Hands up: say your one-sentence English forecast when the teacher calls you. Include the weather and roughly how warm or cold it feels. Keep it short, the way a real forecast sounds on the radio.
By the end of this lesson, you will be able to:
- Give a short French weather forecast with a temperature
- Spot what French forecasts care about compared with Irish ones
Take three or four one-sentence forecasts from volunteers. Do not correct the English; the point is the shape of a forecast: weather plus warmth. Tell the class they already know numbers from earlier, and today those numbers become degrees. Say that by the end they will sound like a short Météo hit, not a vocab list: weather plus how warm it feels, in Celsius. Keep the hook to five minutes.
Here are today's eight weather words. Tap each one, listen, then say it back together. Notice the article on each noun: le, la, or l'.
Then learn our forecast frame. We join one weather word to a temperature:
Aujourd'hui : la pluie. Il fait douze degrés. (oh-zhoor-DWEE : lah PLWEE. eel feh dooz duh-GRAY)
That means: Today: rain. It is twelve degrees.
Tap each row; class repeats twice: once all together, once by table. Point at the article on every noun. Make pluie punchy: lips forward, then smile into the ee. For nuage, keep the soft zh at the end.
Write the frame on the board and leave it up for the rest of the lesson:
Aujourd'hui : ______ . Il fait ______ degrés.
Choral drill (3–4 minutes): point at a weather image (or say a word) and hold up a number they already know. Class says the two-line forecast together. Model first: Aujourd'hui : le soleil. Il fait vingt degrés. (eel feh van duh-GRAY). Wet one: Aujourd'hui : la pluie. Il fait douze degrés. Stormy one: Aujourd'hui : la tempête. Il fait huit degrés. Two volunteers try alone with a new picture and number. Celebrate when weather plus degrés lands in one breath: that is the whole lesson.
Match each French weather word to its meaning. Say the French aloud as you find each pair. Listen for the article: le, la, or l'.
Whole class on the IWB with rotating volunteers, or tables call out matches while you click. Class whisper-says each French word from their seats when a pair is found. If a pair is missed twice, stop and repeat the French with the article before moving on.
After the last pair, 60-second oral recap: point at two matched cards and a number on the board; class uses the frame Aujourd'hui : [word]. Il fait [number] degrés. Keep the board model visible. This keeps the hear-and-say beat alive before the map.
Open your copy. Write today's forecast in French in two short lines, using the board frame. Choose one weather word from today and a temperature number you know.
Frame: Aujourd'hui : ______ . Il fait ______ degrés.
Example: Aujourd'hui : le vent. Il fait dix degrés.
Pause other board clutter; leave only the frame and one full example visible: Aujourd'hui : le vent. Il fait dix degrés. (eel feh deess duh-GRAY). Choral-repeat the example once more, then everyone writes. Walk the room and check they included a weather word from today's eight and a number with degrés. When someone gets weather + degrés in one go, big reaction: that is the whole lesson in one breath. Do not collect these.
We label tonight's Météo-France board together. Pictures show the weather for two places: Brest (Atlantic north-west) and Marseille (sunny south). When it is your turn, say the French word aloud before we lock the label. Everyone else whisper-says it from their seat.
Whole-class IWB only with rotating volunteers. No pupil devices. If a label is missed twice, stop and say the word together with the article before moving on. End by pointing at Brest and Marseille in turn and asking for a mini forecast each (weather word + Il fait X degrés), not just the single word. Example prompts: Brest might be le brouillard and 11 degrees; Marseille le soleil and 28 degrees. Class can chorus the two-line frame. Keep the board frame visible so the map feeds straight into the copy task next.
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