Lovely miserable beautiful horrible fabulous glorious terrible foul

What ………/………/………/………weather! It hasn’t stopped raining all day.

What ………/………/………/………weather! Let’s go down to the beach!

6. Look at the photo of Siberia (Pic. 7). What’s the weather like? Do you like living in Siberia? Why \ Why not?

Pic. 7

7. Read what Victor says about the weather in Siberia. Put one of these adverbs in each sentence:

always even never normally often sometimes still usually

Here in the most parts of Siberia the winter is ___________1)very long and freezing! Rain turns to snow in November and the snow doesn’t _____________2)disappear until May. The temperature is ____________3)about - 25 degrees centigrade, but it’s ______________4)much colder. When it’s – 35 degrees children can’t go to school, but adults __________5)go to work! We wear a lot of warm clothes: socks and boots, sweaters, hats, and fur coats. All the houses have central heating so it’s __________6)cold inside. In winter, we close all the windows to stop the wind from getting in, and we don’t open them again until spring.

In spring it’s a little warmer, but it rains a lot, and we hardly ever see the sun. The weather is terrible and there are a lot of huge puddles. When the temperatures fall below zero the roads become icy. In summer it’s __________7)about 25 degrees, but the weather’s very changeable. One day it’s 30 and the next day it’s chilly – about 10. A day can start warm and dry but end cool and humid. People say that the weather was _________8)colder in the past. They think it changed after Chernobyl.

8. Find the words in the text that mean:

ü extremely cold.

ü producing a pleasant feeling of coldness.

ü moderately hot.

ü moist, damp.

ü causing or feeling cool or moderately cold.

9. Use these words to complete the sentences:

1. It’s absolutely ………out. I’d put a coat on if I were you.

2. We’ve had lovely sunshine. It’s been so ………I’ve been on the beach every day.

3. I was on holiday in Thailand last month. It was so ………all the time. My clothes were always wet. Thank goodness the hotel had air-conditioning.

4. It was pretty hot down at the beach but there was a lovely ………breeze.

5. It’s a bit ………in here. I think I’ll put the heating on.

Is it true or false?

In Siberia

§ In winter drivers have to take extra-care.

§ In spring you’d better take a raincoat or an umbrella when you go for a walk.

§ In summer you can catch a cold.

Read the weather forecast and write your own one for the next two days.

Weather: England and Wales will start cloudy with out breaks of rain. However, brighter, showery weather already over Scotland and Nothern Ireland will slowly spread south and east throughout the day. The showers will be heaviest and most frequent in the north, falling as sleet or snow over hills and mountains, with drifting occurring in places. It will feel cold in the blustery and strong westerly wind.

"Daily Express"

YOUTH PROBLEMS

What does it mean to be young for you?

a lot of opportunities

not enough time for study

Is it easy to be young? Why?

2. What does the phrase “youth problems” mean? Can you name such problems? Brainstorm ideas!

Read what other people think and say what problems worry young people in the world today?

Youth is a Difficult Time

Youth is a special time for any person: he or she is no longer a child and not yet an adult. And young people have some problems special to this period of life. One of them is the problem of finding oneself. Some teenagers still remain in a condition of Great Uncertainty: they don’t have particular interests or hobbies; there are no particular aims in their lives. That’s why they are in a constant search, which sometimes makes them choose the wrong way, for example drug addiction. I think if a person has a goal in life, or there is something in the world that interests him or her very much, that person is lucky. A wide range of interests is a sign of an intelligent and broad-minded person. That’s why almost all young people try different sides of life in order to find something which attracts them most of all.

By Girnik

Everybody thinks that youth is the best period of life. But young people have as many problems as grown-ups.

The problem which alarms me most of all is the problem of planning my future career. It is essential to have a good job. And to get a good job you have to be well-educated. So, after leaving a secondary school I should choose a university and see what entrance exams I have to pass. I can’t enter any university without good knowledge, for example, of English, so it is necessary to pay for special lessons which means heavy expenses.

After graduating from the university, you have another problem. How to find a good job? Unemployment is a sore point in our country. Even qualified professionals often cannot find a good job. So, in planning my future I have to think a lot about the possibility of finding a good job after finishing my education.

By Tanya

Nowadays teenagers have rather difficult lives. They have so many problems. The main ones are: hard drugs, diseases, such as AIDS, problems with adults, early pregnancy and of course violence and crime among youth.
Our world is facing a drugs crisis. The greater part of teenagers are using, or have used drugs. This is the main problem in the world, I think.

Because of drugs, boys and girls become angry. They loose their connection with their parents, and misunderstand them. They have a lot of communicative problems. Teenagers don’t have much money to buy drugs, so they must steal. And using drugs evokes such a dangerous illness as AIDS. Drug addicts are aware of their illness and with this their lives end.

To my mind our government should take the first step in stopping this problem and prevent the selling of drugs. Besides our government should lead different educative programs, such as “Stop AIDS”, “Say No”, or something like that. Even in schools we should have lessons dedicated to these problems. So, in my point of view, we should stop drugs. Teenagers should think about their future life. They should have dreams about their future career. And even if they are given drugs, they should just say “No”.

By Olga

As for me, the number one problem among young men is conscription. In our country all boys must go to the army. (Of course, if they haven’t got a serious disease.) It doesn’t mean that I don’t want to carry out the duty of a male citizen of our republic. But our army is like a prison today, with violence, bad food and poor clothes. I think, that military service should be a job; a professional army would be more organized. Of course, this problem can be solved only by the government and even they cannot solve it now. But adults must remember that the young are society’s future. If the present generation of youths grows up to be “lost”, we have no future.

By Sergey

Every day we have to make important decisions. It is very hard to make them in youth, because we are not children, for whom the world is so simple, and not yet adults, who have life experience.

In this transition period teenagers are very changeable; full of self-criticism, frequent changes of mood, dissatisfaction with their appearance.

Teenagers are also easily influenced by others. And just in this period a great number of people begin to smoke, communicate with different groups. But I think, you should love yourself, in order to find the right way in life and place in society. I guess, you should not only follow your wishes, but also fulfil all your duties in time; control yourself. I would like to say that we shouldn’t be illiterate. Ignorance makes unemployment a sore point.

So, we are responsible persons and we should respect ourselves and other people, too. And to respect yourself means to wish yourself happiness and try to make your dreams come true.

By Helen