Unit 7 It’s raining!单元分析本单元的中心话题是谈论天气. 整个单元的内容围绕天气展开听、说、读、写的活动。
通过本单元的学习使学生掌握描述天气的基本词汇及对天气的提问，学会准确地表达自己对某种天气的喜好并说明原因，学会做天气预报，学生叙述在不同的天气背景下做什么。
通过以上活动，使学生能够在实践中体会到学习英语的乐趣，更积极地运用目标语言，培养学生在实际生活中综合运用所学语言能力。
教学目标1、作学习重点词汇：raining, sunny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm,humid,和部分现在分词。
2、掌握描绘天气状态的形容词及现在分词，并学会其特殊疑问句、一般疑问句的用法及回答。
教学重点A 学习并掌握记汇：raining, sunny, cloudy, snowing , windy, hot ,cool, warm, humidB 熟练掌握现在进行时的用法；学会表达对不同天气的不同态度及原因。
教学难点学会描述人们在不同的天气里所做的各种活动。
教具：教学挂图、录音机课时安排第一课时Section A 1a- 2c 第二课时Section A 3a-4第三课时Section B 1a-2c 第四课时Section B 3a-4Period 1(Section A 1a, 1b, 1c, Section B 1a, 1b)授课人:______ 授课班级: _____ 授课时间：2014年___月___日____午第____节Teaching aims1、Words:rain,windy,cloudy,sunny,snow,weather,Moscow,Boston,h ow’s,bad,terrinle,prett y,cool, cold, humid, warm, hot2、Sentence structures: How’s it going? How’s the weather? What’s the weather like? Important pointsA new way of greetings and the description words about the weather.Difficult pointsHow’s the weather? It’s raining/windy/cloudy/sunny/snowing/.How’s it going? Great! /Not bad! /Terrible! /Pretty good!Teaching proceduresStep1. Warming up1. Ask the Ss randomly: What’s the date today? What day is it today? How are you?2. Give a new expression which has the same meaning as How are you? : How’s it going? But the new one has more answers.Step2. Presentation1. Show 4 faces on the screen and ask Ss to describe each face using whatever words they can. Help Ss identify each person is feeling.2. Then show 4 words. Say the words and ask Ss to repeat each one. Ask Ss to match each remembered phrase with a face. Encourage them to spell the phrases by How do you spell it?3. Practice with the new structure by the whole class: Choose one to the front and the others guess the description words through his/her facial expressions.Step3. Practice and listening test1. Let one student ask me: How’s it going? I may answer like this: Terrible! Because it’s snowing and it’s so cold. Show a picture of snowing day and children are making a snowman and pretend to be very cold. Make Ss guess the words: the weather and snowing. Ask them: How’s the weather? Get them to answer like: It’s snowing/snowy. Go on with other kinds of weather: sunny, rainy, cloudy, windy.2. Play the tape and get Ss to write the city names in the boxes. Check the answers. Look at the 5 pictures in 1a. Encourage Ss to use the description words to describe the weather: ①Beijing—sunny and warm/hot ②Shanghai—cloudy and cool ③Boston—windy and cool ④Moscow—snowing and cold ⑤Toronto—raining and humid. Show an arrow to identify the degree of the 4 adjectives: cold, cool, warm and hot.4. Practice with the structures: How’s the weather? and What’s the weather like? with the 5 pictures The exact weather on that day should not be missed. Note: Talking about the weather is quite common in western countries as a daily greeting.Step4. Weather reportShow a weather map of China. Get Ss to make a weather report as a CCTV anchor. They may begin with asking the weather in each city, then make up a report about it.Step5. ChantShow an easy chant to reinforce the questions and words about the weather.Step6. Homework1. Copy the new words 4 times each.2. Summarize the usages of how in questions.3. Watch a weather report on TV and take down some notes about the weather forecast for tomorrow, and then write a report about it.教学后记：Period 2 (Section A 2a, 2b, 2c, 4 and Grammar Focus)授课人:______ 授课班级: _____ 授课时间：2014年___月___日____午第____节Teaching aims1.Knowledge①Words: cook, study②Sentence structures: What are you/ they doing? We/ They are… What is he/shedoing? He/ She is … Yes/No questions and short answers.2. Ability: Ask and answer the Present Progressive Tense, and describe theactivities people are doing3. Cultural awareness: The inner feelings of the Ss are motivated byunderstanding and comparing different people’s lives in different areas.Important points: the correct use of the Present Progressive TenseDifficult points: Describe the weather and activities with the Present Progressive TenseTeaching proceduresStep1. Warming up and