92 Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together
Have students living in the UK practise saying ‘What’s the weather like in... ?’
along with weather words and place names, and having given each pair the fol-
lowing worksheets. (The pronunciation of place names is tricky so I regularly
find an excuse to slip the ones they know into a lesson.)
Complete your weather report by asking your partner, ‘What’s the
weather like in.. .?’
Weather Report A
Aberdeen: warm and cloudy
Carlisle:
Dundee: hot all day
Edinburgh: rain in the morning
Glasgow:
Ipswich:
Kidderminster: cold and windy
Liverpool: foggy in the morning
Manchester:
Norwich:
Weather Report B
Aberdeen:
Carlisle: warm and sunny
Dundee:
Edinburgh:
Glasgow: mild and grey
Ipswich: rain in the afternoon
Kidderminster :
Liverpool:
Manchester: hot and dry
Norwich: foggy then bright
You can get some more ideas for speaking activities in Chapter 13.
Role playing from a script
If you use a course book in class, it probably has the tape script for recorded
dialogues at the back. The way students use intonation when reading out a
dialogue is a strong indicator of their comprehension.
