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Most of Europe has been suffering extremely harsh wintry conditions over the last couple of weeks. The news on TV, in print and online have been full of stories of this freezing weather – this cold snap.

Below you’ll find a link to an article from the BBC website. Read the article and pay attention to the collocations (groups of words that always or very often go together) and vocabulary of emergencies that you can find.

Learning collocations is a great way to sound more natural and native when you are speaking English.

The headline of the article is:

Europe freeze: Emergencies in Italy, Greece and Serbia

Here is some of the useful vocabulary of emergencies that you’ll find in the article:

an emergency

a state of emergency

to impose emergency measures

to be stranded

to be evacuated

to be swept away

to bring to a standstill

to warn        a warning

to risk          a risk of…

Try to find some more examples of this vocabulary in other articles on the web in order to consolidate them.

So while this snow is falling so hard all over Europe be sure to keep yourselves safe and warm!

Enjoy learning

Fiona 😉