Weather and weekend

Here you will find materials for the topics ''Weather" and "Weekend".

You can also watch this short video about the weather and do the suggested tasks.

Watch this educational video to refresh your knowledge of the weather words  and their pronunciation.



Do these interactive activities about the weather: 1, 2.
Check how much you know about extreme weather by doing this quiz.

Pronunciation practice

• This great resource will help you improve your listening comprehension by completing song lyrics: http://lyricstraining.com/.
• Learn or revise phoneme /ə/ with BBC.
• Play phonetic games, test your pronunciation with Cambridge English Online.
• Try this site for animated pronunciation with rules and practical tasks.
• Rules of pronouncing the ending -(e)s.
• Reading rules: letter 'g'.
• Rules and practical activities on -ed ending.
• Learn when to use linking /j/ and /w/.
• Remember some principles of word stress placement. 
• What are the dark and clear (light according to BBC) varieties of the phoneme /l/? Watch, practice and do a short test.
• Find out some common differences in British and American English pronunciation. 
• Watch this funny video and learn to pronounce -ough.