The Truth About British Rain - The Great British Weather

You are going to 

• watch a clip about British weather
• look at some True / False sentences
• look at a paragraph which describes a process / cycle and do a vocabulary gap-fill
• look at an IELTS task 1 question

Discuss

What do you think is the typical weather in the UK?
Do you think the UK has a lot of rain?
Why is it so rainy?

Before you watch

Decide if these sentences are true or false

1. The UK has 189 days of rain a year.



The Lake District in the UK

2. All our rain comes from the Atlantic Ocean
3. Much of our rain starts 4000 miles away in the Atlantic
4. Every drop of our fresh water comes from the oceans
5. It's a never ending cycle
6. Swansea is the wettest city in the UK
7. The Lake District gets 69 inches of rain a year
8. It rains on average 111 days a year there
9. Rainguage Cottage is probably the wettest cottage in England
10. Emily Pratt feels proud of living in the wettest place
11. The floods of 2009 happened after 5 days of heavy rain
12. It was described as a once in a thousand year weather event
13. The power of the great British weather should never be under-estimated.

Now watch the clip to find out

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jd19w


Now do the true or false exercise

Correct sentences. Highlight below
1. The UK has 199 days of rain a year.
7. The Lake District gets 79 inches of rain a year
8. It rains on average 211 days a year there

11.The floods of 2009 happened after 3 days of heavy rain

Watch again

Fill in the gaps in the text. Watch the clip (0:39 - 1:18) and listen again to check.

Printable worksheet here

Find out more

about UK weather here http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/
Is it raining in the UK today? Look here http://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/uk/uk_forecast_weather.html

More weather practice 

here http://efllecturer.blogspot.com/2011/09/bbc-weather-forecast.html

Writing for academic IELTS task 1

IELTS Task 1 practice - Describe the picture in 150 words
Try this question from ielts-simon.com 
http://ielts-simon.com/ielts-help-and-english-pr/2011/04/ielts-writing-task-1-water-cycle-essay.html

IELTS Writing Task 1: "Water Cycle" essay

The diagram below shows the water cycle, which is the continuous movement of water on, above and below the surface of the Earth.

Source http://ielts-simon.com/