The Weather

4 Read this comic strip and answer the following questions.

a. What time of the year is it?

Suggested answers: It’s the middle of January./It’s winter.

b. What’s the weather like?

SCHULZ, Charles. Classic Peanuts. [2022?]. Tirinha. Disponível em: https://i.pinimg. com/originals/95/f0/ e5/95f0e5def8eedd56 f6022aef7382ca01.jpg. Acesso em: 12 jul. 2022.

c. Why is Snoopy sad?

Suggested answers: It’s snowing./The weather is freezing./It’s snowing and freezing.

5 What’s the weather like in each picture? Replace each icon with a word in the following box to complete the sentences as in the example.

Suggested answers: Because his cereal is cold./Because he got cold cereal.

Example: a. freezing

Em inglês, o sufixo -y geralmente é acrescentado a substantivos para formar adjetivos: snow snowy; rain rainy; storm stormy

Para ter acesso à transcrição do áudio utilizado no exercício 6, consulte a seção Audio Scripts no Livro do Estudante.

6 Listen to the recording and check your answers to exercise 5.

7 What kind of weather do you like best? What’s the weather like today?

Personal answers.