Weather Forecasts

A2 · Elementary1 hr 4 minBasic BasicsLesson 3 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: understand a weather forecast and report it to someone else — temperatures, a chance of rain, and what to expect.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: Tomorrow's weather, today

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Weekly Forecast

    Read a 109-word text about The Weekly Forecast

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Forecast Words

    7 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Understanding Forecasts

    Gap-fill exercise, 6 items

  4. Practice7 min

    Practice: Forecast Language

    Matching exercise, 6 items

  5. Practice7 min

    Practice: Forecast Sentences

    Word-ordering exercise, 5 items

  6. Dialogue10 min

    Dialogue: Practice: Checking the Forecast

    Role-play: A friend is planning a weekend picnic and asks you about the weather forecast (8 lines)

  7. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your mission: present the forecast

    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.

temperaturechanceexpectdropheavy rainpartly cloudyhighs

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