VOCABULARY - UPPER-INTEMEDIATE
The Weather [T2]
What’s the weather like?
It’s ____________ / The weather is ______________
cool fresco |
chilly frío (n) |
cold frío (adj) |
freezing congelación (str adj) |
below zero bajo cero |
mild templado |
warm cálido |
hot caluroso |
scorching quemando |
boiling hirviendo |
damp húmedo |
drizziling llovizna |
showers chuvasco (intermit.) |
raining /wet lluvioso |
pouring with rain torrencial |
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breeze brisa |
windy ventoso |
gale-force winds vientos huracanad. |
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EXTREME WEATHER
- drought = sequía /draug/
- heatwave = ola de calor
- hailstorm = granizada
- blizzard = ventisca
- flood = inundación
- thunder = trueno
- lighting = relámpago
- tornado = tornado (mov. circular) /torneido/
- hurricane = huracán (vientos del oeste del océano atlántico)
- monsoon = monzón (lluvia de días en Asia Meridional, India) /monsún/
ADJECTIVES
- bright = brillante
- sunny = soleado
- clear = claro
- changeable = cambiante, variable
- strong = fuerte, intenso (eg strong winds)
- heavy = fuerte, intenso
- thick= denso (eg thick frog) /zic/
- icy = helado
- settled = asentado (opposite changeable)
- dry = seco (eg dry periods)
ADJECTIVES & VERBS
- humid = húmedo
- slippery = resbaladizo
- got soaked = empapado
- melt = derretir
- be shivering = estar tiritando
- be sweating = estar sudando
- get sunburnt = queadura solar
OTHERS
- mist = neblina, bruma, vaho
- fog = niebla, bruma
- smog = niebla con humo, calina