Engaging and Interactive ESL Lessons Plans to Teach Weather Vocabulary & Concepts
This unit from SuperEnglishESL.com introduces Level 2 students to essential weather-related vocabulary and concepts. With interactive games, phonics practice, sentence-building activities, and real-world applications, students will develop their English communication skills while discussing different types of weather. This unit is perfect for 1:1 online lessons, group classes, or classroom instruction.
Teachers will benefit from structured lessons that require minimal prep time and include downloadable worksheets and engaging speaking exercises. By the end of this unit, students will confidently describe the weather, answer and ask weather-related questions, and use key grammar structures in conversation.
Students learn foundational weather vocabulary, such as sunny, snowy, hot, cold, and form simple sentences about the weather.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Memory game with visuals of weather types.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: “How’s the weather?” in different places.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: sun, snow, hot, cold.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using adjectives with “It is” and “How’s the weather?”
✔️ Phonics: fl blends (flower, fly, flush).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, fill-in-the-blank, and reading rhymes.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Talking about today’s weather and their environment.
Students expand their vocabulary with rainy, stormy, wet, dry, and compare weather conditions.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Odd-one-out activity (What’s different?).
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Describing rainy and stormy weather.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: rain, storm, wet, dry.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Asking and answering “Is it rainy or stormy?”
✔️ Phonics: gl blends (glass, globe, glove).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Rhymes, matching games, and classroom discussions.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Deciding what to wear in different weather.
Students learn how to talk about cloudy, windy, and changing weather using verbs like blow.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Spot-the-difference activity.
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Describing cloudy and windy conditions.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: cloudy, windy, blow.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: Using blow in different contexts (The wind blows, She blows bubbles).
✔️ Phonics: fr blends (friends, fries, fridge).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Tic-Tac-Toe, storytelling, and sentence-building games.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: How wind and clouds affect daily life.
This lesson covers lightning, tornadoes, and safety precautions during storms.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Opposite word matching (cold/hot, inside/outside).
✔️ Reading & Discussion: Why we stay inside during bad weather.
✔️ Vocabulary Focus: lightning, tornado, stay inside.
✔️ Grammar & Sentence Structures: “Where do they stay?” and “Why do they stay inside?”
✔️ Phonics: gr blends (grade, grave, Greece).
✔️ Interactive Elements: Role-playing what to do in a storm.
✔️ Real-Life Applications: Understanding storm safety and emergency situations.
A comprehensive review of all vocabulary, sentence structures, and phonics from the unit.
Lesson Features:
✔️ Warm-up: Engaging weather-related rhyme.
✔️ Assessment Tasks:
✅ Young ESL learners (A1-A2) in classrooms, online, or homeschool settings.
✅ 1:1 ESL tutoring or group lessons.
✅ Teachers who want a structured, engaging, low-prep weather unit.
📝 Lesson Previews & Worksheets
🎲 Games & Activities
📚 Reading Passages & Rhymes
🔊 Phonics & Sentence-Building Exercises
📌 Use real-time weather updates to make lessons interactive & relatable.
📌 Encourage students to describe the weather outside daily.
📌 Role-play TV weather reports for speaking practice.