Beginners Spanish - Weather (El tiempo)

PPT with a wide range of activities, wordsearch and worksheet based on the topic of “the weather”.

By the end of the lesson, students are to be able to confidently describe the weather.

Do Now: Unscramble the Spanish cities.

Vocabulary games - choral repetition with ample opportunity to meet the new language.

Fill-in the gaps with the correct letters to see what they can remember from the choral repetition games.

More choral repetition games and then a match-up task for students to manipulate the language.

Speaking exercise: Question and answer related to the topic of the weather.

Listening exercise: Students are to listen and write down the correct letter. To stretch the more able, they are to also write down the city and the temperature.

Reading exercise: Read the texts and answer the questions in Spanish.

Worksheet split into 4 parts:

Part 1: Put the names of the correct Spanish cities on the map.
Part 2: True or false statements. Correcting the false statements using the map for support.
Part 3: Translate sentences into English.
Part 4: Write four sentences about the weather in their area.

Plenary: Translation dictation exercise (teacher to say some in Spanish and students write the English and vice-versa).