Extreme Weather

A2 · Elementary57 minBasic BasicsLesson 5 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: describe extreme weather in the past tense — what happened in the storm, and what people did.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Wild weather stories

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: Wild Weather

    Read a 133-word text about Wild Weather

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Extreme Weather Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Extreme Weather Events

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Fix the Weather Report

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  5. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Talking About a Storm

    Role-play: You are talking to a colleague about a storm that happened last night (4 lines)

  6. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: report the storm

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

stormthunderlightningfloodingheatwavedroughtblizzard

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