Listening skills are so important if you want be able to easily and confidently talk to other English speakers.

In this post, I want to test your listening skills and I’m going to give you some information about the British weather. It’s our favourite topic of conversation, after all!

You need to listen to what I say and answer the questions.

The questions are in the video and they are also below. The answers and the full transcript are below the video (but don’t look until you’ve done the work!).

☀️ The questions:
1. What was the rainfall in December 2015?
2. How many days per year does in rain in the UK?
3. Which year is famous for its heatwave and what was the hottest temperature that year?
4. What was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK?
5. How much of their life does the average British person spend talking about the weather?

Watch the video here

☀️ The answers (no looking until you’ve done the work!):
1. What was the rainfall in December 2015?
91% above average.
2. How many days per year does in rain in the UK?
156.2
3. Which year is famous for its heatwave and what was the hottest temperature that year?
1976 / 35.9°C
4. What was the hottest temperature ever recorded in the UK?
40.3°C
5. How much of their life does the average British person spend talking about the weather?
6 months

☀️The full text:

There have been a few weather records broken in recent years: December 2015 was the wettest month on record with rainfall 91% above average. It rains on average for 156.2 days each year and Cardiff is the UK’s wettest city.
1976 is famous for its heatwave although the hottest day was a mere 35.9 °C compared to the record of 40.3 in July 2022.
Apparently more than 9 out of 10 Brits have spoken about the weather in the last 6 hours and in total we spend about 6 months of our lives talking about it.

Was that easy? Difficult? Somewhere in between? Let me know in the comments!

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