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Teaching weather vocabulary articles
Fun activities for weather vocabulary – LINK UPDATED
Photocopiable weather vocabulary classroom activities for EFL learners
Weather and adverbs of frequency discussion questions – NEW
Weather vocabulary bluffing game
Telling the time flashcard memory games (with morning routines, evening routines, places around town, school subjects and weather vocabulary)
Weather, clothes, times and Present Continuous mix and match
Weather and adverbs of frequency speaking game (with weather vocabulary word formation)
Weather and invitations practice (inviting people to do things in particular kinds of weather, then using the weather as an excuse to turn down invitations)
Guess the country from the weather
Guess the clothes from the hints (with quite a lot of Present Continuous, weather vocabulary, etc)
Seasons vocabulary games (including lots of weather vocab)
Weather vocabulary songs for EFL learners
How’s the Weather Today (with a nice connection to adjectives wet, hot, cold, messy and scared and a bit where students clap along – link to very basic but fun video on YouTube)
How’s the weather? song on Super Simple Learning
Rain Rain Go Away on on Super Simple Learning (just “rain”, but lots of nice family and sports vocab if you want to do either of those topics next)
Incy Wincy Spider (just “rain”, but nice actions – links to British Council LearnEnglishKids version with cute video and video with actions from SuperSimpleLearning)
Weather stories for EFL learners
Ali and the Magic Carpet story on Learn English Kids
The Lazy Bear story on Learn English Kids
We’re Going on a Bear Hunt (weather only in the pictures, not the words of the book, but still found it works well if you elicit the weather on each page)
What Will the Weather be Like Today? by Paul Rogers (some quite difficult vocabulary, but nice pictures and rhymes, and links to weather that different animals like – link to okay read through on YouTube)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (though you’ll need to completely retell the story from the pictures to make it understandable, and it’s a bit long so you should probably skip pages)
How’s the Weather (Bear in the Big Blue House – with magnets. Incredibly expensive online, but snatch a copy if you ever see it in a secondhand bookshop…)
Related pages
Nature and the environment page
Days, months, dates and times page (including seasons)
Updated 3 October 2022
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