Weather and Plans
Aims
Goal: plan a weekend around the forecast — an outdoor plan for the good day and an indoor backup for the bad one.
The lesson, stage by stage
- Warm up5 min
Warm-up: Plan A, plan B
2 warm-up questions
- Reading10 min
Reading: Planning Around the Weather
Read a 112-word text about Planning Around the Weather
- Vocabulary8 min
Vocabulary: Planning Words
6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Weather Planning
Gap-fill exercise, 6 items
- Practice7 min
Practice: Planning Sentences
Word-ordering exercise, 5 items
- Dialogue10 min
Dialogue: Planning the Weekend
Role-play: Making weekend plans with a friend based on weather (7 lines)
- Discussion10 min
Discussion: Your mission: the weekend plan
3 discussion questions
Open the full lesson
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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.
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