AClass Aviation English Vocab Weather Exercise

Learn English in Malta with AClass Academy of English. We are a small and friendly language school that offers General English Courses, Medical English Courses, Business English Courses and Aviation English Courses. Visit http://www.aclassenglish.com/courses.php for more info. In groups of 3. Put the following words associated with the weather into the correct groups on the next page.

a flash of lightning

Fog patches

Closing in

Headwind

Tailwind Hail

frost

Wet

 pools of water 

Snow drifts

turbulence

Slush Drizzle Cirrus

Dense fog

haze

fog-bound

haze

 A bank of clouds

thunder

water spout

windshear

sleet

Down/up draught

scattered showers

sandstorm

Dispersing

VMC conditions

Crosswind 

Black ice

gusts

cealing

storm cells

drift

mist

tornado broken

overcast 

damp

wet 

icy patches calm

1

Learn English in Malta with AClass Academy of English. We are a small and friendly language school that offers General English Courses, Medical English Courses, Business English Courses and Aviation English Courses. Visit http://www.aclassenglish.com/courses.php for more info.

Wind Precipitation

Surfaces Clouds

Visibility Cavok 

Storms

2 1.

Learn English in Malta with AClass Academy of English. We are a small and friendly language school that offers General English Courses, Medical English Courses, Business English Courses and Aviation English Courses. Visit http://www.aclassenglish.com/courses.php for more info.

Answers C= Clouds W= Wind

VC = Visibility Cavoc St = Storms

Su = Surface P = Precipitation

2. Closing in - VC 3. Fog patches - VC 4. A flash of lightning- St 5. Headwind- W 6. Tailwind- W 7. Hail-P 8. Frost- P 9. Wet –Su 10. Snow drifts -Su 11. Pools of waterwater- Su 12. Turbulence- W 13. Slush - Su 14. Drizzle -P 15. Dense fog - VC 16. Haze- VC 17. Fog-bound- VC 18. Cirrus - C 19. Haze - VC 20. A 20. A bank of clouds -C 21. Water spout - ST 22. Thunder- ST 23. Windshear- W 24. Down/up draught - W 25. Sleet- P 26. Scattered showers - P 27. Sandstorm- St 28. Dispersing – VC 29. Crosswind- W  30. VMC conditions- VC 31. mist - VC

3

Learn English in Malta with AClass Academy of English. We are a small and friendly language school that offers General English Courses, Medical English Courses, Business English Courses and Aviation English Courses. Visit http://www.aclassenglish.com/courses.php for more info.

32. tornado- ST 33. Black ice- SU 34. ceiling - C 35. storm 35. storm cells- C  36. broken- C 37. Overcast- C 38. Gusts - W 39. Drift- W 40. Damp - SU 41. Wet- SU 42. Icy patches- SU 43. Calm- W

_____________________________________________________________________

4