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I'm Neil. And I'm Beth.
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Hi, Beth, how are you today?
I'm very well, thank you, Neil.
How are you? Well, the sun is shining today, Beth, so I'm very happy.
What are we talking about in today's episode?
Well, funnily enough, we are talking about the weather.
Excellent! In the UK, we love to talk about the weather because it changes a lot.
It does. It can be raining and then sunny – all sorts of temperatures in just one day!
But what's the weather like today?
Well, today it's sunny.
There are blue skies.
It's really nice but later on it's supposed to get very hot.
Boiling. Mmm, boiling.
Boiling is water that's 100 degrees.
It has those bubbles in it.
But we use boiling also to talk about very hot weather.
Do you like it when it's boiling, Neil?
No, I don't like it when it's boiling.
I like it when it's warm and sunny, but if it's boiling, that's too hot for me.
I would agree. What sort of weather do you like?
I like it when it's sunny.
I don't mind if it's cold on a sunny day.
It's fine for me. Yeah, we have that in the winter quite a lot here.
It might be blue sky, sunshine, but freezing – really cold.
Mmm, freezing. Freezing is literally zero degrees when the water turns into ice but also we use freezing just to mean that something is very cold.
Yeah so for example, if you forget your coat then you might be very cold.
You say, oh, it's freezing but actually, maybe it's ten degrees outside.
Yeah... I went camping at the weekend, Beth.
Ooh, very nice. The weather is very important when you're camping.
It is. How was it? It was warm and sunny in the daytime and, at night -time, the temperature dropped.
It felt freezing. It wasn't freezing but it felt very, very cold.
Yeah, that happens.
When you go camping in the UK.
Did it rain? It didn't rain.
I was very lucky. There was only one short shower.
You had a shower? No. I was camping.
You were dirty! But we can use the word shower to mean a short time of rain.
Yeah, we often hear about showers on the weather forecast. They say there will be showers today, which means rain on and off.
In the UK, the weather is very important for our plans, especially in the summer.
So, Beth, do you have any plans?
What are you doing this weekend?
Well, I am meeting some friends and the weather will be important because if it is sunny and warm, then we will go for a walk but if it's raining we might stay inside.
What about you? Well, my son plays cricket and he has a match at the weekend but if it's raining he won't play cricket because you can't play cricket in the rain.
Well, hopefully, it won't be too hot later because we don't like boiling weather, do we Beth?
No, definitely not.
Let's look at the vocabulary we learned during the conversation.
We had boiling, which we used to say that it's very hot.
Freezing, which we used to say that it's very cold.
Showers rain for short amounts of time.
And we learnt a way to talk about possibilities using if.
For example, if it's sunny this weekend I'll go for a walk.
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