📚 Vocabulary Standard Say it yourself

Weather and seasons

Understand and give a simple weather report and talk about seasonal conditions.

Weather uses several fixed patterns: hace + noun/adjective, hay + noun, está + adjective/gerund, and impersonal verbs.

Patterns to reuse
Hace frío/calor/sol/viento.
It is cold/hot/sunny/windy.
AH-theh FREE-oh
Hay niebla/nubes/tormenta.
There is fog/cloud/storm.
eye NYEH-blah
Está nublado. / Está lloviendo.
It is cloudy/raining.
ehs-TAH noo-BLAH-doh
Llueve / Nieva.
It rains/snows.
YWEH-beh
Watch out for
Es frío.
Hace frío.

General weather temperature uses hacer.

Hace lluvia.
Llueve / Está lloviendo.

Rain normally uses llover.

Hoy hace sol, pero hace frío.
Today it is sunny but cold.
oy AH-theh sohl, PEH-roh AH-theh FREE-oh
En Manchester llueve mucho.
It rains a lot in Manchester.
ehn mahn-chehs-TEHR YWEH-beh MOO-choh
Mañana está nublado.
Tomorrow it is cloudy.
mah-NYAH-nah ehs-TAH noo-BLAH-doh
En verano hace bastante calor.
In summer it is quite hot.
ehn beh-RAH-noh AH-theh bahs-TAHN-teh kah-LOHR
Seasons
la primaverael veranoel otoñoel invierno
Temperature
Hace veinte grados.La temperatura máxima/mínima.
Question

¿Qué tiempo hace?

Try it out loud
production
Describe today’s weather and your preferred season.
What to include

Use two weather patterns.

choice
Choose hace, hay, está or llueve for four weather descriptions.
What to include

Match each collocation, not an English “is”.

listening
Listen to a short forecast and note temperature, rain and wind.
What to include

Capture only key facts.

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  • I can answer ¿Qué tiempo hace? naturally.
  • I recognise the main weather constructions.

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