Unit Objectives
The Weather

Activities and vocabulary centered around the theme of weather.

Real or Hypothetical?

Practice the difference in meaning and structure between sentences that describe real possibilities, and those that describe hypothetical ones.

Hypothetical Language

Learn the structure necessary in English for describing hypothetical situations.

Listening
The Best Weather

Several people describe what they consider to be their favourite kind of weather. The listening activity contains several words from the unit vocabulary.

Weather Lesson

A listening activity based on the lecture about the weather. The activity reinforces student comprehension of unit vocabulary.

Suit Yourself

A listening activity based on a dialogue about weather predictions. The activity reinforces student comprehension of first and second conditional grammar.

Speaking
Unit Introduction Discussion

Unit introduction conversation activity.

Vocabulary Discussion

Vocabulary discussion activity.

Role-Plays

Students improvise dialogues according to prompts.

Speaking Pairs

Students prompt each other in order to elicit sentences in the first conditional.

Finish My Sentence

Students work together and create sentences that contain time clauses about the future.

Table Speaking

Group speaking activity for students to practice second conditional sentences. 

What Would You Do If...?

Students ask and answer hypothetical questions.

Opposite of the Truth

Students practice making sentences in the second conditional to describe the opposite of the truth.

Questions

Students gain practise making questions in the first and second conditional.

Grammar
The First Conditional & Time Clauses

Students practice describing the future with two-clause sentences.

The Second Conditional

Students practice using the second conditional to describe hypothetical situations.

First & Second Conditionals

Students practice the difference between the two structures.

Reading
Incredible Weather

Students read and answer comprehension questions based on descriptions of three places in the world with extreme weather. The activity also serves as a review of Grammar - The Second Conditional.

Use of English
What's the Weather Like?

Students work with a partner and predict the missing words in four short dialogues about the weather. 

Weather around the World

Students research weather in various parts of the world and then ask and answers questions about their findings.

Writing
Run-On Sentences & Comma Splices

Students learn how to identify and avoid run-on sentences and comma splices in their writing.

Articles

Students learn two rules for the proper use of articles and then apply the rules in an exercise.

Paragraph

Students write a paragraph about the weather and seasons in their part of the world.

Vocabulary

a bit

average

awful

barbecue

be supposed to

bloom

bury

Celsius

complain

continent

cool

cool off / down

cover

crowded

damp

degree

depressed

desert

drop

drought

dust

entire

Fahrenheit

foot

freezing

humid

humidity

imaginary

inch

increase

lightning

likely

mainland

mild

miserable

native

picnic

pleasant

possibility

preparation

record

remove

report

rest

rise

soaked

strike

stroll

stuck

sunburn

sunlight

take place

tan

throughout

tropical

unknown

warm up

weather forecast

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