Hello English learners. Welcome back（在后） to EnglishPod. My name is Marco. And I'm Erica. And today, we are going to be talking about the weather. That's right.

  And you know, Marco, this is a really, really useful and important topic in English, isn't it? Exactly, because if you ever travel abroad, you always want to know about the weather, right? That's right. And Anglo（盎格鲁） people, English people, all they ever do is talk about the weather. Well, it's an important topic. You want to know what clothes to wear or if you should take an umbrella.

  Or even when you're making（使） small talk with people. Exactly. So, we are going to be taking a look at the weather in the United States. But before we get started with the dialogue, let's take a look at vocabulary preview. Vocabulary preview. Okay（好）, so we have two words we're going to hear in the dialogue.

  Now, the first one is forecast（预测）. Forecast. Weather forecast. So, this is what we listen to or what we see on the television, the weather forecast. Right. It's like the prediction（预报） of the weather.

  Okay. So, forecast. Can I only use it in the weather? No. Of course, you can use it in many other different situations like in business, for example, forecast sales. Okay.

  So, the prediction of sales. Very good. And we have one more word on vocabulary preview. A shower. A shower. Shower.

  Shower. So, when it rains for a short time and it's not too heavy, that's a shower. Okay. Very good. So, it's very similar to a shower at home. Right.

  It doesn't... Like a little bit of water. And it doesn't last too long. Okay. Very good. So, why don't we listen to our dialogue now.

  We are going to be listening to the weatherman as he describes the weather in Utah（犹他州(略作Ut）. And now, let's go to Kenny Williams for today's weather forecast. Thank you, Bill. And good morning, Salt Lake City. What's the weather looking like today, Kenny? Well, it's a bit of a mixed bag in Utah today.

  We've got heavy cloud cover（盖子） here in northern（北方的） Utah（犹他州(略作Ut） and we're calling for scattered showers throughout the day. With a daytime（日间） high（高水平） of 45 degrees. Now, if we move down to the south of the state, we can see that a cold front is moving in. We can expect clear skies, but it will be quite cold with temperatures hovering（盘旋） around the 30 degree mark. It's a chilly（寒冷的） day, folks（人们）. So, don't forget your coats.

  What about tomorrow, Kenny? Do you have good news for us? Well, it'll be a rainy day for northern Utah. We can expect some isolated（使隔离） downpours（ 倾盆大雨） in the morning. Winds will be coming in from the northeast with gusts（阵风） reaching 23 miles per hour. Salt Lake City can expect the rain to turn to sleet in the evening.

  Things are looking a bit better for the south. We'll see cloudy skies with a chance of showers. Later in the day, we can expect partly（部分地） cloudy skies with a forecast（预测） high of 38 degrees. You heard it, folks. It's going to be a cold one. That's right, Bill.

  We will have more later on today on the 6 o'clock news. That's the weather forecast for this morning. ♪♪♪ All right, so we listened to the weather forecast and it doesn't seem like nice weather in Utah, huh? No, it certainly doesn't. I don't think that I'd really like to live there. Well, maybe it's winter or something like that.

  Well, I guess, yeah, maybe it's good for skiing. Okay, so now I think it's time for us to take a look at some of those maybe difficult words that we may have listened to in this dialogue in "Language Takeaway（外卖食品）." ♪♪♪ All right, here we're going to look at some words and phrases that you can use to describe the weather. Now, the first one, we heard in the weather forecast that they were calling for scattered（分散） showers. Scattered showers. Scatter.

  Scattered, if something is scattered. It's sort（种类） of like（喜欢） it's a little bit of that thing everywhere. Okay, and we already talked about what showers were. Right, so showers, a small amount of rain. Okay, very good. To better understand when something is scattered, imagine that we are in a playground and the children are playing in the playground.

  Okay. So the children are scattered everywhere. Some of them are playing on the swing（摇摆）, some of them are playing on the grass or in the sandbox.