Unit6 It’s raining!
--Period one
I. Teaching Objectives
1. Learn to describe the weather: How’s the weather? 2. Learn to talk about different weather in different cities 3. Go on learning present progressive tense
4. Vocabulary: raining, windy, cloudy, sunny, snowing, Beijing, Moscow, Toronto, Boston, Shanghai.
5. Structure: How is the weather in Beijing? It’s raining! II. Teaching important points
1. Be able to talk about the weather: How’s the weather? It’s raining.
2. Be able to use present progressive tense to describe what people are doing.
3. Vocabulary: raining, windy, cloudy, sunny, snowing 4. Structure: How’s the weather in Beijing. III. Teaching difficult points
1. Be able to talk about the weather: How’s the weather? It’s raining.
2. Be able to use present progressive tense to describe what people are doing
IV. Teaching tools
A recorder, multi-media and some paper V. Teaching procedures Step1. Greeting as usual T: Good afternoon, everyone.
Ss: Good afternoon, Miss Chen. T: Sit down, please. Ss: Thank you！
Step2. Listening (Section A 1a,1b)
T: But, I don’t want to be an actress. Do you know why? Because I think it’s a busy job. They may work on New Year’s Day. Well, we are all very busy on New Year’s Day.
T: Now, look, this is Scott and that is Lucy .What are they doing? (Show the picture of Section A 2a on the screen) Ss: They are talking on the phone.
T: What are they talking about? Now, listen to the tape and number the pictures from 1 to 4 in the box. Play the tape for once, and then check the answer.
T: Now, listen again, and try to match the names with the activities. Like this: Uncle Joe is playing basketball. Listen for one time, ask students to check the answer like this: Group 1, 2: What is Uncle Joe doing? Group3, 4: He’s playing basketball. Step4. Presentation (Section A 1a)
T: OK, so they are very happy on that day. (Show the picture) I’m also happy today. Do you know why? Because the weather is very good.(Present “weather”) T: How’s the weather today? Ss: It’s sunny.(Present “sunny”)
Then show a map of world weather with some cities’ names on it. T: How’s the weather in Beijing? (Show the symbol of raining) Ss: It’s raining. (Read for several times)
T: How’s the weather in Moscow? Do you know Moscow? Then show a picture of Moscow. It’s a beautiful city. Ss: Yes.
T: How’s the weather in Moscow? (Show a symbol of sunny) Ss: It’s sunny.
T: Well done！Do you know Toronto? How’s the weather in Toronto? (Show a symbol of cloudy) Ss: It’s cloudy.
T: Now, look at Boston? Where is Boston? S: It’s in USA.
T: Yes, it’s in America. OK, how’s the weather in Boston? (Show a symbol of snowing) Ss: It’s snowing.
Step5. Practice (Look and Say)
Show the weather symbols, and let students say out different kinds of weather
Step6.Activity: the best weather forecaster
Give a report for students, and then give some other information about the weather and the cities. Ask students to be the best weather forecaster.
Then, ask three students to try it. At last, choose the best one. Step7. Practice (Section A 1a)
Match the words with pictures. Then check the answer. Step8. Listening (Section A 1b)
Listen and write the city names in the boxes above.
Check the answer like this: Beijing is sunny. Toronto is raining. Step9.Pairwork
A: How’s the weather in picture3? B: It’s …
A: What’s he/she doing? B: He’s/she’s… Then show 4 pictures about the weather and what people are doing in it. Ask Ss to make a similar dialogue with their partner. Step10. Try to say
Show a picture with a boy playing football on it.
Ask students to try to say something about the picture. Give some hints: How’s the weather? What are you doing? Are you happy? Students can do like this: It’s raining. I’m playing soccer with my friends. We are very happy. Step11. Groupwork (Make a conversation)
Ask Students to imagine they are in different cities in our
country. Talk about the weather there. They can use the patterns like this: Hello! How are you? How’s the weather in…? What are you doing? What’s John doing? VI. Homework
1. Read the conversations 2. Finish the workbook
3. Copy and recite the new words
4. Make up conversations to describe what people are doing