Hi there, this is Harry and welcome back to my advanced English classes with
Harry. So what are we going to look at today? Well, as you always know, we try to
help you to improve your English to get a better understanding of your grammar,
to look at phrasal verbs, expressions, vocabulary, pronunciation.
And today, we're going to look at other ways to say it's hot in English. So these are advanced
vocabulary words, how to explain that the weather is hot. And if you're
somewhere in the summer enjoying those hot days while you might enjoy these particular words. So
I'm going to go through them one by one. I've got a list of them, there are 12 this time,
and then I'll go back and give you an example as to when and how you might use them and how they
will apply. So remember, it's advanced English lessons with Harry. And these are advanced
words vocabulary relating, and other ways to say hot in English, okay?
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Okay, so let's look at these. So we've got
12 particular words that mean hot, soaring, usually when we talk about temperatures
soaring. It's boiling, boiling hot, stifling, stifling, hot. It's roasting.
Sizzling it's burning, tropical, sweltering
scorching or it is scorching. Steamy, sultry, and then finally baking hot, baking hot. Okay,
I'm going to go through each of them and give you an example of when you might use them.
Okay, so the first one soaring. Well, when temperatures are soaring, they're going up
very, very quickly. So you might be getting used to temperatures of 17-18-19 C in the early
part of the summer. And then as we get into the middle of the summer, temperatures start to soar.
So the weather forecast man might say and temperatures are soaring
this weekend to the high 20s. You can expect temperatures of 27
to 30. And then some days you might get even higher. So the temperatures soar,
they go up really, really quickly. Like a bird soaring high in the sky. Soaring.
It's boiling hot. Okay, so when some... something's boiling hot. Of course,
if you're boiling water for the kettle for the tea, well, then you'll know
when it boils because the water starts to bubble. Yeah.
But when we feel it's boiling, it's, Oh, I'm not used to this heat. It's
boiling outside. Now it might be 22 or 24. But it might be the early days of
the summer when you're you've been used now to the winter in the spring. So it's boiling
today. I don't feel like doing anything when the temperature is really really hot.
And you can be sitting in a classroom a stuffy old classroom and it's boiling and you're
feeling like you're falling asleep because the teacher won't open the windows. So please, sir,
please, miss. Can we open the windows? It's boiling in here, meaning it's really, really hot.
Yeah, I have to be really careful when you park your car, particularly if you've got a pet not
to close the windows because it'll heat up very quickly in the dog or get very,
very sick. So it's boiling.
You shouldn't leave dogs in cars when it's boiling.
Stifling. Stifling is that condition when you can hardly breathe. Yes. So you walk into a room with
the windows closed. Teacher or the professor has been talking for a couple of hours and when you
walk in, it's like hitting a wall of heat. Whoa, it's stifling. I can hardly breathe. So you're
pulling out your collar. Can't... I can't breathe at all. It's stifling.
So stufling... when it's stifling hot it means
difficult to breathe. You can feel the heat when you breathe in. It's stifling.
It's roasting. Well, like roasting meat on the barbecue. You know,
you'll know when you can hear it roasting. So roasting is another way to describe hot weather.
Oh, it's a great day to go to the beach, it's roasting today. So we'll be beside
the sea. We can jump in whenever we like we can lie on the sand and we'll be dry in
seconds. It's really really hot. It's roasting or it's roasting hot out there.
So again, the weather forecast man might say, Well, guys, you've got to be really
careful today. It's roasting hot out there. Mmm.. Remember to put on that factor 30 or if
their kids put on that factor 50 suncream to protect yourselves. It's a roasting hot day.
Sizzling. Well, again when we use the barbecue meat sizzles when it begins to get
very hot, so you can hear it sizzling. Yeah. So and when you're driving along the roads,
the tarmacadam on the streets gets soft over you're walking. Your feet almost stick to the
ground. It's so hot. You say, Whoa, it's sizzling. You can see the evaporation of
water and things in the air and it's it's almost visible and... So it's really really
sizzling you can almost smell the heat. It's so so strong. So so hot.
So a sizzling hot day in downtown New York. Sizzling hot day in downtown Los Angeles,
people should be wearing hats, staying in
the shade and wearing as much protection as possible. It's sizzling out there.
Burning. Well, burning like a fire burns and if there's a forest fire, the trees will burn. But
when we describe something burning, we just mean it's really really hot.
And when we sit on a seat, we feel the hot plastic of the seat or the hot wood where the sun has been
shining for a couple of hours. And when we sit on that bench or that seat near the the ocean, it's
all burns her legs were wearing shorts or a bikini or something so it's it's burning burning hot.
And if you look at somebody who has been lying in the sun for a couple of hours and their skin is
very obviously red you say, You should put a towel on or a t-shirt.
You're burning! You look all red. So you've got that
red colour, like as if you burnt your finger or your hand on a hot teapot or on the oven burning.
