Speak about the weather!

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Practise your speaking skills and improve your grammar by having a conversation about the weather!


There are lots of idioms (expressions) about the weather! If you translate them into your own language you will think they are very funny! Take a look at the list below and see if you can guess what they mean. Then go to worksheet on weather to check the meanings and see examples.

Break the ice

As right as rain

To be under the weather

A fair-weather friend

Calm before the storm

Every cloud has a silver lining

It never rains but it pours

It’s raining cats and dogs

A storm is brewing

Steal someone’s thunder

Save it for a rainy day

Take a rain check

To be on cloud nine

Come rain or shine




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