In many cases, it has been the inspiration for books and plays. To complete this three-lesson online segment about the weather, here are some ideas for using World Wide Web weather resources in your English class and your French language class. The site features various images of hurricanes, eclipses and storm systems of all kinds. You can download several of these images and ask your students to use these unique scenes from nature as the starting point for a free-association story or essay. Alternatively, of course, students can choose their own images directly from the site.
Most students get their weather news from television.
Another fun writing exercise is to ask them to write the copy for a television weather report for various parts of the world. Make this a real-world exercise by setting limits on the number of words the students can use to convey a full weather report. Ask them to write a few jokes in their copy or include tidbits of weather news in their reports. For a more traditional reading and writing exercise, you can ask your younger students to read a book of fiction that focuses on the weather and then write a book report. Inc. Its contents should not be reproduced without permission.