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Unit 8 The world around us
Lesson 1 What’s the weather?
Objectives
Learning 
outcomes
Vocabulary 
and 
structure
Required 
equipment
Educational:
– to learn how to say sea-
sons and weather
Developing:
– to enable pupils to speak 
about seasons and weather; 
– to enable pupils to under-
stand and perform com-
mands
Socio-cultural:
– to raise awareness of the 
seasons and the ways of say-
ing weather;
– raise awareness of the 
pronunciation of the sounds 
[
], [] and [s].
by the end of the 
lesson, pupils 
will be able to: 
– speak about 
seasons and 
weather; 
– perform com-
mands;
– pronounce the 
sounds [
], [] 
and [s].
What’s the 
weather? It’s 
sunny / cloudy 
/ rainy / windy 
/ snowy.
Ski! Skate! 
Play hockey! 
Play snowballs!
Textbook; 
the DVD of 
the book; 
flashcards: 
sunny, 
cloudy, 
rainy, 
windy, 
snowy 
weather; 4 
pictures of 
the seasons

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Unit 8
Activity 1 Listen and repeat.  
Objectives: to introduce the words for weather (sunny, cloudy, 
rainy, windy, snowy);
 
to introduce the song “What’s the weather?”
 
to practise the pronunciation of the sounds [
] and 
[
]
STEP 1: First, put five flashcards with the pictures depicting 
weather in front of the blackboard: one of the flashcards has a 
sun above a tree (sunny); the second flashcard has the same tree 
but there are clouds above it (cloudy); the third flashcard also 
has the same tree but there are clouds over it and it is raining 
(rainy); the fourth flashcard also has the same tree but wind is 
blowing (windy); the last flashcard also has the same tree but it 
is covered with snow and it is snowing (snowy).
say that it is winter now and it is cold, sometimes it snows 
and sometimes the sun shines. People are always interested to 
know what the weather is like today. The weather forecasters 
report what kind of weather will be today or tomorrow. 
STEP 2: Then offer the pupils to learn a few words in order 
to know and talk about the weather. First, show the flashcard 
with the sun, and say that the sun is round and stands up above 
us. Ask the pupils to show the sun together with you. To do this, 
you need to raise and round your hands over your head. here 
you should perfect the word “sunny”. Then show the flashcard 
with clouds. To show the cloudy weather, raise your hands and 
close the sky. here perfect the word “cloudy”, and ask the pupils 
repeat the sound [
] and the word after you in chorus and indi-
vidually. To show the rainy weather, raise your hands with palms 
down and wiggle your fingers to mean rain. Perfect the word 
“rainy”. During the wind the branches of a tree (hands overhead) 
swing from side to side. here perfect the word “windy”. And 
when it snows, beautiful snowflakes fall to the ground. Gently 
descend your hands from above your head, move your fingers 
to mean snowflakes. say “snowy”, and ask the pupils repeat the 
sound [
] and the word after you in chorus and individually
Work on all the words in chorus and individually with ges-
tures. Then  ask the children to sing with you only first lines. 
Ask the children to show the weather together with you. because 
the song is too long, in Lessons 2 and 3 of this unit you might 
want to repeat only 2–3 lines of each verse in chorus instead of 
singing the whole song.

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