VOCABULARY PRACTICE

MATCH THE WORDS WITH THE DEFINITIONS – there are THREE extra
words

Difficult to walk on or hold because it is smooth and wet MATCH THE WORDS WITH THEIR COLLOCATIONS

Too cold to be comfortable climate visibility

Shining with many small points of light thick cloudy

covered with cloud a gust of winter

to make a long, loud sound icy ice

Very cold, syn: icy below cold

A very bad storm with strong winds and a lot of snow bitterly patch

A very strong wind mild snow

Small, soft and white pieces of frozen water that fall a sheet of wind

To change from a solid to a liquid by means of heat partly change

A little wet limited zero

GLACIAL B. GALE C. MELT D. SPARKLING a blanket of fog

E. LIGHTNING F. CHILLY G. DAMP H. HOWL

I. THICK J.SLIPPERY K. SNOWFLAKE L. OVERCAST FILL IN THE CHART – add more words
M. MISTY N. BLIZZARD ADJECTIVES NOUNS ACTIVITIES
1._____ 2._____ 3.______ 4._____

5._____ 6._____ 7._____ 8._____

9._____ 10._____ 11._____

Define the extra words

1.___________________________________________________ go sledding, harsh, severe, shovel, blast, shiver, glare,

2.___________________________________________________ chattering teeth, igloo, snowsuit, slip (on ice), melt, ice-
jam, ice-quake, isolated, crackling, scrape (the
3.___________________________________________________ windscreen) ski, holly, heated, avalanche, hazy, insulated,
_ overcast

SNOW FACTS Complete the sentences ( there are three extra words)

http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/sciencefacts/weather/snow.html

Snow forms when water _____ in the atmosphere freezes into _____. HAIL, POWDER, VAPOR, TRANSPORT, SLEET,

Snowflakes form in a variety of different _____. HARSH, VISIBILITY, ICICLE, SHAPES, CRYSTALS,

Snow is a form of ______, other forms of precipitation are rain, _____ and _____. PRECIPITATION, FOG, BLIZZARDS, SNOWSTORMS

Light and fluffy snow is often called _____.

Heavy snowfalls are often called _____.

Snowstorms with high winds are often called _____.

Snow can lower _____, making driving conditions dangerous.

Skis, sleds and snowmobiles are useful _____ options through snow.