Robert: God, it’s baking out there!
Claudia: I know! The weatherman got it wrong again. He predicted a cold front coming in.
Robert: Same old, same old. Oof, it’s sweltering in here, too. Don’t tell me the air-con’s down again?
Claudia: I’m afraid so! We’ll have to make do with the fan.
Robert: That blows all my papers of my desk. It gives me a sore throat, too.
Claudia: Yep! A sore throat in the middle of a heat wave.
Robert: I guess we mustn’t grumble. It’s always too hot or too rainy or too cold or too blustery…
Claudia: Yes, you’re right. The upside is that it’s Friday. It’ll be perfect beach weather!
Robert: I bet it rains, though. It always takes a turn for the worse at the weekend.
Claudia: Now where’s that optimism?
Robert: Hey, I’m British! I’m supposed to complain about the weather!
NOW LET’S REVIEW THE VOCABULARY!
Baking and sweltering are synonyms for ‘very hot’. You can also say ��scorching’ or ‘boiling’.
When you are mistaken, you get it wrong; conversely, when you guess correctly, you ‘get it right’.
Same old, same old is an expression to indicate that the same thing always happens in a particular situation.
In this context, down means it is not working.
To make do with something means to tolerate it.
A heat wave is a period of unusually hot weather.
To grumble is a synonym of ‘to complain’.
Blustery is another word for ‘windy’. Other options include ‘gusty’ or ‘breezy’.
Upside means the positive aspect of a situation which is generally bad. The opposite is ‘downside’.
When something takes a turn for the worse, it suddenly becomes bad.