BBC LEARNING ENGLISH
6 Minute English
Controlling the weather
This is not
a word-for-word transcript
6 Minute English
©British Broadcasting Corporation 2022
bbclearningenglish.com
Page 1 of 5
Sam
Hello. This is 6 Minute English from BBC Learning English. I’m Sam.
Neil
And I’m Neil. Agh, it’s raining again, Sam! I’ve had enough! It’s been
drizzling
,
that’s
raining lightly, all week…
Sam
I know what you mean, Neil. Living in a wet country like
Britain I sometimes wish I
could push a magic button and stop it raining.
Neil
And ironically,
people living in hot, dry countries need rain but don’t get it. If only
we could control the weather…
Sam
It’s
funny you should say that, Neil, because you’re not the first person to have
that idea.
In this programme, we’ll be hearing about ‘cloud-seeding’ and ‘geo-
engineering’, two controversial methods scientists are using to manipulate or
change the weather.
And as usual, we’ll be learning some new vocabulary as well.
Neil
Anything that stops it drizzling sounds good to me, Sam.
Sam
I
hate to disappoint you, Neil, but these ideas involve making
more
, not less, rain.
We’ll learn the details soon but first I have a question for you about the wettest
place
in the world, a village which gets nearly twelve metres of rain a year. But
where is it? Is the wettest village on earth found in:
a)
Ireland?
