Temperature
Vocab: Hot, warm, cool and cold are adjectives. Heat, warmth, coolness and cold are the associated nouns.
Celsius, Fahrenheit, degrees, plus, minus, below
Heat
Other words for hot: scalding, sweltering, boiling, feverish
What temperatures are very hot?
What places in the world are very hot?
What is a hot place you like to go?
What happens when it is very hot? What happens to water if it very hot? It Boils.
We say a day is boiling hot? Do we really mean it?
What is the hottest temperature you have ever experienced?
It was so hot that ________________________.
Heat and water mean humidity. Is Wuxi a humid place? (Also use Hot and Muggy)
What can you do to deal with extreme heat or humidity?
How to keep cool in the heat?
What food do we want to eat or drink that is hot?
What does it mean if we say a person is hot?
What does it mean if we say a product or activity is hot?
What can we also mean if we say food is hot?
What does it mean to have a temperature? What does it mean to have a fever.
What does it mean if we say things are heating up?
What does this mean: if you can stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen? The student in in hot water with the teacher. The worker is in hot water with his boss.
Warmth
What temperatures are warm?
What is thought of as a warm place in China?
Is warmth the best feeling? Why?
How to keep warm in Winter?
What does it mean if we say a person is warm? (Who is the warmest person you know?)
When is the weather in Wuxi warm?
What is the best way to keep warm in winter? A/C, furnaces, central heating or fire?
What warm things do you like?
We received a warm welcome. What does that mean?
Coolness
What temperatures are cool?
Is coolness the best feeling?
When do we want to be cool?
How can we be cool on a hot day?
What food should we eat cool?
What does it mean if we say a person is cool? (Who is cool in that way?)
What does it mean if we say a thing is cool? (What things are "cool" these days?)
He is "cool under pressure." What does that mean?
What does it mean to lose one's cool?
He is cool as a cucumber. What does that mean?
Play it cool. What does that mean?
Cold
Other words for cold: chill, freezing, frosty, frozen, ice cold and freezing cold.
What is the difference between freezing and frozen?
Is cold the most uncomfortable feeling?
What do you like to drink or eat cold? Frozen?
What temperatures are cold?
What temperatures are very cold?
Is cold the worst feeling?
What do you do when it is cold?
What happens to water when it is cold?
What happens when it is extremely cold?
What was the coldest temperature you have ever experienced?
It was so cold that ____________.
What things do we want to be cold?
What does it mean if we say a person is cold?
What does it mean to say a person has a cold? Do we get a cold because it is cold?
What does it mean to say a person had cold feet? What does it mean to give someone the cold shoulder? What does it mean to quit cold turkey?
Conclusion
What do you like best: Heat, warmth, coolness or cold?
Finish these sentences:
I like hot _________.
I like warm________.
I like cool _________.
I like cold _________.
What does it mean to take a temperature? Also: to take a temperature of the audience.
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