This document discusses differences between weather-related terms and provides collocations of weather adjectives and nouns. It compares snow, sleet, and hail; storms and blizzards; breezes, gales, and hurricanes; flooding and droughts; mist and fog; showers and sunny spells; and rain and humidity. It also lists adjectives and nouns and asks the reader to match them to form strong collocations about weather.
This document discusses differences between weather-related terms and provides collocations of weather adjectives and nouns. It compares snow, sleet, and hail; storms and blizzards; breezes, gales, and hurricanes; flooding and droughts; mist and fog; showers and sunny spells; and rain and humidity. It also lists adjectives and nouns and asks the reader to match them to form strong collocations about weather.
This document discusses differences between weather-related terms and provides collocations of weather adjectives and nouns. It compares snow, sleet, and hail; storms and blizzards; breezes, gales, and hurricanes; flooding and droughts; mist and fog; showers and sunny spells; and rain and humidity. It also lists adjectives and nouns and asks the reader to match them to form strong collocations about weather.
This document discusses differences between weather-related terms and provides collocations of weather adjectives and nouns. It compares snow, sleet, and hail; storms and blizzards; breezes, gales, and hurricanes; flooding and droughts; mist and fog; showers and sunny spells; and rain and humidity. It also lists adjectives and nouns and asks the reader to match them to form strong collocations about weather.
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1. What are the differences between these words?
snow, sleet and hail
a storm and a blizzard a breeze, a gale and a hurricane flooding and droughts mist and fog a shower and sunny spells rain and humidity a hurricane and a tornado
2. Collocations It is useful to know which adjectives collocate strongly with
which nouns. For example, we dont say strong rain, but heavy rain. Can you match an adjective below in column A to a noun in column B so that they form strong collocations? In some cases there will be more than one possibility.