Weather Vocabulary and Making & Responding to Invitations

Weather and invitations speaking

weather vocabulary, inviting and responding to invitations practice

 

Part One: Invitations in different weather

Choose a kind of weather below and invite your partner to do something in that situation. You can cross off the weather word if you get a positive response. Then they will try to do the same thing. Continue until you have used all the words or until the teacher stops the game.

Useful language for explaining the weather
It’s (really)…	cloudy cold/ freezing cool drizzly foggy/ misty hailing hot/ boiling humid raining snowing stormy sunny warm windy (minus)… degrees. …
There is…	thunder/ lightning a typhoon/ a hurricane/ a tornado …
Useful language for inviting Let’s… Shall we…? How about… ing (…) (with me)? Do you fancy…ing (…)? I was wondering if you’d like to…
Useful language for responding to invitations
Useful language for saying yes to invitations (That) sounds good/ great/ wonderful/ lovely. Let’s (go). Sure, why not? That would be lovely. That’s a good/ great/ wonderful idea. Okay. I don’t mind…	Useful language for saying no to invitations I’m sorry, I…/ it’s… That sounds lovely but (unfortunately)… I’d love to but…

Share one thing your partner said no to and see if anyone else in the class says yes.

Some ideas of things to suggest

• drink coffee/ soda/ hot chocolate
• eat ice cream/ soup/ stew/ salad
• fly a kite/ a drone
• fly to…
• go canoeing/ rock climbing/ shopping/ skiing/ ice skating/ swimming/ snowboarding/ windsurfing/ sailing/ camping
• go for a walk
• go to a football match/ to a museum/ to the beach/ to a department store/ to a library/ to the park/ to a public baths/ to hot springs/ to the gym/ to a tanning salon/ to the countryside
• have a picnic/ a barbecue
• have a snowball fight
• make a snowman
• play computer games/ soccer/ baseball/ golf/ beach volleyball
• stay at home
• sunbathe on the beach
• take photos of…
• take the dog for a walk
• turn on the air conditioning/ the heating/ the fan
• visit…
• walk…
• watch a…match/ a movie/ a video

Ask about anything above you don’t understand, couldn’t use, were not sure how to respond to, etc, working together to make suitable invitations each time.

 

Part Two: Using the weather to say no to invitations

Try to make an invitation which your partner can refuse with one of the sentences below. If they say something that is written there, you can cross it off. Change roles and do the same thing until all the words are crossed off or until the teacher stops the game.

• (really/ too) cloudy
• (really/ too) cold/ (really) freezing
• (really/ too) cool
• (really/ too) foggy/ misty
• hailing (too much)
• (really/ too) hot/ (really) boiling
• (really/ too) humid
• raining (a lot/ too much)
• snowing (a lot/ too much)
• (really/ too) stormy
• (really/ too) sunny
• (really/ too) warm
• (really/ too) windy
• … degrees.
• minus… degrees.