Lesson #19

Anthony Quintano from Mount Laurel, United States, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Groundhog weatherman predicts 6 more weeks of winter
In one of America's strangest holidays, a groundhog predicts that winter will last six more weeks. The tradition inspired the 1993 movie "Groundhog Day" and draws large crowds to a small town in western Pennsylvania. The groundhog says we have to suffer through six more weeks of winter"”his usual prediction"”and we talk about what "suffer through" means.