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Weather- Things in Common Game

A LESSON PLAN FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS

Weather vocabulary word formation and weather vocabulary collocations practice starting with personalised speaking practice where students find experiences and opinions that they share.

By: Alex Case
Level: All Levels
Theme: Weather
Study Area: Vocabulary
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Lesson Plan Content:


Weather- Things in Common Game
Make personal statements and/ or ask your partner personal questions about the weather
to find feelings, experiences etc which you both/ all share. You get one point for each thing
which is the same, and one more point if no other groups find the same thing.

I’m looking forward to…
I have never experienced…
I can’t stand…
I love…
I absolutely adore…
(For me) nothing beats…
I’m scared of…
I used to…
In my hometown…
I go on holiday
somewhere…
I would… if…
I will… if…
I’m planning to… when…
My favourite weather is…
The last time that it…
I feel… when it…

How about you?/ What about you?
Did you use to…?
Do you… when…?
Does… make you feel…?
Have you ever experienced…?
Have you ever… in… weather?
Have you ever… when it was…?
How do you feel about…?
How is the weather in your hometown…?
How many times have you…?
If it…, would you…?
What did you do the last time…?
What do you do when…?
What do you think about…?
What’s your favourite weather (for …)?
When did you last…?
Would you… when it was…?

Me too.
I… too.
Really? I…

Weather word formation
Write at least one different form of each word below. Things not below are also possible.
bake
boil
cloudy
cold
dry
flood
fog
freeze
frost
hail
hot
humid
mist
rain
smog
snow
storm
sun
warm
wind
Check below. Many more answers are OK, so check if you wrote something different.

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Possible weather to speak about
baking/ boiling (hot)
blizzard
blue skies/ clear skies
(summer) breeze
clouds/ cloudy
cold/ coldness
cool
cyclone
(minus)… degrees
drizzle
dry/ dry air/ dryness
flood/ flooding
fog/ foggy
freeze/ freezing
frost/ frosty
grey/ grey skies
hail/ hailstorm/ hailstones/ hailing
hot/ heat(stroke/ rash)
humid/ humidity
hurricane
Indian summer
(thunder and) lightning
mist/ misty
monsoon/ rainy season
rain/ rainy
(April) shower
smog/ smoggy
snow(flakes/ storms/ men/ balls)/ snowy/ snowing
(thunder) storm/ stormy
strong wind/ gale
sun(burn/ tan/ stroke)/ sunny
thunder (storm)
tsunami/ tidal wave
typhoon (season)
warm/ warmth
wind/ windy

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Weather collocations
Without looking above, link words from the left and right below to make expressions
related to the weather.

baking

air

boiling

degrees

blue

hot

minus…

hot

dry

skies

grey

skies

hail

storm

hail

lightning

heat

rash

heat

season

Indian

showers

thunder and

stones

rainy

stroke

April

summer

thunder

breeze

strong

burn

summer

season

sun

storm

sun

stroke

sun

tan

tidal

wave

typhoon

wind

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