It's that time of year again and with almost all of France under the white powdery stuff, we thought you might have a ball (a snowball, that is) using these words and idiomatic expressions with your students.How many words do YOU know?
Snow
Snowy
Snowball
Snowman
A snow day
A snowdrift
To be snowbound
A snowbunny
Snowflake
To be snowed in
To be snowed under
Skiing
Snowboarding
Snowmobiling
Snowshoeing
Ice hockey
Flurries
Black ice
Slush
Slushy
Sleet
Freezing Rain
Blizzard
Wind Chill
Icicles
Frost
To scrape your windshield
A windshield scraper
Lake Effect Snow (see: http://www.weather.com/encyclopedia/winter/lake.html)
Frostbite
Where is the "snowbelt?"
Also: Snow - the black and white display of a t.v. when there is no reception
Fixed expressions
A snowball's chance in hell
To snow someone
It's coming down in buckets
No two snowflakes are the same
Play on words
It's snow problem
It's snow wonder
It's snow joke
It's snow fun
It's snowbody's business
There's snowbody here!
Can you think of any more?
