Hello, everybody, how are you? Welcome to this new lesson. We talked about cold weather. We talked about hot weather. But in this lesson we are going to speak about rain. Do you love the rain?
I love it. I'm crazy about rain, because it makes me feel great. I stand sometimes in the rain with no umbrella. So in this lesson we are going to learn five phrases for talking and speaking about rain. Let's start it's drizzling. Have you heard this phrase?
It's drizzling, drizzling. What does it mean? drizzling? So drizzling means it's raining lightly. It's raining lightly There are some drops of rain and it's a light rain. And it's really lovely.
It's drizzling. Number two, it's pouring. It's pouring. I think you can understand from the meaning of pour, that this is a heavy rain. So when we say it's pouring, it means that it's raining heavily. It's raining heavily.
It's pouring. Number three is it's raining cats and dogs. American people use this EDM this expression all the time in their speech when there is a lot of rain. It's raining cats and dogs Think about this. When the cats and dogs fight, what happens? Maybe they start to make a lot of noise.
So when we say it's raining cats and dogs, it means that it's raining heavily. It's raining heavily. It's raining cats and dogs. A very useful, a very common phrase. Number four is I got caught in a downpour. downpour I got caught in a downpour.
So, downpour or downfall is a heavy rainfall, heavy rainfall, downfall or downpour. And the last one is I think the rain is letting go up. Have you heard this phrase lifting up? I heard this phrase in some movies. He says I think the rain is letting go which means getting lighter and stopping. So when the weather is letting go up, it's getting lighter and stopping.
Perfect. These are great five phrases to speak about rain. Okay guys, now let's use some of these phrases in real situations. see in this picture, there's a lot of rain and he's holding an umbrella and riding a bicycle at the same time. I think this is India but I'm not sure. So it's raining cats and dogs here and he got caught in a downpour.
There is a lot of rain. And here actually it's not raining too much. So we say it's or it's drizzling here, which means raining lightly. I think the rain is letting up. The rain is going to be lighter and is going to stop very soon. That's very good.
Drizzling This is my favorite frame.