Year 4
Lesson 42
Learning words to
describe the
weather
Vocabulary
What’s the weather
like?
It’s sunny, cloudy, windy,
Rainy.
Checklist
Grammar
preparatory subject it
Contents
Aims
Grammar &
Functions
Today it’s sunny.
Handout 1 -The
weather In the
US
Handout 2 Word search
Language Analysis
Some English sentences don't have a grammatical subject, so we can use it as
preparatory subject or dummy pronoun. We often use it in English to talk about time and
weather: It’s rainy. It’s snowy. etc.
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Procedure
Warm-up Off the screens
Give out Handout 1. Review the vocabulary from the previous lesson with the word search
puzzle. There are six words in total. For a more challenging task cut off the words Ss have
to find.
Key:
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Screen 2
Audio 1:
Mr Hill: What’s the weather like here?
Yes, Lucy?
Lucy: It’s sunny!
Mr Hill: Yes, Lucy, well done.
Audio 2:
Mr Hill: What’s the weather like here?
Yes, Alex?
Alex: It’s cloudy!
Mr Hill: Yes, well done, Alex.
Audio 3:
Mr Hill: What’s the weather like here?
Yes, Kim?
Kim: It’s rainy!
Mr Hill: Yes, Kim, that’s right.
Audio 4:
Mr Hill: What’s the weather like here?
Yes, Sam?
Sam: It’s windy!
Mr Hill: That’s right, Sam. Well done.
Audio 5:
Mr Hill: And what’s the weather like
here today?
Mr Hill: Yes, children?
Children: It’s sunny today!
Audio 6:
Mr Hill: Yes, it’s a beautiful sunny day
today. Let’s have our lesson in the
playground!
Children: Hurray!
Exploit the scene by asking the Ss to describe
what they can see. Then listen and watch the
animation. Ask some questions to check
understanding:
Where is Lucy?
What’s the weather like outside the classroom?
Why are the children happy? Etc.
Note: Let’s is a shortened form of Let us. We use Let’s to make a suggestion.
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Screen 3
Audio 1:
What’s the weather like today?
It’s rainy.
Audio 2:
What’s the weather like today?
It’s cloudy.
Audio 3:
What’s the weather like today?
It’s windy.
Audio 4:
What’s the weather like today?
It’s sunny.
Key:
See pictures above (random order)
Screen 4
Audio 1:
It’s a cloudy day today!
Audio 2:
It’s a rainy day today!
Audio 3:
It’s a windy day today!
Audio 4:
It’s a sunny day today!
Key: (from left to right)
1F2T3T4F
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Screen 5
Key:
1 cloudy 2 snowy 3 windy 4 rainy
5 sunny
Screen 6
Sam: What’s the weather like?
Lucy: It’s sunny.
Key:
1 It’s sunny.
Give the Ss these instructions for the ‘Listen and
say’ activity. The aim is to practise a short
natural dialogue.
1.
Look at the picture and read the
question.
2.
Click on the audio and listen to the
dialogue.
3.
Drag and drop the answer you hear into
the empty speech bubble.
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4.
Press ‘pause’ and listen again if you
want to.
Now it’s your turn. This is a ‘free practice’ stage.
The aim is personalisation.
Tell Ss to work in pairs and say what the
weather is like using the sentences on the
screen.
Extension activity: Follow up with Handout 2. Ask your Ss to complete the text about the
weather in the US by reading the symbols on the map. After completing the task ask a few
Ss to become weather forecast presenters and tell the class about the weather conditions
on their maps.
Key:
It’s sunny in Los Angeles.
It’s windy in Seattle.
It’s cloudy in New York.
It’s rainy in Chicago.
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Handout 1
1. Find six weather words in the word search.
A U S D
I
A E S R
I W A R
N N U T N
I
I
R U
C A
W S N O W E T
R W U D
I
I
T E N
S L W U N W N U
C L O U D E T N
U O O N
I
R C N
CLOUD
RAIN
SNOW
SUN
WET
WIND
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Handout 2
The weather in the US
Look at the map and complete the sentences about the weather in the US.
It’s ______________ in Los Angeles. It’s ______________ in Chicago.
It’s ______________ in New York. It’s ______________ in Seattle.
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