Session 2 Sequence of activities

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Name/type Aims Procedures Materials Time

of activity

Review To review the animal vocabulary  Use the animal flashcards to review the vocabulary from session Animal flashcards 15 mins
from session one one.
 Hand out animal wordsearch worksheet. Demonstrate what Session two
children have to do by finding and circling the first word. materials one –
 Inform children of the aims of the lesson. Animal Wordsearch
Talking To elicit weather vocabulary  Look out the window and ask children ‘What’s the weather like?’ 5 mins
about the children may already know Elicit any responses the children may already know. Use
weather gestures to encourage answers in L1 if necessary.

Learn To introduce key vocabulary:  Use flashcards to teach weather vocabulary and practise Weather flashcards 15 mins
weather It’s hot. It’s cold. It’s sunny. It’s pronunciation.
vocabulary raining. It’s snowing. It’s windy.
It’s cloudy. It’s foggy.

To practise pronunciation of key

vocabulary
Word To reinforce new vocabulary by  Show children the weather images and weather sentences on Flipchart 10 mins
recognition matching words with pictures the whiteboard. Demonstrate matching one image with the (or weather
of weather appropriate sentence. Ask volunteers to match the images with flashcards and
vocabulary the sentences on the whiteboard. Leave the matched items on sentence cards
the whiteboard to support weaker pupils in the next activity. stuck on the board)

Weather To reinforce new vocabulary by  Give out worksheet and ask children to write the sentences next Session two 15 mins
worksheet - matching words with pictures to the images of the weather. The sentences appear at the materials two –
writing bottom of the worksheet. Encourage more confident children to What’s the weather
fold the sentence section underneath. like?
 Monitor and help. Encourage weaker pupils to use the matched
images and words on the whiteboard as support if necessary.

Giving To review days of the week  Review days of the week if necessary. Weather forecast 10 mins
weather  Use the weather forecast flipchart to demonstrate how to flipchart
forecasts To reinforce new vocabulary describe the week’s weather. ‘On Monday it’s cold and it’s (or draw the
windy. On Tuesday it’s snowing.’ and so on. weather forecast
To give children practice in  Ask for volunteers to come to the whiteboard to practise template on the

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 speaking and listening describing the weather. Encourage watching children to pretend board and stick the
they are watching the weather forecast on TV. Encourage weather flashcards
To practise using new volunteer to pretend he/she is a TV presenter by providing a on to the template)
vocabulary communicatively ‘microphone’ prop.
‘Microphone’prop
Weather To review days of the week  Pair children up. Give each child a copy of the worksheet. Session two 10 mins
forecast Children should draw weather symbols for each day of the week materials three -
info gaps To reinforce new vocabulary in one of the tables and then take turns describing the weekly Weather forecast
weather to each other. Partners should draw the weather sheets
To practise using new described by their classmate in the blank table. Demonstrate the
vocabulary communicatively info gap with a volunteer first.
 Encourage children to evaluate each other’s sheets for accuracy
To give children practice in after the activity.
listening and speaking
Review To review the key language  Use weather flashcards to review vocabulary and pronunciation. Weather flashcards 10 mins
items from this session

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