Out of season: piecing together how our seasons are shifting
Two citizen scientists reconcile decades of nature records; students exchange data on shifting seasons worldwide and discuss what it means.
C2Adults55 minInformation gap
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (information gap). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Information gap
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Weather & seasons
- Activities
- Speaking / writing task, Key words, Reading text, Gap-fill, Multiple choice
- Key words
- give or take, in the region of, If memory serves, …, That squares with…, an outlier, a marked shift, Correct me if I'm wrong, but…, phenology
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Exchange, check and interpret detailed data about seasonal change with precision
- Use approximation, hedging and data-commentary language naturally