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Episode Synopsis
Today we are talking about words and phrases we can use to talk about hot weather.
If you live somewhere hot or you're travelling with native speakers, these are great words and phrases to use to describe where you are. Native English speakers (and the British especially) LOVE talking about the weather!
In the UK we get A LOT of different kinds of weather, so it's our most common small talk topic. If you're confident talking about the weather, you can strike up a conversation with ANYONE ANYWHERE! And once you're talking about the weather you can start asking questions and 😎 you've made a new friend! (Or at least practised your English!)
There are two other episodes where I talk about the weather, Episode 9 talks about wet weather (made before I started filming my episodes so the sound quality isn't great. Sorry😫) and Episode 68 which talks about phrases for the sun. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow when I'll be sharing some essential summer songs, there's even a playlist!
Today's vocabulary
Words to say it's hot and humid.
It's really close today
It's really muggy today.
It's so hot and sticky today, isn't it?
Words to say it's really hot.
It's a scorcher
It's scorching out here
It's boiling out here.
I'm boiling
It's stifling in here.
It's sweltering in here.
It's suffocating in here.
Words for when it's hot, but we like it!
It's glorious outside today.
It's tropical out there.
Phrases for when it's too hot.
I'm melting!
It's like an oven in here
It's like a sauna out here.
Temperatures are really soaring now.
Heatwave - describes a prolonged period of hotter than usual weather for the time of year.
Phrases for when we're sweating.
I'm sweating cobs
I'm sweating bullets.
Sweating like a pig
For when you got a bit (or a lot) sunburnt.
It looks like you caught a bit of the sun
Additional Vocabulary
oppressive weather - when it feels like a thunderstorm is coming
claustrophobic - a fear of small spaces, we can say we 'feel claustrophobic' when we feel like somewhere is small and hot, even if we're outside.
positive connotation - a positive relationship or connection or meaning
similes - a grammar point that compares one thing with another, often using the word 'like' to compare: 'it's like a sauna in here',
the irony is beyond me - irony is when something seems opposite to what we expect. 'the irony is beyond me' is a phrase that means 'this is too stupid', in this case each group is being told the opposite thing, we can't all be right!
If you live somewhere hot or you're travelling with native speakers, these are great words and phrases to use to describe where you are. Native English speakers (and the British especially) LOVE talking about the weather!
In the UK we get A LOT of different kinds of weather, so it's our most common small talk topic. If you're confident talking about the weather, you can strike up a conversation with ANYONE ANYWHERE! And once you're talking about the weather you can start asking questions and 😎 you've made a new friend! (Or at least practised your English!)
There are two other episodes where I talk about the weather, Episode 9 talks about wet weather (made before I started filming my episodes so the sound quality isn't great. Sorry😫) and Episode 68 which talks about phrases for the sun. Don't forget to tune in tomorrow when I'll be sharing some essential summer songs, there's even a playlist!
Today's vocabulary
Words to say it's hot and humid.
It's really close today
It's really muggy today.
It's so hot and sticky today, isn't it?
Words to say it's really hot.
It's a scorcher
It's scorching out here
It's boiling out here.
I'm boiling
It's stifling in here.
It's sweltering in here.
It's suffocating in here.
Words for when it's hot, but we like it!
It's glorious outside today.
It's tropical out there.
Phrases for when it's too hot.
I'm melting!
It's like an oven in here
It's like a sauna out here.
Temperatures are really soaring now.
Heatwave - describes a prolonged period of hotter than usual weather for the time of year.
Phrases for when we're sweating.
I'm sweating cobs
I'm sweating bullets.
Sweating like a pig
For when you got a bit (or a lot) sunburnt.
It looks like you caught a bit of the sun
Additional Vocabulary
oppressive weather - when it feels like a thunderstorm is coming
claustrophobic - a fear of small spaces, we can say we 'feel claustrophobic' when we feel like somewhere is small and hot, even if we're outside.
positive connotation - a positive relationship or connection or meaning
similes - a grammar point that compares one thing with another, often using the word 'like' to compare: 'it's like a sauna in here',
the irony is beyond me - irony is when something seems opposite to what we expect. 'the irony is beyond me' is a phrase that means 'this is too stupid', in this case each group is being told the opposite thing, we can't all be right!
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