revision1. Daily greetings: How’re you today? How’s it going? How is the weather? Ask thesequestions randomly to the Ss to revise what they learned yesterday.2. Point out the conversation in the large picture in 3b on P33 and ask two Ss to readit to the class. Practice it in pairs, then change some of the words and make their own conversations.3. If Ss do quite well, show a piece of cartoon of the Snow-white and the sevendwarfs.Step2. Presentation and listening test1. After showing the cartoon, ask Ss: What are they doing? (They are singing and dancing.) Show more pictures with questions: What’s he/she doing? and What’re they doing? to get Ss to practice the tense which is the core grammar of this period. Get Ss to guess out the word cook by the picture. Choosing the right words and pair work are added as the reinforcements.2．Let’s see what Joe’s families are doing. Point to the 4 pictures (The girl in the second picture is talking on the phone with the first speaker.). Ask Ss tell each person is doing in each picture. More attentions should be paid to the correct use of the Present Progressive Tense. Use every hint to finish 2b.3. Play the tape for Ss to have a check. One more time listening to finish 2a. Teach: What does your father do? He is a cook.. Compare cook with cooker.4. With the whole picture, get some Ss to tell the story of it.Step3. Brainstorming1. Play the tape for another time. Then do a memory test. Ask Ss: What’s Uncle Joe/Jeff/Mary/Aunt Sarah doing? What’re Scott and Lucy doing? Is Jeff watching TV? Etc.2. Guessing game. Guess the activities people are doing.Step4. Game. Find the differences!2 Ss in a group. Student A looks at the picture on P84 and Student B looks at the picture on P86. Each picture has the same people in it, but they are doing different things. Take turns talking about what the people doing in the picture. Attention: don’tGet Ss to describe the 2 pictures orally.Step5. Grammar Focus1. Ask 2 Ss to read the sentences loudly and make interpretations.2. Some oral exercises about the core materials in Section A.Step6. Homework1. Copy the new words 4 times and the Grammar Focus.2. Write 2 paragraphs about the 2 pictures on P84 and P86.教学后记：Period 3 (Section A 3a,3b Section B 2a, 2b, 2c)授课人:______ 授课班级: _____ 授课时间：2014年___月___日____午第____节Teaching aims1.Knowledge①Words :bad, terrible, pretty good, hot, cold, cool, warm, humid②Additional words: spring, summer, autumn③Sentence structures: How’s it going? What are you doing? How’s the weather?2. Ability: Describe the different kinds of weather and different activities in different areasImportant pointsRevise and use the words, expressions and sentence structures correctly.Difficult pointsDescribe the weather in 4 seasons and people’s activitiesTeaching proceduresStep1. Revision1. Show different weather signs to revise the description words in Section A. Draw anarrow to revise the 4 words: cold, cool, warm and hot. But don’t forget humid.2. Get Ss to look at Picture C .Tell them: It’s Chengdu. How is the weather in it? It’s sunny. Is it cool? No, it’s hot. It’s hot and humid.Step2 Make a surveyMake a survey by the whole class. Ask Ss: Who likes the cold weather? Have Ss raise their hands. Use the way and talk about the different weather, draw faces to teach the different expressions “ not bad, great, terrible, pretty good ” C heck out the most popular and the least popular weather. Get Ss to talk about the local weather in 4 seasons.Step3 Work on 3a and 3bStep4. Presentation1. After talking about the local weather in 4 seasons, let’s watch different weather in other countries. Tell Ss Maria is in Mexico. Play this phone conversation between Sam and Maria. Listen carefully to their questions and answers. Play the tape the first time, Ss only listen. Play the tape again and have Ss catch the answers Maria and Sam give to the question How’s it going? Listen again and write what they answer to What are you doing? and How’s the weather?2. Further discussion. Show 4 pictures. With the 4 questions ①Where is it?