What’s the weather like?

Olia | Oct 20, 2024Oct 28, 2024

LESSON OVERVIEW

The main objectives of this lesson are to:

• learn essential beginner vocabulary to describe the weather;
• share preferences on weather and seasons;
• watch and discuss a video about the weather in Bali.

With this lesson, students learn weather vocabulary for beginners! They match descriptions with pictures and watch a video about the weather in Bali. They talk about the kind of weather they like and don’t like, and their favourite seasons. They learn how to describe everyday weather, as well as talking about the weather in different countries. Students also engage in useful contextual language practice in relation to weather. 

WARM-UP, VIDEO, AND VOCABULARY

Students begin learning weather vocabulary for beginners with a fun warm-up. They match words with their associated seasons (e.g. green – spring, ice-cream – summer) . Next, they answer questions using seasons for answers (e.g. When is your birthday?). After that, students read sentences that contain bolded words (e.g. snow, clouds, rain). They look at pairs of pictures and choose the correct picture for each word in bold. Then, they look at pictures and describe them using the vocabulary from the previous task3. Following that, students do a ‘this or that’ exercise to discuss their weather preferences (e.g. sun and snow vs rain and wind). Then, they watch a video about the weather in Bali, Indonesia. Students say which words in the box they think they will hear (e.g. wind, sun). They watch the video and complete gaps with the correct words, according to the information from the video.

MORE PRACTICE

Students continue practising weather vocabulary for beginners by completing a mind-map which contains the question ‘What’s the weather like?’. The mind-map gives students nouns (e.g. rain) and they produce adjectives (rainy). Next, students match sentences to pictures to learn more words (cold, hot, warm) . Afterwards, students choose the correct word to complete sentences (e.g. I don’t like it when it’s cloudy/cloud). Then, students have useful contextual language practice and complete sentences correctly (e.g. Take your umbrella – it’s rainy today). After that, students read sentences and finish them with their thoughts (e.g. I like autumn because…).  Next, they choose five places from a list (e.g. London, Alaska, Kenya), and answer the question, ‘What’s the weather like in…’?. Students finish the lesson on weather vocabulary for beginners by looking at different pictures with a partner. Each partner describes their picture and together, they find one similarity between the two.

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