--- title: Weather and seasons — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Weather and seasons», a lesson of the french course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: French talks about the weather with il fait, "it makes": il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/) / Weather and seasons # Weather and seasons Lesson 13 of the french course of Mova's primary school: 18 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/french/13-weather-and-seasons/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/0/) — French talks about the weather with il fait, "it makes": il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/1/) — Some weather has its own little verb: il pleut (it's raining) and il neige (it's snowing); and for things you see in the sky you use il y a, "there is": il y a des nuages (it's cloudy). - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/2/) — Your body is different: when YOU are hot you say j'ai chaud, "I have hot", and when you are cold, j'ai froid. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/3/) — Picture a Christmas card from Melbourne with a beach on it: France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer there, while in Australia it is winter. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/4/) — French has funny weather sayings: a dreadful stormy day is un temps de chien, "a dog's weather", and heavy rain is il pleut des cordes, "it's raining ropes". - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/5/) — Quel temps fait-il ? means "What's the weather like?"; Il pleut ("eel PLUH") means "It's raining". - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/6/) — For weather French uses il fait: il fait beau (it's nice), il fait chaud (it's hot), il fait froid (it's cold), il fait mauvais (it's bad), il fait gris (it's dull and grey). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/7/) — For how your body feels French uses avoir: j'ai chaud (I'm hot), j'ai froid (I'm cold); je suis chaud means something else in slang, so avoid it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/8/) — il y a means "there is" or "there are": il y a des nuages (it's cloudy), il y a du vent (it's windy), il y a du soleil (it's sunny). - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/9/) — Il neige means "It's snowing"; la neige is snow and un bonhomme de neige is a snowman. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/10/) — un orage is a thunderstorm, le tonnerre is thunder and un éclair is a flash of lightning (and also a chocolate pastry); Il y a de l'orage means there's a storm. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/11/) — The seasons are le printemps (spring), l'été (summer), l'automne (autumn) and l'hiver (winter). - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/12/) — France is in the northern half of the world, so July is summer and Christmas is in winter there; in Australia and New Zealand it is the other way round. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/13/) — "In" a season is en été, en automne, en hiver, but au printemps, because printemps starts with a consonant. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/14/) — France uses degrees Celsius, like the UK: il fait vingt degrés (20 °C) is warm, a T-shirt day; 0 °C is freezing; 20 °C is about 68 °F. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/15/) — Il fait un temps de chien ! means the weather is awful; Il pleut des cordes ! means it's pouring. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/16/) — beau means beautiful or handsome, but il fait beau simply means the weather is sunny and nice. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/13-weather-and-seasons/17/) — Slang here: "chucking it down" (UK) means raining hard; "dreich" (Scotland) means grey, damp and gloomy; "mental" (Scotland) means crazy; "wicked" (Boston) means very; "mate" means friend. - ← previous: [Telling the time](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/12-telling-the-time/) - next →: [My family](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/14-my-family/) - ↑ back to [French](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/french/)