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How to Teach Weather

BY TA R A A R N T S E N 262,394 views

Teaching weather vocabulary early on in the course is

good idea because it is something that students can
practice regularly.

During your daily warm ups, if you decide to ask students questions, you ca
always ask about the weather and the vocabulary comes in handy during othe
activities too.

Teaching Weather: Step By Step Guide

1 Warm up

Start off with your usual warm up and try to get students talking abou
seasons. Ask students what season they like best and see if anyone ca
explain why. This could elicit much of the vocabular
(https://busyteacher.org/3772-how-to-elicit-vocabulary.html) you plan t
practice during the lesson so if certain vocabulary words come up, writ
them on the board. You can also talk about different activities students lik
to do during particular seasons and why some of them, such a
snowboarding, cannot be done year round.
2 Introduce

Through your warm up activity, you may have been able to build
vocabulary list on the board which is good because it shows that som
students are familiar with these words and will make the introduction easie
If you are unable to elicit any weather related vocabulary, you will have t
spend more time on your introduction and practice sections. Once you hav
completed the warm up, introduce your weather related vocabulary usin
weather flashcards (https://busyteacher.org/3894-weather-flashcards.html
Some basic words you may want to include are sunny, cloudy, raining
snowing, hot and cold. Drill these new words (https://busyteacher.org/3812
how-to-drill-drilling-activities-for-your-english.html) using choral repetitio
first and then call on students to say them individually.

3 Practice

After students have had some practice pronouncing these words, conduct
short activity to give them some further practice. You can do this by givin
each student a small version of one of the flashcards. Have student
arrange their chairs in a circle and remove one chair. The student in th
middle can read his card and the students with the same card should remai
seated while the other students have to change seats. This way, the wor
being said should always change and no one will have to sit still for long
When making these mini weather flashcards, it is important to use the sam
images that you used on the large flashcards if possible becaus
consistency will help your students memorize the words and associate them
with particular images.

4 Introduce

Next ask students “How’s the weather?” which automatically introduces th

structure for the question of this lesson. When students reply “Sunny!” yo
can say “That’s right! It’s sunny.” thus modeling the sentence structure yo
want them to practice. Use the flashcards to have students practice th
model sentence using different words. If you want students to say “It’
 snowing.” the snow flashcard should say snowing on it. You want to giv
students as much practice as possible with the form of the word they wi
need for the lesson.

5 Practice

Students can use the same cards they had earlier or maybe switch with
partner for the next activity. Ask students to walk around the room askin
“How’s the weather?” and answering the question based on the card the
have. Students should try to find someone to say each weather word liste
on the worksheet and get signatures from the students they talk to.

6 Produce

Now you are going to want students to produce some material on their own
You can have short writing activities where students talk about their favorit
and least favorite weather. You can also ask them to say what they like to d
when it’s sunny, cloudy, or raining for instance. This will give students a bit o
writing practice and at the end of the activity you can have volunteers rea
their responses to the class for more speaking practice.

7 Review

For a review activity, try to include another recent topic, for instance, days of th
week (https://busyteacher.org/3638-how-to-teach-days-of-the-week.html) into yo
weather lesson plan. You can do this easily by creating an activity about weathe
forecasts. Students can work in pairs where each student has a weekly weathe
forecast with some blanks. Students have to talk to their partners about th
weather on different days to successfully complete their weekly forecast. Studen
should take turns asking and answering questions. The structure of the questio
for this activity would be “How’s the weather on Monday?” while the sentenc
structure could be “It’s sunny.” or “On Monday, it’s sunny.”
 Weather is definitely a topic that ESL students can talk about often because
affects them on a daily basis.

Give them plenty of opportunities to use weather related vocabulary througho

the course to keep these words fresh in their minds. See our Weather Workshee
(https://busyteacher.org/classroom_activities-vocabulary/weatherclimateseasons-
worksheets/) collection for more wather and seasons worksheets.

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