How’s the Weather? July 31, 2007
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This is a good information gap activity for practicing weather vocabulary.
Materials: A big map with major cities, weather flashcards, city flashcards, small weather symbols with magnets, a full world map worksheet with city names and blanks for the weather, a full world map worksheet made into A and B versions as information gaps (A has blanks that B has answers to and vise versa).
1. Introduce the question “How’s the weather in ?”
The teacher can hold up a windy card and ask “is it windy?”. The students answer yes or no.
2. Have the students repeat the weather vocabulary as practice.
3. Practice the question “How’s the weather in Chicago?” by going over each word, backwards.
Chicago / in Chicago / weather in Chicago / the weather in Chicago / How’s the weather in Chicago
4. Hand out the first full worksheet. Two teachers go over the dialogue, and the students fill in the blanks, plus maybe ask one volunteer to come up and place the correct weather magnet on that city.
5. Then have students get into pairs. Hand out the information gap worksheets for A and B. Don’t let them look at their partner’s sheet, and they must only speak English! Then the pairs fill in their worksheets by asking…
A: “How’s the weather in Chicago?”
B: “It’s sunny.” “How’s the weather in London?”
A: “It’s cloudy”. …
Weather BINGO July 25, 2007
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Materials: BINGO sheets
Bingo Sheets
students get into 2 groups. A few students from group A ask group B, “How’s the weather?”. Group B answers, then everyone draws that weather into a BINGO square. Then play BINGO afterwards.
Charades July 25, 2007
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Materials: flashcards.
Have a student pick from a pile of cards and perform the sport. Groups must guess what the English word is, and then they get a point. Many ways to set it up.
