APIEVocabulary: Lightning and Thunderstorms
Lightning and thunderstorms
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⚡ Lightning & Thunderstorms
Master 10 topic vocabulary words, practice collocations, and perfect your speech rhythm with 12 shadowing recordings.
📋 How to use this lesson
- • Guide students through 10 B2 weather target words in 20 minutes.
- • Review automated answers and listen to student audio recordings for instant feedback.
- • Read the word table carefully and use the short memory tips to learn each word.
- • Complete the 16 practice questions, then record yourself in the 12 shadowing exercises.
Word table
10 Target WordsStudy these 10 key thunderstorm words grouped by phase. Read the example sentences and memory tricks.
| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence |
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| roar (verb / noun) | A deep, loud, continuing sound. | roar of thunder, hear it roar | We heard the heavy thunder roar across the dark valley. |
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💡 Memory tip: Picture a lion in the sky making a loud, continuous sound.
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| hail (noun / verb) | Small hard balls of ice that fall like rain. | heavy hail, hail pelts down | Cold hail pelted against the glass window during the storm. |
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💡 Memory tip: Hail rhymes with nail: hard little balls of ice that hit like nails.
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| thunderclap (noun) | A sudden, very loud crash of thunder. | sudden thunderclap, loud thunderclap | A sharp thunderclap startled everyone in the room. |
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💡 Memory tip: Thunder + clap: like two giant sky hands clapping together sharply.
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| overhead (adverb / adj) | High above your head in the sky. | clouds overhead, pass directly overhead | Dark storm clouds gathered directly overhead. |
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💡 Memory tip: Over + head: literally located over your head.
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| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence |
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| drench (verb) | To make someone or something completely wet. | drench clothes, get drenched | The heavy downpour will drench your jacket in seconds. |
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💡 Memory tip: Drench sounds like drink: clothes drink water until soaked.
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| tremble (verb) | To shake slightly because of cold or fear. | tremble with fear, tremble from cold | The windows began to tremble as the severe thunder shook the house. |
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💡 Memory tip: Tremble connects to tremor: a small tremor or shake in your body.
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| startle (verb) | To surprise or frighten someone suddenly. | startle easily, startle the dog | The sudden flash of lightning can startle anyone nearby. |
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💡 Memory tip: Startle makes you start or jump up suddenly in surprise.
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| Word | Meaning | Common Collocations | Example Sentence |
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| rainfall (noun) | The total amount of rain that falls in a period. | heavy rainfall, continuous rainfall | The heavy rainfall flooded the garden path within minutes. |
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💡 Memory tip: Rain + fall: rain falling down onto the ground.
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| muggy (adjective) | Warm and uncomfortably damp or humid weather. | muggy weather, muggy afternoon | The air felt warm and muggy right before the storm started. |
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💡 Memory tip: Muggy feels like your head is inside a warm, steamy coffee mug.
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| static (noun) | Crackling noise on radio or TV from electricity. | static noise, radio static | The lightning strike created sudden static on our radio. |
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💡 Memory tip: Static electricity creates tiny crackles of sound.
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Practice
16 QuestionsPart 1: Collocation Matching
Choose the correct noun or phrase that naturally matches each verb.
1. Verb: drench
2. Verb phrase: hear a sudden
3. Verb: tremble
4. Verb phrase: feel the
Part 2: Short Dialogue Fill-in-the-Blank
Choose the correct word from the word bank to complete each dialogue.
Dialogue 1
A: "Did you hear that low continuous thunder sound?"
B: "Yes! I could hear the deep ____ of the thunder across the hills."
Dialogue 2
A: "Look at those tiny white ice stones hitting the window!"
B: "That is heavy ____ falling from the dark clouds."
Dialogue 3
A: "Where is the main thunderstorm cloud located right now?"
B: "Look up! It is passing directly ____."
Dialogue 4
A: "Did that bright flash of lightning jump you out of your chair?"
B: "Yes, sudden bright lights can easily ____ anyone."
Part 3: Choose the Word
Read the sentence. All 3 choices are grammatically correct, but only ONE option fits the exact meaning of the sentence.
9. "After the flash, a heavy ________ filled the empty street with water."
10. "The ________ air made us feel hot and sticky right before the rain started."
11. "I heard a quiet crackle of electrical ________ on the radio during the thunderstorm."
12. "A sudden loud ________ rattled the glass windows of our room."
Part 4: Sentence-building
Rewrite the sentence by arranging the given words into the correct order.
Example pattern: "Two hikers got caught in the storm, and a tree was hit by lightning."
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Shadowing
12 RecordingsListen to the model speaker first by clicking the speaker icon 🔊. Then record yourself speaking clearly into the microphone.
🗣️ Short Collocations (4 items)
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