Weather Forecast
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Weather Forecast

This lesson plan is designed to help B1 level students improve their listening skills on the topic of weather forecasts. The lesson begins with a discussion about the importance of weather forecasting, followed by tasks that focus on vocabulary and grammar. Students will also watch a weather forecast and complete different tasks that will help them understand how to describe specific weather conditions. Finally, they will discuss the impact of weather on daily life and share their experiences of dealing with unexpected weather changes.

Skills

  • Can extract important information from short broadcasts (e.g. the weather forecast)
Online Interactive
Based on CEFR
Fully Customizable
1

Answer the following questions.

1
How often do you watch the weather forecast? Is it important to you? Why?
2
Do you think people should change their plans based on the weather forecast? Why / Why not?
2

Watch the weather forecast. What words and phrases did the speaker use to describe the weather?

3

Listen to the weather forecast one more time and fill in the gaps.

4

Match the words and phrases to their definitions.

5

Rephrase each sentence using one of the phrases on the list.

6

Discuss the following questions.

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