Weather and Clothes Themes for the ESL Learner

Weather and Clothes Activities for Elementary ESL Students | Vocabulary, Games & Lesson Ideas.  Link to the resource:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Weather-and-Clothes-resources-for-Elementary-ESL-EFL-3669273

Teaching weather and clothes vocabulary together is a powerful way to help elementary ESL students use language in meaningful contexts. Students naturally connect what they wear with different weather conditions, making vocabulary easier to understand and remember.

In this lesson, you will find interactive ESL activities, games, and worksheets to teach clothing and weather vocabulary in a fun and engaging way.

ESL Weather and Clothes Activities

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.

Weather flashcards sorting

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.

ESL Weather and Clothes speaking practice

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.

ESL Weather and Clothes Bingo Game

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.

These activities are ideal for: elementary English language learners, beginner ESL students,vocabulary lessons,speaking practice,classroom centers

There is a bundle with more resources for this theme:   https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Weather-Unit-for-ESL-BUNDLE-5472169