English Vocabulary: Talking about RAIN

1. Questions

• What’s the weather like?
• How is it outside? Is it raining?
• Is it still raining out?

2. Answers

Useful English Phrases to Say When it’s Raining...

• “It’s spitting.” (Spitting is very light rain, rain that you can barely feel.)
• “It’s just spitting a little.”
• “It’s drizzling.”(Drizzling is more than spitting, less than raining)
• “It’s been raining on and off all day.” (On and off means starting & stopping, then starting again over a period of time.)
• “It’s pouring.”(Pouring is very heavy rain.) - “It is pouring rain outside!”