Weatherman. Weatherwoman

Be ready to be the Weather Person 

Level. Intermediate or higher 

Timing: one hour

Procedure: 
Students watch TWO VIDEOS. Available HERE

Students prepare their own weather forecast. 

First video: This video provides B1 or + weather expressions.

Video title: Talking about the weather in English. (8 minutes) 

Students need to take notes of the vocabulary (chilly, freezing, you can see your breath, bundle up, drizzling, mist, spitting, chucking it down, overcast, dark overhead, a storm is brewing, scorching, boiling, baking hot, sleeting, frost....

Second video + vocabulary list:

Video title: Kaddy Lee Preston.Weather Woman ( 1 minute 50) 

Handout to project: Kaddy Lee Preston. Words to remember/learn

Student should make sure they understand the sentences/expressions on Kaddy Lee Preston Handout

Students listen to video and raise their hands when they hear the sentences.

Prepare to produce your own weather forecast to share it with the class or your team 

John Lennon: Happy Christmas from ESL video

No Internet access in the classroom? Use PDF version

Special Occasion:  Christmas
Level: lower intermediate and higher
Source: ESL video. To see the task  on ESL video, click HERE

All materials I propose are from ESL VIDE.
I have added some pictures to help students with difficult vocabulary (on blog entry below and on the photocopiable version) 

• DOWNLOAD MATERIALS (video and photocopiable worksheet if needed)  HERE

Procedure: Students read the questions before listening to the song. Students try to guess the correct answer. Students listen to the song and check their answers
OPTION A)

• Project Video and questons on the White Board using this blog entry (you need a good internet connection)

OPTION B)

• Download the photocopiable  pdf and video and either make photocopies or project questions on the board (you don't need to have internet access in the classroom) 

OPTION C)

•  Go to the ESL video page  ( click HERE) and project the video and questions.Note that there is not vocabulary help with pictures if you choose this option

DOWNLOAD MATERIALS (video and photocopiable worksheet if needed) HERE 

This is the video. Questions follow

Din= big noise

Questions (taken from the ESL video webpage):

1. So this is Christmas and what have you ______?

1. din
2. dun
3. done

Gun

2. Another year over, and a new one just _____

1. begin
2. began
3. begun

Rear of the horse 

3. So this is Christmas, I hope you have _____

1. sun
2. gun
3. fun

4. The near and the ____ one, the old and the young

1. dear
2.  far
3. rear

Eloping in front of desperate father 

5. A very merry Christmas and a happy New ____

1. Beer
2. Dear
3. Year

6. Let's ____ it's a good one without any fear

1. cope
2. elope
3. hope

Bomb and wick

7. And so this is Christmas for ______ and for strong

1.  week
2.  wick 
3. weak

To pour (a sauce, a drink...)

8. For rich and the ____ ones, the world is so wrong

1. pour
2. peer
3. poor
   

9. And so happy Christmas, for black and for ______

1. white
2.  right



Freight = cargo

3.  light

10. For yellow and red ones, let's stop all the _____

1. fight
2. fright
3. freight

 

11. A very _____ Christmas and a happy New Year

1.  weary
2. teary



Fear



Very tired

3. merry

12. Let's hope it's a good one without any _____

1.  beer
2.  tear
3.  fear
   

Tear

CHORUS SING ALONG!!
And so this is Christmas and what have we done. another year over and a new one just begun. And so happy Christmas. I hope you have fun. the near and the dear one, the old and the young. A very merry Christmas and a happy New Year. Let's hope it's a good one without any fear.

DOWNLOAD MATERIALS (video and photocopiable worksheet) HERE  Answer Key 1. So this is Christmas and what have you ______? done 2. Another year over, and a new one just _____  begun 3. So this is Christmas, I hope you have _____ fun 4. The near and the ____ one, the old and the young  dear 5. A very merry Christmas and a happy New ____  Year 6. Let's ____ it's a good one without any fear  hope 7. And so this is Christmas for ______ and for strong  weak 8. For rich and the ____ ones, the world is so wrong poor 9. And so happy Christmas, for black and for ______ white 10. For yellow and red ones, let's stop all the _____  fight 11. A very _____ Christmas and a happy New Year  merry 12. Let's hope it's a good one without any _____ fear

SONG TRANSCRIPT Happy Christmas - War is Over So this is Christmas And what have you done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so this is Christmas I hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas For weak and for strong The rich and the poor ones The world is so wrong And so happy Christmas For black and for white For the yellow and red ones Let's stop all the fight A very merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear And so this is Christmas And what have we done? Another year over And a new one just begun And so happy Christmas We hope you have fun The near and the dear ones The old and the young A very merry Christmas And a a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear War is over If you want it War is over NOW

Stereotypes: First thing that comes to your head when you think of England...

One minute express English video. National Stereotypes. 

Aim: students talk about stereotypes
Level: from basic to higher intermediate
Procedure:

• ask  the following question to the students/give the students time to write down their answers

What do you think of when you see the word

 ENGLAND

• students compare their answers
• studedents compare their answer and the  answers of  London dwellers in the video

THIS  IS WHAT PEOPLE FROM LONDON SAID:



Video Source : BBC express English HERE
Go  HERE to download the script too

Extension for Multicultural classrooms

1. Give students countries,  continents or world areas that are not their own but that are present in the classroom 
2. Ask the same question:  What do you think of when you see the word: ..............................
3. Students from those areas tell us whether the information their classmates gave is accurate