Tropical. Well, tropical weather is a very hot weather you get those big
cloudburst but you get the buildup of heat and it's a real
balmy day when you can feel the heat and when you walk outside. It's you certainly
don't need anything but a t-shirt and shorts and you're it's like walking into a furnace. Really,
really hot. And within a few minutes. You are perspiring. So you got that tropical impact.
Yeah, if you're lucky, you've got a nice tropical sea breeze as well.
So it keeps you a little bit cool but tropical weather for shorts,
t-shirt, walking along a beach, listening to the lapping of the ocean nearby with
very little wave action because there's no wind or a very light wind. Tropical.
Sweltering when it's... things are sweltering, we can hardly breathe we...
we start to sweat. And so if we have to drive in our car,
very, very uncomfortable. We have to put the air conditioning at full blast.
And so you're bringing home to tell your partner when I get home. I need
a hot shower. It's sweltering in this car, I'm stuck to the seat. It's so hot,
absolutely sweltering. So when you get out of the car, your t-shirt is sticking to you.
And what you want to do is just get your clothes off as quickly as possible
and jump into the pool or jump into a shower. Sweltering. Sweltering hot.
Scorching. It's a scorching day today and here in Ireland we're not so often we have it but for the
last week or so we've had really nice scorching weather. Temperatures are rising day by day.
You know when you go out, the sun is high in the sky.
The sky is blue. It's a scorching hot day. It's a day for the beach today, for the swimming trunks.
It's a day for the sun cream. It's a day for factor 50. So it's a scorching hot day.
Oh we had a scorching hot summer last year. We really had a memorable summer with lots of long
hot days... I wish! So scorching hot.
Steamy. Well, steam is when water boils and you can see the the steam rising as
the kettle boiled or the pan of water boils on the cooker. So when we refer to a steamy day,
it's a bit like that a little bit too hot. You can see the condensation running down
the windows or you might see the water on the lake evaporating or in the river so it's a steamy day.
Everybody is a little bit uncomfortable. perspiration,
not so much breeze and very difficult to breathe. So a steamy day like being
inside a shower with just very hot water or being inside a sauna when you've got that
buildup of the hot coals and you've got lots of steam so a steamy day.
Sultry. Well sultry, it's not so much sunny, sultry is when it's real really, really close.
Yeah, the air is really really heavy. That time just before thunderstorms because thunderstorms
are really good because they break up that humidity and the air becomes a lot fresher.
But couple of days before that, you get the sultry weather you might get
overhead clouds, it really hot weather conditions, temperature high, not a lot of sun, very
uncomfortable to go out and walk or do any real physical exercise or to really sultry day. Hard
to breathe a perspiring all the time, and there's no real sun there. I wish we'd have a big storm so
we could break it and we could then go back to a little bit of normal temperatures for a few days.
And the whole cycle starts again. So sultry day, heavy, overcast, cloudy, high temperatures.
And then finally, it's baking hot now. So this is just a real exclamation about how the weather is
how's the weather there are it's baking hot here, you know, I know it's cold at home, but here it's
baking hot. We're all in t-shirts and shorts and after class we go to the local swimming pool
and we can't wait to jump in because we really need to get freshened up. So it's baking hot,
you can't walk on the sand because the sand is baking hot you need put on your flip-flops
or sandals because if you go in bare feet on the sand, you're baking hot, your feet will
be sore you're the soles of your feet will be red with the heat from the sand. So the sand is
baking hot. So you run to the edge of the water and dip your feet in there to keep them cool.
Okay, so these are 12 particular ways 12 words that would be alternative to describe hot weather.
Okay, so advanced English but try and use them because you can. They're interchangeable
because lots of times we can use different ones. You might have your favourite word
to describe the day but some of them specific to situations depending on how much air there is or
the clouds are heavy or whatever it might be. Okay, let me give them to
you one more time. Soaring like soaring temperatures. boiling hot. stifling no air
stifling. It's roasting in this room. Can we open a window sizzling? Oh, the sun is
sizzling and you can see it on the pavements that tarmacadam is melting. It's sizzling hot.
It's burning. Wow, really burning when you walk in that sand it burns your feet. Burning.
Tropical. The weather is tropical like being on a tropical island. Sweltering hot. I can't
breathe every time I move. I'm sweating. I'm sweltering. Scorching. Scorching hot.
Steamy. Like being inside the sauna steamy. Sultry.
Well, as I said, it's that overhead, clammy conditions. Very little air. Not a
lot of sunshine, very sultry, waiting for that storm to arrive. And then finally baking hot.
Okay, well as always, I appreciate you listening and watching and if I
can help you of course write to me. Try to practice those words. They're good to use
good for your vocabulary good for your spoken English and also good for your
written English. They can be of any help let me know as always, thanks for listening.