Weather

Información del recurso .................................................................................. 2

Students ...................................................................................................... 3

Introduction ............................................................................................ 5

Activity 1: Climate and weather ................................................................. 6

Activity 2: Predicting the weather .............................................................. 9

Activity 3: Climate and climate change ...................................................... 13

Self-evaluation ....................................................................................... 16

Final activity .......................................................................................... 20

Referencias bibliográficas y electrónicas .......................................................... 23

Recursos TIC................................................................................................ 24

Mapa de contenidos ...................................................................................... 26

Glosario....................................................................................................... 27

Ayuda ......................................................................................................... 28

Créditos ...................................................................................................... 29

Información del recurso

Weather

Área curricular: Lengua extranjera: Weather

Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

Segundo curso

Illustration. Weather man. Source: Intef.

Durante este recurso se conocerá el vocabulario del tiempo meteorológico y se

diferenciará los conceptos de clima y tiempo. Se aprenderá a describir el tiempo

usando el presente simple, y se realizará predicciones meteorológicas mediante el

uso de expresiones de tiempo.

Se trabajará de forma colaborativa y participativa, esto significa que la fuente de

conocimiento surgirá de la interacción entre compañeros y compañeras a través de

la realización de las diferentes actividades propuestas. Para que el trabajo sea

óptimo, se seguirán las pautas y orientaciones indicadas en cada una, a través de

la consulta de recursos web y enlaces proporcionados como fuentes de información.

Students

To start off

In this resource, Luisa and Miguel describe the weather and discuss about climate

change.

The resource is divided into four activities:

Activity 1: you will describe a weather forecast and also the climate in

different cities all over the world.

Activity 2: you will describe a weather forecast. You will also create a

weather map, according to the information available in a weather forecast

video.

Activity 3: you will describe different types of climate. You will also create a

glog (poster) with some measures against climate change.

Final activity: this is the final activity. You will create a video in which four

news correspondents will live broadcast the weather conditions from four

different geographical locations in the American continent.

In this educational resource, you will carry out different types of activities: you will

work independently and also with classmates, think for yourself, go one step

further when to get more information on the topic studied, and finally, assess

yourself.

These are some of the skills you will practise with these activities:

You will learn how to work in groups and how to present your ideas;

specifically, you will learn to:

present concepts and ideas clearly;

analyse and evaluate other people's points of view;

develop attitudes that foster reflection and dialogue.

You will learn how to use your computer and the Internet to study:

using search engines and official websites with useful information;

using desktop applications to edit images and to create text

documents, audio material and presentations;

and you will also learn to make sense of informative texts.

Picture. Skills. Source: Mediateca.

You will learn and use vocabulary related to weather and climate:

using correct words and expressions;

using the Present Simple of verbs to describe the weather and the

climate;

distinguishing the kinds of weather;

and you will then be able to understand a dialogue in which

people describe the weather and the climate.

You will learn the difference between the concepts “climate” and “weather”.

You will learn how to correctly use the time expressions “until” and “till”.

You will discuss about climate change.

Are you ready? Let’s go!

Introduction

Illustration. Introduction.

Help Luisa and Miguel by doing the following activities:

Activity 1. Climate and weather.

Activity 2. Predicting the weather.

Activity 3. Climate and climate change.

Final activity. In the news!

Activity 1: Climate and weather

It's your turn: Climate or weather?

Individually, visit the following link:

Weather.

Do all the activities except those that you find in the section called "Test". You will

learn the difference between "climate" and "weather". Take screenshots of each

activity that you do (you may use GIMP), paste them into a text document and

then, send it to your teacher by email or webmail.

Illustration. Question. Source: Agrega.

Now, click on the link below:

Tutiempo.net.

Once you have visited the website, describe the weather forecast for five capital

cities in Asia or Europe. The cities must belong to the same continent, either Asia or

Europe.

The description must include the following information:

Temperature (ºC) and wind chill temperature (hot, cold, warm…)

Atmospheric phenomena (rain, fog, wind, snow…).

Remember to indicate, in brackets, the country each capital city belongs to.

Finally, post a comment with the weather forecast on a new blog entry so that your

teacher can assess it.

Let's practise together: The weather in my city

In this activity, you will work in pairs.

You will create a glog (poster) about the weather and the climate in a Spanish city.

You will use Glogster EDU.

Your teacher will assign a different Spanish city to each couple of students.

The poster must contain the following information:

Illustration. Map. Source: Intef.

A description of the location of the city in the map. For example, “it is in the

North of Spain”.

A description of the weather forecast for the city.

A meteorological map of Spain. Remember to take a screenshot of the map

including the date of the weather forecast.

A description about the climate of the city.

Some images about the city in different seasons.

You can obtain the meteorological map from the link below. You can use GIMP to

take screenshots of the images. Mark the name of the city in the map with a visible

colour.

Weather Spain.

You can obtain the images about the different seasons from any of the links below.

