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Weather Vocabulary and Making & Responding to Invitations

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Functional language of invitations and weather words and phrases, including invitations which are suitable for different kinds of weather, and using weather vocabulary to give excuses for turning down invitations.

By: Alex Case
Level: Beginner
Theme: Weather
Study Area: Social English
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Lesson Plan Content:


Weather Vocabulary and Making & Responding to Invitations
Part One: Invitations in different weather
Choose a weather below and invite your partner to do something in that situation. You can
cross off the weather word if you get a positive response. Then they will try to same thing.
Continue until you have used all the words or until the teacher stops the game.
Useful language for explaining the weather
It’s (really)…
cloudy
cold/ freezing
cool
drizzly
foggy/ misty
hailing
hot/ boiling
humid
raining
snowing
stormy
sunny
warm
windy
(minus)… degrees

There is…
thunder/ lightning
a typhoon/ a hurricane/ a tornado

Useful language for inviting
Let’s…
Shall we…?
How about… ing (…) (with me)?
Do you fancy…ing (…)?
I was wondering if you’d like to…

Useful language for responding to invitations:

Useful language for saying yes to invitations
(That) sounds good/ great/ wonderful/ lovely. Let’s (go).
Sure, why not?
That would be lovely.
That’s a good/ great/ wonderful idea.
Okay. I don’t mind…

Useful language for saying no to invitations
I’m sorry, I…/ it’s…
That sounds lovely but (unfortunately)…
I’d love to but…

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Some ideas of things to suggest

drink coffee/ soda/ hot chocolate

eat ice cream/ soup/ stew/ salad

fly a kite/ a drone

fly to…

go canoeing/ rock climbing/ shopping/ skiing/ ice skating/ swimming/ snowboarding/
windsurfing/ sailing/ camping

go for a walk

go to a football match/ to a museum/ to the beach/ to a department store/ to a library/
to the park/ to a public baths/ to hot springs/ to the gym/ to a tanning salon/ to the
countryside

have a picnic/ a barbecue

have a snowball fight

make a snowman

play computer games/ soccer/ baseball/ golf/ beach volleyball

stay at home

sunbathe on the beach

take photos of…

take the dog for a walk

turn on the air conditioning/ the heating/ the fan

visit…

walk…

watch a…match/ a movie/ a video

Part Two: Using the weather to say no to invitations
Try to make an invitation which your partner can refuse with one of the sentences below. If
they say something that is written there, you can cross it off. Change roles and do the
same thing until all the words are crossed off or until the teacher stops the game.

(really/ too) cloudy

(really/ too) cold/ (really) freezing

(really/ too) cool

(really/ too) foggy/ misty

hailing (too much)

(really/ too) hot/ (really) boiling

(really/ too) humid

raining (a lot/ too much)

snowing (a lot/ too much)

(really/ too) stormy

(really/ too) sunny

(really/ too) warm

(really/ too) windy

… degrees.

minus… degrees

Written by Alex Case for UsingEnglish.com © 2016

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