Tasks and activities
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Flashcards 1
To introduce weather vocabulary, use flashcards resource sheet 4.1.
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Flashcards 2
You could combine the words and weather symbols from resource sheet 4.1 to make an additional pack of weather-related flashcards, with half showing weather tohu (symbols) and the other half words.
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Bingo cards
You could use resource sheet 4.2 and play a game of weather Bingo with your students to reinforce the weather vocabulary.
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Same-different 1
Have the students work in pairs on a same-different task where both students have a numbered grid with weather symbols in the boxes.
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Same-different 2
For another same-different task, use resource sheet 4.4 with the two maps of New Zealand, with their weather symbols, have similarities and differences for the students to compare.
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Multiple choice
Create multi-choice descriptions to accompany pictures of the weather from the reomation Ngā Āhua o te Huarere (The Weather), and get the students to work out which description best applies to which picture.
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Expressing temperature
Explore how to express temperatures.
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Weather charts
Encourage your students to keep a daily record of the weather for a week.
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Information transfer
You could read a report about the weather conditions around the country, and the students could draw the appropriate weather symbols onto a map of New Zealand.
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Strip-story
Convert the weather forecasts on resource sheet 4.8 into strip stories.
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Cloze
Design a cloze task where the students fill in gaps in a piece of text that also has weather-related pictures to help them.
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True-false-make it right
For a true-false-make it right task, give each student a copy of the same New Zealand weather map.
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Dycomm
For a dycomm task, give one student a map of the weather in the North Island and their partner a map of the weather in the South Island.
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Dictocomp
For a dictocomp task, read or listen to a weather forecast for New Zealand, twice, as in the reomation Ngā Tohu Huarere (Weather Forecasts).
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Ordinal numbers
If your students are confident with the days of the week and the cardinal numbers, you could introduce them to the ordinal numbers in te reo Māori as a way of describing the weather on each day of the school week