The article was written in the autumn, in the first week of October.

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The article was written in the autumn, in the first week of October.

An Indian summer is warm weather in October or November.

Page 36 Exercise 3c

1     F (Line 1: …in 1758…when two Englishmen meet, their first talk is of the weather…Not much has changed.)

2     T (Line 10: …there was a sense of both delight at the lovely hot weather and worry about the threat of global warming.)

3     T (Line 14: …the Met Office ruled that it couldn’t be properly called an Indian summer, which only occurs…in October and November.)

4     F (Line 19: In Britain, until around the end of the First World War, late heatwaves were known as ‘St Martin’s summers’…)

5     T (Line 26: ‘Britons need weather-talk to help us overcome our reserve,’ explains Kate Fox.)

6     T (Line 32: ‘There’s nothing personal about it,’ he wrote. ‘It gives away no secrets...’)

Page 37 Exercise 4b

1     showers

2     heat

3     mild

4     warm

5     flood

6     drought

7     humid

8     world

Page 37 Exercise 5a

Speaker 3      was both frightened and excited by the weather 

Speaker 2      got quite stressed because of the weather     

Speaker 1      really enjoyed themselves in spite of the bad weather

Page 37 Exercise 5b

Speaker 1

Speaker 2

Speaker 3

When did it happen?

on New Year’s Eve 2010

in the summer of 2003

in October 1987

Where were they at the time?

in a pub in Yorkshire, in the north of England

in London

at school in Kent, in the south-east of England

What kind of weather was it?

a snowstorm

a heatwave

a hurricane

What happened as a result?

They got stuck in the pub for two days.

The little girl’s party was at her father’s surgery as it had air-conditioning.

A tree fell and broke a window. 15 million trees were blown down in the UK and 18 people were killed.

4B

Page 38 Exercise 1b

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