Weather
Spanish: Edexcel IGCSE, topic 2.1.5
Buen Tiempo - Good Weather
Key vocab
- Buen tiempo - good weather.
- Hacer calor - to be hot.
- Caliente - hot.
- Caluroso - hot, warm.
- Seco - dry.
- El cielo - sky.
- El clima - climate.
Key vocab 2
- Fresco - fresh.
- El grado - degree.
- húmedo - humid.
- La nube, las nubes (☁️) - cloud, clouds.
- Tener calor - to be hot.
- El pronóstico - forecast.
- Despejado - clear (skies).
- Estable - stable, steady, unchanged.
El pronóstico
- Necesito permanecer a la sombra, tengo demasiado calor.
- I need to stay in the shade, I am too hot.
- Vivo en un clima caliente, no hay mucha lluvia.
- I live in a hot climate, there is not a lot of rain.
- La semana próxima, hará mucho calor, pero estará muy húmedo. He leído que habrá 32 grados.
- Next week, it will be very hot, but very humid. I have read that it will be 32 degrees.
El clima
- ¿Cómo es el clima de la región?
- What is the climate like in this area?
- Es como el clima mediterráneo, hace mucho calor cada año y siempre hay cielos despejados.
- It is like the Mediterranean climate, it is very hot every year and there are always clear skies.
Mal Tiempo - Bad Weather
Key vocab
- El relámpago (⚡) - lightning.
- El chubasco - shower.
- El tiempo - weather.
- La tormenta - storm.
- El viento helado - wind chill.
- La lluvia, llover (☔) - rain, to rain.
- La niebla (🌁) - fog.
- La nieve, nevar (❄️) - snow, to snow.
Key vocab 2
- Tormentoso - stormy.
- El trueno - thunder.
- El viento - wind.
- Helar - to freeze.
- Mojar(se) to get wet.
- Tener frío to feel cold.
- Nublado, nuboso - cloudy.
- Hacer frío - to be cold.
Hacer frío
- Habrá una tormenta mañana, va a helar.
- There will be a storm tomorrow, it is going to freeze.
- Me gusta el clima tormentoso, sobre todo cuando hay relámpagos.
- I really like stormy weather, above all when there is lightning (⚡).
- Va a hacer frío este fin de semana.
- It is going to be cold this weekend.
El viento
- ¿Tienes frío?
- Are you cold?
- Sí, tengo frío, a causa del viento helado. Puede hacer que un día frío sea aún más frío.
- Yes I am cold, it is beacause of the wind chill. It can make a cold day seem even colder.
Adding an 'R' to the Stem
There are five irregular verbs in the conditional tense that follow this pattern.
Caber - to fit
- Cabría - I would fit.
- Cabrías - you would fit.
- Cabría - he/she would fit.
- Cabríamos - we would fit.
- Cabríais - you would fit.
- Cabrían - they would fit.
Haber - to have (as an auxiliary verb)
- Habría - I would have.
- Habrías - you would have.
- Habría - he/she would have.
- Habríamos - we would have.
- Habríais - you would have.
- Habrían - they would have.
Poder - to be able to
- Podría - I would be able to.
- Podrías - you would be able to.
- Podría - he/she would be able to.
- Podríamos - we would be able to.
- Podríais - you would be able to.
- Podrían - they would be able to.
Saber - to know
- Sabría - I would know.
- Sabrías - you would know.
- Sabría - he/she would know.
- Sabríamos - we would know.
- Sabríais - you would know.
- Sabrían - they would know.
Querer - to want
- Querría - I would want.
- Querrías - you would want.
- Querría - he/she would want.
- Querríamos - we would want.
- Querríais - you would want.
- Querrían - they would want.
Test yourself on Weather
Which of these do NOT mean 'it is hot' in Spanish?
How do you say the 'sky' in Spanish?
How do you say 'lightning' in Spanish?
How do you say 'wind' in Spanish?
How do you say 'I would have done' in Spanish?