Clothes and Weather Board Game

Teaching Notes
This game is for pupils
new to English to teach
vocabulary related to
clothes and weather.

Items to be printed 4. Laminate the spinner sheet.

Cut around the spinner and
1. 4 sheets of A4. These make up pointer. Attach the pointer to
the base board. middle of spinner with a split
2. 2 sheet of A4 weather cards. pin. (NB: Allow the pin to be
3. 3 sheets of A4 clothes cards. slightly loose to maximise the
4. 1 sheet of A4 weather name spin).
cards. 5. Laminate the teaching notes for
5. 1 sheet with spinner and reference.
pointer.
6. 4 sheets of teaching notes. Language

How to make it up Clothes

boots sandals
1. Collect all the sheets of A4 for cap scarf
the playing board. Use the cardigan shirt
guidelines to trim the edges of coat shoes
each sheet. Laminate the dress shorts
trimmed pages separately. gloves skirt
Next put the four laminated hat sweatshirt
sheets together to make up the hijaab (headscarf) T shirt
board (see image above). Use jeans tights
sellotape to attach the board jumper tracksuit
together. long-sleeve t-shirt trainers
2. Laminate the weather and patka trousers
clothes cards. Cut up along the raincoat turban
guidelines. salwar kameez umbrella
3. Laminate the name cards and
cut along the guidelines.

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Weather Positional Language
cloudy Move forward
cloudy and sunny Move on
fog/foggy Move back
frosty
icy You will also need:
rain/raining • A dice
snow/snowing • Counters.
stormy
sunny How to play the game
windy Teacher/teaching assistant with
3 – 4 pupils. Please include pupils
Spinner with a good command of English
cold who can act as role models.
cool
hot Suggestions for Pre- tutoring
warm
• First show weather symbol
cards and teach/revise weather.
Playing Board Ask about the weather today,
beach and about the weather in their
flood country of origin.
picnic
• Next show the clothes cards
snowman
and teach/revise the names for
clothes. Ask about the clothes
Verbs they are wearing, and the
build clothes people wear in their
finish country of origin.
go • Ask children to teach you
pick up names for weather or clothes in
slip their first language.
start
• Show pupils the base board and
briefly talk about the images.
Game Language
Please can I have the dice?
Is it my turn?
Playing the game
Whose turn is it now? • Place the clothes cards face
Pick up cards. down in a pile in the middle of
Please can I have a card? the board, and do the same
Where are you? with the weather cards.
Spin the spinner. • Pupils place their counters at
Where is the arrow pointing? start.

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• Take it in turns to roll the dice If the weather card shows a sun
and move the counter on to the symbol, and the clothes card
appropriate number of squares. shows a short sleeved dress, then
• If a counter lands on a picture these would be compatible, and
square with instructions, the pupil could move on 1 space.
simply follow the instructions. Teacher/LSA
(Build a snowman, Go back to Can you wear a
the flood etc). dress/jumper when it’s hot?
• If a counter lands on a Go back Pupil
square, simply follow the Yes, you can./ No, you can’t.
instructions. These lead to pick
up cards squares, and players The game is designed to generate
need to pick up cards, as discussion. Decisions about
described below: whether or not clothes are
compatible can be agreed together
• If a counter lands on a pick up
with the adult and pupils playing
cards square, the pupil takes
the game. For example, the pupils
one card from the weather pile,
might all agree that you can wear
and one card from the clothes
jeans when it’s hot and sunny.
pile.
A good teaching point can be
Teacher/LSA
around the hijaab (headscarf),
What’s this/What are these?
turban and patka. Muslim girls
Pupil
and women may wear the hijaab
It’s a coat/ They are trainers.
at all times. Sikh boys or men may
Teacher/LSA
wear a patak or turban at all times.
What’s the weather like?
Baptised Sikh women may also
Pupil
wear a turban.
It’s windy.
• Replace the cards at the bottom
• There is now some flexibility in
of the pile.
how to play the game
Stage 2 Game for older pupils, or
Stage 1 Game for younger pupils,
those with more English
or those very new to English.
experience.
The weather and clothes cards
This level game can be played in
need to be compatible in the
just the same way, except that
simplest way. For example, if the
there is greater flexibility around
weather card shows the sun
weather and temperature. For
symbol, and the clothes card
example, it could be sunny but
shows a jumper, then these would
cold, windy but warm. Therefore,
not be compatible. The pupil
when a counter lands on a pick up
would then have to move back 1
cards square, there is an
space.

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opportunity with most weather forwards, depending on the
cards to spin the spinner. squares they land on. Pupils
usually enjoy doing this!
For example if the weather card • The winner is the first pupil to
shows cloudy, the pupil can spin get to the finish square.
the spinner to see if it is cloudy and Follow up activities
hot, cloudy and warm, cloudy and
cool, or cloudy and cold. Decisions
• Use the weather word cards
about whether or not clothes are
and match up to the weather
compatible can be made in just
symbol cards.
the same way as the stage 1 game.
• In KS1 & KS2 particularly, the
The concepts of hot, cold, cool, and weather cards can be used daily
warm will need explanation to record the weather for the
through pictures, real objects, day on the whiteboard. Newly
current weather etc. arrived pupils can have
responsibility for this.
The cards that cannot be used • Search on websites to find local
with the spinner are the snow card forecasts, and weather
and frost card. forecasts from each pupil’s
Teacher/ LSA country of origin.
You’ve got a cloudy card.
Spin the spinner. Funded by
What temperature is it?
Pupil:
It’s warm. It’s cloudy and
warm.
Teacher/ LSA
Can you wear a
T shirt/sweatshirt when it
is warm?
Pupil:
Yes you can/No you can’t.

The pupil will then move on 1

space, or back 1 space, depending
Clothes and Weather Board Game: Judith Longstreth
on whether or not the clothes are Additional Materials and Editors:
compatible with the weather card. Harvinder Bilkhu, Deborah Barkham
Bristol EMAS: January 2006
Again, there is lots of room for Designed by Bristol City Council, Corporate Design:
discussion. Julian Abbott

• Sometimes pupils may need to

pick up cards twice during a
turn, or move backwards and http://emas.bristol-lea.org.uk

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sunny snow cool
foggy snowing warm
frosty stormy and
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