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[danseonsaeng]

It's Sunday afternoon, I'm feeling sluggish and totally blanking on ways to make this Weather/Nature lesson informative and engaging.

Can anyone suggest some activities? Ways to shape the material?

Have you ever taught a lesson on the weather? If so, how did you do it?

This is for first year middle school students, by the way. They're pretty active and enthusiastic, even if their English isn't great.

Anything you can offer up would be great. I just need some inspiration.

[KuroBara]

Look up We Are Busy Beavers on youtube, They have a great weather song. It's a little young, but it's catchy and a nice video. Just a thought.

[danseonsaeng]

Awesome.

Any other suggestions?

[kiwiinkorea]

Show them a tv weather forecast in English. Then give them a map of the world and some weather symbols and get them to do a forecast.

[D.D.]

I guess I could do a weather lesson with my lowest class of first years but the other 6 classes would be bored to death. It is not the start of the year so the students have had many classes. I teach elementary school once a week and even the 1st and 2nd graders have the weather thing down. Try to find something a little more interesting for teenagers my friend.

[danseonsaeng]

I'm required to teach this lesson, friend.

[D.D.]

Required to teach the lesson? Does your mommy make you milk and cookies before school as well. Grow a pair and teach what you want to teach. Weather for that age? There is no requirements for converstional English classes unless your co-teacher tries to trick you into thinking there is. That curriculum is for Korean English teachers and not for the conversation components.

[ddeubel]

Kiwi is bang on. That's the standard lesson / actitivity for up to int. level.

Brainstorm weather vocab (get lots of ppts/slideshows for this on EFL Classroom's Practice page, under STUDY) and draw the symbol (really doesn't have to be as standard one, anything iconic will do).

Maybe engage the students by showing them this cool world sunshine map. Real time of the cloud cover/weather in the world.
http://www.opentopia.com/sunlightmaprect.html

Draw a map of Korea and put some symbols on the map. Illicit statements using the target language on the board "How's the weather in .....? It's ....... with a high/low of ...... Here's an example from the BC.
http://www.britishcouncil.org/kids-print-weather-map.pdf

Give them a map of Korea and then get them to draw the symbols where they want - also numbers for temperature. Make sure it is a map of Korea! VIP (very important point).

Finally, have them exchange papers and talk about the weather. have one or two confident speakers present.

Maybe finish with a lastonestanding music game. I always use - Walking on Sunshine. It's in the video section of EFL Classroom. Also, another option, this bot tells the weather for anywhere in the US.
http://vhss-a.oddcast.com/php/weathersecure/acc=40123&themecolor=0x8090a0&themecolor2=0xff6600

Cheers,

DD
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