10th form "Can You Forecast Weather?" Reading / Grammar

1. Every day you listen to a weather forecast on the radio or on television, because you want to know what the weather will be like in order to _____ plan your activities.

2. But if you are attentive to what _____ around you, by watching birds and animals, insects and plants, you can also forecast weather.

3. Let's take plants now. Do you know that the smell of flowers in the gardens and in the parks _____ very strong before it rains.

4. Flowers have much sweeter nectar before rain and the nectar is good food for insects. So if you see lots of insects ____ over flowers, you must know that soon it may rain.

5. Birds and animals also help people to forecast weather. Birds fly lower than usual before it _____.

6. Have you ever seen a bird _____ its head under its wing? Do you m=know what it means?

7. It means that soon it ____ colder.

8. If you see your cat washing behind the ears, it _____ you that it will soon rain.

9. Another way of telling what the weather will be like is to look at the sky. The colour of the sky, the moon and the stars are important in _____ weather.

10. A red evening sky tells of good weather the next day. If the sky is a little yellow or green, then you may ____ that the weather will be fine the next day. A grey sunrise gives promise of a good day, too.

11. The proverb says: "Every wind has its weather". Then you must know: if clouds move in different directions because the winds blow them that way, then it _____ that soon a change in the weather will come.

12. So if you want to forecast weather, you ____ observe nature carefully. Try to do it! It will give you much fun.