11. Nature and weather

  • town x countryside
  • animals - domestic animals and pets, wild animals, in the ZOO
  • months, seasons – What´s the weather like?, weather forecast, natural disasters
  • How to protect the environment? – How can we help our planet ?

Animals: level I.

Idioms with weather:

http://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/8-weather-idioms-and-phrases-with-examples/

Important holidays and festivals: http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/vocab/holidays_and_festivals?lang=cs

Weather: http://www.speakenglish.co.uk/vocab/the_weather?lang=cs

Questions about towns and countryside:

Do you live in a village, town or city?

How would you like it?

What is your neigbourhood like?

    • Why do you like living in the city?
    • What are some of the advantages of living in a city?
    • What are some of the disadvantages of living in a city?
    • Do you know the neighbors who live near you?
    • Where do you think the quality of life is better?

Questions about seasons:

What is your favorite season?

What do you think of when you think of winter?

What are some things your family did when you were a child in spring?

What is the worst season in your country?

Does it snow in your hometown in the winter? Did you use to make snowmen?

What is your favorite thing to do in summer?

What festivals or celebrations does your country have during the changing of the seasons?

Do you ever go hiking when the leaves change in fall?

Where is the best place to be in summer? How about winter?

Does your country have a special food for any of the seasons?

http://www.eslconversationquestions.com/topics/seasons/

What images spring to mind when you hear the season “spring’?

How do you feel when spring arrives?

What things about spring do you like most and least?

What happens in spring in your country?

In what ways is spring the best season?

Do you always do spring cleaning?

http://www.esldiscussions.com/s/spring.html

What's your favourite season? Why?

Do you like snow?  Which do you like better hot weather or cold weather?  Do you have snow in your country?

What's the average temperature in your country in the summer time? o How about in the winter?

What is the hottest season?  What is the coldest season?  In your opinion, which season is the most beautiful? Why?  Have you ever been in a snowstorm? What did you do?  What is the weather like in your country for each season?

Do you watch the weather reports on TV?

What is your favourite winter activity?  What is your favourite summer activity?

http://www.takethepen.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/conversation-questions-weather.pdf

Questions about weather:

What is your favourite weather?

What do you think of today’s weather?

How does the weather change you feelings?

Questions about environment:

Do you worry about the environment?

What stories have you read or heard recently about the environment?

What are the biggest problems facing our environment?

What would you do to save our environment?

What danger does your country pose to the global environment?