You can also use GIMP to take screenshots of them:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos del Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas.

Buscador de imágenes Creative Commons.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Finally, you will present your glog (poster) to your teacher and your classmates

using the interactive whiteboard.

Activity 2: Predicting the weather

Let's practise together: Weather forecast

Illustration. Student. Source: Intef.

Individually, visit the following websites:

I robot. Do the activities you find in the sections called "Time expressions"

and "Time prepositions: at/in/on".

Good weather forecast. Do also all the activities you find in section number 2

("Talking about the Weather") and the first and second activities you can

find in section number 4 ("What are we going to do?").

Take screenshots of each activity that you do (you may use GIMP), paste them into

a text document and then, send it to your teacher by email or webmail.

Now, in groups of three, you will create a weather forecast for a radio programme.

Are you ready?

First, your group will create and share a text document using Google Docs. Activate

the “track changes” option to let your teacher see the changes that all the group

members have made in the text.

Second, write a three-day weather forecast for the United States. In the weather

forecast, you must analyse different regions or geographical points of the map

(North, South, East, West…), having into account the following aspects:

Maximum and minimum temperature (ºC).

Wind chill temperature (hot, cold, warm…)

Atmospheric phenomena (rain, fog, wind, snow…).

Third, share the text document with your teacher. Once he or she has validated

your description, record the weather forecast in an audio file using Audacity.

Upload your audio file to Ivoox and then, publish a link to the audio file in a new

Blog entry using the podcasting service.

It's your turn: Creating a weather map

In this activity, you will work individually.

First, visit the blog entry created in the main activity and select one of the weather

forecast audio files created by your classmates.

After listening to the weather forecast, answer the following questions:

1. Fill the map with the meteorological icons, according to the weather

forecast.

The map can be found at: http://pixabay.com/en/geography-outline-map-states-

35713/

The weather icons can be found at:

http://openclipart.org/search/?query=weather%20icon

2. Complete the text with the appropriate information:

a. In New York, it’s ... However, it’s ... in ...

b. It is cold in the ... of the country.

c. It is going to rain in ...

d. In the centre of USA, it is going to be ... with temperatures around...

e. Tomorrow, it is going to be sunny in ... but not in ...

f. The maximum temperature in the country will reach ... degrees.

3. Go to Dressing for the weather, in Good weather forecast

(http://agrega.educacion.es/visualizar/en/es_2011050763_9201906/false) and

solve the following case:

Imagine that you are going to visit a friend who lives in New York

tomorrow. You have written an email asking him for help about

the clothes that you should put into your luggage, according to

the weather conditions in NY. Write the email with the advice that

your friend would give you, taking into account the weather

conditions forecasted for New York in the video.

Illustration. Weather. Source: Intef.

Once you have heard the audio file, you must solve the following tasks:

You must fill a map with the appropriate meteorological icons.

You must complete a text with the correct information.

You must write an email in which you give a friend some advice about the

appropriate luggage to choose when visiting New York, taking the weather

forecast into account.

Before doing the task above, visit the following link and do the activities you find in

the section called Dressing for the weather:

Good weather forecast.

Once you have finished, convert the format of the text document into PDF and

then, send it to your teacher by email or webmail.

Activity 3: Climate and climate change

Let's practise together: Climatic distribution of America

You will continue working individually. Click on this link to learn how to differentiate

the types of climate:

America, climatic distribution of the continent.

Illustration. Map. Source: Free World Maps.

Now, in pairs, choose a city of the American continent. Then, you will create an

Impress presentation which must include the following contents:

A map of the American continent. Remember to mark the name of the city

with a visible colour in the map.

Some pictures about the city.

A description about the geographical location of the city in the continent.

A description about the climate of the city.

You can use GIMP to obtain the pictures that you find in any of the following

websites:

Banco de imágenes y sonidos del Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas.

Buscador de imágenes Creative Commons.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Finally, send your presentation to your teacher by email or webmail. You will

present your work to your teacher and your classmates using the interactive

whiteboard.

Let's practise together: Climate is changing!

In this activity, you will work in groups of three. Are you ready?

You will create a glog (poster) using Glogster EDU. The purpose of the glog is to

make you aware of the environmental aspects of climate change.

The glog must include images that prove the negative impact of climate change,

and also some measures to reduce its effects.

Illustration. Pollution. Source: Intef.

Each group will focus on a specific area of climate change. For example, a first

group will talk about energy saving measures; a second group will talk about the

air, soil and water pollution; a third group will talk about measures related to waste

management; and so on.

To understand climate change and its consequences, and to obtain some ideas

about the measures you can propose in your glog, click on the following links:

Climate kids.

A student´s Guide to Global Climate Change.

Green Steps.

We can make a difference!

You can obtain the images about the negative impact of climate change from the

links below. Remember that the images must be related to the area your group is

working with.

Banco de imágenes y sonidos del Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas.

Buscador de imágenes Creative Commons.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Once you have finished, publish your glog in the new Blog entry that your teacher

has created for this activity.

