by
Claudia Valentini
http://www.lamaestra.it
Paganica
(AQ)
Title: What’s the weather like?
Class: III; first level absolute beginners.
Time: 2nd half of the school year
Lessons: n. 6 (1 hour each)
Function: describing the weather
Notion: the weather
Skills: Integrating Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing
Structures:
What’s the weather like?
It’s…
Vocabulary:
sunny, snowy, rainy, windy, foggy, cloudy, changeable.
Cross curricular links: science, geography, art, music, physical education, math.
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Warm up |
T looks out of the window: it’s raining. T tells the rhyme 1- “There are holes”, asks if Ss want to learn it and helps them to learn it. |
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Presentation |
Individual work: 2- Listen and guess, 3- Listen and repeat, 4- Read and draw the symbols |
Worksheet 1 |
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Practice |
Game: 5- Mime Individual work: 6- Listen, match and write |
Worksheet 2 |
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Production |
Pair work: 7- Memory Game Whole class: 8- Action Song “It’s raining it’s pouring” |
7 pairs of Memory cards |
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Follow up |
Group work: 9- Weather wallchart |
Green paper 100X70, A4 white sheets Thick coloured felt pens |
Testing & Evaluation
10- Multiple choice
11- Gap filling
1- Rhyme
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It’s raining cats and dogs |
There are holes in the sky Where the rain gets in But they are so small That’s why the rain is thin |
Worksheet 1
2- Listen and guess
(listen to the sound of different weathers)
3- Listen and repeat
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It’s sunny |
It’s snowy |
It’s rainy |
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It’s windy |
It’s changeable |
It’s cloudy |
4- Read and draw the symbols
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It’s rainy |
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It’s sunny |
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It’s foggy |
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It’s changeable |
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It’s snowy |
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It’s windy |
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It’s cloudy |
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5- Mime
Use the rhyme “There are holes” as a counting out formula and call a child to mime a weather. The first to guess the right weather comes to replace the friend. Allow all the pupils to have a miming turn.
Worksheet 2
6- Listen, match and write
(number-symbol-weather)
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It’s _________ |
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2 |
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It’s _________ |
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3 |
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It’s _________ |
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4 |
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It’s _________ |
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5 |
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It’s _________ |
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6 |
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It’s _________ |
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7 |
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It’s _________ |
7-Memory
Shuffle the cards and place them face down on a table.
The first player picks up a card and reads aloud the weather. Then he picks up a second card and says the weather written on it.
If the two cards are not the same he replaces them in the same places on the table. If the cards are the same, the player asks “What’s the weather like?”, answers the weather, keeps both cards and has a second turn.
The player with most cards is the winner.
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It’s rainy |
It’s rainy |
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It’s cloudy |
It’s cloudy |
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It’s sunny |
It’s sunny |
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It’s windy |
It’s windy |
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It’s changeable |
It’s changeable |
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It’s foggy |
It’s foggy |
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It’s snowy |
It’s snowy |
9- Action Song “It’s raining it’s pouring”
It’s raining, it’s pouring |
Wiggle your fingers downwards like rain falling |
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The old man is snoring |
Pretend to snore |
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He went to bed and bumped his head |
Lay your head on your hand then rub your head |
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And couldn’t get up in the morning |
Pretend to try to pull your head from the pillow |
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Rain rain go away |
Make a shooing movement with your hands |
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Come again another day |
Make a beckoning gesture |
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Rain rain go away |
Make a shooing movement |
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Little … Wants to play |
Mime a cow boy and a lullaby |
10- Weather wallchart
Let children work in small groups to produce drawings and written coloured texts to stick on a green 70X100 poster. Allow some space to tick the weather recognition
To be done each day at the beginning of the lesson.
This activity could be linked with maths to create statistic grids.
11- Multiple choice
What’s the weather like?
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q It’s sunny q It’s windy q It’s changeable |
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q It’s rainy q It’s windy q It’s foggy |
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q It’s snowy q It’s changeable q It’s windy |
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q It’s rainy q It’s sunny q It’s snowy |
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q It’s snowy q It’s foggy q It’s rainy |
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q It’s cloudy q It’s foggy q It’s snowy |
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q It’s changeable q It’s windy q It’s rainy |
12- Fill in the gaps
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It’s su_n_ |
It’s s_ow_ |
It’s r_ _ny |
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It’s win_ _ |
It’s ch_ng_able |
It’s cl_ud_ |
Resources
Hints, tips, resources taken from:
Che tempo fa? Sdi Junior
I.Simmons, D.Vecchione I love English coursebook classe 5
V.Reilly, S.M.Ward Very Young Learners Oxford
