ESL Weather and Action Verbs

Link to the Weather Unit resource  : 

https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-and-Verbs-for-ESL-3680155

Tell students that depending on the weather there are things that they can do or not.

Teacher: What is he doing ?

Students: He is playing golf.

Teacher: Is it sunny or windy ?

Students: It´s sunny.

                    This time, 81 verbs for weather flashcards are ready. 

Verbs for Weather Flashcards 1. The students can sort the flashcards for the activities (verbs) that can be done in each Season or Weather.

Teacher: Can you drive in the Winter ?

Students: Yes, you can.

Teacher: Can you drive in the Summer?

Students: Yes, you can.

Flashcards 2. Let´s! Place the  Weather verbs flashcards on the board and introduce sentences with Let´s.

Teacher: Let´s ski in the snow.

Students: Let´s walk in the snow.

Game board.  Place a flashcard and the game board model on the board to make examples for playing.

Teacher: He is playing baseball. It is rainy. (because I landed on the rainy spot) Can He play baseball ?

Students: No, he can´t.

Then, the student can´t move for next turn.

Another example. Teacher: He is playing baseball. It is partly cloudy.  Can he play baseball?

Students: Yes, he can. (The player can move for next turn)

Think of verbs. Give the students the template for each weather and have them think of verbs related to each weather and write them. Hang the weather verbs! Or students can paste them on their notebooks and write sentences with the verbs.

Another writing activity. Hand in  the templates to the students. They glue it on their notebooks or posters, but glue only the top border, so they can complete the sentences with the verb.

A Weather Verb Pictionary.  I have these cute frog clipart. The students cut the frog pictures and glue when they belong. The students color the letters of each word. Bind it all and make an actual Pictionary.

I bundled up the whole Weather Unit Resource for Kindergarten and Elementary English Language Learners. Check it out!

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Weather around the world for ESL

Link to the Weather Unit resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-in-the-past-tense-for-Elementary-EFL-4976066 

I made a lot of flashcards from different countries around the world.

Use these to describe weather in different places.

You can group the flashcards according to  the continents. I used America for my example. Check the real weather on internet before the activity or have them do it before the class. Have it ready. Link: https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/

Flashcards 1. Sort the countries according to the weather to create a forecast.

Teacher: What ´s the weather in Jamaica? 

Students: It´s warm. It´s partly cloudy.

Flashcards 2.

Teacher: In Brazil ,it is hot. And what about in Germany?

Students: It is cold in Germany.

Do more examples.Teacher: There is snow in Estonia. Is it cold ?

Student: Yes, it is.

Teacher: What season is it ?

Students: It is Winter.

And here´s Argentina.

 I made a smaller version for the students to look up the weather around the world on internet and make some posters.

 Students can talk about their poster.

Student: Today it is hot and sunny in Kenya and Chad. It is 37ºCelsius in Chad and 26º Celsius in Kenya.

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Weather and Clothes Themes for the ESL Learner

Link to the resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-and-Clothes-resources-for-Elementary-ESL-EFL-3669273

Flashcards 1. Place the people and weather Flashcards on the board. Talk about what people wear in different kinds of weather.

Students identify the clothing for different kinds of weather using the flashcards. Practice the adjectives of temperature: hot and cold.

Have the children guess the weather in the simple present tense. I wrote the numbers from 11 to 20 to practice them.

Teacher: What is the weather like in Number 15?

Students: It´s cold and snowy.

Teacher: Is it snowy in number 18?

Students: No, it isn´t. It´s sunny and hot.

Flashcards 2. Place the weather flashcards on the board (rainy, sunny, windy, snowy).

Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESL-EFL-3664474

Place the frog´s clothes on a desk.

Call on individual students to come and pick a piece of clothing, show it to the class, say the word and place it where it belongs according to the weather.

Student: raincoat! Rainy!

Flashcards 3. Weather and adjectives. Divide the board in two and write the words hot and cold. Place the sun flashcard on the hot side and a snowflake flashcards on the cold side. Have the students sort the frog´s clothes.

Then, dress up your frog for the hot or the cold weather.

Flashcards 4. Weather and seasons.

Show the students several flashcards and ask questions.

Teacher: Which season is it ?

Students: It´s winter.

Teacher: Yes! But, why? What is he wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat a coat, pants, and boots.

Give the students the flashcards and have them sort the people according to the season.

Teacher: How is the weather in the Spring?

Students: It´s rainy.

Have the students sort the flashcards according to the weather.

Teacher: What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s cold.

Teacher: What is the boy wearing?

Students: He is wearing a hat, a jacket, mittens,pants and boots.

Have the students say what they wear for each weather.

Students: I wear a raincoat and boots on a rainy day.

