WEATHER & IN THE TOWN &
IN THE COUNTRYSIDE & ANIMALS AND PETS
✅ Weather
🚫 Types of weather (noun): sun, rain, fog (sương mù), wind, cloud, thunder (sấm sét), lightning, snow
🎉 Other useful weather words
⛔ Adjectives and verbs: sunny, rainy, windy, cloudy, snowy, foggy, thundery
⛔ It's foggy in Sydney and it's snowing/ it's snowy in Moscow.
⛔ It's raining in Barcelona but the sun is shining in Granada.
⛔ It's lovely weather today, isn't it! (NOT It's a lovely weather.)
⛔ It's a horrible day, isn't it!
⛔ It's a sunny day in Tokyo today, but it's cloudy in Hong Kong.
⛔ You can't say: It's winding, clouding, fogging, sunning.
🎉 It is very hot in Mexico - it is often 45 degrees there in summer.
🎉 It is very cold in the Arctic - it is often minus 50 degrees there.
🎉 It is very wet in London - carry an umbrella when you go sightseeing (tham quan) there.
🎉 It is very dry in the Sahara - it doesn't often rain there.
🎉 A hurricane (bão) is a very strong wind.
🎉 A storm is when there is a strong wind and rain together.
🎉 A thunderstorm is when there is thunder, lightning, rain and sometimes wind together.
✅ In the town
❤ Streets and roads
🏁 People in the town: police officer, traffic warden, shop assistant, librarian (thủ thư), bank clerk
❌ The town centre: library, railway station, tourist information office, town hall (tòa thị chính), museum, bank, car park, bus station, post office, shop, pedestrian area (khu vực dành cho người đi bộ), shopping centre. ⭐ Ex:
💊 You can get a train at the railway station.
💊 You can read books and newspapers at the library.
💊 You can park your car in/at the car park.
💊 You can change money at the bank.
🚩 Signs: no parking (parking prohibited), no entry, bus stop, crossroads, traffic lights
❤ Where is the main square?
❤ How do I get to X street?
❤ Is there a pedestrian area here?
❤ Can I park here?
❤ I'm looking for the museum.
✅ In the countryside
🐬 Thing we can see in the countryside: mountains, forest, lake, fields, path, country road, river, village, farm, hills, wood
🍭 Living and working in the countryside
◼ The countryside and the country both mean "not the city". Country can also mean a nation (France, China, ...)
🌌 Nature and conservation (sự bảo tồn)
📁 Things to do in the countryside
🍭 In the countryside, people usually live in a small town (6,000 people) or village (700 people).
🍭 A famer lives on the farm and works in the fields.
🍭 My friend live in a cottage (small house in a village or out in the countryside).
🌌 Nature means "everything in the natural world" (= animals, birds, plants, ...). ⭐ Ex: I love nature.
🌌 I like walking in the countryside. (NOT I like walking in the nature.)
🌌 When we talk about animals, birds, fish and insects, we can say wildlife. ⭐ Ex: There is wonderful wildlife in the north of the country.
🌌 Near the village there is a conservation area (= place where wildlife and nature are protected).
🌌 In the south of the country, there is a national park (very big national conservation area)
📁 You can take food and drink and have a picnic.
📁 You can go walking/ skiing in the mountains.
✅ Animals and pets
✒ Wild or zoo animals: elephant, monkey, snake, tiger, lion, giraffe (hươu cao cổ)
🖊 Pets
✏ Farm animals
✏ sheep => wool, meat (lamb) => lamb (cừu con)
✏ pig => meat (pork, bacon (thịt lợn xông khói), ham (giăm bông)) => piglet (heo con)
✏ cow => milk, leather, meat (beef) => calf (bò con)
✏ hen (gà mái) => eggs, meat (chicken) => chick (gà con)
✏ horse => foal (con ngựa con)
🖊 These animals are often pets: fish, cat, budgie, parrot (con vẹt), dog, tortoise (rùa)
🖊 Parrots and budgies are birds.
🖊 You take your dog for a walk but you don't usually take your cat for a walk.