Phrases for Cold Weather

Step 1: Warm-up (Engage the Learners)

🗣 Activity: Picture Discussion

• Show pictures of winter, snow, people shivering, and wearing warm clothes.
• Ask: "How does this weather feel?" "What do you wear in this weather?"

🎭 Miming Game

• Act out shivering, rubbing hands, or wrapping a scarf.
• Ask students to guess: "What season is this?"

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Step 2: Introduce Cold Weather Phrases

📌 Basic Phrases:

1. It’s freezing outside!
2. I’m shivering!
3. I need a warm jacket.
4. It’s chilly today.
5. The temperature has dropped.
6. I can see my breath in the air.

📌 Slightly Advanced Phrases:

1. It’s bitterly cold.
2. I’m frozen to the bone.
3. Bundle up, it’s cold out there!
4. The roads are icy.
5. I love snuggling up in a warm blanket.

🎤 Call & Response (Repetition Practice)

• Teacher: It’s freezing outside!
• Students: It’s freezing outside!
  (Continue with other phrases)

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Step 3: Interactive Practice

🎭 Role Play – “A Cold Day”

• Assign roles:
  1. One student is stepping outside and feels cold.
  2. Another suggests wearing a coat or drinking hot tea.
  • Example:
    • Student A: Brrr! It’s freezing outside!
    • Student B: You should wear a warm jacket!

👀 Matching Game

• Give students phrases and pictures (snow, warm clothes, hot drinks, etc.)
• Ask them to match the correct phrase with the picture.

🎲 Sentence Completion Game

• Teacher: It’s so cold today that I need a ____.
• Students: Jacket / Scarf / Hot Chocolate

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Step 4: Application (Creative Usage)

📝 Story Building

• Start a sentence: One cold morning, I stepped outside and…
• Each student adds a sentence using cold-weather phrases.

🎤 Mini Presentations

• Students describe their favorite winter activity using the new phrases.

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Step 5: Wrap-up & Review

❄️ Quick Fire Quiz

• Ask: "How would you describe a snowy day?"
• Students answer using phrases learned.

🎭 Freeze & Act Out

• One student says a cold-weather phrase, others act it out.

✅ Recap & Homework

• Ask students to use at least 3 phrases in a short paragraph.
• Bonus: Watch a winter scene in a movie and write down phrases they hear!