An t-sìde/An aimsir

This week we are going to be learning a little bit about the weather.

We have made up some printable weather wheels for you to make up.

If you click here it should take you to the file for this. Download it and print it out, then stick onto card before cutting out. You can just use a little piece of blue tac to stick the arrow so that it points at the correct weather for the day.

To ask what the weather is like you would say:

Ciamar a tha an t-sìde?

(Kimar a ha an chee-je)

Although the weather can also be called an aimsir.

Then to answer using the weather we have put on our wheel you would say:

Tha i fliuch - It is wet

(Ha ee flooch)

Tha i grianach - It is sunny

(Ha ee gree-an-ach)

Tha i sgòthach - It is cloudy

(Ha ee sgo-hach)

Tha i gaothach - It is windy

(Ha ee gi-hach)

The form of the answer changes a little when you want to say the next two weathers. Rather than your answer simply being ‘it is’, you would now say ‘there is........’

Tha tàirneanaich agus dealanaich ann - there is thunder and lightning

(Ha tar-nan-eech a-oon)

Tha sneachd ann - there is snow

(Ha shnyeachg a-oon)

For a song you could sing along to this one here. The link should take you to the home page so then just find the picture below and sing along. We used to sing this one quite often at Cròileagan so most of you should have sung it before.

Keep an eye on our Facebook page where we’ll be sharing some more posts about our weather this week.