Spanish Weather Crossword Puzzle

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In need of effective vocabulary practice to supplement your unit on Weather in your Spanish class? Help students practice weather expressions in Spanish with this crossword puzzle! Puzzles are a great way to provide students with exposure to new expressions in order to help them memorize words and later apply them in different contexts. The twenty English clues ask students to supply Spanish weather expressions.

This resource includes:

One information sheet with common weather expressions in Spanish.
One crossword puzzle for students to practice weather expressions.
The answer key

This resource is intended for beginner learners of Spanish. It targets 20 common weather expressions, however, students can find more expressions to expand their vocabulary related to weather in the Informational Sheet that has been included with the crossword. This resource includes the answer key for your benefit. Some ways to use the answer key:

You can use the answer key to correct students' work
You can ask students to show you their completed work and then project the answer key so that students make corrections to their work.

Use this puzzle as a warm up activity or exit slip, homework, or as a part of a substitute plan! Try this puzzle today and help students solidify their knowledge of weather expressions to later apply them in writing and conversations!

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

Students translate common English weather expressions into Spanish weather vocabulary.
Students recall the Spanish names for the four seasons (las estaciones).
Students apply the Hace + number + grados pattern to express temperature in Spanish.

Teaching tips

Hand out the vocabulary reference sheet before the crossword so students have the Spanish terms available while solving it.
Use as a warm-up or homework task after a weather unit, since the puzzle assumes prior exposure to the listed terms rather than teaching them from scratch.
Pair with spoken practice built around the sheet's two model questions, ¿Qué tiempo hace? and ¿Qué temperatura hace?, since the vocabulary is organized around those two prompts.

Skills covered

Spanish vocabulary translation — students convert English weather terms such as sunny, cloudy, windy and snowing into their Spanish equivalents to complete the crossword.
Formulaic number expression — students apply the Hace + number + grados pattern shown in the sample (Hace cuarenta y siete grados) to state temperature in Spanish.
Seasonal vocabulary recall — students identify the Spanish names for spring, summer, fall and winter (la primavera, el verano, el otoño, el invierno).

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

What two model questions organize the vocabulary sheet?

The sheet is built around ¿Qué tiempo hace? for describing weather conditions and ¿Qué temperatura hace? for stating the temperature, giving students a sentence frame for each type of expression.

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Core concepts

Spanish weather vocabulary
Seasons in Spanish
Temperature expressions in Spanish

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Spanish weather Weather expressions Translation crossword Speaking practice

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