Spanish · Elementary (A2) · Chapter 6 of 12
Weather and seasons
El tiempo y las estaciones
Talk about the weather, the seasons and temperatures in Spanish, and say what the weather will be like with the future tense.
In this chapter you'll learn to
- Ask and say what the weather is like
- Talk about temperatures and the seasons
- Make predictions with the future tense: lloverá, hará sol
Listen
In October, Alejandro, who lives in Seville, phones his friend Uxía in Santiago de Compostela before his trip there. Listen to the whole dialogue first, then line by line.
Alejandro
Hola, Uxía. Oye, el lunes voy a Santiago. ¿Qué tiempo hace allí?
Hi, Uxía. Listen, I'm going to Santiago on Monday. What's the weather like there?
Uxía
Hoy llueve mucho, como siempre. Y hace un poco de frío.
It's raining a lot today, as always. And it's a bit cold.
Alejandro
¿Frío? Aquí en Sevilla estamos a treinta grados.
Cold? Here in Seville it's thirty degrees.
Uxía
¡Treinta grados en octubre! Aquí estamos a catorce.
Thirty degrees in October! Here it's fourteen.
Alejandro
¿Y la semana que viene? ¿Lloverá?
And next week? Will it rain?
Uxía
El lunes y el martes hará sol, pero el miércoles lloverá otra vez.
On Monday and Tuesday it'll be sunny, but on Wednesday it'll rain again.
Alejandro
Entonces necesitaré un paraguas.
Then I'll need an umbrella.
Uxía
Sí, claro. Y por la noche hace fresco, unos diez grados.
Yes, of course. And at night it's chilly, about ten degrees.
Alejandro
¿Diez grados? En Sevilla todavía no hace frío.
Ten degrees? In Seville it isn't cold yet.
Uxía
Claro, pero Santiago no es Sevilla. En otoño aquí llueve mucho.
Of course, but Santiago isn't Seville. In autumn it rains a lot here.
Alejandro
Bueno, no pasa nada. Me encanta la lluvia.
Well, it doesn't matter. I love the rain.
Uxía
Pues Santiago te va a encantar.
Well then, you're going to love Santiago.
Understand
What's the weather like?
Ask (What's the weather like?). Many answers use + a noun: (literally “it makes cold”). Because , and are nouns, “very” is , not : .
For rain and snow there are special verbs: (it's raining, it rains) from , and (it's snowing) from . For temperature, say or .
The seasons are (spring), (summer), (autumn) and (winter).
| Spanish | English |
|---|---|
| It's hot. | |
| It's cold. | |
| It's chilly. / It's cool. | |
| It's sunny. | |
| It's windy. | |
| / | The weather's good. / The weather's bad. |
| It's raining. | |
| It's snowing. | |
| It's cloudy. |
The future tense: regular verbs
To say what will happen, for example in a weather forecast, Spanish has a “future tense”. It's easy: take the whole infinitive and add the endings -é, -ás, -á, -emos, -éis, -án. The endings are the same for -ar, -er and -ir verbs: → (it will rain).
In conversation, + infinitive (A1) is also very common for the future: (It's going to rain).
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Irregular futures: hará, tendrá, podrá
A few common verbs change their stem in the future, but the endings stay the same. You'll hear all the time in weather forecasts: (Tomorrow it will be sunny).
| Infinitive | Future stem | Example |
|---|---|---|
| har- | (It will be cold tomorrow.) | |
| tendr- | (I'll have time on Monday.) | |
| podr- | (We won't be able to go.) | |
| saldr- | (The sun will come out in the afternoon.) | |
| vendr- | (Will you come in summer?) | |
| dir- | (What will your mother say?) |
More in the grammar: The future: ir a and the future tense
New words
- ¿Qué tiempo hace?What's the weather like? · : the weather; also time
- lloverto rain · : it's raining; : it will rain
- como siempreas always, as usual
- hacer fríoto be cold (weather) · : it's cold
- estamos a… gradosit's… degrees · : degree
- ¿Lloverá?Will it rain?
- hacer solto be sunny · : it will be sunny
- otra vezagain
- necesitarto need
- el paraguasumbrella · masculine; the same in the plural:
- hacer frescoto be chilly, to be cool (weather)
- unos / unasabout (with numbers); some · : about ten degrees
- el otoñoautumn · masculine
- la lluviarain · feminine
Practise
1.It's very hot. What do you say?
2.Complete with the future of : “Tomorrow it will be sunny.”
Tomorrow it will be sunny.
3.Complete with the future of : “On Wednesday it will rain again.”
On Wednesday it will rain again.
4.Put the words in order.
Tap the words below in the right order.What's the weather like in Santiago?
5.Match the seasons and the weather words.
Pick a word on the left, then its meaning on the right.
6.What does mean?
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Say it out loud
¿Qué tiempo hace hoy?
What's the weather like today?
Listen, then say it out loud, as close to the recording as you can.
Check
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