3.5 – Le temps et les saisons

3 – Les vacances

Vocabulaire: 3.5 – Le temps et les saisons

In this vocabulary list, you will learn vocabulary related to weather (le temps) and saisons (les saisons)

Earlier in chapter 3, you learned idiomatic expressions with faire; these have figurative meanings, as opposed to literal, meanings:
- Ex; Je fais du football. = I play soccer. (see the vocabulary list again if needed)

In this vocabulary list, the verb faire is used as an impersonal expressions to describe the weather.
- The expression “Il fait” literally means “He does”.
- However, when it is used to describe weather, we will translate it as: “It is…”. (hence an impersonal expression, as it does not refer to a person).
- Just like with the faire idiomatic expressions, pay close attention to the prepositions used with faire in this list (du, des). Study these propositions as part of the expressions.

When learning the vocabulary words for the seasons, make sure to also learn the different prepositions used to mean “in + season” (au, en)

le temps	weather
Quel temps fait-il?	What’s the weather?
Il fait… Il fait chaud. Il fait frais. Il fait mauvais. Il fait froid. Il fait du soleil. Il fait du brouillard. Il fait du vent.	It is… It’s hot. It’s cool. It’s bad. It’s cold. It’s sunny. It’s foggy. It’s windy.
Il y a… Il y a du soleil. Il y a du brouillard. Il y a du vent. Il y a des nuages. Il y a des orages.	There is… /There are… There’s sun. There’s fog. There’s wind. There are clouds. There are storms.
Il pleut.	It’s raining.
Il neige.	It’s snowing.

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