Guess the Country from the Weather
A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS
A fun guessing game to practise weather vocabulary, including suggested countries and Present Simple hints to use, with simple and more complex language for describing the weather.
Lesson Plan Content:
Guess the country from the weather
weather vocabulary, country names and Present Simple practice
Choose a country such as one on the other page and describe how the weather is or how you imagine it to be (now, usually and at different times). Keep giving hints about the weather in that place until your partner guesses which country you are describing. They can only guess once per hint.
Useful phrases for describing weather
It is always/ almost always/ usually/ often/ sometimes/ rarely/ seldom/ almost never/ never…
It is… at night/ in the middle of the day.
It is only… in the North/ South/ East/ West.
It is only… in the mountains/ on the coast.
People think it is always…
It is… in winter/ summer/…
It is… in January/ February/ March/ …
It was… yesterday/ last week/ two weeks ago/ in…
In the movies, it is always/ usually…
People often… because (the weather is)…
They grow… there because (the weather is)…
On the news it was…
People there like… because…
There is a desert/ rainforest/… because…
I imagine…
There are mosquitoes/ cockroaches/ flies/ penguins/… because…
There are floods/ landslides/ avalanches/… because…
Weather vocabulary
There is a monsoon/ some thunder/ some lightning/…
There are typhoons/ storms/ blizzards/…s
It is…
(really/ too) cloudy
(really/ too) cold/ (really) freezing
(really/ too) dry
(really/ too) foggy/ misty
(really/ too) hot/ (really) boiling
(really/ too) humid
raining (a lot/ too much)
snowing (a lot/ too much)
(really/ too) sunny
(really/ too) warm
(really/ too) windy
… degrees.
minus… degrees.
Possible countries to describe
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Dubai/ The UAE
Egypt
Finland
France
Hawaii
India
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
LA
Nepal
New Zealand
Nigeria
Russia
Saudi Arabia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Taiwan
Thailand
The USA
The UK/ Great Britain
Ask about any countries above which you don’t know, can’t imagine the weather in, etc, working together to make suitable descriptions each time.
Ask about any vocabulary on the first page above which you don’t understand, are note sure that you used correctly, etc, working together to make suitable descriptions each time.
Play the same guessing game with countries which aren’t in the list above.
AND/ OR
Choose a country and take turns making sentences about its weather until you have no more ideas.
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