Warmer
Ask your partner
What’s the coldest temperature you’ve ever experienced?
What problems can be caused by extreme cold ?
What can be done to ameliorate these problems?
Can you remember anything unusual which happened because of extreme cold?
What’s the difference between gloves and mittens?
Vocab
Thaw, Ice Up, Ice Over, Snowdrift, Snow plough, Gritter, Scrape off, Frostbite, Chillblains, Snow chains. Snowflake, Icicle, Balaclava, Anorak, Snowed in, Blizzard, White out, Snowfall, Black ice, Snow shovel
Crisp, Chilly, a cold snap, frost, hail
Meaning match
A vehicle used to clear snow off the roads.
When ice crystals form in body extremities (fingers, toes, nose and ears), causing the tissue to die, resulting in gangrene and amputation in extreme cases.
A vehicle used to spread grit and salt on the roads to help melt the ice and give other vehicles more traction.
Extreme changes from cold to hot causing bodily discomfort
An item of clothing to cover the head with holes for the eyes and mouth.
An insulated jacket to protect against the extreme cold
Like a stalagtite but made of ice.
As a raindrop is to a rain, this is to snow.
When rain falls on a road that is below 0c and freezes, forming a transparent layer of ice.
You put these on your car wheels to give you more traction in the snow.
These are formed when snow is blown into mounds.
If a body of water freezes
You need to do this to clear your windscreen of ice.
When ice and snow melt.
Idioms for the cold
Cold enough to freeze the balls off of a brass monkey.
Walking / Treading on thin ice.
Snowed under.
Tip of the iceberg.
Conversation questions
- If you haven’t got an ice scraper handy, what other items can you use to scrape the ice off of a windscreen that has iced up?
- If the meteorologists predicted that a 10-day blizzard was coming, how would you prepare?
- Have you ever driven in the snow?
- What advice would you give to someone who hadn’t but was going to?
- When someone tells you to “wrap up warm/well”, what item of clothing springs to mind?