This document contains an exercise to help students learn vocabulary related to weather and nature. It includes labeling pictures with words like beach, forest, hill and mountain. Students also complete sentences using prepositions like at, by, for and to describing weather conditions. A table is included for students to fill in adjectives like foggy, icy and sunny that correspond to nouns like cloud, fog and sun. Finally, students choose the correct words to complete sentences about weather in different scenarios.

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OPTIMISE YOUR VOCABULARY | Standard9
Optimise A2
A2
Words connected with weather
and nature
1 Label the pictures with the words in
the box.
beach | forest | hill | mountain | river | sky
Words + prepositions
3 Complete the sentences using the words in
the box.
at | by | for | to (× 2)
1 I want go for a walk but it’s raining.
2 We learn about the weather
studying it.
3 September is the best month
swimming here.
4 It’s important drive carefully in
bad weather.
5 I’m not very good cooking, so I
won’t offer to cook for you!
Nouns/adjectives
4 Complete the table with the adjectives.
nouns adjectives
1 cloud
2 fog
3 ice
4 rain
5 snow
6 sun
Unit round-up
5 Choose the correct words.
2 Choose the correct word.
1 It was a fog / foggy day and we couldn’t see
very much.
2 There isn’t enough ice / snow for us to go skiing.
3 When it’s windy / cloudy, we can’t see the sun.
4 Don’t go out in that rain / rainy.Wait until
it stops.
5 Yesterday was a sun / sunny day so we went to
the beach.
6 Be careful because they said there might be
cloudy / thunderstorms later!
Where I live
My house is near a small village in the
(1) mountains / river. One of the best things
about it is the amazing views we have. We can
see a lot of (2) hill / sky, so that means it’s a great
place to look at the stars at night. We also know
what the weather is going to be like. If we see
dark (3) clouds / ice in the distance and the wind
is coming from that direction, we know it’s going
to be (4) rainy / rain soon so we have time to get
ready! Living so high up means we get a lot of
bad weather. It’s important (5) to / that make
sure we don’t leave the windows open because if
it’s (6) foggy / windy, they can get broken. In the
winter, we get (7) thunderstorms / snow before
most people too – it’s beautiful to wake up and
see all the trees in the (8) forest / beach covered
in white, but sometimes we can’t get to school!
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