Finally, your group must visit the glogs that the rest of groups have made, and also

vote for your favourite one. Publish your vote by writing a comment in the Blog

entry.

Your teacher will read your comments and publish the name of the winning glog

(poster) in the classroom Blog.

Self-evaluation

Before starting the final activity, you will check what you have learned with all the

activities that you have been doing.

Final activity

Illustration. Meteorological conditions.

Task: In the news!

Individually, click on this link.

Weather.

Illustration. Climate. Source: Intef.

Do all the activities that you find in the section called "Test". You will self-evaluate

the contents that you have studied throughout the entire resource. Take

screenshots of each activity that you do (you may use GIMP), paste them into a

text document and then, send it to your teacher by email or webmail.

Now, in groups of four, you will create a video in which four news correspondents

will live broadcast the meteorological conditions from four different geographical

locations in the American continent.

First, choose four cities belonging to the American continent and with different

types of climate. To choose the cities, you can use the information below:

America, climatic distribution of the continent.

Visit the following link to observe the meteorological conditions in the four cities:

The Weather Channel.

Second, create and share a text document (using Google Docs) in which you must

describe the meteorological conditions in the four different cities. Activate the

“track changes” option to let your teacher see the changes that all the group

members have made in the text.

The structure of the description must be as follows:

The correspondent greets the audience and indicates the city where he or

she is broadcasting from.

The correspondent talks about the type of climate in the city.

The correspondent describes the current meteorological conditions.

The correspondent gives the weather forecast for the next day.

The correspondent gives a piece of advice about the clothes the audience

should wear, taking the weather conditions into consideration. For example,

“Don’t forget to take your umbrella with you!”, in case it is going to rain.

You must repeat the same structure to make the description in the four cities.

At the end of the document, you must also include some advice to reduce climate

change. For example, “… and finally, our daily tip: to save some water, don’t forget

to turn off the tap while brushing your teeth”.

Once you have finished, share your text document with your teacher using Google

Docs.

Illustration. Question.

Then, each group member must record his or her description using the web

application Xtranormal. When you enter it, you must choose a set of elements that

represent the region and the climate of the city. For example, if your city is located

in the North Pole, the set could include snow, a polar bear, etc. Then, you must

select an actor and a type of sound. Finally, type your text. The result is an avatar

that reads your description.

Embed your videos in a new entry that you teacher would have created in the

classroom blog, so that you can all watch them.

Referencias bibliográficas y

electrónicas

Ilustración. Referencias bibliográficas y electrónicas. Fuente: Pics4learning.

Bueso Fernández,I., Casamián Sorrosa, P. (1991). Diferentes usos

gramaticales entre el español y el inglés. Madrid: Edinumen.

Marcel Danesi, Ph. D. (2005). Crucigramas y acertijos en inglés para

hispanohablantes. New York: Baronseduc.

Agrega2.

Ecured.

Recursos TIC

Recursos

Programas y aplicaciones:

Audacity.

Blogger.

Glogster EDU.

Google Docs.

Impress. Paquete OpenOffice.

Ivoox.

PDF Creator.

Programa para la edición avanzada de imágenes: GIMP.

Writer. Paquete OpenOffice.

Xtranormal.

Fotografía. Recursos TIC. Fuente: Wikimedia Commons.

Sitios web utilizados durante el recurso:

Weather.

Tutiempo.net.

Weather Spain.

I robot.

Good weather forecast.

America, climatic distribution of the continent.

Climate kids.

A student´s Guide to Global Climate Change.

Green Steps.

We can make a difference!

Bancos de imágenes con Licencia Libre o Creative Commons:

Buscador de imágenes Creative Commons.

Banco de imágenes y sonidos del Instituto de Tecnologías Educativas.

Banco de imágenes Pics4 Learning.

Mediateca.

Mapa de contenidos

Ilustración. Mapa de contenidos.

Glosario

Ilustración. Glosario.

Anemometer: anemómetro.

Atmospheric phenomena: fenómenos atmosféricos.

Barometer: barómetro.

East:este.

Foggy: niebla.

Hygrometer: higrómetro.

Map: mapa.

North: norte.

Rain gauge: pluviómetro.

Shower: lluvia.

South: sur.

Temperature: temperatura.

Thermometer: termómetro.

Weather: clima, tiempo.

Weather forecast: predicción meteorológica.

West: oeste.

Ayuda

Cada pantalla del recurso tiene una estructura definida:

Las actividades se inician siempre con una situación o presentación del

tema que vas a trabajar.

A continuación se proponen una serie de actividades para trabajar de

manera individual o colaborativa con el grupo. Se trata de "It's your turn"

o "Let's practise together". En estas actividades tendrás que realizar

alguna acción:

Actividades que tendrás que trabajar individualmente o

colaborativamente, y el resultado enviarlo a tu profesor o

profesora para evaluarlo.

Recursos para profundizar en el tema.

Créditos

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