Weather words
Learning English Vocabulary
BBC
4.5 • 523 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
The British love to talk about weather! Learn some useful vocabulary about it here.
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| 0:30.4 | Six-minute vocabulary. |
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| 0:37.9 | Hello and welcome to six-minute vocabulary. I'm Rob. |
| 0:41.9 | And I'm Catherine. And our topic today is weather. Now Rob, apparently British people love to talk |
| 0:49.9 | about the weather. Do you think that's true? Absolutely. You know me. I'm talking about it all the |
| 0:54.1 | time. |
| 0:54.7 | Yeah, you do, actually. |
| 0:56.0 | And in today's program, we'll look at some key weather vocabulary |
| 0:59.1 | and show you how to use it in different types of sentences. |
| 1:03.2 | There'll be a quiz. |
| 1:04.4 | And we'll give you a top tip to help you learn vocabulary more effectively. |
| 1:10.7 | So on with the show. And we'll start by listening to Harvey |
| 1:14.6 | talking about the weather where he lives and we have a question for you at home. So the question is, |
| 1:21.7 | what is the weather like for Harvey in spring? I live in the north. |
| 1:28.3 | I love it here, but the weather isn't too good. |
| 1:31.3 | There's a lot of rain in the autumn and winter. |
| 1:34.5 | In fact, it's raining right now. |
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