ESL Lesson Plan Does The Weather Affect Our Mood?

Level
B1
Time
90 min
Media
Video + Article
Does The Weather Affect Our Mood?

Lesson Overview

This B1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Does the Weather Affect Your Mood?”, helping students develop useful vocabulary and language for talking about different weather conditions, emotions, seasonal preferences, and the impact of weather on everyday life.

Through a variety of engaging activities, students practise describing weather conditions…

This B1 ESL lesson explores the topic “Does the Weather Affect Your Mood?”, helping students develop useful vocabulary and language for talking about different weather conditions, emotions, seasonal preferences, and the impact of weather on everyday life.

Through a variety of engaging activities, students practise describing weather conditions, explaining how different weather makes them feel, giving advice, understanding an audio recording, sharing personal experiences, and debating whether the weather influences our mood, motivation, and lifestyle.

This lesson is ideal for B1 learners who are developing their ability to talk about the weather, emotions, seasonal preferences, everyday situations, and opinions.

Activity Layout

  1. Warm Up: This or That
  2. What Would You Do?
  3. Weather: Adjectives
  4. Mood: Adjectives
  5. Weather: How Do You Feel?
  6. Article: Why I Hate Winter
  7. Audio: Why I Love Winter
  8. Weather: Agree or Disagree?
  9. Weather: Picture Round

Homework

Students complete a writing task based on the weather, including describing the weather where they live, explaining how it affects their mood and energy levels.

  1. Writing Task: Questions

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