Weather

Explore the objectives of this session and the ordered sequence of games connected to it.

Grammar objectives

Use "It's + weather", ask "What's the weather like?", and link clothes to weather ("I wear a coat when it's cold"). Aim for full sentences and real exchanges between participants, whatever their level.

Action objectives

Switch movement on every weather call, then describe today's weather in a full sentence. Played out in “Parcour”, “Sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, rainy” and “Hot and Cold”.

Lexical objectives

Weather words in English — sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy, snowy, hot, cold.

Games in this session

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1

Introducing the topic

Siting in a circle, the children are presented with the topic of the lesson.

5 min
2

Revision of the previous week

The children sit in a circle and talk about the topic of the previous week.

10 min
3

Parcour

The kids complete the circuit and at the end touch the flashcard that they have been instructed to touch.

12 min
4

Sunny, cloudy, snowy, windy, rainy

When the teacher says one of the words, the children have to represent the weather.

12 min
5

Hot and Cold

Divide the children into pairs. One child silently chooses an item in the room. The other child tries to find the item by moving around. When they get closer to the item, you say “hotter”; when they move farther away, you say “colder”.

12 min
6

Revision of the topic

The children sit in a circle and talk about the topic of the session.

5 min

Materials for this session

Printable flashcards for this topic - print them before the class.

Vocabulary

Vocabulary for this topic in the language of the course. Listen to a word, then practise saying it.

Phrases

Phrases for this topic in the language of the course.