What is your favorite type of weather?

[alpacinou]

Hello to all,

I am supposed to answer this question for spoken language: What is your favorite type of weather?

First of all, I really appreciate some creative ideas about how I can go about answering this question in a colorful and creative way.

Secondly, is this correct?

I have a very varied taste when it comes to weather. I am sun-worshipper and oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. Sometimes, I enjoy walking under teeming rain.

Can I use taste to talk about the weather? Could you please share some creative ideas about how I can talk about weather? I have no idea how to expand on it.

 

[jutfrank]

I really appreciate some creative ideas about how I can go about answering this question in a colorful and creative way.

Stop trying to do that! It's a mundane question, so just answer it normally.

Who's asking you this, anyway? And why?

No, you can't have a taste in weather.

 

[alpacinou]

Stop trying to do that! It's a mundane question, so just answer it normally.

Who's asking you this, anyway? And why?

No, you can't have a taste in weather.

This is a question I was asked by one of my students and it got me thinking about how I can talk about and expand on it.

 

[emsr2d2]

Hello to all.

I am supposed to answer this question for spoken language: What is your favorite type of weather?

First of all, I would really appreciate some creative ideas about how I can go about answering this question in a colorful and creative way.
Do something about the repetition of "creative".

Secondly, is this correct?

I have a very varied taste when it comes to weather. I am a sun-worshipper [STRIKE]and[/STRIKE] but, oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. Sometimes, I enjoy walking [STRIKE]under[/STRIKE] in the teeming rain.

Can I use "taste" to talk about the weather? Could you please share some creative ideas about how I can talk about weather? I have no idea how to expand on it.

Note my corrections and comments above.

Why are you "supposed to answer this question"? Is it for a forthcoming test? Whoever set the question should have come up with a more "colourful and creative" question for you to answer.

Edit: While I was writing this, you wrote post #3. So - do you have to answer the question or does your student have to answer it?

 

[Tarheel]

The expression is:

pouring rain

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creative - original

 

[emsr2d2]

"teeming rain" is OK in BrE.

 

[alpacinou]

Note my corrections and comments above.

Why are you "supposed to answer this question"? Is it for a forthcoming test? Whoever set the question should have come up with a more "colourful and creative" question for you to answer.

Edit: While I was writing this, you wrote post #3. So - do you have to answer the question or does your student have to answer it?

Thank you for your notes.

Honestly, my student asked this question from me. I gave him a mundane answer. But then it got me thinking. I keep asking myself how I can talk about my favorite weather in an interesting way.

Since taste does not work, how can I fix this?

I have a very varied taste when it comes to weather. I am sun-worshipper and oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. Sometimes, I enjoy walking under teeming rain.

 

[emsr2d2]

How about "I enjoy all sorts of weather"?

Please don't mislead us when you post. The sentence "I am supposed to answer this question" is basically a lie.

 

[alpacinou]

How about "I enjoy all sorts of weather"?

Please don't mislead us when you post. The sentence "I am supposed to answer this question" is basically a lie.

Misleading you is the last thing I would want to do. Maybe I could not express myself clearly.

I sincerely apologize for the confusion that was created.

 

[jutfrank]

I don't think alpacinoutd meant to lie.

 

[emsr2d2]

I should clarify - I wasn't accusing the OP of intentionally lying to us, with any malicious intent. However, it did turn out to be untrue.

 

[alpacinou]

Does this work?

I enjoy all sorts of weather. I am sun-worshipper and oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. I also enjoy walking under teeming rain every once in a while.

 

[emsr2d2]

Did you notice the two corrections I made earlier? Look back at my first post.

 

[jutfrank]

You've missed an article somewhere in the second sentence.

I think you mean but, not and.

I don't see why you'd use under instead of in.

 

[alpacinou]

Did you notice the two corrections I made earlier? Look back at my first post.

You are right.

Is this OK and natural?

I enjoy all sorts of weather. I am a sun-worshipper but, oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. I also enjoy walking in the teeming\pouring rain every once in a while.

 

[jutfrank]

Did you notice the two corrections I made earlier? Look back at my first post.

Sorry, emsr2d2. I should have been aware of that.

 

[emsr2d2]

You are right.

Is this OK and natural?

I enjoy all sorts of weather. I am a sun-worshipper but, oddly enough, I also enjoy hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. I also enjoy walking in the teeming\pouring rain every once in a while.

Yes, it's OK and natural. I would, however, do something about the repetition of "enjoy". Also, your slash goes in the wrong direction. It should be "teeming/pouring".

 

[alpacinou]

Yes, it's OK and natural. I would, however, do something about the repetition of "enjoy". Also, your slash goes in the wrong direction. It should be "teeming/pouring".

You are right.

Do they work?

I enjoy all sorts of weather. I am a sun-worshipper but, oddly enough, I sometime also relish hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. I also take pleasure in /delight in walking in the teeming rain every once in a while.

 

[jutfrank]

I sometime also relish hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather.

So you're saying that what you like about bitterly cold weather is being out of it? That doesn't make too much sense, does it?

 

[alpacinou]

So you're saying that what you like about bitterly cold weather is being out of it? That doesn't make too much sense, does it?

So I should omit "oddly enough" ?

I enjoy all sorts of weather. I am a sun-worshipper. I sometime also relish hunkering down next to a fire in bitterly cold weather. On the other hand, I also take pleasure in /delight in walking in the teeming rain every once in a while.