ESL Weather Activities and Games | Fun Ideas for ESL Weather Lesson Plans [GycFyiEv7sf]
Not everybody likes to talk about the weather. But Canadians LOVE to talk about it! The weather is a common topic in many ESL/EFL textbooks. That's why you'll need these fun ESL weather activities and games for your classes. Check out this video for games and activities about the weather. It'll help with making your weather lesson plan fun and exciting. Weather is a common topic in most ESL/EFL textbooks. Watch the video to find out how to spice it up! ------------------ Here's one of my favourite activities for teaching weather vocab (flyswatter) ------------------ Want to find out more about teaching weather vocabulary to English learners? Check out: 101 ESL Activities for Adults: #eslactivities #teachingenglishwithjackie #eslgames #weather #teachingenglishabroad • Join Jackie's email list: • Join this channel to get access to perks: • Find me on Patreon: ---------------- Even more Ideas for the TEFL Classroom: ----------------- ESL weather games for young learners from @MooncakeEnglish ----------------- Timestamps 0:00 Intro 0:14 Concentration 1:06 Password 1:50 Weather forecast 2:20 Draw the idiom 2:48 A-Z game 3:22 Conclusion Transcript for ESL weather games and activities: Hi, this is Jackie from eslspeaking.org. So today's topic is ESL weather games and activities. I'm gonna share my top ESL games with you when you're talking about the weather with your students. Number one is concentration. This is a great game for helping beginner students learn new vocabulary. So make up a bunch of cards. I usually put a picture of like cloudy and then I'll write cloudy on another card and then maybe rainy- rainy, thunder-thunder, lightning- lightning, whatever. Actually, I don't know, can you do a picture of thunder? It's difficult. Anyway, think about it. So put the corresponding pictures and then words. Make up enough sets for each group of four students in your class and usually around 16 cards or eight sets is a good number. And then students in groups of four mix them up and place them face down on their desks. The first student will take two cards, and show them to everybody. If they match, they keep them. If they don't match, they put them back in the same spot. Don't mix them up because it's a memory game. The next student goes, takes two cards, etc. and then continues on until all the cards are gone. The next one is password. So this is a good game for a smaller class. Divide the class into two teams and then you can play maybe like two or three rounds. So the first team, in the first round will send one captain to the front of the class. They sit on a chair, you stand behind them and hold flashcards or you can write words on a piece of paper like in a notebook or something and then their team has to give them hints and they have to say the word. I usually will do maybe like one-minute rounds just to keep things moving along quickly and they try to get as many points as possible in each round. The next one: the weather forecast. So this is kind of a fun group activity. I put students into groups and I show them, first of all, some weather forecast videos on YouTube. And then I put them into groups and get them to make their own weather forecasts. I generally will try to make it so there are four groups and I'll say you're winter, spring, summer, and fall and they each need to come up with a weather forecast for that season and try to make it as interesting as possible. All right, the next one is to draw the idiom. There are a ton of weather idioms. Just look on the internet, Google weather idiom and you'll see like literally hundreds of them. I get students to choose one and then they have to draw the idiom, make up some example sentences, talk about what it actually means, etc. This is a way to make idioms super memorable. Trust me, your students will never forget those weather idioms ever again. And the last one is A-Z (This is a nice ESL activity if you think that students have already studied this topic numerous times and you want to help them activate their prior knowledge. I would give them the topic of weather and then put them in groups of two. They have to write a, b, c, d. A to z on a piece of paper and then i will say, okay you have one minute to write down as many words as possible that begin with each letter. They can only choose one per letter so maybe like cloudy, hot, sunny, things like that, rainy, etc. At the end of one minute, the team with the most words is the winner.