PRACTICE PAPER #2 – WEATHER

 

1 – Word game

Find the anagram for the following five words : seat, thorn, sore, stew, shout. Then find the odd one out.

2 – Vocabulary

Practice your weather-related vocabulary with this crossword on Clouds, winds and more :

Find 31 weather-related words, then transfer the letters to the crypted line at the bottom according to matching numbers to discover a very well-known English idiom.

3 – Listening comprehension

Today, the listening comprehension exercise will take you to Ogden, near Salt Lake City (Utah) to listen to the ATIS:

Then answer these questions:

– What is frequency 125.55 for?

– What is frequency 118.7 for?

– Why is runway 7/25 closed?

– How are the PAPIs on runway 21 functioning?

4 – Grammar

Let’s start a review of the different prepositions, starting with « at » and « to », here.

5 – Further reading

At www.metoffice.gov.uk you’ll access a leaflet published by the British equivalent of Meteo France, where you can find, in English, everything you need to know about the weather.

1 – word game seat: east; thorn: north; sore: rose; stew: west; shout: south The odd one out: rose, which is not a cardinal point. 2 – crossword ACROSS: 5 gale, 6 icing, 8 few, 9 back, 11 scattered, 14 droplet, 15 updraught, 17 embedded, 22 windmill, 23 drizzle, 24 layer, 26 overcast, 28 thunderstorm, 29 turbulence, 30 gauge; DOWN: 1 shift, 2 ashes, 3 windturbine, 4 veer, 5 gust, 7 cb, 10 contrail, 12 tradewinds, 13 abate, 16 gap, 18 lull, 19 lightning, 20 windsock, 21 rise, 25 broken, 27 rain IDIOM: it never rains but it pours 3 – listening comprehension – automated weather – common traffic advisory and pilot controlled lighting – due to numerous cranes operating near the approach end of runway 7 – out of service 4 – grammar AT and TO answers