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Lesson:
Weather
General:
Time: 40 mins - 1 hour
Objectives: Asking about and describing the weather
Structures: ¿Qué tiempo hace?
Target Vocab: está soleado, está lluvioso, hace viento, está nublado, está nevoso, hay
niebla, hace calor, hace frío, mira afuera
You will need to download:
Flashcards: oleado, lluvioso, viento, nublado, nevoso, niebla, calor, frío
Printables: ¡Emparejar el Tiempo y Dibujar! worksheet
¡Dibujar el Tiempo! worksheet
La Canción del Tiempo song Poster
Warm Up & Wrap Up lesson sheet
Readers: ¿Qué Tiempo Te Gusta?
Songs: La Canción del Tiempo (The Weather Song)
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You will also need:
colored crayons
blue-tak or tape
small ball
CD / tape player or something to play the song on
Notes:
Use this lesson to teach the weather vocab and structures and then in following classes add
a weather section to the beginning of your lesson.
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Lesson Overview:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
1. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:
1. Teach the weather vocab
2. Play "Touch the cards"
3. Talk about the weather outside
4. Sing "La Canción del Tiempo"
5. Play Flashcard Concentration
6. Read classroom reader "¿Qué Tiempo Te Gusta?"
7. Play Flashcard Basketball
8. Do "¡Emparejar el Tiempo y Dibujar!" worksheet
Wrap Up:
1. Set Homework: "¡Dibujar el Tiempo!" worksheet
2. See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
Future Lessons: Reviewing and checking the weather each lesson:
1. Prepare the "Weather Board"
2. Sing "La Canción del Tiempo"
3. Look outside
4. Put the weather pictures on the Weather Board
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Lesson Procedure:
Warm Up and Maintenance:
See our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
New Learning and Practice:
1. Teach the weather vocab
Before class prepare weather flashcard pictures for the vocab soleado, lluvioso, viento,
nublado, nevoso, niebla, calor, frío. Our weather flashcards are great for this. Stick them
around the walls of your classroom.
2. Play "Touch the cards"
Once the class has started, the teacher walks around the
classroom touching the weather cards. As you touch
each card do the song gesture while saying the vocab
(e.g. Está soleado). As you do this encourage your
students to do the gestures and say the words with you.
Next, get all your students to stand up. Teacher shouts
out a weather word (e.g. "Está lluvioso") and students
have to run over to the correct picture, touch it and do
the gesture. If you have a lot of students it is worthwhile having multiple pictures of each
card placed around the walls of the room.
3. Talk about the weather outside
Motion for your students to come over to the window
(or even outside). Say a few times "¿Qué tiempo hace?",
"Mira afuera". Elicit from the class the weather and if it’s
hot or cold (you can also teach "caluroso" if necessary).
E.g. "Está nublado y está lluvioso y hace frío" (It’s cloudy
and rainy and cold). Then ask each student in turn "¿Qué
tiempo hace?" and encourage them to reply.
4. Sing "La Canción del Tiempo"
First put the weather flashcards on the board in the order of the song (or use our La Canción
del Tiempo song poster). Have all the students stand up and watch you as you sing along
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and use the gestures. Encourage them to join in and sing along. Play the song two or three
times.
Lyrics for "La Canción del Tiempo" (The Weather Gestures for "La Canción del Tiempo" (The
Song) Weather Song)
¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Qué tiempo hace? There are some easy gestures you can do as you
Mira afuera sing along to the song:
¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Qué tiempo hace?
Mira afuera 1. For the question part "¿Qué tiempo hace?",
sing along and do the 'palms of the hands up'
Está soleado, está lluvioso, hace viento, está question gesture.
nublado.
Está nevoso, hay niebla, hace calor, hace frío. 2. For the "Mira afuera" part, face the window
and put your hand over your eyes (like a
¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Qué tiempo hace? salute), as if you were looking into the
Mira afuera distance.
¿Qué tiempo hace? ¿Qué tiempo hace?
Mira afuera 3. Use hand gestures for the weather words:
soleado: slowly spread your arms out
Está soleado, está lluvioso, hace viento, está lluvioso: wiggle your fingers downwards like
nublado. rain
Está nevoso, hay niebla, hace calor, hace frío. viento: gesture wind blowing out of your
mouth
nublado: make cloudy shapes with your
hands
nevoso: wiggle your fingers downwards like
snow and shiver
niebla: close your eyes and put your hand
out in front like you are trying to feel for
something you can’t see
calor: fan your face
frío: shiver and wrap your arms around your
body
"Está soleado"
5. Play Flashcard Concentration
Put the class into groups of 4. Each group will need two sets
of weather flashcards. Model the activity first by having
everyone watch you play with one group: shuffle the cards
and lay them out face down on the floor. Turn over two cards.
If they are different, turn them back over – it is the end of
your turn. If they are the same (e.g. two sunny cards) you
keep the cards (remove them from the game) and have another go. At the end, all of the
cards will have been removed. The player with the most cards is the winner.
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6. Read classroom reader "¿Qué Tiempo Te Gusta?"
This reader ties in nicely with the lesson and allows students
to say which weather conditions they like. Before class,
download and print off the reader "¿Qué Tiempo Te Gusta?"
from our website. As you go through each page, point to the
pictures and elicit each key word, for example:
Teacher: ¿Qué es esto?
Students: Es una flor.
Teacher: ¿Y cómo es el tiempo?
Students: ¡Es soleado!
Teacher: ¡Eso es correcto! ...(reading) ... "Yo soy una flor. Me gusta el tiempo soleado". ¿Te
gusta el tiempo soleado Ken?
Student (Ken): Sí, me gusta.
Get the students really involved in the story by asking lots of questions (e.g. eliciting colors
and other objects) and getting them to tell you which weather they like.
7. Play Flashcard Basketball
Students, in teams, take shots with a ball (or a scrunched up
piece of paper) at a trash can/box/etc. First show a flashcard
to student 1. If s/he answers correctly then s/he can have a
shot at the basket. If the student gets the ball in the basket
then s/he wins 2 points. If the S hits the basket without going
inside then s/he wins 1 point. The team with the most points is
the winner.
8. Do "¡Emparejar el Tiempo y Dibujar!" worksheet
To finish off this section of the lesson, give out the worksheets. As your
students are doing the worksheets, ask questions (e.g. "¿Qué es eso?"
(What is that?), etc.).
Wrap Up:
1. Assign Homework: "¡Dibujar el Tiempo!"
2. Wrap up the lesson with some ideas from our "Warm Up & Wrap Up" lesson sheet.
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Future Lessons: Reviewing and checking the weather each lesson:
1. Prepare the "Weather Board"
Prepare a piece of cardboard and cover it with felt –
you are going to pin this to the wall. If you can, try and
get blue felt (to represent the sky). Write at the top in
large letters, "¿Cómo está el tiempo hoy?". Below the
write " Hoy ...". Cut out weather pictures (such as our
weather flashcards) and stick some velcro on the back.
Arrange the weather pictures around the edge of the
board and then put the board on the wall of your
classroom.
2. Sing "La Canción del Tiempo"
In the warm up section of your lesson you can include a weather section – introduce this
section by singing "La Canción del Tiempo" (with gestures).
3. Look outside
Get everyone to look outside by saying "¿Qué tiempo hace? Mira afuera". Elicit the
weather for that day.
4. Put the weather pictures on the Weather Board
Invite some students to come up and put the weather pictures on the board. Make sure
these students say the word as they put the card on the board.
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