Weather and seasons Lesson 13 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: the lesson at school .
0 French talks about the weather with il fait, "it makes": il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad). 1 Some weather has its own little verb: il pleut (it's raining) and il neige (it's snowing); and for things you see in the sky you use il y a, "there is": il y a des nuages (it's cloudy). 2 Your body is different: when YOU are hot you say j'ai chaud, "I have hot", and when you are cold, j'ai froid. 3 Picture a Christmas card from Melbourne with a beach on it: France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer there, while in Australia it is winter. 4 French has funny weather sayings: a dreadful stormy day is un temps de chien, "a dog's weather", and heavy rain is il pleut des cordes, "it's raining ropes". 5 Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("eel PLUH") means "It's raining". 6 For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad), il fait gris (it's dull and grey). 7 For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'ai froid (I'm cold); je suis chaud means something else in slang, so avoid it. 8 il y a means "there is" or "there are": il y a des nuages (it's cloudy), il y a du vent (it's windy), il y a du soleil (it's sunny). 9 Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman. 10 un orage is a thunderstorm, le tonnerre is thunder and un éclair is a flash of lightning (and also a chocolate pastry); Il y a de l'orage means there's a storm. 11 The seasons are le printemps (spring), l'été (summer), l'automne (autumn) and l'hiver (winter). 12 France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer and Christmas is in winter there; in Australia and New Zealand it is the other way round. 13 "In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, because printemps starts with a consonant. 14 France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F. 15 Il fait un temps de chien ! means the weather is awful; Il pleut des cordes ! means it's pouring. 16 beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice. 17 Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend. ← previous Telling the timenext → My family↑ back to French This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/