How's The Weather?
This weather ESL lesson teaches common conditions and the question 'How's the weather?' Children sing, use gestures, build a spinning weather wheel and guess weather in charades. They create weather in a jar, follow a picture-card walk and give a simple forecast for the day.
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Lesson format
2 × 45 minutes
Level
Starter
Age group
Ages 4–6
Main focus
Speaking first
What students will learn
Lesson flow
Children sing a weather song with matching hand motions, build a spinning weather wheel, and play a weather charades guessing game. The second lesson builds a weather-in-a-jar craft (cotton clouds, blue paper rain), plays a weather walk-and-talk game around labelled cards, and listens to a short story guessing the weather, finishing with each child giving today's forecast.
Target language
- • 'How's the weather?'
- • 'It's ___'
- • Weather vocabulary
- • Simple descriptions
Key vocabulary
- sunny
- rainy
- cloudy
- snowy
- hot
- cold
- warm
- windy
- foggy
- weather
Speaking questions students answer
- • How's the weather today?
- • What's in your jar?
- • Is it hot or cold?
- • What's the weather in the story?
- • What's today's forecast?
Recommended teaching contexts
Why this lesson works
The lesson follows a clear progression: Answer 'How's the weather?' with a weather wheel, play weather charades, make a weather-in-a-jar craft and give a forecast. Teachers can open the materials and start immediately, while students move from supported vocabulary practice to purposeful spoken English.