Act 1.1 What Is the Weather Like Today?

SSC01_Children routines/ AF1

Act 1.1 What is the weather like today?

Introduction

One of the first daily routines that children do when they get to the kindergarten or to the primary school is talking about what the weather is like. This kind of routines helps children to orient themselves in time.

What other routines can help children to feel oriented? Write a list of them.

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To be able to talk about routines in English, we will start doing a review of related phrases and vocabulary about the weather.

When we want to learn about the weather we could ask these two questions:

How is the weather today? Or what is the weather like today?

Act 1.2 Watch the next video, practice the question and sing the song. Then complete the table below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQCt_tDh3s4

What is the weather like today? A song on Youtube

Do you know the meaning of all of them? Translate them into Catalan and draw a picture for each of them.

English Catalan Drawing

SSC01_AF1 1 Sunny

Cloudy

Thunderstorm

Act 1.3 Look through the window and answer the question with one of the following options. Ask the question to your classmates and answer it with those.

How is the weather like today?

a) It’s sunny

b) It's windy

c) It’s cloudy/ it’s overcast

d) It’s rainy

e) It’s snowy

f) It’s foggy

g) There is thunderstorm

h) It’s stormy

Act 1.4 Answer the question: How is the weather in your town in summer, in spring, in autumn and in winter? Write it.

SSC01_AF1 2 Act 1.5 Listening: “Here is the weather in Spain”

Here is the weather

Check your understanding:

1.5.1 True or false? Write the false sentences again with the correct answer.

1. The weather in the north is mostly windy.

2. The weather in the east is mostly foggy.

3. The weather in the west is mostly dry and cloudy.

4. The weather in the south is mostly rainy and stormy.

5. If you leave home don’t forget your hat. .

1.5.2 Do this exercise while you listen. Write one word for each gap.

1. Welcome to the weather______Now, let’s see what the weather is ______today.

2. In the north of the Spain it’s ______windy and cold. There is a ______of some rain______.

3. The temperature is around 10 ______centigrade.

4. In the east it’s rainy ______, I’m afraid. There may be a thunderstorm in the afternoon. The______is a bit higher, at around 13 degrees.

5.The south of the country has the ______weather today. It’s cloudy most of the time but sunny this______.

Act 1.6. Writing and Speaking

Prepare your own forecast by choosing any country you like. In groups of three, write your forecast and prepare your pictures. Learn it and explain it to your classmates. - In your forecast you have to start saying:

- Welcome to the weather forecast.

SSC01_AF1 3 - You have to talk about:

- How the weather is today,

- What the temperature is,

- Give a little advice. For example don’t forget to take your umbrella.

- Draw a map of the country showing the weather with pictures, symbols, and numbers.

Act 1.7 Fill the gaps writing the seasons:

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I like ……………………… It is hot and sunny. I go on holiday with my family. I like …………………….. It is very cold. I play snowball with my friends. I like ……………………… It is not very cold. I like the flowers but I hate the flies. I like ……………………….The students go back to school. The leaves fall from the trees.

Maria My favorite season is …………………………….. I love long and hot days and I love long holidays. I like playing in the park and eating ice creams. I sometimes go to the beach in Tarragona with my family. Last year in August I went to Madrid to visit my sister and my cousins. Marco I like ………………………. best. The weather is sometimes very beautiful in November. I think the trees are very pretty when the leaves go red and brown and yellow. I like starting in a new class at school and learning new things. Pau My favorite season is ……………………………… I like it because winter is finished and the evenings are light again. I don’t like the dark evenings. I love the flowers in the parks and gardens and seeing the leaves grow on the trees. I like playing outside in the evenings again. Sara I love …………………………………. I really like waking up in the morning and seeing new snow outside in the garden. My children love going outside and making a snowman. I also like seeing all my friends and family at Christmas.

Act 1.8. Listen and repeat the rainbow song:

SSC01_AF1 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRNy2i75tCc

Answer these questions: a. What could we work on while teaching this song to children? b. When does the rainbow raise? c. Which is your favorite colour? Do you know the meaning of it?

Act 1.9. Grammar revision

Visit this page if you need to review the present simple.

http://learnenglishteens.britishcouncil.org/grammar-vocabulary/grammar- videos/present-simple

Act 1.10 Colour wheel

Do you know what primary and secondary colors are?

- Watch the video and draw your color wheel mixing primary colours to get the secondary and tertiary colours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1R92StQHhs

- Write the names of the colors beside the wheel and the meaning of primary and secondary colours.

- Which is your favorite colour? Do you know the meaning of it?

- Visit this page if you want to get more information about the meaning of the colours

http://www.color-wheel-pro.com/color-meaning.html

Act 1.11. Speaking

SSC01_AF1 5 Choose one of the photos and describe it to your partner. Tell him/her about the weather, the temperature, the season and where it takes place. A B

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