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| Title | Ideas for Weather-Related Activities |
| Body | A recent request on the FLTEACH listserv for ideas for lessons on weather received the following suggestions. The first is a URL where materials for beginning French students with special educational needs may be downloaded (Word 97 format), and below that are excerpts from e-mails with activity suggestions which may be used for any language. http://www.specialeducationalneeds.com/mfl/year7french/weather ---- I downloaded maps of the target country from: http://www.accuweather.com. I adjusted the symbols on them so that there was a variation in weather and termperature. I then split the kids up into groups and assigned them to "live" in a certain city. They had to answer questions like, what is the weather like where you live? What is the temperature? (You can do conversions here.) What do you do in this weather? They liked it a lot and were having a good time in their fake city! Van Sickle, L. Re: unit on weather. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Feb. 2005). ---- 1. One great idea is a weather forecast activity. You can divide your class in small groups and each group can work on their own weather report. Encourage the students to watch real life weather forecastors at home. That way, they get an idea on how to present the forecast. You could use a real weather map and then ask the students to state what the weather is (or going to be) in a particular region. Each group could present their report in front of the class. You will need to have large weather props for this activity. 2. You could ask the students to prepare a weather page for a newspaper in which they will give the temperature and weather for 3 different cities from any region for 4 days. Don't forget to use the weather symbols. Muzeta, B. Re: unit on weather. Foreign Language Teaching Forum listserv. FLTEACH@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU (23 Feb. 2005). |
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