Activity 1,Weather and Clothes Worksheets. After this practice, hand in the frog template to each student.

Have them color their frog by using only the 11 colors that we use in the class (and for the Bingo later) but only in one color each piece and dress the frog according to a specific weather.

Place the Weather flashcards (from the previous blog post) around the room. Students listen to the weather that you mention and walk with their frog and stand next to the flashcard.

Teacher: Winter frogs come here!

Then count together how many students are at each flashcard and have them say which weather has the most students.

Activity 2. Play frog Bingo! Since all the students have their frogs ready. Play Bingo.   Print and cut all the Bingo cards and place them in a bag or box and start calling out all the clothes:

Teacher: a red shirt!

Activity 3. Fashion Catalog. Since it is a favorite in my store I added it including more summer and winter clothes. Just print a page per student and have them look for clothes in magazines to cut and paste as in a catalog. Divide the whole class into 4 groups so one group will do the Winter Catalog, another the Summer one and then assign Fall and Spring. I´d love to see pictures of this if you do it.

Activity 4. Write the clothes words. Have the students write the clothes that are worn in each weather. You can hang them up in class.

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Weather Flashcards Activities for ESL EFL Learners

This is the Weather unit and the Flashcards activities for Elementary English Language Learners.   Link: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-Flashcards-for-Elementary-ESL-EFL-3664474

Teaching the weather is essential in early language development for English language learners (ELLs). It helps students build foundational vocabulary that they can use in everyday conversations. The weather is something children experience daily, making it a meaningful and relatable context for learning.

Visual Flashcards help students connect vocabulary to real-life images, supporting word recognition and retention.

Flashcards activity 1. Display all the weather flashcards on the board. Point and ask about the weather using the descriptive adjectives related to weather conditions.

Teacher: What´s the weather like  today?

Students: It´s rainy.

Teacher: Is it snowy?

Students: yes, it is.

Teacher: Is it sunny?

Students: No, it isn´t.

Flashcards activity 2. Make a weekday chart on the board using your flashcards to describe the weather conditions.

Ask Questions.

Teacher: Today is Tuesday. What´s the weather like ?

Students: It´s windy.

Have the students ask and answer more questions.

Flashcards activity 3. Order the flashcards by size. Have the students tell you how to order them on the board. Then ask questions.

Teacher: Which is the biggest?

Students: The sun!

Teacher: Which is the smallest?

Students: The snowflake!

And ask questions about color.

Teacher: What color is the sun?

Students: yellow!

Small Cards activity 4. Make patterns. Hand in the student´s flashcards.

Say a pattern order and have the students create them on their desks using the smaller version. Place the flashcards on the board for student´s correction. This makes for a good listening exercise.

Teacher: windy, cloud, lightning, sunny!

Flashcards activity 5. Express  weather likes. Place the weather flashcards on the board. Review all the weather flashcards that you have selected.

Hand in the small weather cards for the students to color and write their name on their favorite.

When they come to the board to place their card they have to express their opinion. 

Student: My favorite weather is sunny. 

Ask questions: Which weather has the most votes? ,Which weather has the least votes?, How many votes are there for sunny?

 activity 6. Games !

Game1. Spinners.

Give each student a spinner and a set of flashcards and questions to the group.

One student will be the reader and the rest will judge if the answer is correct. When a student answers a question correctly he or she colors a fraction of the spinner. If the answer is incorrect, he or he can´t color the spinner.  The first student to complete coloring the spinner is the winner. I made a colored version that you can add plastic contact paper or laminate, students can use board markers to color and the spinner can be erased and reused. If not, use the paper version. The spinner has 8 fractions.

Game 2. Cards around the room. Place the flashcards on the floor around the room following a path. Play some music or some weather sounds and have the children walk around the path of path. When the sounds stops they have to grab the card close to them and at your signal  show the flashcard and say the word.

Game 3. Have the children order the flashcards alphabetically. Give each group a set of flashcards and at your signal have them order the flashcards. The first group to finish calls STOP!

Game 4. Draw it. Divide the class into groups. Have them assign one student from each group to come to the front and draw the flashcards that you will show them. The first group to shout out the word wins a point.

 This Weather Unit Worksheets pack,included in the resource, offers a variety of printable activities — matching, coloring, drawing, word-search, sentence writing, and more — designed to make learning about weather engaging and meaningful for young learners.

Whether you use it for vocabulary practice, sentence building, or speaking and listening activities, this resource adapts well to different class levels and learning needs. Go to the blog post here and check them out:    https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2025/05/weather-unit-worksheets-for-elementary.html

And a freebie, Weather Flashcards in Spanish ( Tarjetas imprimibles del clima en español) ! Just for the teachers that are in a dual language class or teach Spanish anywhere. 

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