Make Your Weather Activity
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Words used in these worksheets (19)
clear
cloudy
cold
cool
foggy
hail
hot
lightning
partly cloudy
perfect
rainbow
rainy
snowy
stormy
sunny
thunder
tornado
warm
windy
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Weather is short and sweet. I cover the vocabulary and "How's the weather?" and don't spend a lot of time on it. Then I bring it back now and then for review. It's very useful vocabulary.
Later on, weather is a good set for working with past, present and future together: what the weather was like yesterday, what it's like today, and what it's going to be like tomorrow.
Useful phrases for Weather
Pair the vocabulary with one sentence pattern at a time. Each level builds on the one before.
Starting out
First lessons, once students know the words- How's the weather? It's sunny.
- Is it cold today? Yes. / No.
- It's raining. It's windy.
Next step
Building on the basics- It's cold. Wear a coat.
- Yesterday it was rainy.
- Tomorrow it's going to snow.
Challenge
For older or more advanced students- Here's today's weather report: ___.
- When it's rainy, I ___.
- If it's sunny tomorrow, we'll ___.
Teaching tips for Weather
Make it a daily routine
Ask "How's the weather?" at the start of every class and have a student look out the window and answer. It takes 30 seconds and the words stick for good.
Notice the -y pattern
Sun becomes sunny, cloud becomes cloudy, wind becomes windy. Once students see the pattern, they can often work out new weather words on their own.
Line up the temperatures
Hot, warm, cool, cold. Put the cards in order on the board to show the scale. It's clearer than teaching the four words separately.
Connect to clothes
"It's cold. Put on your gloves." Weather and clothing work so well together that it's worth teaching them back to back.
Weather lesson ideas
Class weather chart
Keep a weather chart on the wall for a week or a month. A different student updates it each day, and at the end you count: "How many sunny days?"
Weather reporter
Students take turns presenting the weather like a TV reporter, with a map and the flashcards: "Today it's sunny and hot."
What should I wear?
Show a weather card and students choose clothes cards to match, explaining why: "It's snowy, so I need boots."
A weather week
Flashcards and the vocabulary sheet on day 1, word search on day 2, weather reporter on day 3, then bingo or the board game to finish.
More Weather resources from MES
- Weather flashcards large cards, game cards and a handout
- Speaking First Curriculum: Unit 7 how weather fits into a full course
- Weather listening exercises audio and worksheets
- Weather online games vocabulary practice for students
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