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Part II: Putting Your Lesson Together
Have students living in the UK practise saying ‘What’s the weather like in . . . ?’ along with weather words and place names, and having given each pair the fol- lowing worksheets. (The pronunciation of place names is tricky so I regularly find an excuse to slip the ones they know into a lesson.)
Complete your weather report by asking your partner, ‘What’s the weather like in . . .?’
Weather Report A
Aberdeen: warm and cloudy Carlisle:
Dundee: hot all day Edinburgh: rain in the morning Glasgow:
Ipswich:
Kidderminster: cold and windy Liverpool: foggy in the morning Manchester:
Norwich:
Weather Report B
Aberdeen:
Carlisle: warm and sunny Dundee:
Edinburgh:
Glasgow: mild and grey Ipswich: rain in the afternoon Kidderminster :
Liverpool:
Manchester: hot and dry Norwich: foggy then bright
You can get some more ideas for speaking activities in Chapter 13.
Role playing from a script
If you use a course book in class, it probably has the tape script for recorded dialogues at the back. The way students use intonation when reading out a dialogue is a strong indicator of their comprehension.