- •Ю. В. Корженевич
- •Введение
- •Part I Unit 1 healthy life style
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Healthy Lifestyle
- •Tips For Being Healthy
- •Healthy Food
- •Inactivity and Health Problems
- •Unit 2 the problems of Environmental protection
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •The Problem of Environmental Protection
- •Nature Protection
- •Water Pollution
- •Unit 3 New Technologies in Biology and Medicine
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Nanoscience and Nanotechnology in Biology and Medicine
- •Cloning
- •Caution is the parent of safety.
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Garden and landscape design
- •Aspects of landscape architecture
- •Understanding the Language of Landscape Design
- •Examples of the Application of Colour Theory
- •The main principles of garden design
- •Unit 5 climate
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Climate
- •Climate classification
- •World Climate Zones
- •Köppen Climate Classification System
- •Weather
- •Unit 6 types of fish
- •Vocabulary Exercises
- •Classes of fish
- •Aquaculture in the Republic of Belarus
- •Part II
- •Supplementary reading
- •Maladies of the 21st century
- •Smoking
- •Alcohol
- •Unit 2 Fauna Protection and Reserve Management in Belarus
- •Unit 3 a dna Library
- •Unit 4 Lisbjerg Green Quality Plan
- •Unit 5 The problem of global warming
- •Inland water fisheries
- •International cooperation
- •Literature
- •Contents
Unit 5 climate
Topical Vocabulary
The Weather - Describing the Weather
breeze
breezy
bright
clear
cloud
cloudy
damp
drizzle
drizzly
dry
dull
fog
foggy
hailstone
lightning
rain
raindrop
rainfall
rainy
shower
showery
snow
snowfall
snowflake
snowy
storm
stormy
sun
sunny
sunshine
thunder
wet
wind
windy
The Weather - The Temperature
chilly
cold
freezing
hot
mild
scorching
warm
The Weather - Verbs
glow
freeze
Погода - Описание погоды
бриз, легкий ветерок
свежий, прохладный, живой
ясно, яркий
безоблачный
облако, туча, небеса
облачный, хмурый, неясный, пасмур-й
влажный, сырой, сырость, влажность
мелкий дождь, изморось, дождь
моросящий
сухой, сушь, засуха, сухая погода
пасмурный, тусклый
густой туман, мгла, морской туман
туманный, мглистый, темный
град
молния
дождь
дождевая капля
дождевые осадки, дождь, ливень
дождливый, ненастный
ливень, литься ливнем, душ
дождливый, ливневый
снег
снегопад
снежинка
покрытый снегом, заснеженный
буря, гроза, ураган, град
бурный, грозовой, штормовой
солнце
солнечный
хорошая, солнечная погода
гром, грохот, молнии, греметь
влажность, мокрый, влажный
ветер
ветреный
Погода - Температура
холодный, прохладный, зябкий, ледяной
холодный, холод, стужа, замерзший
замерзание, заморозки, леденящий
горячий, жаркий
мягкий, умеренный, несуровый
палящий, раскаленный, обжигать
теплый, жаркий, нагретый
Погода – Глаголы
накаляться до красна или добела, светиться, сверкать
замерзать, превращаться в лед, морозить
hail
pour (with rain)
rain
shine
Climate
altitude
biome
climate
climatic
desert
drought
humidity
hurricane
latitude
monsoon
precipitation
rainforest
savanna
steppe
westerly
идти (о граде), сыпаться градом
лить, литься (о дожде)
идти (о дожде)
светить (о солнце)
Климат
высота над уровнем моря
биом
климат
климатический
пустыня
засуха
влажность
ураган
широта
муссон
осадки
тропический лес, влажные джунгли
саванна
степь
западный ветер
Vocabulary Exercises
Exercise 1
Make all possible derivatives from the following words:
Sun, rain, snow, freeze
Exercise 2
Chose the words from the topical vocabulary to match the definitions:
a loud rumbling or crashing noise heard after a lightning flash due to the expansion of rapidly heated air;
a feathery ice crystal, typically displaying delicate sixfold symmetry;
small balls of ice that fall like rain from the sky;
a thick cloud of tiny water droplets suspended in the atmosphere at or near the earth's surface that obscures or restricts visibility;
a violent disturbance of the atmosphere with strong winds and usually rain, thunder, lightning, or snow;
the occurrence of a natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud, accompanied by a bright flash and typically also thunder;
a waterless, desolate area of land with little or no vegetation, typically one covered with sand;
a severe, often destructive storm, esp. a tropical cyclone.
Exercise 3
Use the words from the topical vocabulary to fill in the gaps.
1. Suddenly rain … down.
2. Heavy … made travel absolutely impossible this winter.
3. The sky became dark with … and it began to … heavily.
4. The sun was …. brightly in the … sky.
5. When there is …, there are tiny drops of water in the air which form a thick cloud and make it difficult to see things.
6. The … is of concern to environmentalists because of its role as a source of biodiversity, and as a sink for large volumes of carbon dioxide.