Portuguese · Elementary (A2) · Chapter 6 of 12
Weather and seasons
O tempo e as estações
Talk about the weather and temperatures in Portuguese, learn Brazil's seasons, and understand forecasts with vai chover and the simple future.
In this chapter you'll learn to
- Describe the weather with estar and fazer
- Say and understand temperatures
- Know when the seasons are in Brazil
- Understand a forecast: vai chover and the simple future (choverá, fará)
Listen
In June, Amanda in Aracaju phones her friend Maurício in Porto Alegre before she visits him. Listen to the whole dialogue first, then line by line.
Maurício
Oi, Amanda. Tudo bem?
Hi, Amanda. How are you?
Amanda
Tudo ótimo. Olha, eu chego aí na sexta. Como está o tempo em Porto Alegre?
Great. Listen, I get there on Friday. What's the weather like in Porto Alegre?
Maurício
Está muito frio. Hoje de manhã fez cinco graus.
It's very cold. This morning it was five degrees.
Amanda
Cinco graus? Aqui em Aracaju está fazendo calor: trinta graus, e faz sol todo dia.
Five degrees? Here in Aracaju it's hot: thirty degrees, and it's sunny every day.
Maurício
É, aqui o inverno é frio, como sempre. E ontem choveu o dia todo.
Yes, winter here is cold, as always. And yesterday it rained all day.
Amanda
E no fim de semana? Vai chover?
And at the weekend? Is it going to rain?
Maurício
A previsão do tempo diz que vai chover na sexta, mas no sábado vai fazer sol. E no domingo de manhã pode ter geada.
The weather forecast says it's going to rain on Friday, but on Saturday it'll be sunny. And on Sunday morning there may be frost.
Amanda
Geada? Aqui em Aracaju isso não existe.
Frost? That doesn't exist here in Aracaju.
Maurício
Então você tem que levar um casaco de inverno. E um guarda-chuva também.
Then you have to bring a winter coat. And an umbrella too.
Amanda
Mas eu não tenho casaco de inverno. Aqui é verão o ano todo.
But I don't have a winter coat. It's summer all year round here.
Maurício
Não tem problema. Eu tenho um casaco para você.
No problem. I've got a coat for you.
Amanda
Obrigada. Então até sexta. Eu levo um pouco de sol para você.
Thanks. See you on Friday, then. I'll bring you a bit of sunshine.
Understand
What's the weather like? Estar and fazer
Ask (What's the weather like?). Describe it with + an adjective (, ) or + a noun (, ). (it's doing) is very common for right now: . For rain and wind, use the verbs and : (it's raining), (it rains a lot here).
Temperatures are in degrees Celsius: In the past, use the preterite of : To say “there may be”, use : (there may be frost).
| Portuguese | English |
|---|---|
| / | It's cold. |
| It's hot. | |
| It's sunny. | |
| It's cloudy. | |
| It's raining. | |
| It's windy. | |
| It's thirty degrees. |
The seasons in Brazil
Brazil is in the southern hemisphere, so the seasons are the other way round from Europe and North America: (summer) is from December to March and (winter) from June to September. is spring and is autumn.
In the South (Porto Alegre, Curitiba) winter is really cold, sometimes with frost. In the North and Northeast it's warm all year, and people there often call the rainy season .
Talking about the future: vai chover and choverá
In speech, the future is + infinitive, as you know from A1: (it's going to rain), .
In weather forecasts, news and writing you'll also see the “simple future”: the infinitive + -ei, -á, -emos, -ão. (It will rain in Porto Alegre tomorrow). A few verbs shorten: → , (to say) → , (to bring) → . In the present, is : (The forecast says it's going to rain). You only need to recognise these forms for now.
| Spoken | Forecast / written | English |
|---|---|---|
| it will rain | ||
| it will be cold | ||
| the temperature will be 10 degrees | ||
| it will be windy |
More in the grammar: The future: vou fazer and farei
New words
- aíthere (where you are) · : there (far from both of us)
- o tempoweather; time · what's the weather like?
- o friocold · , : it's cold
- o graudegree · : thirty degrees
- o calorheat · : it's hot
- o invernowinter · masculine
- como sempreas always, as usual
- choverto rain · : it rained; : it's raining; : rain
- a previsão do tempoweather forecast · feminine
- a geadafrost · feminine
- levarto take, to bring (with you)
- o casacocoat, jacket · masculine
- o guarda-chuvaumbrella · masculine; plural
- o verãosummer · masculine
Practise
1.How do you say “It's raining”?
2.Complete: “It's thirty degrees today.”
It's thirty degrees today.
3.Complete with the spoken future: “It's going to rain tomorrow.”
It's going to rain tomorrow.
4.Put the words in order.
Tap the words below in the right order.What's the weather like in Curitiba?
5.Match the Portuguese with the English.
Pick a word on the left, then its meaning on the right.
6.A forecast says What does it mean?
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Say it out loud
Como está o tempo aí?
What's the weather like there?
Listen, then say it out loud, as close to the recording as you can.
Check
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