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The naughtiest thing in the world is the weather. It’s always like a capricious woman who always does the opposite to what you ask her.
When you want to go for a picnic in the open air ask the skies to remain clear and the day to be fine. Nervously you switch on the radio and listen to the weather forecast. You tremble with joy to hear that it’ll stay warm and dry with bright sunshine. Your imagination draws a hot summer afternoon and you say: “ Nice weather we are having today! ” You take a lot of food and no warm clothes, go to the countryside but … do not get anything sunny.
You get it cloudy and cool which ends with a thunder shower. The sky is so heavily cast with clouds, the thunder and flashes of lightning are so frightening that you’ve got no illusions. You throw away the food and go back hungry and angry. And when you are approaching your home soaked to skin it suddenly brightens up.
And it is always like this. When you go skiing and want to have frosty weather with a lot of snow, it starts thawing and your skis sink in the slush. Instead of a snowfal l you get excellent sleet.
When you go in the car to the country and enjoy nice weather and a beautiful view of a rainbow in the blue sky, you pay no attention to some haze on the horizon. Some time later a thin mist in the distance turns into a thick fog and you spend lovely two hours instead of one at the steering wheel.
To tell the truth, sometimes the weather is ashamed and turns to the better. But not always. More often, it sticks to its own pattern and after a short warm spell turns bad again.
Why is it always like this? Maybe, because the weather likes surprises and wants to bring in adventures to our life and break the boring routine with marvellous happenings?
TEXT EXERCISES
Exercise 1. Read and translate the text.
Exercise 2. Write out into your notebook all expressions to describe good or bad weather in the text:
good weather bad weather
Exercise 3. Ask questions covering the contexts of the text for your fellow-students and answer them.
Exercise 4. Write out underlined words and word-combinations and make up a situations of yours.
Exercise 5. What is your attitude to weather? Do you also believe that it’s the naughtiest thing of the world? Share your points of view using the following paranthetical constructions:
- on the one hand
- on the other hand
- in other words
- in short
- in any case
- in turn
- at the same time
- As far as I know…
- It seems to me that…
- I believe that …
- I suppose that…
- No doubt, that…
- As it turns out
CONVERSATION PRACTICE
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