City or village adventages and disadvantages of different lifestiles

Exercise 1. Say whether these sentences are true or false and explain why.

1. 
   People have been forecasting the weather looking to plants and animals for hints.
   
2. 
   If ants move to higher ground and cows lay down, that is the sign of snow.
   
3. 
   All weather proverbs are usually based on scientific studies.
   
4. 
   A weather proverb based on observations in one part of the world is always valid in another one.
   
5. 
   A red sunset is a sign of a rain.
   
6. 
   If the sky is red in the morning there will be no rain.
   
7. 
   If the atmosphere is clear, the surface of the earth cools very quickly.
   
8. 
   If in winter you can see a lot of stars in the sky at night the day will be cold.
   
9. 
   A continuous covering of snow on farmland destroys wheat and other winter grains.
   
10. 
    The halo around the sun or moon is a layer of cirrus clouds made of ice crystals.
    
11. 
    The halo around the sun indicates an approaching warm dry weather.
    
12. 
    The morning rainbow indicates that rain is moving from the west.
    
13. 
    Stars seem to “huddle” together because other groups of stars are completely hidden by clouds.
    

Exercise 2. Match each word with a word from the line to make compound words.
pressure stones drift storm warning rain wave pour clouds


1 thunder 4 down 7 snow
2 cirrus 5 heat 8 gale
3 torrential 6 hail 9 low


Exercise 3. What kinds of weather do you think caused the following to happen? Write a sentence which could go before each of these.

1. 
   We had to sit in the shade every afternoon.
   
2. 
   The sweat was pouring out of us.
   
3. 
   I can hardly breathe; I wish it would rain to cool us down.
   
4. 
   Cars were skidding out of control.
   
5. 
   Even the postman had to use a boat to get around.
   
6. 
   They had to close the airport; the snow was a metre deep.
   
7. 
   We were able to sit in the garden in the middle of winter.
   
8. 
   The earth became rock-hard and a lot of plants died.
   
9. 
   It blew the newspaper clean out of my hands.
   

10. 
    A row of big trees had been uprooted like matchsticks.
    
11. 
    I could hardly see my hand in front of my face.