6 Minute Vocabulary - Weather words

This is the BBC . This podcast is supported by advertising outside the . This is a download from BBC Learning English to find out more . Visit our website . Six minutes from BBC Learning English dot com . Hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary . I'm Rob . And I'm Catherine . And our topic today is weather . Now , Rob , apparently British people love to talk about the weather . Do you think that's true ? Absolutely . You know me . I'm talking about it all the time . Yeah , you do , actually . And in today's program , we'll look at some key weather vocabulary and show you how to use it in different types of sentences . There will be a quiz and we'll give you a top tip to help you learn vocabulary more effectively . So on with the show , and we'll start by listening to Harvey talking about the weather , where he lives , and we have a question for you at home . So the question is , what is the weather like for Harvey in spring ? I live in the north . I love it here , but the weather isn't too good . There's a lot of rain in the autumn and winter . In fact , it's raining right now . Sometimes it snows in the winter , in the spring , the weather's usually quite windy , but it's lovely and sunny in summer . So that's Harvey , and we asked you about the weather in spring . What's it like ? Harvey said that the weather gets quite windy in spring . Well done . If you got that right . And we'll talk more about windy weather later . First , let's talk about the rain . Listen to this clip . There's a lot of rain in the autumn and winter in this sentence , rain as a noun . So we can say there is a lot of rain or we can add a main verb . For example , I like rain . Rob , how do you feel about rain right ? I hate rain because I like to do a lot of cycling . And of course , when it rains , I get very wet . You do ? Yes . But the word rain can also be a verb . For example , it rains a lot here in London . In fact , look out the window . It's raining now . It's always raining , always raining in London . And we can add a letter Y to the end of rain to make the A. rainy . Rob , do you use an umbrella on rainy days ? No , I don't . I wear a coat . Yeah , more . More practical . More blokey . Well , blokey . Okay , so that's the noun rain . The verb rain and the adjective rainy . The word snow works in the same way . Listen to this clip . Sometimes it snows in the winter , sometimes it snows in winter . And the word snow . There is a verb as a noun . We can say sometimes there is snow or we can add the letter Y to make an adjective . Sometimes it's snowy . Good , right . But now another clip . Here's Harvey talking about the weather in spring . In the spring , the weather's usually quite windy . In the spring , the weather's usually quite windy in this sentence , Wendy is an adjective , and we can also use the word wind as a noun . So is there much wind today , Catherine ? There's quite a lot , actually . I got quite blown around . so that's wind as a noun and windy as an adjective . But we can't use wind as a verb . You have to use a different verb like blow . So the wind is blowing very hard today . Right . . And the word sun is the same . It's a noun . The sun is hot . It can make an adjective . It's lovely and sunny , but it isn't a verb . You need a different word for that . The sun is shining even though it isn't six minutes vocabulary from BBC learning English . And we're looking at whether words OK , it's quiz time . Are these sentences correct or wrong ? Are you ready for this ? Number one , it's sunning today and that's wrong . You can't say it's sunny because the sun isn't a verb . Instead , say it's sunny or the sun is shining . OK , here's number two . There was a lot of snow last week , and that's correct . And here comes the last one . I don't like Windy , and that's also wrong . Windy is an adjective . So we need to add a noun , say I don't like windy weather or use wind as a noun and say I don't like wind . And that's the end of the quiz . Well done . If you got those right . And we've just got time for a top tip for learning vocabulary , haven't we , Catherine ? We have and this is it . When you learn a new word for the first time , you'll learn it more effectively if you use it a few times in the first 24 hours . So if you learn a new word in the morning , Rob , look it up again in the evening before you go to sleep . OK , I'll do that . Thank you . OK , there's more about all this at BBC Learning English dot com . So join us again soon for more six minute vocabulary . .