
- Involve students with real English oral production
- Learn ways of expressing weather predictions
- Use technological resources (Audacity, Blogs…)
- Produce competent oral productions
- Express both orally and in writing their own creation
-Communicative linguistic and audiovisual
-Artistic and cultural
-Treatment of information and digital competence
-Learning to learn
-Autonomous and personal initiative competence
CONTENTS:
-Present simple and continuous tense
-Weather vocabulary
-Pronunciation tools
-Information and technology tools
Session 1
(Listening and writing)
1. Listen carefully and do the activity proposed about weather. Afterwards, tell me through an entrance on your blog whether you like the activity or not.
√ If you need a bit of support according to weather vocabulary you can use this website: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PScGbLBOvKo
(Listening)
2. Who is Gerard Butler? Do you want to see him as a weather forecaster?
(Writing)
3. You are almost experts now! Write down a SHORT weather prediction for today of your country. Write it and upload it in your blog. I’ll correct it as soon as possible!
Session 2
(Reading and listening)
1. Read some of these nursery rhymes http://www.nurseryrhymesonline.com/weather/ and choose one of them, the one that you most like. Then, look for it in youtube and check its pronunciation.
√ There is a free online pronunciation dictionary. Check it if necessary:
2. You must record your own voice (with Audacity) as a formal weather forecaster BOTH with the prediction you wrote down the last day in your blog and with the chosen nursery rhyme in the end. Good luck!
√ There is a free online pronunciation dictionary. Check it if necessary: