5
Unit aims
Students learn to talk about seasons
and weather. This includes:
•
asking about and describing
the weather in the
present and the past
•
describing vacations in the past
•
planning a trip
•
talking about the representation
of seasons in
paintings
Background information
The photograph
shows a frog (a European Common frog) sitting
below a mushroom in a rain shower.
Introduction to the unit
•
Say
Open your books to pages 4 and 5, please.
Read the
title of the unit and check that students understand the
meaning of the phrase.
•
Ask students to look at the
photograph and guess the
topic of the unit (
weather
/
seasons
). Then ask
What can
you see?
Elicit the name of the animal (
frog
) and other
features students can name (e.g.,
grass, mushroom,
leaves
). Then ask
What’s the weather like in this picture?
Is it hot or cold? Is it rainy or dry? What’s the weather
like today in our region/country? Is it often hot here?
Is it often rainy? Does it sometimes snow?
•
Tell students that they will learn to describe more kinds
of weather and to talk about the seasons in this unit.
