Discussion Questions and Vocabulary: Weather & Climate

Discussion Questions

1. What’s your favorite season and why? 
2. Do you have any particular ‘seasonal activities?
3. Which do you like better – hot weather or cold weather?
4. If you could live in any kind of climate, which would you choose? Why?
5. What have been your most memorable weather experiences? (scary, unpleasant, beautiful?
6. Have you or people you know experienced a natural disaster?
7. How does weather affect your mood? Do you suffer from S.A.D.?
8. Do you remember the first time you saw snow?
9. What are your feelings about climate change?
10. How often do you check the weather forecast? Every morning/evening?
11. Can you read and understand weather maps along with all the signs and symbols?
12. Do you have a favorite weather person on TV?
13. What is the hottest/coldest natural temperature you have experienced? 
14. Have you ever had your holidays ruined because of bad weather?
15. Have you ever been through a storm on a plane or at sea? Has that experience given you a fear of traveling by air or sea?
16. How do you feel about being in the sun? Do you wear sunblock, wide-brim visors, or other protective items? Use a parasol? Do you burn easily? Have you ever been seriously sunburned?

Vocabulary      

barometer 기압계 blizzard 눈보라 Celsius 섭씨 chill 냉기 cyclone 집진 장치 dew 이슬 downpour 호우 drought 가뭄 drizzle 이슬비 Fahrenheit 화씨 fog 안개

forecast 예측 frost 서리 hail 빗발 hazy 흐릿한 humidity 습기 hurricane 허리케인 meteorology 기상학 muggy 찌는 듯이 더운 precipitation 강수량 pressure 압력 radar 레이더

rainbow 무지개 sizzling hot 지글 지글 핫 sleet 진눈깨비 thermometer 온도계 tidal wave 조석 파 thunder 우뢰 thunderstorm 뇌우 tornado 폭풍 tsunami 쓰나미 typhoon 태풍

Weather-related Idioms

• Any port in a storm
  when an emergency any solution will do, even one that would normally be unacceptable.
• Calm before the storm
  A quiet time immediately before a period of violent activity or argument 
• Chase rainbows
  when someone pursues something that they are unlikely to achieve.
• Cloud on the horizon
  seeing a problem ahead 
• Come rain or shine
  a person will do something or an action will happen regardless of challenging obstacles
• Dry spell
  when someone is not being as successful as they normally are.
• Every cloud has a silver lining
  finding something  positive in a negative situation
• Fairweather friend
  a person who is always there when times are good but forgets about you when things get difficult  
• Get wind of
  to hear or learn about something, especially if it was meant to be secret.
• Head is in the clouds
  someone who has unrealistic, impractical ideas or is not focused on what is being discussed
• In a fog  
  confused, dazed, or unaware.
• Into each life, some rain must fall
  difficult or unfortunate things will happen to everyone at some time.
• It never rains but it pours
  when bad things happen, they go very wrong.
• Know which way the wind blows
  to know how things are developing and be prepared for the future.
• Not know enough to come in out of the rain
  Someone who doesn’t know enough to avoid a difficult situation
• Rain on your parade
   when someone ruins others’ pleasure or plans.
• Seven sheets to the wind
  to be very drunk
• Shoot the breeze
  to chat in a relaxed way.
• Steal someone’s thunder
  to take the credit and praise for something someone else did
• Stem the tide
  trying to stop something unpleasant from getting worse..
• Take by storm
  to gain sudden acclaim or popularity
• Throw caution to the wind
    to engage in risky, careless behavior
• Twisting in the wind
  to be on your own after being left without help or support

 

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