②How is the weather? ③What season is it? ④What are the people doing? Ss talkStep5. Interview1. After visiting the 4 places, ask some Ss: Where do you want to go? When do you want to go there? How’s the weather? What do you want to do there? Let them describe the places they want to go most.2. Ss make an interview in the class., and then give a report about.3. Let’s find out. Find out what kinds of activities someone wants to do on certain days.Step6. Homework!. Copy the new words 4 times.2. Interview their family members about the place they want to go most and thesituations there, and then write a report about it.教学后记：Period 4 (Section B 3a, 3b, 3c, 4)授课人:______ 授课班级: _____ 授课时间：2014年___月___日____午第____节Teaching aims1.Knowledge①Words: vocation, lying, beach, group, beach, volleyball, surprised, heat, relaxed,winter, scarf, everyone, man②Additional words: sandstorm, typhoon, tsunami(海啸)③Sentence structures: How’s the weather? What’s the weather like? What can wedo with this? When is the best time to visit your town/city?2. Ability: Learn about different activities in different weather3. Cultural awareness: Learn to love our nature and protect the environment.Make a donation if possibleImportant points: Use the words, expressions and sentence structures correctly.Difficult points: Describe the weather in 4 seasons and people’s activitiesTeaching proceduresStep1. RevisionShow a weather map of China and get Ss to ask and answer in pairs about the different kinds of weather in some cities.Step2. Reading1. Ask Ss: How do you know the weather beforehand? Get answers like: From theradio/121/the TV/the mobile phone/the internet.2. 3a. Look at a paragraph, and ask Ss to find out what the show is (CCTV’sAround the World show) and where the reporter is (in Australia) .Ask them to tell what they know about Australia.3. Ask Ss to work alone. Underline the things that people are doing and circle thewords that describe the weather. They may follow the 2 examples have done for them.Check the answers.4. 3b. Draw attention to the pictures of France and the descriptions below. Ask Ssto work alone .Have Ss fill in the blanks. Check the answers.Step3 ChantLearn a chant with the students to relax.Step4 Make an interviewSs form groups of 4. One of them works for CCTV’s Around the World show. He/She interviews the other 3 Ss what the weather is like in their hometowns and what the people are doing. Then give a report about what he/she has got.Step5 Make a surveyFind out what activities people will do on certain days. And ask some to report their results in class.Step6 Homework1.Summarize the key words and expressions in this unit.2.Write a composition .教学后记：Period 5 (Self-check)Teaching aims2.Knowledge: Revise the words and the sentences in the unit.2. Ability: Learn about different activities in different weather3. Cultural awareness: Learn to love our nature and protect the environment.Make a donation if possibleImportant pointsUse the words, expressions and sentence structures correctly.Difficult pointsU se the expressions they learned to describe the weather in 4 seasons and people’s activitiesTeaching proceduresStep1 Warming-up1.Greetings.2.Have a chant.Step2 DictationRevise the words and have a dictation for the words in the unit.Step3 Revision1.Show a weather map of China and get Ss to ask and answer in pairs about thedifferent kinds of weather in some cities.2.Show some pictures to revise “What are you /they doing? We /They are……What is he/she doing? He/She is… How is it going?” etc.Step3. Pair workIn groups of 2, finish 3 in Self check by asking and answeringStep4 Task1.In groups of 4. Ask all the Ss further: When is the best time to your town/city?Ss may answer like: The best time to visit my town/city is in … because it’s …2.Ask some groups to report and share their results.Step5 ExtensionShow pictures of the nature disasters: sandstorm, typhoon and tsunami(海啸).Tell Ss: If we have such natural disasters, we could not enjoy the lives any longer. But what can we do with this?Collect any possible answers from Ss.Step6 Just for funRead the story to relax.Step7 Reinforcement1.北京天气如何？阳光灿烂又暖和！2.Sarah阿姨是个厨师。
