A weather forecast

A weather forecast

Listen to a weather forecast and answer the questions to practise and improve your listening skills.

Do the preparation task first. Then listen to the audio and do the exercises.

Preparation

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Hello and good morning! Well, we're off to a good start in the south this week, as most of the rain from the weekend has disappeared – just a few patches of cloud and maybe some showers here on the east coast. They'll all clear up by lunchtime, though. Over the next day or so, London and the area around Kent can expect a couple of isolated showers, but mostly dry through until Thursday.

It's not such good news for the north-west this week, I'm afraid: more wet weather, and not a lot of sunshine. Some of today's showers will be heavy – and even thundery in Manchester and across the Pennines. Leeds will escape the thunderstorms, with drizzle and light rain only throughout the rest of the day and tonight.

Elsewhere it becomes dry today, but with some foggy patches towards Wales. In England, tomorrow morning will see a dry, bright start in most places, with high temperatures throughout the week. We might see one or two thunderstorms appearing as the week goes on, with temperatures everywhere at 29 to 30 degrees. 

By the weekend, unfortunately, the dry weather will make way for mostly cloudy skies and rain. The rain will move from Scotland, down towards the north and reach the south coast by Saturday afternoon. Temperatures, at least, will stay mostly warm at around 21 degrees for the weekend. It might feel like a nice change from the high twenties and early thirties we'll see in the week. That's all from me until tomorrow. Enjoy the mini-heatwave while you can!

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Submitted by younes01 on Fri, 22/04/2022 - 01:19

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for me, I love the hot weather because you don't need to put yourself on a carpet all the day and wear a lot of clothes
and on the mental side, I love it because the cold weather put my mind in a mood of getting on a carpet and get a hot drink and watch some movie unlike the hot weather that makes me enthusiastic to make new things and energetic

Submitted by Minhhanhtran on Thu, 21/04/2022 - 19:26

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Listening to the weather forecast is really hard for me because I don't understand and remember what they said. Even I read transcript, i can't remember the content to do the tasks.
I definitly like warm weather, I don't like rain and sunny. I only like rain at night when i go to bed

Submitted by Fabiano on Wed, 20/04/2022 - 16:39

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I prefer hot weather because I like going to the beach and I still hate wearing blouses.

Submitted by Bobidescultu on Tue, 29/03/2022 - 16:06

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I live in a country with four season but I mostly like warm because it s the perfect time to go out and play some football

Submitted by jos1724lu17 on Mon, 28/03/2022 - 03:03

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In my opinion, I prefer cold weather but it doesn't rain, I like cold weather because I can do all my activities relaxed without much heat, I'm not a big fan of heat, it suffocates me and doesn't allow me to be calm. My perfect days are when it's cold but it doesn't rain. Also, if I'm very cold, it's easy to solve. I just have a hot coffee and a good coat.

Submitted by Laxsus on Thu, 10/03/2022 - 00:50

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I prefer cloudy weather than the sunny one, also cold than hot temp.

Submitted by Miguelitorico1996 on Tue, 11/01/2022 - 22:21

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I prefer warm weather over cold weather.

Submitted by misty on Sat, 08/01/2022 - 20:55

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I was born and grew up in a country where there is only two weather seasons; summer, and rainy season. Obviously, I have a dream of moving to a place where there is winter. In addition, I wanted to experience snow, wear boots and winter jackets. But things change, now I live in a country where there is four weather season. At first, everything seems perfect experiencing cold season ,but I realize that I feel not very productive in this kind of weather. To sum up, I prefer warm weather than cold because I can be very productive at work at the same time I can be physically fit while enjoying a simple walk in the park.

Submitted by Ray Tam on Thu, 23/12/2021 - 01:15

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Generally speaking, I’d like autumn best throughout the year. Because it’s no any heatwaves to endure annoyingly and there’re fantastic colourful scenes that the leafs of the trees from green changing to yellow or red elsewhere during this season.
Even more, It’s relatively comfortable temperature to enjoys many outdoor sports just like jogging, running and hiking, etc.

Submitted by jmajo on Wed, 22/12/2021 - 14:53

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Well, I prefer the warm weather in spring rather than the hot weather in summer and the cold weather in winter, I don't really like the light rain or drizzle when I have to go to work by bicycle but the heatwaves in summer are the worse. It's a bit annoying when I'm travelling on the cycle path and start to rain really hard, so I need to find a patch covered by some roof to avoid getting wet, I usually use a stop bus to wait throughout the storm clear up and make way for the sunshine. In the winter we have a lot of storms with heavy rain and thunders and some places in the countryside get isolated by the flooded routes caused by the higher levels of water running by the rivers caused by the heavy rain.

Thanks for the lesson.
Great site!