Students often try to say "The rain is going" (direct translation from Russian) instead of "It is raining." Exercise 17 is specifically designed to "break" this habit.
For a 4th-grader, this exercise is often considered "tricky." The main challenge isn't the vocabulary, but the logic of the English language where "rain" is something the sky does .
Discussing previous weather patterns (e.g., "It rained a lot last month" ).
Exercise 17 in the 4th-grade English textbook by Vereshchagina and Afanasyeva is a pivotal grammar-focused task designed to master "weather verbs" and the usage of the impersonal "it."


Students often try to say "The rain is going" (direct translation from Russian) instead of "It is raining." Exercise 17 is specifically designed to "break" this habit.
For a 4th-grader, this exercise is often considered "tricky." The main challenge isn't the vocabulary, but the logic of the English language where "rain" is something the sky does .
Discussing previous weather patterns (e.g., "It rained a lot last month" ).
Exercise 17 in the 4th-grade English textbook by Vereshchagina and Afanasyeva is a pivotal grammar-focused task designed to master "weather verbs" and the usage of the impersonal "it."