The Weather and the Seasons

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The Weather and the Seasons

• Mitzy Sepúlveda B.

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Introduction

• In this presentation, I will develop different
  types of activities to be done in a lesson of 6th
  grade related with the weather and the seasons.
• This 90-minute lesson will be divided in 4
  sections
• Warming-up
• Pre-activity
• While-activity
• Post-activity

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Greetings(10 minutes)

• The teacher greets the students and asks them to
  sit down.
• The teacher calls the roll.
• The teacher writes the lesson objectives.

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Learning Objectives

• The students will be able to
• Identify through the flashcards shown by the
  teacher the different types of weather
  conditions.
• Identify the 4 seasons a year has.
• Classify the different types of weather
  conditions into the corresponding season.

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Warm-up(10 minutes)

• The teacher will check how much the students
  remember about the weather vocabulary they saw
  last lesson. He/she will ask the students Whats
  the weather like today? or Hows the weather
  like today?
• If the students do not remember, the teacher
  will have to help them with mimics.
• (Adapted vocabulary taken from esl.about.com)

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Pre-activity(10 minutes)

• The teacher will show flashcards to reinforce
  previous learning of weather vocabulary.
• The teacher will show flashcards with new
  vocabulary about the seasons
• Aids Adapted flashcards taken from
  http//www.mes-english.com

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Flashcard samples
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Flashcard samples
SUMMER
WINTER
AUTUMN
SPRING
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While-activity(10 minutes)

• The teacher will divide the whiteboard in 4
  columns each with a season.
• The teacher will ask the students to classify
  the weather conditions according to the seasons.
• Aids Adapted weather vocabulary taken from
  esl.about.com

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SPRING SUMMER AUTUMN WINTER

WINDY-SUNNY-RAINY-HOT-COLD-CHILLY-WARM-CLOUDY-FOGG
Y-PARTLY CLOUDY-FREEZING-SNOWY-HAILING
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While-activity 2(15 minutes)

• After the 10 minutes have passed, the teacher
  will write on the whiteboard Winte
  r?
• Whats the weather like in Spring?
• Summer?
• Autumn?
• In Spring/Autumn/Summer/Winter, its

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While-activity 2(15 minutes)

• The students will have to pass to the board and
  classify the weather words on it this time.
• After they have already put the flashcard on the
  chosen season column, the teacher will ask them
  the question written on the board. The students
  will reply adapting the structure given.
• Aids Adapted flashcards already used for the
  warm-up.

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Post-activity(15 minutes)

• The teacher will give the students 4 worksheets
  about seasons. Each one for a season.
• The students will work in pairs.
• Check them after the 15 minutes have passed
• Aids Worksheets from englishforeveryone.org

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Closing(5 minutes)

• The teacher will ask the students to bring cut
  outs or pictures of clothing items because that
  is what they will start working on next lesson.
• The teacher tells the students they will work
  creating a famous persons wardrobe according to
  the season they are in.

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Links

• esl.about.com
• www.englishforeveryone.org
• www.mes-english.com
• world-english.org