or here: https://www.bilingualmarketplace.com/products/weather-in-the-past-tense?variant=31252652982410
Watch the video of the complete resource:
The Weather in simple past of the verb to
be. There are several flashcards included in the resource.
Here is an example on using them on the
board.
Teacher: What’s the
weather?
Students: windy!
Teacher: Today is windy. (write
in down and write each word in a different color.)
Teacher: What’s the
weather?
Students: sunny!
Teacher: Yesterday was
sunny. (write
in down and write each word in a different color.)
Have the students contrast each weather
using the worksheet.
Ask more
questions using the flashcards.
Yes/ No
questions using the flashcards.
Have the
students write more sentences using the flashcards.
Have the
students talk about the weather yesterday. I used the days of the week to make a small calendar on the board.
Teacher: What day was
yesterday?
Students: Tuesday!
Teacher: How was the
weather on Tuesday?
Students: It was humid! (Underline
was in each sentence)
I made weather strips to make a forecast on the board.
Write a Weather Forecast. Use all the small cards.
The weather goes on in other cities.
Teacher: What was the
weather like in Mexico City?
Students: It was cold!
Or use the flashcards for other countries.
Teacher: What was the
weather like in Venezuela?
Students: It was rainy!
I am including
the country flashcards as I used in my other blog post about the weather and
countries in Simple present. Check the blog post for more things that you can
do with the resources. LINK: https://eflelementaryresources.blogspot.com/2018/02/weather-around-world-for-esl.html
Do the same
sorting on a desk or on the floor. Students can check on the internet the
weather yesterday and sort all the countries, I just did a small example.
Use the small
cards for writing sentences on the notebooks.
I am trying to
create game boards for every
product. Students love an extra time for playing on their own. I tape a bended
clip behind each game marker to make it stand. The game board has 4 colors:
red, yellow, blue and green. I wrote 2 specific questions depending on where
they land: How was the weather? and How is the weather? In order to have
students contrast between both tenses.
In this era of recycling
I see lots of last year books going to the trash or the teachers not knowing
what to do with them. I have posted some ways on how to recycle them. Here is
another example. Cut out the pictures and have the students do spelling using
plastic plates and dry erase markers, where you can easily erase the words.
Or use a fly
swatter with a rectangle cut in the middle to read the words.
