk
1:32 about the weather formally,
1:33 is to simply say that we're going
1:35 to have inclement weather.
1:37 Now, I pronounce the word
1:38 inclement the American way, even
1:40 though I'm Canadian, I think
1:42 the British way is inclement.
1:44 I shouldn't even try to pronounce
1:45 things like a British person,
1:47 but when you say you're
1:48 going to have inclement weather,
1:49 it means the same thing.
1:51 If you have adverse weather
1:53 conditions or inclement weather.
1:55 It means it's going to be raining,
1:56 it's going to be snowing, maybe.
1:58 And, it might even involve
1:59 a little bit of wind and it might
2:01 even be really, really cold.
2:02 So adverse weather conditions.
2:04 A very formal way to describe bad
2:06 weather and inclement weather,
2:08 another way to formally
2:09 describe bad weather.
2:12 So sometimes when you have bad
2:13 weather, bad things happen.
2:15 The first thing I want
2:16 to describe to you is
2:18 to be caught in the rain.
2:20 When you are caught in the rain,
2:21 it simply means that there were
2:23 clouds in the sky, you were
2:25 walking, and then it started
2:27 to rain while you were walking.
2:28 So maybe you drive into
2:30 the parking lot at work and as you
2:32 get out of your car, it starts
2:33 to drizzle a little bit.
2:34 And then as you walk
2:35 to the building, you get
2:36 caught in the rain.
2:37 It starts to rain really,
2:39 really hard, and you
2:40 get caught in the rain.
2:41 And then there's a couple
2:42 ways to describe what
2:43 just happened to you.
2:44 You could go into your place of
2:46 work and say, I got drenched.
2:48 Or you could say, I got soaked.
2:51 So when you are in the rain,
2:52 when you get caught in the
2:53 rain, and when your clothes
2:54 are, basically all wet, you
2:56 could say, I'm drenched or I'm
2:59 soaked or I got drenched or I
3:01 got soaked.
3:02 So when you describe weather
3:04 and the actions that can
3:05 happen, you can get caught
3:07 in the rain, you can get drenched,
3:09 and you can get soaked.
3:11 You might be wondering, though,
3:12 what kind of things can happen to
3:13 you if it's snowing instead
3:15 of raining. Well if you're
3:17 driving in your car, you could go
3:18 in the ditch or you could go off
3:20 the road.
3:21 When there's a lot of snow on
3:22 the road, sometimes it gets packed
3:24 down and it almost turns to ice
3:26 and it's very, very slippery.
3:29 It's very, very slippery.
3:30 Sorry, I'm, for some reason
3:32 having trouble
3:32 pronouncing my words today.
3:34 So when the road is slippery,
3:36 you could lose control.
3:38 That means your car isn't going in
3:40 the direction you want it to go.
3:42 And then you could go in the ditch
3:43 if you're out in the countryside.
3:45 Or you could simply go off
3:46 the road if you are in the city.
3:48 So what happens when it snows?
3:50 Sometimes the roads
3:51 are treacherous.
3:52 Sometimes you lose control,
3:54 sometimes you go in the ditch,
3:56 sometimes you go off the road.
3:58 But what might happen if
3:59 you're not in a car?
4:00 Maybe you're just walking
4:02 along and the sidewalk is
4:03 a little bit slippery.
4:04 You might slip and fall.
4:07 Sorry, I didn't actually
4:08 slip and fall there.
4:09 That was probably a bad idea.
4:10 What if I had actually
4:11 slipped and fell?
4:12 I might have hurt myself,
4:14 and I might have broken my camera.
4:15 But anyways, maybe you're walking
4:18 on a surface that is slippery.
4:19 Maybe there's a lot of snow
4:21 and ice on the sidewalk.
4:22 And then there's always
4:23 the potential that you
4:24 might slip and fall.
4:26 Sorry, I forgot
4:27 to explain the difference.
4:28 When you slip, that's
4:30 when your feet slide.
4:32 And then when you fall, it means,
4:34 your whole body goes
4:35 down and hits the ground.
4:37 I was supposed to explain
4:38 that when I explained
4:39 the phrase slip and fall.
4:41 So the first thing
4:41 you do is you slip.
4:43 The second thing you do
4:44 is you fall.
4:46 So, as many of you know,
4:47 the Toronto Blue Jays, my
4:49 favorite baseball team, just
4:50 lost the World Series.
4:51 And I thought maybe I should
4:53 talk a little bit about
4:54 bad weather and sports
4:55 in this English lesson as well.
4:57 In sports, when it starts to rain,
5:00 sometimes they have
5:00 to stop playing for a little bit
5:02 and we call that a rain delay.
5:04 So if they're playing a baseball
5:05 game or a football game or
5:07 soccer game and they're only
5:08 half done and it starts to rain,
5:10 they might pause, and have a
5:12 rain delay and wait for the rain
5:13 to stop.
5:14 And then if the rain doesn't
5:15 stop, they might say
5:16 the game is rained out.
5:18 When something is rained out, it
5:20 means it started, it started
5:21 to rain during the event or during
5:23 the game, and eventually they
5:25 decided to not finish it.
5:27 The game is rained out.
5:28 And other things can be
5:29 rained out as well.
5:30 If you're going to an outdoor
5:32 festival or a fair and it starts
5:34 to rain, you might want
5:35 to go on social media to check
5:37 if it has been rained out.
5:39 So if a sporting
5:40 event starts and they have
5:41 to pause due to the rain,
5:43 it's called a rain delay.
5:44 And if they decide to stop,
5:46 playing altogether, we would
5:48 say the game is rained out.
5:50 Well, hey, thank you so much
5:51 for watching this little
5:52 short English lesson.
5:53 Maybe it's medium length.
5:55 Maybe this is a medium length
5:56 English lesson about bad weather,
5:58 about inclement weather,
5:59 about adverse weather conditions.
6:01 I hope you were able to learn
6:02 some new English words and phrases
6:04 that you can use
6:04 in your next English conversation.
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