Today we’ll learn some vocabulary related to rainy weather.
The sky got dark and thunder rumbled in the distance, although we didn’t see a flash of lightning yet. Anyway, we had to run home. There was no time to lose.
It poured all week and the river overflowed its banks.
I still remember that thunderstorm. A tree in my backyard was struck by lightning. But, even worse, my dog was struck dead by a thunderbolt.
It was a rainy day. I was so happy I didn’t have to go anywhere. I love the sound of the rain pelting the windowpanes so I just turned off the light, sat down by the window and watched.
Heavy rains flooded the village. Most of the houses were at least to some extent destroyed.
Here’s the vocabulary summary:
| thunder | the very loud sound that comes from the sky during a storm |
| rumble | to make a low, heavy, continuous sound or series of sounds |
| a bolt of lightning / a lightning bolt / a flash of lightning | a bright line of light that appears in the sky during a storm |
| pour | to rain heavily |
| overflow | to flow over the edge or top of sth |
| thunderstorm | a storm with lightning and thunder |
| lightning | the flashes of light that are produced in the sky during a storm |
| thunderbolt | a flash of lightning that makes a loud sound of thunder and that hits someone or something |
| pelt | to hit against sth repeatedly |
| flood | to cover land with a flood |
