Britain is getting ready (1) a heatwave. Weather forecasters say temperatures will rise to 33 degrees in the (2) . The hottest places will be around London. The government has made a heatwave (3) . There are four different levels. This week the weather people issued a Level 3 alert. This means that it is hot for two nights. The highest level is Level 4. This is called a “red emergency”. This (4) when it is so hot that fit and healthy people can get ill or die. The heatwave will only (5) a few days. I can’t (6) this. This is not a heatwave. There are hundreds of countries in the world that are hotter than Britain. (7) countries don’t have different alert levels. A real heatwave is when it’s over 45, like it was in India last month. That’s a real heatwave. Lots of people die because of the (8) . I think if it’s 45 degrees in England, most people will (9) . Perhaps global warming will mean it will be that hot in the U.K one day. The weather all over the world is (10) crazier. Maybe it will snow in the Sahara Desert.